With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations - and share your creations with others in the online community.
Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively - essential skills for life in the 21st century.
This is a great website to preview books and look up Lexile levels to see what is appropriate for your students. It is geared toward Middle school. Students can use this site to make their own book trailers. A nice alternative to book reports.
Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. This site has ideas for group learning and motivating students.
Reading A-Z.com is a teacher resource website that offers printable level books, lessons, as well as assessments. All information correlates to state and Common Core standards.
Eye Can Learn is a website offering students with visual problems eye exercises that can help students Visual Process Skills. Some of the areas that are covered are: Perception, Tracking, Focusing and Eye Teaming.
Learning Ally is a website that helps support students with learning disabilities. They offer many audio books that assist students reading needs. They provide support for parents, students, and educators.
This is a blog all about education policy issues. I think it's a good resource for teachers who are interested in the direction public education is going.
TenMarks is an excellent resource to use for Math. This website is aligned with the Common Core Standards and provides students with excellent practice and understanding of each standard. The classroom teacher can sign her class up on the site and provide each student with a username and password. From there she can assign different problems for the class to solve based on the skills they are learning or have already learned. Each question has a video lesson and hints to support the students if they are struggling. TenMarks also automatically provides the students with an intervention or a re-teaching video if they continue to struggle with a concept. It also provides the teacher with reports on the progress of each student. This is something that my fifth grade colleagues and I started this year and it has been great!