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Grant Smith Former educator turned teacher trainer and CS education consultant helping districts bring coding to all students. Becoming a coding teacher doesn't need to be intimidating. I've tried to convert real programmers into after-school coding teachers and it completely bombed. Trust me -- as a well-trained teacher, you have all of the skills you need to be successful.

Lots of great links for CYBRARIANS!

Fun for students when studying animals

By working together, principals, librarians, and teachers can transform learning environments to ensure that students achieve digital literacy. By Ann M. Martin and Kathleen R. Roberts Principal, January/February 2015

Thirty teachers from Edina just finished a Teaching & Technology Cohort through Hamline University. The Teaching & Technology cohort focused on improving their leadership and technology skills through four blended courses. The focus of the classes was to enhance practice of integrating technology into Edina's curriculum as well as build leadership skills in teachers in the field of technology and learning.

This image gets to the heart of many of the future ready inititives we work with staff to run. The original image allows you to scroll over each of the attributes and learn more about what they entail. I think this might be a great way to talk with administration and teachers about the common goals we have in education.

Free to download. Tons of resources.

So many great tips. Most teachers in my school use Google Classroom, so this was helpful.

is a unique and vital gathering place for books, ideas, and expertise in the field of children's and young adult literature. The CCBC is a noncirculating examination, study, and research library for Wisconsin school and public librarians, teachers, early childhood care providers, university students, and others interested in children's and young adult literature, and administers the statewide Read On Wisconsin literacy program.

Great article about having makerspaces, but then evaluating them and the makers using them.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

As a teacher, Google Docs is definitely an important tool in your digital toolkit. It provides you with an easy and simple platform where you can compose, work collaboratively and share your documents. With the introduction of third party add-ons, Docs' functionalities have been tremendously expanded empowering users with a plethora of advanced features available only in premium writing editors.

I follow this site off of Facebook. They do great things here and I have found many solutions and ideas in what is posted. Below is a recent post: This is a guest post from Tom Daccord (@thomasdaccord) of EdTechTeacher, an advertiser on this site. Thanks to a recent partnership with Khan Academy, Duck Duck Moose has made its terrific Draw and Tell iOS app completely FREE. With Draw and Tell, young students can easily create an animated screencast complete with voice, drawings, images, and objects.

DonorsChoose.org connects teachers in high-need communities with donors who want to help.

By teachers. For students. Get unstuck.