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Launch of the official Edutopia Pinterest account

This post on Edutopia offers a list of resources that includes tips and guides on classroom design and layout to help maximize the possibilities of the learning environment.

Ideas from literature addict Heather Wolpert-Gawron."As a teacher, my mission is to spread this addiction to my own students. But I have a greater, more sinister, goal than that this year. I want to spread it to my entire school. And to do that, I have to allow literature to leak out of my classroom and into my school at large."

"Project-Based Learning (PBL) naturally lends itself to differentiated instruction. By design, it is student-centered, student-driven and gives space for teachers to meet the needs of students in a variety of ways. PBL can allow for effective differentiation in assessment as well as daily management and instruction. PBL experts will tell you this, but I often hear teachers ask for real examples, specifics to help them contextualize what it "looks like" in the classroom. In fact, the inspiration for this blog came specifically from requests on Twitter! We all need to try out specific ideas and strategies to get our brains working in a different context. Here are some specific differentiation strategies to use during a PBL project. "

A useful, annotated list of poetry resources.

A reflection about how Pinterest has become a highly used tool by teachers. There are some good links to some other useful sites.

How teachers are working around overprotective content filters to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.

Teachers have begun to accept comic books as a tool for teaching literacy through group projects.

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