Staff Resources

General Resources

Administrator and Student Directions	Directions for Administrators and Students
MCA Student Tutorials	Tutorials that are shown up to 1 week before testing
Student Samplers	Samplers for Students
Pearson Next MCA Testing Site	Login to Pearson Next MCA Testing
Westwood Information Google Site
Ed Tech Who Do I Contact?	Staff Roles and Responsibilities
SMARTboard Resources
BrainPop
Google Calendar
Education World	Find lesson plans, ways to develop professionally, technology integration ideas and other information about school issues.
Wordle	Create cool "word clouds" from text
The Teacher's Guide	Find lesson plans and more
History Teacher	Find resources for teaching history
VisuWords	Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts
Treasures ConnectEd McGraw-Hill
Treasures Leveled Reader Database
Language Arts Wiki
Nancy Kean	Look for books that will help you teach different genres or topics

Audio/Video/Presentation Resources - some websites may be blocked in-district

Animoto	Photo presentations
Big Huge Labs	Create and print personalized motivational posters, calendars, movie posters, magazine covers, badges, mosaics, and collages
Blabberize	Using photos for messages
Blogs - Blogger Kidblog Wordpress	Online conversation
Concrete Poetry	Draw or choose a picture and add a poem to it
Glogster	Online digital posters
Google Maps/Earth	To create literature tours
Jeopardy Labs	Online Jeopardy game creator
Make Believe Comix	Make your own comic strip
Mixbook	Photobook creator
Pocket Mod	Book that prints and folds into a mini-book
Prezi	Online presentations in poster-board format
Realewriter	For creating picture books with real pictures
Storybird	Use donated artwork to create a story around
Tagxedo or Wordle	Word clouds
Time Glider	Timeline software
Voicethread	Voice, video, photo discussion forums

Intervention Resources

Intervention Central	Intervention Central provides teachers, schools and districts with free resources to help struggling learners and implement Response to Intervention.
International Reading Association	Find articles, lesson plans and other resources from other literacy professionals.
Promising Practices Network	The PNN website is a unique resource that offers credible, research-based information on what works to improve the lives of children and families.
Intervention Techniques	Here's a place where you can find effective teaching techniques. Students studying special educaiton at the University of Virginia and East Tennessee State University have read and summarized scores of research articles about teaching techniques for exceptional learners.
Literacy Information and Communication System	Find and use evidence-based research to make decisions about reading instruction.
Education Oasis	Find printables, lesson plans, graphic organizations and other resources to help you teach.