"Rubric Builder is a simple, powerful tool which helps teachers create meaningful, high quality assessments. With thousands of searchable criteria to choose from, it is so fast and simple that you will be creating rubrics in minutes. "
"Rubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-Edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards. "
""The Bartleby Project begins by inviting 60,000,000 American students, one by one, to peacefully refuse to take standardized tests or to participate in any preparation for these tests; it asks them to act because adults chained to institutions and corporations are unable to; because these tests pervert education, are disgracefully inaccurate, impose brutal stresses without reason, and actively encourage a class system which is poisoning the future of the nation." Read John Taylor Gatto's full statement on the Bartleby Project (it's long)."
"What is Brazen Careerist?
Brazen Careerist is giving professionals a fun and completely different way to network. The site translates offline networking events into an efficient online networking experience to help you meet new people and build relevant relationships to advance your career. "
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About Cool Cat Teacher™"
"TeacherWeb® is the leading provider of template websites for teachers' use in the classroom and administrators' use in schools and districts. TeacherWeb® sites are completely customizable and easy-to-use! Educators can quickly create and continuously update personalized TeacherWeb® sites with the click of a mouse.
Founded in 1996, TeacherWeb® was developed to meet the growing need of educators to create websites without having to know HTML. The patented program is currently used by over 100,000 educators all over the world. Popularity has also spread internationally, as TeacherWeb® is used by customers in over 90 countries world-wide. "
" As a teacher you create a network for you and your students.
* Share inspiration, ideas, readings, thoughts
* Post discussions, deadlines, homework
* Embed pictures, links and video
* Keep parents informed
* Collaborate on work by providing feedback"
"Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It's a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms. Read more"
"It's a national crisis.
"Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading," an April 2010 report from Carnegie Corporation of New York (published by the Alliance for Excellent Education), states that the consequences of poor reading and writing skills not only threaten the well-being of individual Americans, but the country as a whole."