It’s a new school year, and no doubt you’ve been planning and preparing to make it your best year yet! Here’s a collection of resources and professional tools designed to help.
Submit a comment to our blog to let us know which of these are your favorites. One lucky teacher will win my copy of Classroom Instruction that Works from ASCD. Submit your comment by midnight EDT on Monday, August 27, 2012, to be entered in our drawing. Good luck! (Update: congratulations to Rhonda, who was our winner!)
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Have you heard about the new resources from ETA hand2mind designed to help you with Common Core State Standards? Check out Understanding the Mathematical Practices, an online course that’s part of Core PD Professional Growth & Coaching. You’ll get hands-on strategies that you can use right away. Register now!
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X-Acto is ready for back-to-school! The X-Acto School Pro pencil sharpener features a safe, rounded point and a 10-year warranty. Plus show off projects you’ve made with X-Acto tools and be eligible to win an X-Acto Prize Pack. Visit www.xacto.com to learn more!
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Ready to advance your career? Find out more about degrees in online teaching and learning, instructional leadership, administration and supervision, and more, all online from American Public University. Get all of the details; visit StudyatAPU.com/learning.
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It’s time to get your supplies in order! This year, let parents know what students need—and what you need as well—with free school supply lists and wish lists from TeacherLists.com. When you set up your lists, you’ll be eligible for lots of prizes and giveaways too. Plus parents can access lists on the go. Try it today!
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Try a new approach for classroom management with tools from Mentoring Minds. The Differentiated Instruction Guide provides information about how to meet the needs of individual learners, and the Assessments Guide helps you show students’ achievements and uncover gaps in learning. Take a look!
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How do you want your students to treat one another? Start teaching those lessons from the very first day of school with help from free online games created by Special Olympics. Designed for general education classrooms, the games cover topics such as perseverance, relating to others who are different from you, using words of kindness and support, and more. Click here to try the games and to download a teacher’s guide.
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Enter for a chance to win $500 and a case of Lysol Disinfecting Wipes in the Lysol Healthy Classroom Sweepstakes. One hundred lucky teachers will win! Studies have shown that germs can live on surfaces like desktops and doorknobs for up to two days or more. Lysol Disinfecting Wipes kill 99.9% of germs on hard surfaces found in the classroom. Click here now to enter the contest!
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Let us know which of these resources will help you have a standout school year. Submit your comment right now!
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Have to go with the Lysol…don’t know what I (or my classroom!) would do without them. But I have heard lots of good things about that pencil sharpener, too!
Lysol.
I like the school pro pencil sharpener.
As a special education teacher, finding resources to show regular education classes can be a huge find!! I will definitely share this site with my regular ed colleagues!!
I like the new resources from ETA. I appreciate help meeting the needs of individual learners and finding gaps in learning to help students achievement is a wonderful resource!
I love teacher lists especially the free samples.
The resources from ETA hand2mind look like a take a look and absorb relevant information.
Love mentoring minds.