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A huge list of strategies to use to begin your lesson, while teaching your lesson, and to wrap up your lesson.

"Oh the irony. It's Teacher Appreciation Week and a video of a Texas teen blasting his teacher for not teaching him and his classmates goes viral. On Tuesday Duncanville High School sophomore Jeff Bliss went off on his world history teacher, Ms. Phung, and it was all surreptitiously filmed by a classmate who promptly uploaded it onto YouTube. From there it made it to the front page of Reddit, and the rest, as they say, is history."

"In my role as Maths Leader in Grades 5/6, I have many opportunities to work with groups of children in both Grade levels. Sometimes I find it hard to report back to the classroom teachers what learning took place during my lessons with their students. This year I have increasingly turned to Padlet, a collaborative, interactive Online Board, to record the teaching and learning experiences I facilitate. Here I share my lesson documentation through an embedded link to my Volume Padlet (note: Padlet needs the latest version of IE, Chrome, Firefox or Safari to view and use)"

"Digital apps designed to teach young children to read are an increasingly large share of the market, but parents and educators have little to no information about whether and how they work. Produced as part of a collaboration between the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, the New America Foundation, and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, this report scans the market of digital products and shares promising practices and programs."

Like this lesson for teaching the steps to solve a fraction word problem. 

Blogging makes a difference in student a student's education. It's the most important change I've made in my teaching career. Through this workshop, I want to encourage you to take up blogging with your class and for your students while integrating the upcoming Common Core State Standards.

An interactive site for creating cube sculptures that I will use when teaching geometry.

This ebook from Joy-of-Teaching contains many pages of multiplication problems placed on grid paper. It also includes an answer key. 

A wonderful lesson created by Kathleen Morris, to teach student bloggers how to properly add images from other people to their blog posts.

I read Harry Wong's First Days of School years ago.  I bought in to his ideas on teaching rules and procedures for the first days of school.  However, doing that on the first day of school made me just like everyone else.  That is not me, I am not everyone else. 

Article identifying ways to better student engagement.

The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced writing project teachers.

Let's be honest. Designing PBL for Math can be a different beast. With the pressure of high-stakes testing and a packed curriculum, I often coach teachers who are nervous about giving time to a robust PBL project. In addition, because of the plethora of math standards, it can be difficult to choose the right learning target(s) for the project. Here are some tips for teachers designing individual Math PBL projects.

If we are to get the most for student learning from mobile technology like the iPad or other tablets we need to move beyond the question 'Is there an App for that?'