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Here's an article about Ohio's iMatrix from "Teacher Librarian"; I'll also post the link to iMatrix itself. It looks like a fancy version of what we are trying to do with our google site, and it's also searchable by skill or grade level. What keeps you up at night? Educating students to be college and career ready? Incorporating inquiry into your teaching for the very first time? Shifting your instruction to explore topics in greater depth and at more rigorous levels of learning? Or are you struggling to incorporate formative instructional assessment?

Interesting resources about learning and teaching how to ask "beautiful questions.

David Perkins on "Lifeworthy Learning".

As we think about what skills and capacities a GFS graduate should have, this might be helpful.

I was struck by the empahsis on planning for presentation space as part of the design for a library. The format of the final product or outcome of a research project in years to come will involve sharing in ways we have probably not yet considered, much less designed in our school spaces.

Video tutorials about creative common copyright and intellectual property.

How Freshmen Conduct Course Research Once They Enter College - take a look at the executive summary about how prepared these students were to do research at the higher ed level. This is extremely timely given our work this year!

Great, student-friendly plagiarism info guide. Must steal this.

The Checkpoint in each section gives the reader an opportunity to check their understanding of the concepts covered. Students can turn in the results of these quizzes to their professor to show what they have learned about plagiarism.

Maryland State Social studies standards. View by grade on the right of the screen.

Rewordify.com is free, online reading comprehension software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, and helps them learn words in new ways. This might be a good tool for students who encounter roadblocks with difficult texts.

"Teachers often ask, 'Why should I teach more than one citation style?' Some argue that students should learn just one style well. Since they are comfortable with MLA, they assign it for everything. That made sense in the past ...

Research Basics for High School Students http://researchbasics.jstor.org/ is a Moodle-based course whose goal is to teach research skills to those with a view to higher learning. In their words "This course contains 3 modules. Each module has 3 lessons. Lessons are made up of video lectures followed by practice activities. After completing all 3 lessons in a module, students may take a quiz, get feedback and a score, and earn a badge on completion of the module."