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Building on the excellent foundation of standards states have laid, the Common Core State Standards are the first step in providing our young people with a high-quality education. It should be clear to every student, parent, and teacher what the standards of success are in every school. Teachers, parents and community leaders have all weighed in to help create the Common Core State Standards. The standards clearly communicate what is expected of students at each grade level. This will allow our teachers to be better equipped to know exactly what they need to help students learn and establish individualized benchmarks for them. The Common Core State Standards focus on core conceptual understandings and procedures starting in the early grades, thus enabling teachers to take the time needed to teach core concepts and procedures well-and to give students the opportunity to master them. With students, parents and teachers all on the same page and working together for shared goals, we can ensure that students make progress each year and graduate from school prepared to succeed in college and in a modern workforce.

Although YouTube has been blocked from many/most schools, for obvious reasons and not so obvious ones. YouTube does provide great resources and content for teachers and students. View the list of the Top 100 Videos for Teachers. This list is provided by SmartTeaching.org, a leading online resource for current teachers, and aspiring education students and student teachers.

Independent Teacher is an electronic journal that publishes articles on curriculum and pedagogy, across all grades and disciplines, of particular interest to independent school teachers. Our goal is to be a forum in which educators can share and discuss ideas and methods. We publish two issues each year, November and May.

"Welcome to ESL Basics! My name is Andrea, and I am your guide for learning English. If you are just a beginner or if you have been speaking English for years, you will find that ESL Basics can help you along your journey. Be sure to click on "Videos" for daily vocabulary words. We are so happy to provide hundreds of ESL videos on our site. Plus, if you're an ESL/EFL teacher, you can check out helpful videos and job postings in our ESL/EFL teachers section. Visit often. We're adding content daily. Enjoy"

"Welcome to 21 Things for the 21st Century Project Based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers The purpose of this resource is to provide "Just in Time" training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should possess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discover what students need in order to meet the NETS for Students, as well as the new MMC Online Experience requirement. Participants who fulfill all of the requirements have the opportunity to earn SBCEU's. To learn more about the session, look under the tab "The 21 Things". We hope you take advantage of this unique opportunity. "

"Where did the teaching go?  It's still in there, but shifted - from direct to indirect - while retaining learning as the priority.  Read the job responsibilities:"

Excellent resource created by a teacher for teachers on teaching debating skills. It is a great resource for debating club, English, Humanities and Social Science courses.

This current events database provides access to videos, guides, lesson plans and news stories from reputable sources like BBC or CNN. It is a useful resources for Civics, Geography, History, English and Social Science teachers.

This is an excellent resource for American History teachers with access to primary source material.

This is an amazing resource for access to primary source material for Ancient Civilizations, European, Latin American, Asian and Modern History. Your History teachers will love this.