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from the Bering Strait School District

Videos, Common Core Resources And Lesson Plans For Teachers:  "Teaching Channel is a video showcase -- on the Internet and TV -- of innovative and effective teaching practices in America's schools."

 I helped develop the Responsive Classroom approach, a way of teaching elementary school children that emphasizes social, emotional, and academic growth in strong and safe school communities.

"The linchpin effect of authentic learning is that.. The value of what is being learned is obvious to the learner And Does not have to be explained by the teacher. There is great power When the learning why Is part of The learning how."

The Rochester Instructional Framework is a professional development tool designed to support effective teaching and learning. It is characterized by its workshop format which is research and standards-based, and used as a guide as educators plan and implement their instructional programs.

"Hilton CSD Instructional Framework"

Pete Wells' Sensory Stories. Wonderful PowerPoint stories with accompanying info on hands on materials to support them.

"This website was developed to assist all teachers in teaching important Foundational Academic Skills so all students find success. "

"When the writers of the Next Generation Science Standards began sketching out a new vision for K-12 science education, they gave themselves a mandate: Develop standards with all students in mind, not just the high achievers already expected to excel in the subject."

Scientific I.C.E. - Investigating, creating and exploring with Ohio science educators

T.H.E. P.A.C.T.™ is a 4-step, language-based teaching framework that is easy to implement in regular ed, special ed, or related services.

"Principal Tom Horn, a self-described "hippie kid from Eugene," has transformed a troubled alternative high school in Oregon-not to mention his teachers' job descriptions-by introducing a radical project-based learning model. "

Nearly every state has signed on to use the Common Core State Standards as a framework for teaching English/language arts and mathematics to students. Translating them for the classroom, however, requires schools, teachers, and students to change the way they approach teaching and learning. This report examines the progress some states have made in implementing the standards, what preparations need to be undertaken, and the challenges that policymakers and educators face in achieving the goals of the standards"

"Some instructional approaches associated closely with special education are gaining traction more quickly than ever as more states and districts look to them as the ideal tools to implement the Common Core State Standards. In particular, two strategies-universal design for learning and response to intervention-are being cited by states in requests for waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act in the section about how they will implement the standards."

Great Google presentation

"Paul Andersen has been teaching science in Montana for the last eighteen years. He explains how he is using elements of game design to improve learning in his AP Biology classroom."

New site on competency based learning

Presentations from the Batelle conference in June

Differentiating instruction is a time-tested way of thinking about meeting students' needs as they make progress toward achievement or learning targets.  Differentiation is an elegant mindset that suggests to teachers a framework that permits them to engage students while focusing on learning results, and digital technologies offer many opportunities to differentiate instruction in meaningful ways.  However, differentiating instruction takes a concerted planning effort on our parts as teachers and teacher educators