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The Balanced Literacy Diet
Developed by university-based and school-based literacy experts, working together to put what is known about best practice into a form that we hope you will find both effective and practical. Think of this site as a "cooking site" and explore it to build your skills as a gourmet literacy chef.
Curriki
A community for teaching and learning which shares and explores preK-12 Content. It includes free and open teaching and learning resources, we offer educator-vetted, openly licensed, online educational materials for use, reuse, adaptation, and sharing
Edutopia
Dedicated to transforming K-12 education so that all students can acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to thrive in their studies, careers, and adult lives. Explore videos that showcase evidence-based learning practices in K-12 schools.
Mizzou Academy Learning Library
The Learning Library was designed by the Mizzou Academy curriculum team and includes a rich library of modules on key topics for student success and wellbeing.
Universal Design for Learning
A tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. They can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment.
What Works Clearinghouse
This site reviews the existing research on different programs, products, practices, and policies in education. Its goal is to provide educators with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions. They focus on the results from high-quality research to answer the question “What works in education?”

Colorin Colorado
A bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners. It includes free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities around the country for pre-K through 12th grade
DocsTeach
From the National Archives, this site provides access to thousands of primary sources — letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types — spanning the course of American history. Includes activities you can teach with and fun and engaging activities.
Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
Timely resources to help K-12 educators encourage social responsibility and foster social & emotional learning. Includes social and emotional learning,current issues, tips and ideas, and more.
Reading Rockets
What every teacher should know: Reading 101 - a guide to teaching reading and writing
Read Write Think
They provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.
The Stories We Share
This guide assists educators in quickly navigating the wealth of multicultural literature in search of fictional and non-fictional characters immigrant children and teens are more likely to identify with. The included books can also benefit mainstream readers by promoting understanding of immigration-related issues. Currently, the database includes 150 titles with the possibility of future expansion
Teaching for Change
Provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world.They encourage teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society, and become active global citizens.
Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance is a blog, a place where educators who care about diversity, equity and justice can find news, suggestions, conversation and support.

Annenberg Learner
goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.
PBS Learning Media
PBS and your local tv station have curated free, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more. Search for resources, browse by subject or by grade level
TeacherTube
Its goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

Professional Organizations

AASA: The School Superintendent Association
Discusses leadership for differentiated classrooms and the challenges involved with both equity and excellence.
American Association for Teaching & Curriculum
The association is dedicated to the discussion, exploration, practice, and research of teaching and curriculum as they impact curricular policy, instruction, and theory.
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Strives to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.
American Federation of Teachers
he American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities
ASCD (formerly Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development)
Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is the global leader in developing and delivering innovative programs, products, and services that empower educators to support the success of each learner.
Coalition of Essential Schools: Differentiated Instruction
To differentiate instruction is to recognize students’ varying background knowledge, readiness, language, preferences in learning, and interests, and to react responsively. iIcudes benchmark descriptors, related tools, and related principles
Council for Exceptional Children
A professional association of educators dedicated to advancing the success of children with exceptionalities. We accomplish our mission through advocacy, standards, and professional development.
Differentiated Instructional Strategies - Students Who Have Difficulty Related to Organization, Memory, Comprehension, Attention, Reading and Writing (History/Social Studies)
Includes Instructional strategies for all learners, including those with cognitive and physical disabilities who have difficulties with: Inattention/distractibility; Organization; Following directions; Memory/recall; Reading decoding/access; Understanding/comprehension; and Mechanics of writing/drawing
Differentiated Instruction in the Content Areas: Strategies for Reading, Thinking, and Writing to Learn
Provided by Scholastic, this article is an excerpt from Part II of Laura Robb’s book, Teaching Reading: A Differentiated Approach. It focuses on Grades 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
National Education Association (NEA)
The NEA's mission "is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
Reading Rockets: What is Differentiated Instruction?
Teachers can differentiate at least four classroom elements based on student readiness, interest, or learning profile. Discusses what the student needs to learn or how the student will get access to the information; Activities in which the student engages in order to make sense of or master the content; Culminating projects that ask the student to rehearse, apply, and extend what he or she has learned in a unit; and the way the classroom works and feels.
WestEd
A nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency working with education and other communities throughout the United States and abroad, WestEd aims to improve education and other important outcomes for children, youth and adults. Includes areas of work, professional development,research and evaluation, technical assistance, resources, and events.