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This RSS feed has some great articles, ideas, tips, and links to websites to teaching ELL and ESL students. This RSS feed also has great lessons, activities, ideas, and information that could be used to teach all students.

This school has a zero tolerance policy on public displays of affection, and friend to friend hugging warrants an in-school suspension. In this case, I would say the inflexibility of this school policy has the potential to hurt kids. If a boy gets in trouble for hugging a friend at school, what message does that send?

Two veteran educators from Fairfax County, V.A. are in the process of writing a book using anecdotal data from their experiences on how they believe the introduction of smart phones has severely decreased critical thinking and engaged learning in their respective classrooms. Joe Clement and Matt Miles "say the free periods that are part of their school schedule have deteriorated from lively talk among students and teachers to silent screen reading, each student in a little world," according to The Washington Post.

Education World has links to news stories for teachers to share and discuss with students. News stories are based on their timelines and interest to students. I feel this would be a great website to implement in the classroom and use to teach students how to five the five w's (who, what, where, when, why) when reading a news article.

This site has a lot of useful tips, lesson plans, and worksheets to teach students in elementary and middle school. The material and information covers content areas including reading, writing, math, science, and social students. It also includes lesson plans and activities for history.

This is a good site to help kids learn basic music theory. The site has been updated since I started using it, and offers apps for mobile phones.

Another good music theory website. Has animated lessons that help keep student interest. Good for middle school kids and up.

This article has a list of some amusing and ridiculous sites posing as legitimate sites. They can be used to help students evaluate content on the Internet.

math help portal. Has interactive instructions and resources for educators, students and parents.

This blog has a little bit of everything. It's a great way to keep up with news in education, and new education resources.

I use this web site in my pre-k classroom. It has many, many learning games that can be used through-out the school year AND at home during the summer.

I use this web site in my pre-k classroom. It has many, many learning games that can be used through-out the school year AND at home during the summer.

This site has been around for a long time. The author reviews web sites for teachers.

This one has it ALL! Tons of connections to just about every Web Technology Tool you want to use in the classroom.

With a nod to the ever-brilliant-and-willing-to-share Kim Cofino, here is the rubric I've lately begun to use in my classroom for grading student blog posts.

This is an experiment in action and depending on how this tool works, it is very likely that it will come under some revision. If anyone ha

The presence of books in the home has a greater influence on a childs level of education than does the parents income, nationality, or level of education. A 20-year study shows how investing in books can make a big difference. Included: Highlights of the study. I thought this was pretty interesting. How many of our students have never had a book read to them at home?

The presence of books in the home has a greater influence on a childs level of education than does the parents income, nationality, or level of education. A 20-year study shows how investing in books can make a big difference. Included: Highlights of the study.

Interesting research about success in school

Everyone has met people who are highly compassionate. But we would meet more of them if children were taught to be empathetic at a young age, according to author/teacher David A. Levine, who has created lessons and activities to teach empathy skills.

An interesting article about the common core standards and literature.

COUNTDOWN is a challenging interactive television math program which has engaged tens of thousands of students through broadcasts on cable television in Chicago. Capitalizing on the one on one relationship a student viewer has with television, COUNTDOWN makes math "work".

I like this site because it has a nice collection of poetry sites.  Some of the links do not work, but www.poetry180 is a decent collection of poems geared for high school readers.

This site highlights reading reviews categorized by author, new books, coming soon books, series books and books into movies.  This is a terrific resource for kids who need a little help in choosing a new book or genre.  I'll be using this with my MS kids! I also like that it has podcasts of books as well!