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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/12/24/we-are-trying-to-close-the-achievement-gap-all-wrong-teacher/ This article expresses an educators teaching experienced and what they ...
http://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-10-27-8-proven-ways-to-help-close-the-achievement-gap Fisher, O. (2015, October 27). 8 Proven Ways to Help Close the Achievement Gap. Retrieved from EdSurge: http:...
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/09/achievement.aspx Writer discusses the effects of 15 minute interventions on student performances and growth.
The research questions of this single site case study involved understanding why an achievement gap exists, and to identify the instructional strategies and best practices used to narrow the achiev...
Biodigital.com is a virtual human body. You can view in 3D, close and far views. If you are really good you can see inside of some organs, like the heart. Once you found what you need, you can ta...
I forgot to post the URL I found: http://theelearningcoach.com/learning/metacognition-and-learning/
http://www.oecd.org/site/educeri21st/40600533.pdf
Our group is working on solving the exploratory question: "What teaching strategies are we presently using to teach phonemic awareness, specifically rhyming? How can those strategies be improved, a...
http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project: annual report of the emerging technologies in education
ABC motivates students to understand the basic number concepts. It has some other activities: comparing and classifying, patterning, Counting, Ordinal numbers and etc. The concept is that students ...
Illumination has many lesson plans for math activities. The lessons capture students' interest, review the previous lessons and analyze the students' prior knowledge. The focus is to enhance studen...
This resource is a little different than the ones mentioned below. This is more focused as a "brain break" as a transition into content areas. Back to back content areas tend to tire out or have st...
I do not have access to XtraMath, so I checked out CoolMath Games. This is easy to search to locate a game to practice a concept. Free - students can use at home or school. CoolMath4Kids is speci...
Scribblar has live audio chat capabilities. Scribblar is more like a chat room - it even has audio available - and as such it is very useful indeed. Creative brainstorming and artwork revision can ...
The daddy of project management, Basecamp was created when 37 Signals couldn't find a project management app that wasn't insanely complicated, and so decided to build its own. It worked so well tha...
www.meograph.com This tool allows you to add content, videos, voice and pictures and create interactive stories. I have used it with my LS and MS students and they enjoyed it very much since they ...
Edmodo is a cool tool to use with the students to increase engagement outside the classroom. It looks a lot like Facebook so the students are familiar with how to use it. I use to have off site d...
Historypin (http://www.historypin.com/) allows users to post photographs, audio, and video files to different places in the world. It provides primary sources about areas, historical and present da...
Vyew is a collaborative tool similar to Google drive. It allows group members to share files, presentations, and ideas. It also provides the ability to have virtual meetings through chatting and ...
