Curriculum 21 - Mapping the Global Classroom of the Future

Wonderful ASCD video of Heidi Hayes Jacobs relating one of the Critical Transformations in her own life.

One of the new, SMART internet web filters which allows individual teacher control of individual webpages. EVERY school should have this kind of filter. NO MORE BLOCKING THE ENTIRE INTERNET.

Creating and using curriculum maps is a lot faster and easier when you use this in-depth resource in workshops, curriculum teams, and professional learning communities. Whether you're introducing curriculum mapping for the first time or working with teachers and administrators who are well into the process, the manual's collection of templates, samples, and tools helps you

Excellent teacher created wiki space for Web 2.0 resources

Education World's virtual workshop on curriculum mapping.

This is the site for the recently-released film called "The Cartel" that is a startling portrayal of inner-city education in New Jersey. It makes, in vivid and emotional fashion, much the same case that many are making about New Jersey's urban schools. You can view the trailer, as well as some other clips, at

Teaching and Learning with the New York Times

This blog attempts to chronicle the latest innovations and projects at the real life School of the Future in Philadelphia. The School of the Future is a project sponsored by Microsoft and the Philadelphia School District, to bring innovation and reform to K-12 schools. The blog shares projects, best practices, insights and commentary from the Educators, Learners and other SOTF affiliated people. The blog discusses technology innovations in K-12 education, curriculum and project based learning, and critical issues that the Educators want to share with the global education community. This blog strives to be a single source of information and content regarding Microsoft Education technologies being used at the school. Blog posts seek to demonstrate and write about how to implement and use specific technologies in classrooms or school districts.

New York Times article on brain research applied to changing education: "The teaching of basic academic skills, until now largely the realm of tradition and guesswork, is giving way to approaches based on cognitive science. In several cities, including Boston, Washington and Nashville, schools have been experimenting with new curriculums to improve math skills in preschoolers. In others, teachers have used techniques developed by brain scientists to help children overcome dyslexia."

This ASCD Study Guide is designed to enhance your understanding and application of the information contained in Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, an ASCD book edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs and published in January 2010. You can use the study guide before or after you have read the book, or as you finish each chapter.

The phrase should be international awarding winning projects K-12.

This classroom cellphone application is free for less than 30 users - so free for classroom teachers. Get instant responses from your students.

The historical archive of almost all websites in the world. Compare today's version of a site with snapshots of past years. Great for research. Great for teaching web ethics. And it is FREE.

Talk. Listen. Embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. In a lab or wireless laptop setting it is quite useful to engage your audience. Its beauty is in its simplicity, no adds, no sign ups, no instructions, it just works...

Readability (be great for PD if there are materials you want to enlarge for easy viewing) Readability — An Arc90 Laboratory Experiment Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading. Follow the steps below to install Readability in your Web browser.

Nine Interesting Ways* to use a Learning Platform in the Classroom *and tips

Scroll to the bottome of this page and click on specific disciplines to see excellent examples of enduring understandings, big ideas, and essential questions.

Online Mind Mapping

Strategies for writing in the content areas.

Denise Scott says - I often have a wall full of sticky notes right above my computer at work to help me remember, organize, etc. Well, now the sticky notes are on the computer. Great site for collaborating or getting students to comment on a topic. Did I mention that you can use your cell phone to add text? You can even add pics or data...

Pennsylvania's comprenesive approach to student achievement across the Commonwealth - clear standards, fair assessments, curriculum framework.

The Ministry of Education's new School leadership and student outcomes: Identifying what works and why: Best evidence synthesis iteration (BES) was launched by the Minister of Education, Hon. Anne Tolley, at the opening of the University of Auckland Leadership Centre on 4 November 2009.

This is a collection of collaborative resources that schools can choose to use when trying to develop "New Forms" of meeting and scheduling time.

This is a collection of Web Tools, Collaborative Tools, and Tutorials to help teachers upgrade curricula, particularly assessments, in the context of what they already have in district, or have access to on their networks.

This is a wiki with resources for setting up a professional learning network online, as well as examples of ways educators are connected around the world.