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Free online math practice organized by Common Core State Standards.   These free modules would be excellent to use for math practice centers.   Each practice quiz includes links to an instructional video and keeps track of student performance.   

Connected Educators highlights initiatives such as Connected Educator month to empower teachers to develop online communities of practice.

Tips from Teaching Channel: "Whether you're recording your own practice for self-reflection, or putting together a student lesson to "flip" your class, here are tips for making sure you capture and produce great material"

Whether you're recording your own practice for self-reflection, or putting together a student lesson to "flip" your class, here are tips for making sure you capture and produce great material: Keep the camera still. The action in your shot should ...

The Teacher Channel aims to provide innovative videos and resources to educators to meet its goals of building teacher-driven professional learning, deepening and improving opportunities for teacher learning, and elevating and celebrating teachers in society. The website includes a growing collection of videos that focus on the Common Core State Standards, some of which focus on the background of the Common Core in certain grades/subjects, while others highlight instructional practices aligned to specific standards. 

The Technology Integration Matrix from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology is one of the best resources available to drive better thinking on technology integration in the classroom.  The matrix considers 5 levels of technology integration and 5 characteristics of the learning environment.  Short videos of classroom practice in four core content areas illustrate each cell in the matrix. 

Practical advice in this blog entry from Edutopia.  Teachers could implement these suggestions immediately without much difficulty.   

From @NCTM, these math challenges are designed to bring mathematical thinking to the dinner table for families.  Teachers will also find many of these problems valuable to tackle with students to support problem solving skills and mathematical practices.  The challenges are also available in Spanish.

This is similar to the old "Battleship" games where you hit or miss the ship. In this case, it's dinosaurs, but you get the same coordinate practice. Great for middle schoolers!

IBM researchers have created "the world's smallest movie" moving individual atoms along a surface to create a stop-motion animated short.   I also love the "making of" video linked at the end where researchers describe the process and science behind the work and its practical applications.