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Frustrated by the crushing weight of NC's legislation on teachers, students, and NC's future? Here's a non-profit teacher-created organization providing information, advice, and advocacy.

If you think NC's legislation isn't impacting kids in special education, think again.

Nice guidance for teachers in using Twitter effectively.

Rich variety of resources for classroom teachers, or anyone interested in educating teachers and children. Spend some time exploring. Not a quick stop.

Bring world knowledge to your students in interesting ways.

Filmmaker and photojournalist Dan Habib's lecture on value of inclusion for his son, Samuel, a teen with multiple disabilities, and Samuel's peers. Great intro to the topic for preservice teachers, regular classroom teachers, families, the general public, and disability advocates.

Overview of useful features for teachers using Google Docs in the classroom. Greatest instructional advantages: easy collaboration, easy feedback options either as voice or written comments, and track changes.

Edutopia links to a variety of short videos on teaching students with disabilities. Particularly useful for inexperienced teachers or teachers unfamiiar with a particular disability.

Teachers reading for pleasure and talking about it online. Wonderful idea and great use of technology to support independent reading.

Remarkable resource for teachers. Online tools, lesson resources, activities referenced to standards. Various curricular areas and general tools that are useful across curriculum. Free.

Videos, notes, all sorts of instructional guidance for teachers wishing to teach children with significant disabilities to read, write, and do math.

Great resource for teachers of children with significant disabilities.

Just what it says. Might be interesting ways to share teacher- or volunteer-created read-alouds for kids who need the support, or read-alouds of kids who can speak, who have been practicing repeated reading to build fluency (motivation and utility).

Excellent blog by teacher of students with significant disabilities. Includes nice examples of classroom activities.

Remarkable array of useful educational technology for teachers. Categorized lists like: 21st Century, web tools, Google tools...

Analyzes text, does word count, keyword and key phrase frequency, and a variety of other analyses. Useful tool for writers and writing teachers. Could use to guide revision of discussion of revision.

Important report on why communication and thoughtful engagement, and not standardized disciplinary responses, ought to be more seriously considered. And why teachers are to be more fully supported in problem-solving complex kids. We had Gary in literacy camp one year--lovely kid with a warm heart. Took a girl with Down syndrome to the camp dance, looked out for others, did great with Co:Writer and Write:OutLoud.

Pew Resesearch Center survey of almost 2,500 Advanced Placement and National Writing Project Teachers re: impact of digital technologies on middle school and high school student.

Bookr is a free writing tool. You can easily insert pictures from Flickr, add pages to make longer book. User-friendly. No supports for kids with disabilities, but one more place for parent-child or teacher-child co-construction and conversation. Can't beat the price.

Teachers of kids, 4-14, may be interested in entering their classes. May 5 is official start.

Free podcasts on a variety of literacy and learning topics. Thoughtfu and you can't beat the price.

Great way to educate yourself in a time of lean resources for many teachers.

Jim Trelease is well-known journalist and author of "The Read-Aloud Handbook." His website links to many useful resources for teachers, parents, and other readers.

Must follow if you love kids, teachers, books, and reading.