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ducator Innovator provides an online "meet-up" for educators who are re-imagining learning. Educator Innovator is both a blog and a growing community of educators, partners and supporters. If we want to educate a generation of young people to be innovators - to create, build, design, and use their talents to improve their world - we need to value the creative capacity in the mentors and teachers who support them. Educator Innovator gathers together like-minded colleagues and organizations who value open learning for educators and whose interests and spirits exemplify Connected Learning: an approach that sees learning as interest-driven, peer supported, and oriented toward powerful outcomes. Educator Innovator and its partners support learning opportunities for teachers, youth workers, mentors, librarians, and museum educators that are open, re-mixable, and typically free or low-cost - and share the goal of more powerful and connected learning for youth. The Educator Innovator does not see learning as the province of one institution or service, but rather sees our learning institutions and organizations as a larger ecosystem for learning, one that can be more powerful by being more connected.

"Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension - and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we're caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says: Doodlers, unite! She makes the case for unlocking your brain via pad and pen."

"he Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project is a research partnership of academics, teachers, and education organizations committed to investigating better ways to identify and develop effective teaching. This latest study explains how to build, and over time improve, the elements of a training system that equips all observers to identify and develop effective teaching. "

"JobTIPS Student online program offers real world examples and assistance to teens and adults transitioning to the workplace. It provides learning resources, guided exercises, graphic organzers, role-playing scenario cards, prescreening tests, video tutorials, and visual prompts to help individuals with any learning style get and keep a job."

"Casey Life Skills (CLS) is a free tool that assesses the behaviors and competencies youth need to achieve their long term goals. It aims to set youth on their way toward developing healthy, productive lives. Examples of the life skills CLS helps youth self-evaluate include: Maintaining healthy relationships Work and study habits Planning and goal-setting Using community resources Daily living activities Budgeting and paying bills Computer literacy Their permanent connections to caring adults"

"The American Institutes for Research (AIR), in collaboration with Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City, developed the student, parent, and educator  versions of the AIR Self-Determination Assessments with funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. The AIR Self-Determination scale: produces a profile of the student's level of self-determination identifies areas of strength and areas needing improvement identifies specific educational goals that can be incorporated into the student's IEP"

"EducatorsHandbook.com is the only tool that produces robust data on student behavior while reducing the time you spend managing student discipline."

"Every week, TingoEd releases a new vocabulary video to the world. In just two minutes, students will not only master a given word but be engaged by its use in multiple, entertaining contexts."

"As I sat in our local Starbucks this past summer, I looked around and thought--why can't my classroom look like this? After several weeks of planning and a little bit of faith, what resulted was this:"

"20 Free Sites for Awesome Social Media Images"

"Robert Marzano and John Hattie have both reviewed research into what teaching strategies make the biggest difference to students' results. While they used different methods and terminology, they agreed on these 8 powerful strategies."

John Hattie June 2015

In this new paper, the first of two, he addresses the question of what this search for more impact means, and he does two things powerfully. The first is to make the case that the minimum goal of education, when rightly expressed, should be for all students to make at least one year's progress for one year's input, no matter where they start. The second is to argue that at the level of public policy there are many ideas, many of them popular and plausible, which do not pass the 0.4 test.

"In her speech accepting the award, Smith talked about a seminal moment in her career when she realized she needed to change her approach to teaching students of color, one of whom told her that she couldn't understand his problems because she is white."

"Traverse - which stands for Teaching Respect, Attitude, Versatility, Empathy, Responsibility, Success and Ethics - identifies students performing the bottom 15 percent at a particular grade and brings them through a program of character education, service learning and enrichments."