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 Classroom Teacher Support Toolbox to help you navigate LA's plan for student achievement. COMPASS, the Louisiana teacher evaluation program Archive of bi-monthly newsletters EdConnect and From the Desk of John White Louisiana Board of Secondary and Elementary Education (BESE)   [|Convert Word documents to PDF format]. Use for sending recommendations to students. More tools from Investintech.com to make conversions from one format to another. [|Pete's PowerPoint Presentations] : Free presentations in powerpoint format. Need ideas for your 21st Century Classroom? Try this wiki. AASL recommends the best websites for teaching and learning. The Learning Network blog from //The New York Times// offers many useful teacher lessons, resources and activities. At CoolTools.net you can create activities, games, quizzes and diagrams in seconds.   = Web 2.0 Tools and More Technology Aids for Teachers =  Cool Tools for School is a wiki compiled by Lenva Shearing with 100's of web 2.0 tools organized efficiently. The [|learning event generator] from John Davitt. Create an [|Animoto] education account so you or your students can create videos with music. Use [|Diigo] to organize all your bookmarks, screenshots, etc; you can get an educator account without ads. You can find links to many more web tools in Ms. Kahn's Diigo.  [|Amazing blog] by teacher Richard Byrne with free resources and lessons to help you utilize technology. Create a screencast to create on-demand mini-lessons for your students. Use [| Jing] or [|Screencast-O-Matic].  [|Collaborize] is a free site designed for teachers to extend the classroom walls within a private online community.  [|4Teachers] offers online tools and resources to help you integrate technology into lessons.  Catpin will create a test with bubbles for answers, just like the standardized tests. Find 12 examples of digital products that students can create with Wesley Fryer's "Mapping Media to CCSS ." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> Online Teacher Communities Teacher Cast is a community of teachers for 21st Century learning with many resources created by teachers for teachers. TES Connect is the largest teacher network in the world. Share My Lesson is sponsored by AFT and allows all teachers to register for the free resources. Connect with other teachers on [|Classroom 2.0]. The social network for teachers. English Companion Ning is a site where English teachers can communicate virtually for sharing and learning. AP English Ning is for all AP teachers in both literature and language. The Literacy in Learning Exchange is an online community of educators committed to transforming literacy ed. The Teaching Channel is a video showcase of inspiring and effective teaching practices in America's schools.
 * Resources from Louisiana Department of Education **
 * Helpful Tools to Make your Job Easier **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;">Learn how to create a multiple choice test in Google Forms. Learn how to use Flubaroo to grade a test you created in Google Forms. Here is a user's guide for Flubaroo which is integrated into Google Docs. Need help with Turnitin.com ? Find videos to explain all you need to know. Turnitin offers a series of webcasts to help you as you teach research skills, writing and citing. [|Find out about the notebook feature in Easybib]. [|Introduction to using Easybib]. [|Need help with ActivInspire] ? Find videos with easy instructions here. [|Instructions for using Delicious.com] to organize your bookmarks. Use videos from Ted Ed that were created in all subject areas with your students
 * Tutorials and Videos for Teachers **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> Common Core Standard s website. Lexile.com will allow you to find lexile levels for specific texts. Register for free and you can submit an assessment to see if it meets targeted lexiles. Achieve the Core is a non-profit organization dedicated to help teachers prepare lessons based on CCSS. Common Curriculum allows the teacher to design units and lessons online to meet CCSS. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Edutopia has created a page with loads of resources about the Common Core standards. Crosswalk of the Common Core Standards and the Standards for a 21st Century Learner from AASL. P21 Common Core Toolkit :A Guide to Aligning the Common Core State Standards with the Framework for 21st Century Skills. 5 Things Every Teacher Should be Doing to Meet the Common Core Standards. Common Core resources from Edutopia. 10 Must See Common Core Resources from SimpeK12. The Textproject.org is a development series designed to address text complexity and CCSS. Council of the Great City Schools has resources to support the CCSS. Learn Zillion offers thousands of lessons all built from the CCSS. Common Core for Teachers from Scholastic. MasteryConnect is an assessment tracker to help you monitor student's progress toward specific CCSS. CommonCurriculum is designed to help teachers align lessons to the CCSS with plan book and blog option. Turnitin.com has writing rubrics in Grademark available to help you aline your writing assignment with CCSS. Literacy Implementation Guidelines for ELA CCSS from the International Reading Association (IRA). Droid App
 * Common Core State Standards (CCSS) **
 * Download the Common Core App for your smartphone:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #558e74; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> Apple IOS App

** Non-Fiction Narrative Texts to help teach CCSS ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;">Find all these works online: Newslea was designed to help students improve literacy skills with relevant non-fiction texts, in other words, daily news. The Best Science and Nature Writing Series has been collated since 2000 from various magazines. Here are 100 pieces of the best in journalism brought to you by //The Atlantic// magazine. Longform.org posts new and classic non-fiction articles, curated from across the web. The Daily Beast publishes a weekly list of great long reads from many news and magazine sources. Use Newslea to find non-fiction texts that focus on current events.

Grant Sources
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> Get Ed Funding is brought to you by CDW-G. Register for the site so you can save grants of interest. The [|Foundation Center] helps you find grants in all subjects. [|School Grants] offers tips for grant writing and grant opportunities. Stem Grants offers news, info about STEM and lots of grant opportunities. [|Donors Choose], an online charity that connects donors to classrooms in need. [|Best Buy] has several programs that awards grants to teachers and schools to improve technology. Use this tool from [|Perma-Bound] to seek out specialized grants for your program. [|Digital Wish] is a program set up to get classrooms needed technology. Collection of links to grants from [|4teachers]. The Grant Wrangler has lists of grants for K-12 education.

Online Educational Journals and Blogs Promoting 21st Century Learning
the Journal offers resources to help teachers transform education through technology. Edudemic is a journal with a focus on the ever changing educational technology available to schools. Edutopia is dedicated to transforming the learning process by helping educators implement 21st century strategies. EducationWorld provides online teacher resources, community and professional development. Find a list of over two dozen educational journals with free content online. TeachThought is a blog that explores the best in learning innovation that connects K-20 educators with resources, ideas, models, frameworks and curricula.

Apps in the Classroom:
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> Kathy Schrock's Guide to apps to support Bloom' s revised taxonomy. Interactive pyramid from Samantha Penney to support Bloom's digital taxonomy. General Resources <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;">The Mindset List was created at Beloit College in 1998 to reflect the world view of entering first year students. It started with the members of the class of 2002, born in 1980. The 40 Developmental Assets of Teenagers from the Search Institute Literacy across the curriculum wiki from Angela Maiers. [|Help students with the research process here]. The [|Futures Channel] offers videos from the scientists, engineers, explorers and visionaries who are shaping the future for today’s learners who will one day succeed them. [|PBS has created a new learning portal] for educators. Register for the Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) service with links to educational videos. Easybib has created an educator's portal with lesson plans to help teach about plagiarism and citations.

Need an Assessment or Rubric?
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;">Here is a link to dozens of sample rubrics from Kathy Schrock. Here is a link to dozens of sample rubrics from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, College of Education. Varsity Tutors has created a free tool to help you create assessments including practice tests and flashcards.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000066; display: block; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 1.65em;"> Online Professional Development <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Merriweather,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"> [|Simple K12] is a teacher learning community. The Center for Learning offers free webinars and lessons and courses for a fee. [|CILC] or Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration offers PD and opportunities to connect with other classrooms. [|November Learning] offers many types of resources for teachers. Edweb is a professional social network for the education community. Edweb hosts great free webinars. The Utah Education Network has free online professional development for teachers. ISTE Learning is a free online community designed as professional development for teachers. PBS TeacherLine offers professional development with college credit for teachers pre-k-12.