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Teaching Informational Text with Magazines 24 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
Teaching Tips and a Magazine Subscription Giveaway! With the Common Core emphasis on teaching informational text, you might be wondering where to find appropriate texts for reading instruction. Most ...
Facebook 70,000 Followers Contest 21 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
Update: The contest is over and the Teaching Resources Facebook page count is now above 70,000! The first time it happened was 9:28 p.m. EDT on August 20th. Congratulations to Miranda Baranek for bein...
Back to School Savings on Teaching Resources 17 Aug 2013 | 01:26 am
... and a Pin It to Win It Contest! You knew it was coming ... the Back to School sale on TpT is a little later this year, but the dates have finally been announced. Yay! The big event is this Sunday...
Caring Classrooms Community on DonorsChoose 10 Aug 2013 | 07:51 am
My friend Francie Kugelman is a DonorsChoose guru! If you read yesterday's guest blog post by Francie here on Corkboard Connections, you'll know exactly what I mean! She wrote a wonderful article abou...
Sometimes It Takes a Virtual Village 8 Aug 2013 | 11:52 pm
How DonorsChoose Communities Work Guest blog post by Francie Kugelman Laura asked me to tell you about a new and wonderful way to get your projects funded on DonorsChoose.org. Many of you know me as ...
Sowing the Seeds of Classroom Success 1 Aug 2013 | 05:29 am
Register for a Free Live Webinar August 8th, 8 p.m. EDT Now that it's almost time to head back to school, you're probably thinking about that all-important first week. It's a critical time because th...
Math Fact Mastery and the Common Core 18 Jul 2013 | 06:11 am
Free Mastering Math Facts Webinar Should upper elementary students be expected to memorize math facts? The Common Core asks for us to move beyond surface-level instruction and teach for deep understa...
Creating a Caring Classroom Family 12 Jul 2013 | 11:45 pm
Guest blog post by Barbara Gruener Now that we are well into July, life finds me increasingly eager for the new school year to arrive. We’ll be blessed with approximately nine months together; how do...
Solving Unknown Perimeter Mysteries 7 Jul 2013 | 03:25 am
Mystery Perimeters Freebie Lesson Perimeter is a pretty simple concept to grasp, but finding unknown sides of irregular polygons can be challenging for kids. Solving these types of problems requires ...
Goin' on a Blog Hunt! 2 Jul 2013 | 10:59 pm
How to Find and Follow Teacher Blogs Now that Google Reader is gone, you're probably looking for another way to organize and manage the blogs you follow. A few days ago I started using BlogLovin .......
