Start the School Year
Four Skills to Teach Your Students In The First Five Days of School
Themes and Essential Questions
Environment
Love of Reading
16 Books to Read Before They Hit the Theaters
10 Tips to Create Great Readers
Narrative: Who am I?/What is my story?
Personal and Social Identity Wheel Handouts
Tribes in Africa where the birth date of a child is not counted from when they were born
Shekhar Kapur: We are the stories we tell ourselves
The Danger of a Single Story – Chimamanda Adichie
Stories: Legacies of who we are – Awele Makeba
Why a good book is a secret door
Craft
The Clues to a Great Story, Visualized
Become a Slam Poet in Five Steps
Capturing Authentic Narratives – Michele Weldon
The Power of a Great Introduction
Slowing down time (in writing and film)- Aaron Sitze
How to Build a Fictional World
Figurative Language
In on a secret? That’s dramatic irony – Christopher Warner
What is verbal irony? – Christopher Warner
Situational irony: The opposite of what you think – Christopher Warner
Punctuation
Three anti-social skills to improve your writing
Word Study
Beware of nominalizations (AKA zombie nouns) – Helen Sword
The case against good and bad – Marlee Neel
Practice Story Writing
Compare and Contrast
Pleasantville Printable Worksheets
Pleasantville Analysis Questions
Research
How to seperate fact and fiction online
Current News
Story Telling, Speeches and Talks, Debate
Community Building
Mandela: I Believe I Made an Effort
Blogs and Portfolios
Make your own magazine with Joomag
Inspirational Videos for Quick Writes
Tolkien Reads a Poem in Elvish, Geri’s Game, Pixar, Pixar Short Mioves Lifted and Birds , 30 years ago, Give a Little Love , Clouds by Zach, Uncle Drew, Street Compliments, When I’m gone, Making Music Together, Kid President Awesome Year Challenge, Boy Inspires Kids-Kids Inspire Us All , The World is Just Awesome, Charlie Chaplin, Tarantella, The Fake Empire, The Philosophical Breakfast Club, What Travelling Around the World Looks Like, A Conversation with My 12 Year Old Self, 2.Graders at a Fancy Restaurant in NY, Less CNN, More Mozart, Why I Hate School but Love Education, Small Pleasure of Life, The Cartoon Lounge, New Yorker, Why a Good Book is a Secret Door, A Recipe for Love, Tree, Law of Attraction
Classroom Management
Super Teacher Tools: Games, seating chart maker, group maker, random name generator, classroom timer, classroom countdown
Social Innovation
Teach kids about healthy eating by starting a school gardening program
Learning From a Barefoot Movement
Maya Shea Penn: Teen Entrepreneur Out to Change the World
Bowman International Elementary Students Ready to Pitch the Silican Valley VC Community
A four-year old changemaker proves you’re never too young to change the world
Social Innovation for Teachers
How to Make Emotional Learning Part of Curriculum
How to Make Kindness The Foundation of School Culture
4 Leadership Traits to Drive Social Innovation
How to Teach Your Child To Be an Entrepreneur
Education
Teaching with the World Peace Game
Use Data to Build Better Schools
Common Planning Time Catches at Risk Students
The Moth Teaches A Thing or Two About Storytelling: Setting Up the Stakes
10 Commandments of Innovative Teaching
5 Tips for Making Your Class As Addictive As a Game
20 Signs That You’ve Made a Difference
Ken Robinson Says Schools Kill Creativity
Why I Hate School But Love Education
Matematik Eğitim Üzerine, X,Y,Z
John Hardy: My Green School Dream
How 17-year old Nikhil Goyal Distrupted Education
Dear Student, I Don’t Lie Awake at Night Thinking of Ways to Ruin Your Life
Running
Because I like it
Reasons why I travel the world with my kids
The secret to desire in a long term relationship
Beautiful blog Aybike. I will be following.
Thank you Maura!