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"At King Middle School and Casco Bay High School, in Portland, Maine, every student works in a widely hailed project-learning method called expeditionary learning. Discover what your school can learn."

"A Career Cluster is a grouping of occupations and broad industries based on commonalities. The 16 Career Clusters organize academic and occupational knowledge and skills into a coherent course sequence and identify pathways from secondary schools to two- and four-year colleges, graduate schools, and the workplace. Students learn in school about what they can do in the future. This connection to future goals motivates students to work harder and enroll in more rigorous courses."

"Google Apps has been a boon to schools all over the world. This was a packaged deal from Google where many tools are made available to the schools and school districts to create a controlled system for communication and collaboration."

"Blended high schools incorporate multiple modes of learning to prepare students for college and careers. Blended learning is a shift of instructional responsibility for at least a portion of the day to an online environment to boost learning, staffing, and or facilities productivity."

Experiential programs where we learn a huge amount about critical issues in a short period of time while having fun. Our programs are interactive simulations delivered by our staff at your school. We do assemblies and other on-site programs for colleges, high schools and organizations around the world. Typically, these cost around $1,000 to $1,500 plus expenses.

"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."

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"Essential Knowledge and Skills Chart." 2008 States' Career Cluster Initiative. High Schools That Work

I nod in agreement with many of these ideas. Yes, we are living in an intensely stimulating world. Yes, students must own their own learning. Yes, learning is more than recall. Yes, we must make real-world links. Yes, yes, yes! But how, how, how in class sizes that are upward of 27 students? How can I stay current and interesting and relevant? How do I engage this new breed of techno-savvy, overstimulated youngsters who are bored to distraction in school? This is what I think about in August. Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/21st+century+classroom+daunting+place/5315656/story.html#ixzz1WQz26soY

Students can access websites that do not contain or that filter mature content. They can use their real names, pictures, and work (as long it doesn't have a grade/score from a school) with the notification and/or permission of the student and their parent or guardian.

"I'm an educator and there is so much out there? Where do I begin? All areas of this wiki reflect K-12 interests. However, I discerned a need for a starting point for teachers and educators who are overwhelmed with resources to begin looking for digital citizenship resources of immediate use. What I present here is my favorite short list. You will find lesson plans, videos and other resources, often broken down by grade level."

One of my FAVE sites to forward to parents. Very deep in learning for parents and educators for all age groups.

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.

Learning Point Associates applies research and evaluation, direct professional services, and policy knowledge to create change at every level of the education system-classroom, school, district, state and national.

Powerpoint - SYSTEMIC MIDDLE LEVEL REDESIGN: BUILDING A MINNESOTA MODEL FRAMEWORK 2010

ACOT2 has identified six design principles for the 21st century high school: ACOT2 and the Challenge for American Education. Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow-Today (ACOT²)

Information and resources for teachers and students in elementary and middle school

Preview New Content and Enhancements for Back-to-School 2011 Enlighten students with thought-provoking new content and improve teaching and learning with product enhancements for students, teachers, and administrators. The Evaluation Tools Educators Need to Inform Instruction and Drive Student Achievement Discovery Education ASSESSMENT offers Common Core formative assessments and interim benchmarks for all 50 states.

Atlas is a Web-based curriculum management tool that electronically: Incorporates curriculum mapping, tracks gaps and repetition in instruction, addresses the Why in performance testing, aligns curriculum to benchmarks and standards, produces updated reports to encourage partnerships, facilitates sharing of ideas and communicating them rapidly across buildings, schools and grades and shares requirements with students.