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Lots of interesting resources, many developed by students

Teaching Tolerance's YouTube Channel

"Build Literacy-Based, Anti-Bias Learning Plans. Teaching Tolerance's Perspectives for a Diverse America is a literacy-based curriculum that marries anti-bias social justice content with the rigor of the Common Core State Standards."

"Providing meaningful student feedback is a critical, yet often overlooked, part of teaching and learning in a digital world. "

"The process of transforming learning in our schools from an industrial, assembly line model to a modern, learner-centered and learning focused approach involves much more than adopting an expanded set of instructional skills and strategies. It is not just one more thing that educators are asked to do. In reality, this transformation is about approaching the work of learning and teaching differently and implies some fundamental changes in the roles learners and educators play in the educational process."

Thirty years of research shows us that when all students are learning together (including those with the most extensive needs) AND are given the appropriate instruction and supports, ALL students can participate, learn, and excel within grade-level general education curriculum, build meaningful social relationships, achieve positive behavioral outcomes, and graduate from high school, college and beyond. How do we transform education to achieve these goals? According to the research, it takes administrative leadership, multi-tiered systems of support, family and community partnership, an inclusive educational framework including organizational structure and school culture, and policies and practices providing the backbone to these features

"So, we created 12 grids of core vocabulary words - one for each month of the year. Each grid has 12 cells labeled with core words. Plug in the AAC symbols that your client uses (e.g., PCS, SymbolStix, Unity, Pixons, etc), print, laminate, and keep them handy."

"Research has shown that in addition to academic knowledge, a variety of noncognitive skills are essential to students' post-secondary success.  This article is adapted from Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners:  The Role of Noncognitive Factors in Shaping School Performance: A Critical Literature Review."

"The Employment First Transition Framework is a results-oriented process that leads to individual community employment outcomes for youth with developmental disabilities. The Framework is a system of practices that are present at the state, regional, and individual levels that reflect person-centeredness, are agency neutral, and are outcome focused."

National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center

"Welcome to TeenTribune, TweenTribune,TTEspañol and TTJunior - the daily news sites for kids, tweens and teens - where you'll find the most compelling, relevant and interesting news for 55 million kids in K-12 and their 3.5 million teachers. Stories are selected by professional journalists working closely with teens, tweens and teachers. Teens and tweens can post comments, with all comments moderated by their teachers before they are published We allow teens and tweens to produce 99 percent of our content as a means of engaging them. More than 100,000 teachers have registered so far."

"The Differentiator is based on Bloom's Taxonomy, Sandra Kaplan's Flip Book and Flip Book, Too, and David Chung's product menu."

"A how-to manual for hacking your head."

Preview entire book online "Classroom routines are the sequence and the order that students are asked to follow, be it walking in line though the hall, or raising hands to sharpen pencils, or answering "present" when their name is called for attendance. Established routines run themselves, they are the well-oiled machines that can make a classroom function."

"For the same 20-minute investment of time, we can change the way a child sees himself as a reader, thinker, or mathematician. We can give Manuel the rare experience of being the kid who gets it first, who helps the other kids figure it out, who is ready with the answer the moment he hears the question."

Today BAM Radio is the largest education radio network in the world offering programming from the nation's top education organizations and thought leaders and reaching a wide audience of people passionately committed to quality education.