Interested in learning more about Blended Learning? Check out this resource!

Here's another chance to find more stellar ideas!

Spend some time exploring a plethora of math lessons. So many wonderful ideas right here!

More ideas from Better Lesson!

Interested in something different? Something that encourages the 4 Cs and transforms your classroom? Check out Breakout EDU. 

Big thanks to Kelly Martin from South Lake Tahoe for sharing this amazing resource. Check out this padlet - full of places to find copyright free images!

ed1stop is a resource like no other. Be sure to know about all the available features found in our fabulous ed1stop portal. My personal favorites are AP images, Discovery Streaming (awesome for copyright FREE images) and, of course, BrainPOP!

Watch this Google Hangout on Air about how a 4th grade teacher uses Google HyperDocs to organize lessons and engage students at the same time!

This is a great post about ways to use Google Maps in the classroom. Six of the ten are how to incorporate My Maps in the classroom. Awesome ideas can be found here!

Ever want to know about the apps that are on classroom iPads? Take a look at this list and check out the latest and greatest apps to help transform your class!

One of the Common Core Mathematical Practices is to construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Promoting mathematical discourse can be a daunting task for teachers of young students. In this One Best Thing, an early elementary teachers shares strategies for increasing math discourse for young learners via digital drawings, written conversation and video capture. 

The Apps in the Classroom series was created by Apple to provide teachers with a few ideas on how to integrate apps into daily classroom instruction. Inspired by Apple Distinguished Educators, this book is a collection of activities that let students use Explain Everything to demonstrate their learning across a range of subjects. Check out these stellar ideas - and apply them to other apps as well (i.e. ShowMe, EduCreations, Seesaw, etc)

Check out these Apple Distinguished Schools Program iBook Exemplars and consider building your own iBook. This isn’t for Apple, this is just another tool to tell your community about the great work your are doing with students.

Teachers Give Teachers, found on Twitter is a collective way to share digital instructional content and materials for FREE. An excellent resource for ALL!

Kathy Schrock hits another homerun with this resource. If you have access to iPads, consider spending some quality time with this information. It will be well worth it!

See what Kathy has to say about Bloom's Taxonomy and how it pertains to Puentadura’s SAMR model.

Great insight as we explore various ways to leverage technology in the classroom.

A great article from ISTE describing makerspaces and how to get the concept going at your school.

One successful way to provide formative assessments throughout your lesson is to incorporate multi-media quizzes. My favorite is a tool called EDPuzzle but there are plenty of other choices. This chart will help you get started with bringing your lesson to another level. Whether you want to check student understanding during the lesson or check in with them after the lesson is over, these tools will help you create and collect valuable information from the students, which will help your decisions for next steps!

Teachers who use Newsela LOVE it! Primarily for grades 3+, Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction with current events.

Interested in PBL? This is a great start!

Check out this awesome resource written by our very own Sue Boudreau (7th grade Science, OIS)!

The SAMR Model - what is it? And what is it good for? Watch the short video and learn a little more about this thing called SAMR.

There are a variety of ways to have students respond. Here are a few of the best systems being used today. Take a look and start using one, two, or three of your favorites! You'll get a chance to learn what your students really understand.

Long Beach Unified offers a nice scope & sequence pertaining to tech skills. Check it out!

Welcome to the Twitterverse! Use this resource to help make sense of this "whole new world". Thanks to my pal, Rachel Marker from Montana for putting this Smore together!

Check out Wonderopolis - an amazing place where student curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery. The "Wonders of the Day" will help find learning moments in everyday life.

Each day, Wonderopolis poses an intriguing question and explores it in a variety of ways.  

Explore. Imagine. Laugh. Share. Create. Learn. Smile. Grow. Check it out now!!