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This site provides lesson plans for English/Language Arts teachers of all grade levels.  The lesson plans have preview, standard attached to the lesson, resources and preparation, instructional plan, related resources, and a comments sections.

I love how this website provides lessons that make math more relevant to our students. I haven't used any of the lessons from start to finish, but I've used bits and pieces of each lesson and love the ideas I get from this website.

For the other Spanish teachers or even Social Studies/ELA could use this for a cultural component to a lesson.

Reading A-to-Z is a popular and effective reading resource. Not only are the texts leveled, but each text includes an extensive lesson plan, teaching strategies, and extension activities. OVerall, a total winner!

I've used it mainly for the reader's theater for a club I am running. There is a small fee to use the resource, but if you contact me, I can give you my login!

THAT's what I'm talkin' about! Look at these teacher's sharing.

This site provides specific tactics to help alleviate the attention-deficit woes of your most inattentive students. Typical suggestions include decreasing the length of your lessons and structuring some guided daydreaming time.

Free SMARTboard notebook templates. Search by subject/grade level

Search for SMART board resources by academic standard (Indiana included and CCS)

I love love love both the NYTimes educational supplementary materials and the fact that they exist. Recently I tweaked a Times lesson plan on writing your own obituary to help the students set goals. As we move toward the Core Standards, it's more important than ever for kids to read non-fiction and journalism.

Here is a great song that I taught to my students and that we do as a break in between lessons. It is song to the melody of farajaqua. There are also hand movements: North America: lift your right arm up South America: right arm down below the waist Africa: arms rocking back and forth across your midsection Europe: lift your left arm up Asia: keep your left arm up high, and move it to the left Australia: bring your left arm down below the waist Antarctica: waddle like a penguin (they can also turn around as they waddle) This song really is great for play breaks, and when we are done, students are more focused. We sing it four times: First is in a medium voice, second in a low voice, third whispering, and fourth silent, just hand movements.

This resource is especially useful for activities dealing with geography for both guided and independent practice. It also has short video clips for hooks, and great ideas for lesson plans!

This resource is great for any teacher teaching phonics! There are free printables, vowel and consonant rules, worksheets, and lessons that will help your students succeed with phonics instruction. I use this often in my classroom and with my students. I find it very helpful in giving me a good resource and worksheet to use as well as sound phonics rules to help with instruction.

Mr. Fronius' website is a great resource for lessons for calc/pre-calc, algebra I/II, geometry, and trig.

This website is a great resource for Spanish teachers of all grade levels. There are lesson plans, games, activities, and helpful insight on how to incorporate literature and culture into the World Language classroom. I have also found the resources targeted for new teachers very helpful. There are also resources and posts for veteran teachers. I appreciate that this site also provides teachers with motivation and encouragement.