Performing Arts in 360 Degrees

Experience Performing Arts in 360 Degrees

Performing Arts, part of the Google Cultural Institute, is a website that allows you to experience music, opera, theater, and dance in 360 degree images and videos. 

Habits of Mind (ASCD)

Watch A Webinar! Join Art Costa and Bena Kallick for a one hour webinar

 in which they explore the 16 habits of mind and the use of animations as a 

key tool for students to learn about the habits. Recorded October 5, 2017.  Watch now

Free Infographic! Download this free infographic featuring the 16 habits of 

mind and use it to start implementing the habits in your classroom.  Download infographic


ASCD resources

Joyful Independent Reading: Choice, Agency, and Engagement with Books

What Independent Readers Do
October 12, 2017 | Volume 13 | Issue 3

Joyful Independent Reading: Choice, Agency, and Engagement with Books

Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell

Choosing books to read and enjoy is at the heart of what it means to be literate. Our classrooms provide a learning community in which each child falls in love with books. Children taste the language and art of wonderful authors and illustrators and expand their worlds through books. When they walk into a classroom that features a library of appealing categories—authors, topics, illustrators, genres, award-winning books, or series—they learn that their days in school will include

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What Independent Readers Do (2 articles)

What Independent Readers Do
October 12, 2017 | Volume 13 | Issue 3
ASCD Express

Accelerate Learning Through Independent Reading

Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher

In his address to the American Library Association in 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama noted that "literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy." The knowledge economy relies on people who can communicate with others, engage in self-reflection and self-direction, and learn autonomously. In a world where information and technology are moving at ever-increasing rates of speed, our students need to know how to build their

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Five Ways to Intentionally Support

 Reading Independence

Gretchen Bridgers

Teachers don't just walk into a classroom, hand over a basal reader, and expect all students to read on the same level or at the same rate of speed. Nor do they expect that students independently read for lengthy chunks of time while deeply comprehending everything that they are reading.

Teaching students to read requires intentional planning, instruction, assessment, and support. Successful teachers create a classroom environment where reading doesn't just happen through luck but grows because of small, simple actions by both teacher and student.

Here are five tips to help teachers get started:

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Chapter Summary: Addressing Differences ("Beyond the Bake Sale")

Beyond the Bake Sale (2007) is a comprehensive book discussing community and family partnerships in education.  A few weeks ago I was assigned to read chapter 6, Addressing Differences, along with three others.  Together we created a Slides presentation to share with and present to our class.  The link below is a PDF version of the presentation.  At your leisure, or if you can't fall asleep one night, please take a look.  Leave a common with a question or feedback about the topic.  The second link is a PDF version of the book via Google books.  Enjoy.  I am looking forward to reading your comments.

For presentation please follow:
https://goo.gl/yqgurS 

A quick glance at the book Beyond the Bake Sale
http://tinyurl.com/ybn5ulky 

Math Hacks

I love finding quick, fun tips to do the math.  Here is a fun site with some interesting and new ways to perform math skills.  Your students will probably have a lot of fun with them along with you.

Click this link or the image below for the site.

Math Hacks

Here is one example I have taught my 5th graders in the past. 

Sharemylesson.com

Do you have a lesson you create that went very well?  Are you looking for a new approach to a skill, idea, or content for a lesson?  Check out www.sharemylesson.com and share or search for lessons.  All lessons on sharemylesson.com are created by teachers.  Search by grade level, subject, discipline, or standard.  And it is all free!