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Our goal is to provide a fun, safe and interactive environment for children to read and learn about interesting current events. Our  news articles are short, simple and include photos/videos in order to keep children focused and interested.

This site is a freely available public site that is designed specifically for Music Teachers and pre-service Music Teachers interested in continual professional development in their field of music education (although we do welcome all educators, curriculum developers, and public school administrators!). While this site is free to use, all users must register for an account -for all non-logged users, clicking any of the links will take you back to this page.

Number 5 really is interesting here.  "Seven Principles That Guide Teaching and Student Learning in the Atwell Curriculum"   5. Children need to know adults who write -- We need to write, share our writing with our students, and demonstrate what experienced writers do in the process of composing, letting our students see our own drafts in all their messiness and tentativeness.

Welcome to my wiki! Over the last few months, my students and fellow contributors have been creating some pretty interesting resources. Some are fairly developed. Others are still just kernals of an idea that need some fleshing out. Feel free to take a look around and add your ideas to this wiki. Please drop me an e-mail with your comments or suggestions at budtheteacher@gmail.com. This is currently an open wiki. Add documents; make changes; experiment. Thanks!

Really interesting online tool for helping young writiers.  Heck!  I even enjoyed it!

This is an interesting video about the geometry of seeing, there are also more photo essays on various topics

An interesting Math channel. 

Very interesting Math software from UMass Dartmouth. 

TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. A new site, which will launch in early April 2012, will feature these new TED-Ed Originals as well as some powerful new learning tools.

"teen-speak" is trendsetter language