Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for increasing equity and access to high-quality K–12 education. To help states, districts, teachers, and other users determine the degree of alignment of OER to the Core State Standards and to determine aspects of the quality of OER, Achieve has developed eight rubrics in collaboration with leaders from the OER community. The Achieve OER rubric is the evaluation tool built into the eMedia platform, allowing any Utah educator to evaluate resources in the database. This PDF file explains the rubrics.

As educators prepare to meet parents, guardians, and families for conferences, the focus should be directed towards creating student–centered sessions. Sharing student progress using portfolios and other Microsoft tools that show student growth is essential to creating future goals for each student.

UEN Teacher Tips is a weekly series from the UEN Professional Development team. Every Tuesday, we'll share a new tip, how-to video and classroom resource. When life is busy and time is short, we hope these tips lead to bright ideas, just in time! This week's tip is "UDL: Flexible Expression of Learning (and Instruction!)" by Val O'Bryan.