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SCPS has developed a digital learning plan for their schools. This web page was listed under the "Parents" section on their website. The purpose of this document/website is to inform parents of their plan for digital learning.

The State of Florida's Department of Education has an overall plan for the implementation of educational technologies in K12 schools. Below the conceptual graphic, you will find a link to the pdf of the complete 52 page document. It is worth a skim to find out how Florida schools' integration of technology compares to that of schools in other countries. There are also a number of resources available to Florida teachers of which you may be unaware.

According to this FDOE 2012 report, Florida has a plan to incorporate technology in our schools, which involves provision of "personalized learning" environments, staff training and leadership, and availability of networks.

A Google search engine geared towards students and teachers.  The teacher tab includes lesson plan searches and a professional development section.

I found the lesson plans tab and the professional development sections to be the most useful for teachers like myself. I would need to do a bit more investigating to decide if the student centered search engine is useful for elementary students.

Great hands-on lesson plans for Math!

"Social Studies Lesson Plans"

This site provide several downloads for lesson plan templates. It contains several styles and designs.

"BusyTeacher.org is a place where teachers share their printable worksheets, lesson plans and awesome lesson activities with colleagues for free - just to make the world a better place!"

Free printable worksheets and lesson plans for every busy teacher. Find printable worksheets on any topic: vocabulary, grammar, listening, reading, writing and speaking!

Attached is the plan which OCPS has created for implementing Digital Classrooms. Check page 13 to see when your classroom will become "digital".

The OCPS Digital Classroom Plan provides a five-year perspective of technological enhancements.

"Florida's Professional Development System Evaluation Protocol provides the incorporated into each level: planning, learning, implementing and evaluating."

District professional development activities in Florida are guided by Florida's Professional Development System Evaluation Protocol. This evaluation model assesses the local planning, learning, implementation, and evaluation of professional development activities according to standards modeled after the Learning Forward (formerly National Staff Development Council) standards as well as Florida statutory requirements.

Creative Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans and ready-to-use resources!

a website for social science teachers to use to get support on improving their instruction, engaging students in learning finding lesson plans and integrating technology resources in social science

Digital storytelling lesson plans

Lesson plans that are divided up by subject area and grade level. There are also alot of games to play on the smart board as a class or during center activities

These lesson plans, based on the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds (2011), are designed to help develop the skills that four-year-olds should know and be able to do by the end of their prekindergarten year. There are targeted Standards for Four-Year-Olds included in each lesson plan.

For over a decade, TeAchnology has been providing free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students. We feature 46,000+ lesson plans, 9,600 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets, and thousands of other great teacher resources.

Great site for lesson plans and assessment rubrics. Plenty of worksheets and other resources.

This site gives an example of a discipline specific search engine for technology in education

love this website!!! students always complain that they can't understand why they need to learn algebra because they want to be a rapper, singer, fashion designer, etc. This website give teachers are great lesson plan that includes video and other visuals to show students how algebra is needed in most careers

A very valuable resource! My favorite part of this site is that you may access not only all of the standards but also accompanying lessons ideas for those standards.

Florida website that is an amazing website that has lesson plans with tons of resources. Each one is also linked to standards.

This site offers free, online lesson plans and other teaching resources.