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"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."

"20 Free Sites for Awesome Social Media Images"

"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:"

"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."

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

"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"

"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"

"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."

"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. "

"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."

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.

TechPrep is a Facebook-led initiative, supported by McKinsey & Company and created for parents, guardians and learners who want to understand more about computer science (CS) and programming. It's a collection of fun and interesting information, resources and videos tailored to a variety of ages and experience levels.

"FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Scholastic FACE brings together research-based programs and strategies that empower families, communities and students in support of teaching and learning."

"One to Grow On / Intersections: Emotional Health and Learning"

Elise and Colleen's site for the ICS modules