Strong Instructional Models

• Awesome Stories Website Turns Stories into Learning
  An online scaffold of primary, secondary and original content creates a platform for cross-curricular teaching for grades 3-16, across subjects.
• EdSteps– Student Work
  What it is all about, after all!
• Curating Content
  30 tools for aggregating and organizing content
• History of Information & StoryTelling
  infographics communicate so much, from maps to periodic tables
• 40 Great Digital Classroom Tools
  Survey of tools for creative student work
• Essentials of Project-Based Learning
  From John Megendollar and John Larmer of BIE
• The Teaching Channel
  Short videos of best practice lessons from a wide variety of schools
• Lincoln Center Institute
  Developing skills of imagination, creativity, and innovation through education and the arts.
• Visual Evidence — Tufte on HD breakthroughs
  Given the proliferation of information, breakthroughs in how we teach and communicate are required. Edward Tufte and his “beautiful evidence” concepts, including “sparklines” and “wavefields” are leading the way.
• BIG History High School Course Site
  funded by Gates, lead by Prof. David Christian
• Faces of Learning
  50 breakthrough learning stories, explore learning ideas from personal viewpoints, share your own stories.
• Expeditionary Learning Schools – PBL with nature, spirit, and discipline
  Exemplary school model used in public, charter, and private schools across the country.
• All Kinds of Minds
  Supporting multiple learning modalities
• Curriki
  Over 40,000 learning units created and shared by teachers.
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
  The authority on teacher best practice, the board for teachers issuing a certification that is the ultimate attainment for teachers. Look here for best practice teaching standards, practice and professional development with excellence.
• Governor’s Education Positions
  From Education Week: summary and links to each state’s governor’s major education policy initiatives.
• Restoring Our Schools- Linda Darling-Hammond
  Insightful analysis of education needs by a national expert in teacher education and practice.
• Edutopia
  Finding education reform that works, and communicating about it in media and print– from the George Lucas Foundation
• Parents for Public Schools – Hawai’i
  Concerned parents and community members working to ensure quality public education for each child or Hawai’i
• Facebook for HS History
  Using Timelines Supports Classroom and Out of School Learning