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IXL is an interactive website for grades K-12 to help students on a variety of topics. Teachers can monitor in real-time student strengths & weakness to personalize their learning.

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Build vocabulary lessons for students then assign to student accounts for daily and weekly practice. You can also access Reading A-Z where teachers can downloaded leveled reading books and lessons.

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Game based website where teachers and students can create games. Students can answer questions on any device they have.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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Online magazines packed with engaging and exciting stories in all content areas. Students can complete interactive questions & activities based on the readings.

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With Magazines+, you get fresh, high-interest content delivered all year long-in print, online, or both. Every single story, video, and activity is designed to hook your students and keep them engaged. And because Magazines+ complements your curriculum, it's easy to implement during any part of the school day!

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Scholastic Classroom & News Magazines | Subscribe Now!

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Scholastic Magazines+ cover the latest topics to enhance instruction in math, science, reading, social studies, and more! Subscribe Today!

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A variety of topics across all the content areas. Each topic has a short 2-5 minute video with corresponding questions and games.

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BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology

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A way to communicate with students and parents. Google Classroom was the most utilized tools during remote/virtual learning. Attached is a short quick guide video for students.

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Social justice is such an important part of student learning and development now. Learning for Justice is a great tool for teachers to find lesson plans at appropriate age/grade levels as well as engage in their own professional development workshops.

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Learning for Justice is a community education program of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that centers civic and political action education for everyone.

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A Google Slide created by the Technology teacher at my school.  A compilation of websites, book lists and videos dealing with Social Justice.

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A video conferencing website that keeps people connected. The creator of Zoom allowed teachers and districts to use the service free of charge when virtual learning started 15 months ago.

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Modernize workflows with Zoom's trusted collaboration tools: including video meetings, team chat, VoIP phone, webinars, whiteboard, contact center, and events.

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Easy Google App. It acts as a whiteboard for virtual learning. You can create charts, notes, etc. for students to see. This is a great app for doing math problems online for all students to see.

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How to Use Google Jamboard - Beginner's Tutorial

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Website created by teachers, for teachers to access hundreds of thousands already made resources for any content area or topic.  You can purchase whole units or single worksheets for anything.

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Who knows teachers better than teachers? A wonderful resource for teachers earning degrees as well as ideas for teachers already in the educational field.

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If you're passionate about nurturing and helping the leaders and thinkers of tomorrow, teaching is a wonderful and exciting profession. You may say it's a calling.

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Teacher Education & Careers | Teacher.org

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If you're passionate about nurturing and helping the leaders and thinkers of tomorrow, teaching is a wonderful and exciting profession. You may say it's a calling. Whether you're a prospective student researching a degree in teaching , an aspiring teacher looking to start your career , or a veteran educator working in a private or public school system interested in continued professional development , Teacher.org has something for you.

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Variety of free resources across the curriculum for grades Pre-K through 5th grade. Jumpstart also helps support parents & teachers of early leaners to build upon skills and concepts.

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Our home products are uniquely designed by early education experts to help your child to learn, grow, and have fun. With a vast array of subjects, skills, and content, we can provide your child with the JumpStart they need into their educational future

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Adaptive Curriculum Games for Kids - Activities & Worksheets - JumpStart

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Our home products are uniquely designed by early education experts to help your child to learn, grow, and have fun. With a vast array of subjects, skills, and content, we can provide your child with the JumpStart they need into their educational future

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A perfect website for the History buff! A wide range of topics and content for any grade level. You can access lessons plans as well as videos and national standards.

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Support for Smithsonian's History Explorer is provided by the Verizon Foundation

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A collection of videos and resources ranging from Science, the Arts, and World Languages. It allows your to share videos and activities to a Google Classroom page or favorite it so you can circle back.

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

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A great way to connect with your students and others! You can create educational videos to share with other Educreation users as well as your class. There are different pricing levels as well as a basic free level.

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Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web.

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EdShed branches off to multiple resources in spelling, math and literacy. Choose from a variety of activities to complete and play with fellow peers and classmates to be the very best!

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The web game for EdShed, including Spelling Shed and MathShed.

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An educational resource to provide tools to teachers to help students be better in the world. This websites allows teachers to use real world issues to present to students for them to better themselves and strive to do good in the world.

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Teaching for Change and Rethinking Schools collaborate to bring people's history to the classroom.

A dedicated website to encourage and support teaching about Central American history.

The best selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, and educators.

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Building social justice starting in the classroom.

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One of the worst parts of virtual learning was no more field trips! Luckily, Julie from Common Core Kingdom came to the rescue. Search a wide range of virtual field trips to engage and excite your students!

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Virtual Field Trip | Common Core Kingdom

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VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS Let's Take A Field Trip! Why Virtual Field Trips? Virtual Field Trips are fun, engaging, and educational! Google Slides & Seesaw Formats Formats are perfect for distance learning. Slides are interactive and can be used as a fun and engaging exercise within the classroom or remotely.

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An upbeat, young and engaging scientist for grades K-8.   All videos provide in-depth knowledge of a wide range of Science topics as well as readings, quizzes and fun hands on science experiments!

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Video lessons made in partnership with the National Science Teachers Association that engage, educate & inspire kids in science. Generation Genius videos are 12-minutes long and include lesson plans, teacher guides, DIY activities and stopping points for class discussion.

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Of the many resources I have chosen to include the two that I feel are most important are the web based IXL program and Learning for Justice.

IXL is a great way for students to recognize any weaknesses in their skill level.  IXL can be used across the curriculum, but I use it for Math.  The program allows me to see if there are any skills that I need to circle back to if students are struggling.  All reporting is done in real time and I can assist students automatically.  The program engages the students by challenging them to hit a SmartScore of 100 to master the skill.  Within class, the students turn the problems into a mini competition between each other.

The second resource I find important is the Learning for Justice website.  Teaching children to be considerate, compassionate and empathic of people's differences is important now more than ever.  Not only does the website help teachers to celebrate everyone's uniqueness, it also helps to impress the importance of internet safety in our ever evolving digital age. Also, allowing for teachers to improve their teaching and understand of social justice issues with continuing professional development & workshops provided by the site will empower teachers to go outside of their comfort zones and really get into the issues.

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Many of the resources I selected could be utilized within my school environment.  The main resource that would be most beneficial for my entire school environment would be the IXL program for grades K-8.  As a staff, we can all sit down and take a look at each grade levels' math curriculum and decide on different skills that need to be masters for the upcoming year.  From there, the students in the school will utilize the IXL program throughout the school year.  At the end of the year, we can compare the students' levels from the start to the end of the year.  This will allow for teacher preparation and planning of specific topics & skills that need to be covered more in-depth the following year.  IXL will allow us to seamless stream our Math curriculum up through the grades for higher test scores and more confident students.

A second resource that would be a fun addition to my entire school environment would be virtual field trips.  In our new Covid world, field trips have become a thing of the past.  These field trips will allow for the students and teachers to break away from the "normal" school day and enjoy an exciting and educational experience. They can also give us the opportunity to work more collaboratively with one another!  We can plan for two grades to attend the same "field trip" via a Zoom or Google Meets conference as well.