The hard part of professional journalism going forward is writing about what hasn't been written about, directing attention where it hasn't been, and saying something new.
The great challenge for journalists is also the challenge for educators. We do need to look for the new ways to learn and share and reach each of our students. We cannot afford to teach the same old stuff in the same old way and expect that to be sufficient for our new students in this new time.
Thanks to Bo A. for the lead to this article.
This website is full of resources for clipart, backgrounds for Keynote/PowerPoint presentations, maps, technology in the classroom, and more. It is sponsored by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology and the Educational Technology Clearinghouse, which "provide(s) digital content, professional development, and technical services supporting the appropriate integration of technology into K-12 and preservice education."
Conferences And Workshops For Teachers. Educators Professional Development is the most comprehensive peer-reviewed online database listing Conferences And Workshops For Teachers from preschool to grade 12.
From outside the US, but this article (and its link to its opposing article) does lay out one aspect of the mathematics debate that has been raging in the US for decades
In addition to providing a search engine of lesson plans and interactives from about a dozen great content partners, there some great professional development resources.
Learning to practice, this book vividly illustrates, takes time and effort, trial and error. It won’t happen tomorrow. But even a small movement in the direction of more practice will reap benefits, in teaching and many other things we do.
EdTechTeacher has a great lineup of free, live, webinars this spring: Teaching Physics with Technology, Ken Davis to talk about Teaching History, Carla Beard to talk about Building a Community of Readers, and more. Their archived recordings are also available from this page.
Do we structure school in such a way that we truly promote and achieve that intricate balance between: 1) wanting to know and to understand and 2) keeping perspective that we have to be wrong quite a bit in order to gain deep knowledge and understanding?
CAST - the Center for Applied Science & Technology - has released a new web site devoted to UDL (Universal Design for Learning). Next week, they are also opening a UDL Resource Center.
This site provides good resources for leadership, learning, Common Core standards, materials from Doug Reeves, and more. LOOK AT DOUG REEVES LEADERSHIP PERFORMANCE MATRIX
SDE will be bringing David Sousa to Atlanta for a 1-day workshop on the Brain and Differentiation. Looks interesting, maybe for all those cohort members involved in Learning and the Brain.
A great source for inquiry based instruction and other teaching techniques, ideas, and conversation around creative instruction to improve student learning.
This is a good site for following through on ideas related to project-based learning. The CFT is working to bring the Buck Institute to Atlanta in July 2012 for a 3-day workshop at Drew Charter School.
Sponsored by the George Lucas Education Foundation, this is a great resource for research as well as case studies of best practices. They have a feature section on Project Based Learning.