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A Compact for Reading is a written agreement among families, teachers, principals, and students to work together to help improve the reading skills of kindergarten through third grade children.

Get Ready to Read! is designed to support educators, parents, and young children in the development of early literacy skills in the years before kindergarten.

Each district should create a Questioning Toolkit which contains several dozen kinds of questions and questioning tools. This Questioning Toolkit should be printed in large type on posters which reside on classroom walls close by networked, information-rich computers. Portions of the Questioning Toolkit should be introduced as early as Kindergarten so that students can bring powerful questioning technologies and techniques with them as they arrive in high school.

A series of videos demonstrating the practices of Minneapolis' top performing kindergarten teachers as determined by several years of value-added assessments.

But how can we identify a potentially good teacher? How can average teachers become better teachers? The secretary's special funding could make a crucial difference by financing a national program exploiting the electronic miracles of the Internet and video. We could escape geography by using the technology to have the best teachers appear in hundreds of thousands of disparate classrooms. This is a force multiplier. The classrooms would be equipped with a large, flat-screen monitor with whiteboards on either side; the monitor would be connected to a school server that contains virtually all of the lessons for every subject taught in the school, from kindergarten through 12th grade. The contents would use animation, video, dramatization, and presentation options to deliver complete lessons, to convey ideas in unique ways that are now unavailable in conventional classrooms. The classroom teachers would play the role of enhancers, answering questions and helping students better understand the material covered electronically; they'd pause the presentation to ask questions and to prompt critical thinking. The whiteboard would be the platform for student involvement.

The first of two episodes with Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Professor of Learning Research, head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Laboratory.

Interesting but long article describing the mathematical skills of Amazonian tribes people. Their understanding of maths is very similar to kindergarten and Year 1 students.

Integrantes del "Lifelong Kindergarten Group", grupo de investigación del MIT desarrollador de Scratch, viene realizando una serie de "Webinars" [1] para profundizar sobre diversos aspectos de Scratch. El segundo de estos, a cargo de los Doctores  Mitchel Resnick y Karen Brennan, estuvo dedicado a plantear "cuatro preguntas sobre Scratch". Con dos de ellas se exploran grandes ideas que subyacen tras este entorno de programación de computadores:

A vast collection of fabulous cross curricular worksheets and resources for young children. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Early+Years

Great post by Cathy Davidson: "How do we understand our gifts without the certificate, the diploma?   That's the challenge."

"r advantage of computer adaptive learning programs is that they provide reports for parents and educators"

These kids will have a HUGE advantage! Not to mention the affect it will have on special needs kids and kids with small motor issues. YAY for ipads!

Discusses laws proposed in 16 states "prohibiting educational sites, apps and cloud services used by schools from selling or disclosing personal information about students from kindergarten through high school; from using the children's data to market to them; and from compiling dossiers on them."

A useful and fun set of cross-curriculum photo slide shows for maths, English, science, history and more. They are arranged by age and range from kindergarten Secondary school. A great resource for introducing topics. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams