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Local Big Read Project: A Lesson Before Dying
A few years ago, Paul Henry and many of our fabulous K-12 faculty members collaborated with community groups in Boonton Township and Mountain Lakes to create a Big Read project centered around Three...
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BHM Essays & Equality Video Contest
Last year, Mr. Patterson ran a great Law Day workshop for MLHS students. I look forward to the 2013 contest. This year the New Jersey State Bar Association (sponsors of Law Day) have TWO new contests...
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DESIGN, Sustainability & Classroom Chairs
Tonight on 60 Minutes, Charlie Rose profiled David Kelley, the founder of one of the greatest design firms in America. (You can go online to see that clip and many web extras on the CBS website.) The...
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Shorpy Historical Photos in HD
Thanks to the Time Magazine LightBox bog, I learned about the incredible photography archive Shorpy.Com. According to the post, The Past Comes Alive: History in High-Definition, blog author Vaughn...
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Music Resources for Students
Thanks to the FreeTech blog, I’ve learned about some neat music websites for our younger students. First, check out Perfect Pitch, “a nice little game produced by the Kennedy Center’s Arts Edge....
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K-12 Creativity Project: Google Doodle
I’m a big fan of Google’s doodles that adorn the homepage every few days. Well, what would be cooler than designing your own? If you are a student in the US who wants to create your own, enter the...
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NJ Humanities Grants
The New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) has announced its spring and summer offerings for New Jersey Educators–one weekend, non-residential workshop (16 hours of continuing education credit)...
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PBS Gem: Shakespeare Uncovered
For the past few weeks, I’ve been watching an incredible PBS series focusing on British culture, and I’m not talking about Downton Abbey. Rather, it is Shakespeare Uncovered, a unique series of six...
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Dancing to 5th Grade Math?!?
PBS NewHour had a great spot last month called How Math Got Its Groove Back. Carrie Lewis and Kelly Steele’s fifth grade students slide and spin across the classroom floor, doing the hustle, the robot,...
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Ten Buildings That Changed America: Watch the Debut Episode from the New PBS...
From Open Culture: PBS and station WTTW’s new series Ten Buildings that Changed America is a great new program for those who love history, architecture & design. Hosted by Geoffrey Baer, television...
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NJDOE Unveils Teacher Site
The New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE), in partnership with the Common Core Learning Engine, has just released a BETA version of their new free resource, The New Jersey Educator Resource...
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PBS OFFbook on Creativity
Recently on the Nothing But Net blog, we highlighted the neat online Off Book, a web-original series from PBS Arts that explores cutting edge arts and the artists that make it. Well, thanks to a...
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Great NEWS Tool: Newsela
Newsela provides students with a version of a current news article that’s just right for his or her reading ability (based on Lexile level) for FREE. That means an easier or harder version of each...
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JOIN the Doodle 4 Google Contest
Thanks to Free Tech 4 Teachers, I learned that “the Doodle 4 Google art contest is back for the seventh year in a row. This year’s doodle theme is ‘if I could invent one thing to make the world a...
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NJCH Offering New Humanities Grants!
We just posted some information on the new programs that New Jersey Council of Humanities is offering to teachers. The NJCH is also offering new grants. Please read more about them below and consider...
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NJ Proposes New Curriculum
Every five years, the State Board of Education is required to review and re-adopt the Core Curriculum Content Standards, which include the Preschool Standards. The re-adoption process will be conducted...
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PBS LearningMedia Expands with Student Portal
I am a big fan of the PBS LearningMedia website because it offers “direct access to thousands of classroom-ready, curriculum-targeted digital resources. PBS LearningMedia builds on the strength of...
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Grading Smarter
Last night I struggled in grading some of my students’ assignments (after all, the Charley Brown Christmas Special was on!). Perhaps that is why I found these blog posts from ASCD on grading so...
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Formative Assessment TECH Tools
EDsurge just came out with great list of technology tools that we can use for formative assessments. I just observed a class at MLHS where a teacher was using our ChromeBooks with students answering...
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Common Core for the Arts
Here is an interesting article from US News & World Report about states (including NJ) who are pushing for more robust arts curriculum. In fact, check out our ML Model Curriculum website for the...
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