An amazing one stop shop for image, video and website creation. Intuitive interface with simple tools for learners to make their thinking visible.

A flexible tool to turn your ideas into amazing designs. Use built in templates along with font, shapes, icons, images and more to customize your creation.

Keep it simple! Think differently about what Google Slides has to offer and check out these amazing resources from Ditch that Textbook's Matt Miller.

An intuitive platform that provides students multiple ways to communicate their thinking. From text, stickers, drawings, audio and video, students have a myriad of modalities to make their thinking visible.

A simple Chrome extension that allows students to record their screen, webcam only or both simultaneously while drawing on their screen. Did you know that all district teachers and students have premium access to Screencastify?

How many of these apps might you use already? Google Apps provide a plethora of modalities for students to organize their thinking and communicate effectively. How might students combine multiple apps to supercharge their communication skills?

Think Pinterest for Education! Save, organize and share content from across the web such as articles, videos, images, and more. Wakelet allows teachers to easily create student accounts, build collaborative spaces while also providing multiple modalities for the creation/curation of content.

Vocabulary is not only cross-curricular, but crucial for verbal and written communication. In Flashcard Factory student pairs write examples and draw illustrations for the terms teachers provide in a Vocabulary List. You (and your class if you choose) get to approve the final set of Flashcards in real-time.

A collaborative, digital whiteboard that makes it easy to create without boundaries and share ideas in real time. Collaboration can take the form of text, images, drawings, sticky notes and more.

One approach to supporting critical thinking is providing students with scaffolds to process their thinking. You may be asking, "What is a thinking routine?" It is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking.

Mindmup is a mind mapping resource that allows users to visually organize information in a hierarchy, showing relationships among pieces of the whole. It can be added within Google Drive which makes creation and saving a breeze.

Creating student-centric opportunities to apply appropriate reasoning and thinking strategies, not only reinforces speaking and listening skills, but also grows critical thinking capacity.

Stations can provide time for practice, preview, review, collaboration, choice work time, and small group or individual teacher time.

Create a roadmap for learning with playlists. A powerful way to differentiate learning and provide student agency.

Inquiry-based learning is a form of active learning that starts by posing questions, problems or scenarios. A great way to increase student agency in learning, foster authentic connections and increase students' 21st-century skills

GridPals is a way to connect classrooms, whether they are on the other side of the school or the other side of the world! Think of it as a digital spin on pen pals. Educators have made thousands of connections, using Flipgrid to increase social learning, global empathy, and cultural understanding

Project-based learning meets new media creation where kids learn, create, share, and teach each other.

Through hands-on, career-focused projects, Defined Learning helps students build critical thinking skills as they delve into a variety of interdisciplinary careers through project based learning.

The Sustainable Development Goals or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all".

Empatico empowers teachers and students to explore the world through experiences that spark curiosity, kindness, and empathy. They combine live video with activities designed to foster meaningful connections among students ages 5-14.

Design Thinking is rooted in empathy and provides an iterative, hands-on approach to creating innovative solutions.