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"I thought I'd bring together a few resources that I've found helpful in gaining an understanding of what Common Core might mean. Please feel free to share additional suggestions."

Read this teacher-friendly article for an overview of the rationale for using rubrics and tools and tips for implementing rubrics as an assessment tool in your classroom. You will be able to create and start using rubrics for student assessment within an hour.

"From role-playing games for students to parent seminars, teaching social and emotional learning requires a lot of moving parts, but when all the pieces come together such instruction can rival the effectiveness of purely academic interventions to boost student achievement, according to the largest analysis of such programs to date."

"What can we do to change things? For starters, we need to overhaul the way we teach copyright and other intellectual property issues in our schools. Library media specialists also need to quit being copyright cops. And it's time to stop thinking that if we don't know for sure if something's 100-percent legal, we shouldn't do it-that mindset just doesn't work. Below are four changes our profession must seriously consider if we're going to meet the needs of our students and teachers."

9th grade center is piloting the use of students technology being used in the classroom so they don't have to "power down" when they come to school.

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

Offers hundreds of articles on a range of topics in reading education

Lots of 1-2 minute videos to observe teaching tips in action.

This is a pretty solid How-To introduction to creating student-centered, problem-based classrooms. 

It takes a giant leap of faith for a teacher to think that their students can learn the material on their own. Teachers become teachers to teach. It is natural for the teacher to want to force the student to learn. But, this is similar to trying to force the proverbial horse to drink. Think about how many video games people have learned and won, on their own! No one had to "teach" them how; no one had to force them to play.

A collaboration between Good and Kiss Me I'm Polish, in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. By  Greg Swanson - Edtechtoolbox, 30th April Implementing Effective Technological Change: What a Classroom Teacher needs 1. Many teacher’s discoveries of how to use Web 2.0 tools and new applications occur when they are simply trawling the net for new and innovative teaching strategies.