"Educator Resilience and Trauma-Informed Self-Care" includes a self-care self-assessment with key strategies for fostering resilience and a self-care planning tool to assist educators in identifying areas of strength and growth related to self-care and developing self-care plans.
A wealth of resources and digital tools support inquiry-based learning and active engagement to spark creativity and curiosity. The Smithsonian Learning Lab allows you to create personal collections and individualized educational experiences. The digital Game Center of the Smithsonian Science Education Center offers fun experiences for the young STEM learner. Smithsonian's History Explorer offers hundreds of free, innovative resources for learning about American history.
Here are some recommendations from the classroom for implementing common core.
Find information on helping pick your perfect mentoring style and situation, mentoring functions, and a step-by-step walk through the different phases your mentor-mentee relationship will go through.
EduClipper is a digital clipboard for educators filled with new content from users every single day. It's the perfect resource for educators looking for that special something to add to their lesson plans.
EduCore is a website that is dedicated to providing educators with easy access to professional development resources aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The site provides tools for teaching the Standards, activities for teachers to make the Standards sustainable, and much more.
Edudemic aims to connect teachers, administrators, and students with technology to be successful in the classroom. The site is community based that focuses on resource sharing to promote the marriage of academics and technology. Edudemic has a plethora of topics that range from how to's to infographics that anyone interested in education can access.
EduTecher currently provides links to thousands of web tools and provides concise information on how these tools may be useful in the classroom setting.
Edutopia is a comprehensive website and online community that increases knowledge, sharing, and adoption of what works in K-12 education. They emphasize core strategies: project-based learning, comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, social and emotional learning, educational leadership and teacher development, and technology integration.
edWeb.net hosts game-based learning which provides free professional development for educators who wish to improve upon or learn more about GBL in the classroom.
This lesson plan helps students to understand leaders and why they do what they do.
"EEK!" stands for environmental education for kids, and was created by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. EEK! provides teacher activities, lesson plans, and other educational resources for students. In addition, students can visit the website to research fun facts and play games to learn about nature.
This website is designed to help children learn about the role they can play in the environment.
By Victor Battistich, Eric Schaps, and Nance Wilson
Published in The Journal of Primary Prevention, Vol. 24, No. 3, Spring 2004.
This research examined the effects at follow-up during middle school of a comprehensive elementary- school intervention program, the Child Development Project, designed to reduce risk and promote resilience among youth. Parental consent to participate in the middle school study was obtained for 1,246 students from six programs and six matched comparison elementary schools. Three of the program elementary schools were in the “high implementation” group, and three were in the “low implementation” group during the elementary school study. Findings indicated that, studywide, 40% of the outcome variables examined during middle school showed differences favoring program students, and there were no statistically reliable differences favoring comparison students. Among the “high implementation” group, 65% of the outcome variables showed differences favoring program students
EGAD! Ideas is a collection of online games, activities, and resources compiled for youth pastors and youth workers. The ideas are submitted by visitors to the site and are edited by the site administrator.
This fact sheet provides programs with a check list to ensure they are meeting the 8 principles for managing mentors.
El Camino is a comprehensive toolkit of educational resources that support Spanish-speaking families' aspirations for education.
The Youth Ministry program of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America provides and supports resources, information, networking, and programs for people who serve in ministries with youth and young adults. It’s a place where they are listening to and striving to amplify the voices and the songs of young people, focusing on youth ages 14 to 18.
Teachers can find resources from ElectriKIDS for lesson plans and other activities to try with their students.
On this site you will find a wide variety of elementary physical education games, including cooperative games and activities, sports games, lead up activities, and much more.