Annenberg Learner Video Series - Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum: arts, modern languages, English Language Arts, math, science, and social studies.
Artful Thinking - The goal of the Artful Thinking program is to help students develop thinking dispositions that support thoughtful learning – in the arts, and across school subjects: ELA, social studies, and science.
Buck Institute for Education (BIE) for ELA - showing teachers how to use Project Based Learning in all grade levels and subject areas
CK-12 - Many of you have indicated you need up-to-date texts and resources for teaching new Common Core standards. The website below has actual free online textbooks and other resources, aligned with the Common Core that any student and teacher can access-- in a host of subjects.
Docs Teach - Created to help teachers use the vast array of resources at the National Archives. After creating an account, teachers can publish their custom activities. The site already includes a wonderful variety of activities by teachers across the US and the National Archives Education Team. Activities can be engaged online by students or printed out for non-tech use.
Digital Public Library of America - The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
EDSITEment! - is a free resource that allows users to learn about the history of the landscapes they inhabit, and to contribute to those historical narratives. This lesson plan walks through the steps involved in creating a Clio entry about an historic place or event. Grade Range. 9-12.
Gilder Lehrman - Gilder Lehrman - your Home for History! Teachers and students will receive free access to the site. We are an affiliate school. For access information see Lisa Smith.
Grammar Bytes - Grammar Instruction with Attitude. Includes detailed terms, interactive exercises, handouts, PowerPoint presentations, and more!
The Guetenberg Project - Project Gutenberg has 40000 free ebooks, for kindle, for android, for ipad, for iphone.
Literacy Design Collaborative - Check out this selection of English language arts modules shared by LDC partners around the country.
Library of Congress or Library of Congress Common Core Resources - The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.
NewsELA - Newsela is an innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news. It's easy and amazing. Register now or learn more about the impact Newsela can have on your classroom.
Noodle Tools - Student research platform with MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian bibliographies, notecards, outlining. We have a school account; for access information see Lisa Smith or one of the media coordinators.
Problem-Attic - Provides 80,000 of the best questions from NY Regents, State Assessments, Academic Competitions, and more. Search by topic or exam. Select, arrange, and format.
ReadTheory - Online reading activities for all levels. To improve your students' reading ability using fun, interactive, educational tools in school or at home.
Read Write Think - Provides educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
Read Works - ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly.
Sweet Search - SweetSearch is a search engine for students that searches only credible Web sites approved by Internet research experts.
The Reading and Writing Project - Common Core aligned performance assessments.
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Items
SAS Curriculum Pathways - SAS Curriculum Pathways is designed to enhance student achievement and teacher effectiveness by providing Web-based curriculum resources in English Language Arts. For access see your SAS Coordinator - Lisa Smith or one of the media coordinators.
ThinkCerca - ThinkCERCA provides a research-based approach to close reading; it was designed by a group of nationally recognized literacy experts, our research-based framework is proven to raise student success.
World Bood Advanced eBooks - World Book Advanced E-book collection includes thousands of fiction and non-fiction E-books, with selections in nine languages. Note: This link works within the PCS server only; for access information for use outside of the PCS server, see the media coordinators.