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This article discusses a collaborative project between the School of LIbrary and Information Science and College of Education at the University of South FLorida and an elementary school in Tampa, Florida. Students were exposed to different cultural versions of the "cinderella" story. Students became increasingly interested in other cultures as a result

Resource for improving school climate and safer school environments

We don't all live in the area but this site reviews schools and provides information from parents on tutors, therapy, events (education related), schools, and much more.

Fun literacy games for preschool, kindergarten and early grade school kids. PBS KIDS Literacy Games are vetted by teachers and educational experts

Great website to use with elementary school kids for things like brain breaks, calming/meditation, and exercise. This is a site that uses videos which include fun music, silly/fun/awesome people, and movement.

Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids, aligned with state standards. This is an incredible website for teachers, parents and students alike. I have utilized it numerous times in various capacities. It has lots of great features, but the monthly subscription is also very affordable.

Learn360 is an interactive media-on-demand service for the K-12 education market, for teachers and students. Through streaming video, audio and accompanying support materials, Learn360 supports web-based learning by providing an online collaborative environment where users can share information and ideas. Content is correlated to State, Common Core and Provincial standards, as well as 21st century learning initiatives, and can be further adapted to meet the demands of local school districts and individual teacher curricula.

toolkit to inspire children of all ages to Dream In Color. Students will discover the works of important African-American poets, classroom activities designed to encourage them to develop their own poetic voices, discussion guides, bibliographies and links to engaging online poetry resources.

An online library for people with print disabilities. Membership required. Access is free for qualifying students and schools in the United States.

A collection of poetry for grade school students. There are poems by subject and a poetry theater. There is also a section to "read and rate" poems.

A website to learn and practice keyboard typing. There are four levels with twelve stages to complete!

This article talks about mentoring programs where adults bring animals into the classroom and the student reads to the animal. Animals are comforting and non-judgemental and reading to an animal can improve fluency and reading ability by taking the focus of the child and putting focus on reading to and teaching the animal.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

Latest Audio Stories Children's Stories that Adults Can Enjoy Too Storynory has published a free audio story every week since November 2005. All our stories are beautifully read by professional actors. We have books and poems by classic authors. We have fairytales from around the world. We have myths and legends. This is a great home resource for kids that are struggling at school.