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Resources

TED-Ed YouTube 
A collection of videos for all the wonders students might ask.

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Lakeshore Learning YouTube 
Awesome lessons covering a wide variety of content: STEM, Art, as well as Social Emotional Learning!  

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Pinterest.com
​Looking for a lesson idea? Need inspiration? Search the vast visual library full of links and how to's. 

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Twitter
Amazing Educators to Follow
@caitlin_arakawa
@cogswell_ben
@PintoBeanz11

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Edutopia 
A "go to" resource for improving teaching practices.

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Ted Ed 
Enjoy how TedTalks are informative and inspiring!
​Ted Ed is devoted to issues                                          and passions in education!

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Best Local Field Trip
Looking for an amazing place to take your students? Located near the Golden Gate Bridge, BADM is a                                                MUST for TK-2nd grade                                                students! 

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Reading Recommendations

​Creative Schools by Sir Ken Robinson
If you are looking for a book to inspire going beyond district issued curriculum, this is a must read! Educational excellence is happening all over the world, it's just not in enough places to create a revolution in traditional education settings...Yet!

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Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner
What does it take to raise the next generation of problem solvers and innovators? This book uses famous innovators to demonstrate how play, passion and purpose are the common characteristics to our greatest advances in technology. 

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Brain Rules by John Medina
Want to know about brain science in a fun and engaging way? Then this is the book to read! 

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Brining It All Together by Marcia Brechtel
Looking for ideas on teaching language and literacy in a multilingual classroom? This book started me on the path to teaching English Language Learners. It also introduced me to Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) and                                    Sheltered Instruction Observation                                Protocol (SIOP). 

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Credit to evld.org

Academic Papers That Inspired
and Supported My Research

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• ​​The benefits of art education for English Language Learners’ acquisition of English Language 
• How Will Inquiry-Based Instruction Increase Academic Language for English Language Learners?
• Research-Based Best Practices for Closing the Achievement Gap between English Language Learners and Non-English Language Learners in Southeastern School District

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Tools That Supported My Growth with Innovation

LESSONS

HOW-TOs

ASSESSMENT

My first and second graders love Kahoot! It became a valuable tool during virtual learning. One student announced to the class that I was tricking them into learning with Kahoot! And yet they still beg for it! We use it once a week to review vocabulary words from our text. I've also used it as a pre-test to see what students already know about a topic. There are many Kahoot! activities created by teachers in the library as well as the ability to create your own. It's user friendly and student friendly. It's also FREE! 

Quizziz is another class favorite! We use it to preview students' current knowledge about a topic, to prepare for a summative assessment, or as another measure to compare with an end of unit assessment. There is a vast library of teacher created quizzes that you can use as is or make a copy and edit to fit your students' needs. It is also FREE!

I'm hearing nothing but wonderful things about Blooket as another option for using "gaming" to preview, review and assess learning.
Students adore the characters, graphics but most of all the games.
​If students are engaged and excited to play to learn, why not leverage that into our teaching practices?