Resources
Dan Meyer's Three-Act Math Tasks
Math students often ask, "When am I ever going to use this in real life?" Without real-world connections, students can disengage or struggle to find...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Elementary Music Lesson Ideas
From the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, this website is a great place to find lesson plans and resources for teaching music in the elementary classroom....
Case Conferences: Article 7 Annotated
Preparing for case conferences requires an incredible amount of organization and prep work. If you're unfamiliar with Article 7, it is the full...
Case Conferences: Sample Virtual IEP Meeting Agenda
Navigating Individualized Education Program, or IEP, meetings can prove to be difficult, especially in the virtual space. Use this sample meeting...
ESSA: One-Pager For Families
This resource, provided by the Indiana Department of Education, provides a general overview of the Indiana Alternate Assessment for families. Learn...
ESSA: Alternate Assessment Information for Families
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a federal law that requires state testing once a year. Learn more about ESSA and the differences between a...
Pre-teaching Vocabulary: Inductive Vocab Teaching
Pre-teaching vocabulary is an essential part of the learning cycle. Oftentimes, we as educators believe this scaffold is important only for English...
Google Forms: Locked Mode in Quizzes
Thanks to the 2019 update, teachers can now use locked mode in Google Forms to keep students focused and distraction-free during tests and quizzes!...
Google Forms: Beyond the Basics
Google Forms is a digital tool that allows you to create documents to collect answers or data from a group. In this on-demand workshop, you will...
Creating a YouTube Channel for your Classroom
YouTube is designed so you can create multiple channels under a single account. This is perfect if you teach multiple classes during the day and want...
Creating a Story in Sutori
Sutori is an online tool that creates presentations for the classroom in a unique timeline format. Teachers and students can create projects,...
Creating a Book with StoryJumper
StoryJumper is a great website that offers students the chance to write, create, and publish their own stories. This site provides simple creating...
Create a Story with Scratch
Scratch is an online community that allows students to create stories, games, and animations using a simple block-based coding language. It's a...
Copyright and Fair Use
Copyright law can be confusing. This video from Common Sense Media explains copyright and gives examples of how online material can and cannot be...
Cooperative Learning Strategies
Cooperative learning strategies are teaching structures in which groups, each with students of different ability levels, use a learning protocol to...
Creating Accessible Social Media Posts
Ensuring that our learning materials are accessible for all students is always important, but even more so when many digital forms of instruction are...
Creating Student Profiles in Epic!
This short tutorial from Ms. Mundo will help guide you through creating student profiles in Epic! Epic! is a free digital library for students and...
Common Sense: Digital Citizenship Curriculum
Protecting your personal data on the internet is a vital skill for students to understand. These interactive lessons and activities from Common Sense...
Coggle
Coggle is a freemium collaborative mind-mapping tool used to help visually organize your thoughts. Students can use Coggle to brainstorm, break down...
Coding with Scratch Jr.
Kids don't have to be destined for a life of computer programing to enjoy coding. Every student should have a chance to explore coding for its many...
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