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The Just Read, Florida! office spearheaded the effort to revise the Reading Endorsement to incorporate new research conducted since the National Reading Panel Report. Dr. Barbara Foorman, Dr. Timothy Shanahan, and Dr. Janice Dole served as framers and reviewers for this project.

A pinspiring place for teachers to find and share creative ideas. Follow these boards for lesson plans, classroom decor and lots more for lively learning.

Current Employees External Applicants Employment Opportunities Instructional Jobs include classroom teachers, resource teachers, instructional coaches, guidance counselors, and tutors. Click here to learn why it's great to be a teacher at Lake. Non-Instructional Jobs include IT support, custodians, clerical staff, bus driver, nurse, food service, teacher assistants, and maintenance positions.

Well-organized resource for printable, supplemental materials for classroom use. It's easy to navigate and covers a variety of topics relevant to curriculum and just for fun.

FREE resources, lesson plans, worksheets, printables, rubrics, etc. for teachers! An AMAZING site!

Teach-nology.com offers teachers FREE access to thousands of teacher resources, lesson plans, and rubrics.

A creative arts program for talented students in Johannesburg (South Africa) is intended to foster perceptual-, aesthetic-, cultural-, social-, and self-awareness, understanding of the arts, as well as an emphasis on expanding creative potential focuses on the processes of sensory, intellectual creative, and aesthetic development.

When most of us hear the word A simple picture book such as Similarly, economics, we think of either our present precarious financial circumstances, or of world financial issues far beyond our own understanding, let alone the understanding of our students.

Make Your Huge Home-Made Poster. Create a massive Block Poster of your very own!

Pinterest divided by weekly Themes & Centers for a SCPS Kindergarten classroom.

Using an Excel worksheet -Automatic features Learn to use these automatic features of Microsoft Excel such as the common cursor styles, auto sum, and auto fill. Step 1 - Review cursor styles - There are four common cursor styles used in Excel. This was a great resource for Activity Reflection #2 !

Investor and philanthropist George Soros established the Open Society Foundations to help countries make the transition from communism. Read more The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people. Read more How do foundations decide when a grantee can survive without them?

This is a great article that touches on the importance of reflection. Although reflection can be cumbersome true learning can not be obtained with it.

Planning for using NFC in the classroom; support, point of view, and resources

This is a site that I found on the FirstGov search. The site provides monthly math word problems for students. The site also provides an archives link so that past problems can be retrieved.

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

A resource of educational iPad and Android apps for teachers, educators, and students

Google is often NOT the best choice for kids! Did you know that if you type "dogs" into Google, you get nearly 5 million hits? The Library Patch has put together a list of eight different search engines that you can use with elementary students. Your student search results will be SOO much better!

Let's be honest...technology can be a pain in the "you-know-what" sometimes! It always seems to stop working the minute you are about to start an important lesson, or even worse, about to get an observation...Yikes! I have had these experiences in the past, yet I strongly believe technology has an important place in the classroom.

Great blog on Education Technology

Editor's note: This is a cross post from College Online where "The Innovative Educator" is named in the top ten ed tech blogs list. I'm thrilled to be mentioned with all these other wonderful bloggers. I know and follow most of them and look forward to getting to know better those I don't.

To smartboard or to not smartboard, that is the question.

At The Stacks, students can post book reviews, get reading recommendations, play games based on the latest series, watch " Meet the Author" videos, and more. It's like Facebook for reading and it's safe for school, too. Use Book Wizard to level your classroom library, find resources for the books you teach, and create reading lists with the click of a button.

"Tell your tales; make them true. If they endure, so will you." -James Keller Gather round those roaring campfires, picnic tables, or even a fondue pot, because the ancient art of storytelling is being revived into an emerging communication mode called digital storytelling.