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Check out some of these teacher blogs that made it to this top 20 list. It's always helpful to see what other educators are doing in their blogs and provides some inspiration and ideas.

Blogging Rubric

Cool Classroom Blogs

Great find! You can certainly find some inspiration from this great compilation of classroom blogs!

Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with an individual blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs.

Blogging Tips

This is a wonderful post, Mary. And, it's a great blog overall . . . one that I'm going to add to my "Google Reader" and keep tabs on. Wondering what Google Reader is??? Well, here you go: http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?answer=113517

Former administrator Ben Johnson writes in this blog that the Common Core State Standards focus on literacy will benefit students' problem solving. Johnson offers a real-life example in which he fixed a broken lawnmower by using what was believed to be useless junk stored in his garage. The junk -- like information stored in the brain -- was necessary to find the solution, or resolve the problem.

Has some great ideas of how to incorporate information texts into the classroom.

quoted information from the page: "While English classes will still include healthy amounts of fiction, the standards say that students should be reading more nonfiction texts as they get older, to prepare them for the kinds of material they will read in college and careers. In the fourth grade, students should be reading about the same amount from "literary" and "informational" texts, according to the standards; in the eighth grade, 45 percent should be literary and 55 percent informational, and by 12th grade, the split should be 30/70."

Wow! Do I ever applaud the emphasis on reading for information. Why, kids could use reading trick to educate themselves for a lifetime, and in other disciplines - just imagine!

An article that combines several articles written by other newspaper about common core in the classroom. It has a link to a book list of suggested titles to use for the common core curriculum.

May 6 * Common Core's Curriculum Maps for ELA have exceeded 2 million page views. February 24 * Common Core's Lynne Munson writes on "What Students Really Need to Learn" in the lastest issue of ASCD's Educational Leadership. January 5 * Common Core's Curriculum Maps for English Language Arts have exceeded one million views.

I don't teach 10th grade...but I just looked at the map and it is entirely different than anything our school has ever addressed...

And, please know that our district is in the infancy stages of transitioning to the common core standards. Mrs. Groller and the principals have a plan for systematic implementation. So, nothing has been decided "exactly" at this point. Wonderful thing is . . . we are building the first conversations around common core for our district, pulling together a lot of great resources, with annotations thanks to Diigo I might add, and will be the most knowledgeable as we move forward. It's always good to be in that spot! At the end of this week, I'm going to blog about our teAch21 Diigo research project on the common core and share it with the rest of the staff. Keep up the good work everyone. You are learning and doing great things with Diigo!