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Resource Review: Mentoring Minds

Ask a Tech Teacher

Mentoring Minds is an education publishing company and resource site created by former teachers. Professional development is available for teachers on core concepts like differentiation in the classroom, rolling out Common Core Standards, best practices for instruction, formative assessment strategies, and more.

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Math Expert Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell Endorses Hand2Mind’S Hands-On Standards

eSchool News

To help kick off the partnership, hand2mind and Fennell invite educators and administrators to a free, informative webinar on Tuesday, February 16, focused on the benefits of implementing authentic tasks, representations, and a daily problem-solving routine with the goal of helping strengthen students’ understanding of math concepts.

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3 Great Special Needs Digital Tools

Ask a Tech Teacher

Using the free app, students can tape a live lecture, a Skype call, an online webinar on their iPhone or iPad (or directly to the software), transfer it to their dashboard where they can transcribe, annotate, highlight, edit, format, add to, delete, or simply play it back for reference. – See more at: [link]. Insider tips.

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Ten Possible Education Headlines For 2015 : Happy New Year!

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

CCSS (Common Core State Standards) to be replaced by the UCSS (Uncommon Core State Standards ) – A special task force established to study common attributes of the Common Core found that it was actually no longer common with the withdrawal of numerous states writing their own CCCSS (Copy of Common Core State Standards).

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An Update on What You Need to Know about ESSA

edWeb.net

Steve Rowley, CEO of Acumen Partners, with Michael Campbell, Vice President of Acumen Partners, presented the latest updates on ESSA in the webinar, “ Making Sense of ESSA: What You Need to Know ,” co-hosted by edWeb.net and MCH Strategic Data. Steve also addressed any confusion regarding the Common Core State Standards.

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Week of March 28, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. Join this webinar to participate in this discussion. Utilizing an actual high-tech, consumer electronic Fortune 100 company renamed ''Orange Inc.''

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Infographics and The Library of Congress: A Colossal Collection of Resource Riches

The Daring Librarian

I blog about what I wanna blog about and I''m oppositional to boot so unless you''re part of my Personal Learning Network (that''s you dear reader not those company marketers or people sellin stuff) making suggestions --I''m not gonna bite. My blog fodder ain''t for sale peeps! It was AWESOME!