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Teachers play such an influential and important role in the life a child. The last thing a teacher wants, but so often gets, is a rude child. Teachers will usually try to address the behavior themselves, but they need the support of those at home to help create a lasting change.

"Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction." Great way to help students organize essays and participate in interactive writing strategies.

An interesting video from TedTalks regarding the power of student driven learning...

These 6 questions determine if you're technology rich, innovation poor img.postavatar {height: 45px; width: auto;} By Alan November January 13th, 2015 Transformational Six 1. Did the assignment build capacity for critical thinking on the web? 2. Did the assignment develop new lines of inquiry? 3. Are there opportunities for students to make their thinking visible? 4. Are there opportunities to broaden the perspective of the conversation with authentic audiences from around the world? 5. Is there an opportunity for students to create a contribution (purposeful work)? 6. Does the assignment demo "best in the world" examples of content and skill?

Most important detail for us to remember as mentioned here, "Listen for What You Don't Hear".

Very Interesting .. Why some have a hard time getting started?

Hands on activity for learning about butterflies

A website I came across after our discussion yesterday about teaching the students about sharing.

Penny Kittle and First Book joined ILA on Thursday, April 9th to discuss ways to keep students reading and learning during summer vacation in order to avoid student "slide" in their reading skills. I found this interesting reading for different viewpoints and ideas- let me know what you think!

Attached is a little "blurb" about Social Stories and how they can effectively teach children proper social behaviors. As we discussed in Friday's meeting, using these stories in the classroom may serve as an effective tool to teach students lessons on sharing, being polite, and interacting appropriately with one another.

The outline for the EdTech Challenge. It is a way for teachers to think about collaboration tools, content management systems, personal learning networks, formative response tools, open educational tools, and electronic portfolios.

A retired teacher, Bob Greenberg, has been going around the country over the last year interviewing some of the important thought leaders, as well as local teachers and students, about education topics.

I liked this approach. It is a pedagogical approach to analyzing complex texts with a technology layer.