Some resources, tools, and other cool stuff that we’ve run across in our work.
Standards
- A PDF of the Common Core’s ELA standards
- A PDF of the Common Core’s mathematics standards
- The Next Generation Science Standards
- EngageNY’s videos on the Common Core
- The 2008 report of the US’s National Mathematics Advisory Panel
Instruction
- Larry Ferlazzo’s Best Posts on Metacognition
- From Saskatoon Public Schools, its Instructional Strategies Online compendium
- Best of Bilash: Inductive and deductive instruction
- Google, Shoes, and Inquiry: How a 21st Century Mind Researches
- Snapshots and Snapchats: Teaching Writing and Literature in the 21st Century
- Reading Will Always Rule the World
School reviews
- Baltimore City Public Schools’ School Effectiveness Review Protocol
- Indianapolis’ Fourth Year Charter Review process
- The School Review Process Guide from the Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
School culture
- Craig Jerald’s School Culture: The Hidden Curriculum
- Working Toward a Model of Secondary School Culture
- Greenhouse Schools: How Schools Can Build Culture Where Teachers and Students Thrive
- From the National School Climate Center, its 13 dimensions of school climate
- From EdSource: When Data Drives School Culture
- From the winter 2011 edition of Leadership: Climate Change
Digital tools
- Project management: Basecamp
- LearnZillion: Video and other resources on teaching the Common Core
- More video resources from the Teaching Channel
- The scheduling tool Doodle
- Poll Everywhere, for live audience participation and polling
- JumpRope – a gradebook for standards-based grading
- Tigtag, for elementary school science
- Edthena’s teacher observation and feedback platform
- NoRedInk helps students improve grammar and writing skills
- Bloomboard: Competency-based teacher development and support
- Tons of content at the education section of National Geographic