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Blogger Ben Johnson asks, "who is responsible for learning in the classroom - the teacher or the students?"

Transformational Leadership Coach and mother Elena Aguilar explains her version of evaluating a teacher's effectiveness. 

A great checklist to reflect on your social, emotional, and character development work during the past teaching year.

In this installment, we show you how Mesquite Elementary School developed a teaching strategy that turned their school around in just six months, and that continues to prove out its effectiveness.

Seymour Papert, a distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is among a growing group of scholars who support project-based learning.

What is 21st century literacy and how do we help students become better communicators? Rebecca Alber says: "In today's world, being literate requires much, much more than the traditional literacy of yesterday. According to the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English), twenty-first century readers and writers need to: Gain proficiency with tools of technology Develop relationships with others and confront and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments"

Can you flip classes like PE, dance, and elementary education? This article from Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams shows you how. For example, I have some girls who want to flip cheerleading practice and are designing an app to do just that. Instead of learning dances at practice, why not upload the videos and music and have the girls learn it before practice. We're currently going to build this into the app for the school. AWESOME.

You can use technology in your next read aloud. Here are some great ideas,

"Sara Zen Master Holland"

"How to work with well-meaning but demanding moms and dads."

Edutopia's 2011 survey. Join in!

Where do you start learning how to integrate technology into your classroom as well as how to use it for your ongoing professional development? And how do you stay current with the almost daily changes in the technology landscape? This page give a good overview of how to get teachers going.

In these brief video clips, educators and others from around the country give lessons about specific technology and social-media tools you can use with your students.

"The age of the textbook may be bowing out -- or it may not" So far laptops are winning.... Some interesting comments on the topic as well. Go vote!

Educate, before you integrate.