On September 17, 1787, the Constitutional Convention came to a close in the Assembly Room of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There were seventy individuals chosen to attend the meetings with the initial purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation.
The Triple E Framework, developed in 2011 by Professor Liz Kolb at the University of Michigan, School of Education, was created to address the desire for K-12 educators to bridge research on education technologies and teaching practice in the classroom.
Scope & sequence for K-12 physical education will help teachers to develop physically literate students by using several PE standards.
The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource is an article describing how to use a KWHL chart to help student through the research process.
This article provides suggestions for how to improve your active listening skills -- and that you could use with your students.
This website provides tools to help literacy leaders identify and select engaging texts for readers who may struggle, as well as teaching tools to help integrate these types of texts into their curriculum.
This PDF houses different supplemental programs and interventions for use with adolescent students. It was authored by Cynthia Shanahan and Learning Point Associates and is available on the WWC website.
As faculty, you assess textbooks against a set of criteria that reflects your long experience and knowledge of student needs. You do the same with Open Textbooks, but there are a few additional considerations.
In this special revised and updated feature for Black History Month, teachers, parents, and students will find a collection of NEH-supported websites and EDSITEment-developed lessons that tell the four-hundred-year old story of African Americans from slavery through freedom and citizenship to the presidency.
A contemporary take on an ancient Arabic form.
Did the poems of this 18th-century poet prefigure modern hip-hop rivalries?
This website is a compilation of fantastic resources for any reading teacher. This page on the website provides a brief overview of before, during, and after reading strategies, as well as links with detailed information about a variety of strategies and downloadable resources for the classroom. They also provide recommended additional reading for interested viewers.
Website that has current news that is sorted by political ideology. Good to use for current event research. You can search a specific current political news story and be able to see how news outlets on the Left, Center, Right describe that topic.
The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "All's Well That Ends Well" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.
This article explains how teachers can read texts through the lens of preparing to teach the text and provides a model for reading as a teacher.
This book explores how to support student sensemaking of science concepts. It includes specific vignettes, examples, and practical suggestions for implementing in the classroom.
This webpage includes information about the amendments to the U.S. Constitution and their role in the history of the United States of America.
This reading provides information regard the U.S. Coal Industry in the 19th century.
the American Library Association announced its annual book awards. Below a list of the winners of the American Indian Library Association's Youth Literature Awards, given every two years (even-numbered years). Soon, all these books listed below will have the AIYLA seal on them! The photo below is from the AILA website and shows a selection of the books with their seals.
These websites may serve as a resource for designing emotional intelligence lesson plans.