Nancy Blair's Public Library

Article from Principal Leadership about changing education.

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NASSP Principal Leadership changes

Weave 21st Century innovation into the curriculum; links to 40 lesson ideas to explore and try.

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almanac ideas links tools lesson plans Google

Inro to "Focused Read Skills wiki.

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picture books reading skills wiki

Example of a school using a wiki to archive info related to their PLCs.

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PLC archive example wiki

Strategies and ideas for using assessment data to maximize student learning

salemafl.ning.com - Preview

Assessment formative assessment resources

This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation

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Millenials trends research

Charts and graphs about Millennials.

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Millennials technology use demographics trends

Article about placement of sixth graders -- elementary or middle school.

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sixth grade transition placement

How-tos for integrating Twitter with PowerPoint.

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how-to Twitter PowerPoint

Inspirational piece about the "rain" needed for transformation; uses desert wild flower analogy.

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change transformation Death Valley

Tuition-free program in ed leadership from Harvard.

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tuition-free Harvard leadership

A resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning.

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literacy resourced links articles videos research reading

Story about sixth graders using wikis to publish writing.

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wiki wikis writing examples

Twitter anniversary date.

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Twitter anniversary join

Collection of interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.

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videos clips archive

Wiki that explores the overlapping features of blogs, wikis, and documents to help you decide which one is right to meet a given need.

blogswikisdocs.wikispaces.com - Preview

comparison blogs wikis docs purpose

Nice graphic that thinks through process of change.

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change Cycle of Learning Burke

Archive of checklists by topic and grade level for PBL.

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PBL project-based learning checklists

Includes activity for discussion with groups about changes in information production and processing.

www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/...tal-information-landscape.html - Preview

activity discussion change CASTLE

Archive of categorized links to resources for differentiated instruction.

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DI differentiation resources links