Canva is a website that will allow you to make posters, slideshows, and more with their various design pieces.
Kahoot! allows you to make short competitive quizzes for your students over any topic, and there are some available pre-made quizzes. Just make sure you check them for correctness before use!
Adobe Express is similar to Canva. It's a website that allows you to create custom posters, flyers, and more, and it has some features that Canva doesn't.
Learning for Justice is a website with resources to help support an equitable classroom and reduce prejudice in the school system.
The National Library of New Zealand has information for engaging adolescent/teen readers as well as activities and influences that can encourage reading.
Slides Carnival has an entire collection of pre-designed slideshow themes to help you up your PowerPoint game!
ReadWorks has free content, curriculum, and tools to power teaching and learning from Kindergarten to 12th Grade.
Improve your students’ reading comprehension for free with personalized reading comprehension exercises for K-12 and ESL students.
Edutopia has articles and information for teachers of all levels, and it's a great resource for every teacher to have.
Padlet allows you to do interactive boards for your students, making distance learning more connected.
Teaching may be rewarding, but it can also be very stressful. Calm has things to help you relax and work on your mental health when you most need it.
Mrs.Carter's Class has a list of Pre-AP and AP level novels broken down by skill level and whether or not they are non-fiction or fiction books.
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has all kinds of resources for math teachers from professional development to classroom resources.
Oh, EdTPA, the wonderfully time-consuming lesson plan format that we all love. The website does have good information and guidelines, and you can submit a lesson plan, and be approved for licensure in different states.
Is it time to restock your classroom? Look no farther than Carson Dellosa. They have good name-brand supplies, and they are always running sales.
Google Classroom is a great tool for online classwork, especially when we never know if we'll have to teach online for long stretches of time.
This is my absolute favorite store for classroom decorations! They have a large collection of styles to best suit you and your class.
Math Drills has a bunch of great math drill worksheets for students.
The Spanish Group is a great resource. This group will do certified, professional translations of documents at a reasonable price, and they will do over 90 languages!
The National Council of Teachers of English has great resources for English teachers from research to events!
The NEA Foundation has a list of different grants and grant types available to educators.
There are few things more beneficial to higher education than scholarships & grants. This link to the FSA site will take you to the TEACH grant, a grant specifically for those who are studying education, and it can be used to get a graduate degree.
Libib is an online library catalog that is great for keeping track of your classroom library books.
Amazon Ignite connects educational content creators with Amazon customers. You can sell your original teaching resources—like printables, lesson plans, and classroom games—as digital downloads or buy from others.
This site has many great teacher-created resources for the classroom!
Similar to Slides Carnival, this website has many beautiful and useful templates, but they are for Google Docs and Google Sheets!
The National Council for the Social Studies has professional development and classroom materials for teachers in social studies!
Lesson Planning Websites
ReadWriteThink has a great collection of ELA lesson plans and videos aligned to national and state standards!
Planboard is an online lesson planning tool that can help you plan your entire semester or school year while including documents in your lesson. It's also available as an app!
Teachers Pay Teachers is a site that allows you to download teacher-made resources to supplement your lessons!
Despite how frustrating it can be, you can't forget the most important part of lesson planning: the standards. Here's a direct link to Arkansas' state standards.
Illustrative Mathematics has an entire section of units and lessons broken down by grade level. This link will take you to Grade 8.
This website has all of the resources you need to teach ocean science from preliminary materials to post lessons.
This website has a good collection of units over ocean-related topics. It's even broken down by topic, grade level, and unit name/description.
Teach.Genetics is a great companion to Learn.Genetics, showing you how to apply and build on the lessons they've already supplied.
The NGA has a collection of arts-based units broken down by grade level for educators to use!
This site will give you the Lexile numbers for popular books as well as help you determine the lexile score of readings you may use in your class.
This website will allow you to make rubrics quickly and even turn them into checklists for your students!
This is a great site for health educators. It has links to lessons, assessments, and materials for you to use in your classes.
World History Matters is a portal to world history websites developed by the Center for History and New Media.
This site has professional development and lesson resources for foreign language classes!
Istation has powerful intervention and instruction with blended learning for reading, math, and Spanish.
Lesson Planet has lesson plans and other educational resources broken down by subject area.
The American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages has the standards needed for foreign language classrooms.
Seamlessly engage audiences across hybrid workspaces through live online polling, surveys, Q&As, quizzes, word clouds, and more
This website has great lesson plans for the drama teachers out there as well as instructions for the activities that go along with them!
This site has all of the tools you need to create a lesson or unit for an English, science, or social studies class!
Microsoft Office has its own set of templates, and this link will take you to their lesson plan template!
Question Pro is an online test creator that allows you to distribute tests to your students that can be graded automatically (written portion excluded).
This is another website that allows you to make free quizzes, but you can also create worksheets using this site!
This link will take you to their page of common accommodations and modifications for special needs students.
This link will take you to the "How to Develop a Lesson Plan that Includes English Language Learners" page!
This site has everything you need to know about Common Core, including implementation!
This website has teaching materials, history content, and information on the best teaching practices for history!