Category: Resources

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Front Row Education for K-8

A differentiated approach to adaptive learning – keep your students learning and engaged this summer!

Front Row offers a suite of tools across Math, ELA and Social Studies to help your students grow. • Math – 34,000+ questions aligned to K-8 standards • ELA – 400+ ELA articles, each available in multiple reading levels • Social Studies – Ready-to-go lessons • Data reports – Over 15 reports to track student growth • Benchmark assessments
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Lessons are common core aligned. Students begin by taking a pretest within a domain then move to practice sets, lessons, and assessments. Front Row will always be free for teachers. Set up your account today.

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Prevent the Summer Math Slide

Fog Stone Isle is an online virtual world that helps students achieve a better understanding of math concepts and fluency. fog stoneThe focus is on rational numbers (fractions, ratios, proportions, and units) for students in grades 5-8.  The games are designed to be engaging, have a deep integration of neuroscientific learning principles, and effective pedagogy.

Student tracking and reporting are included with the Cignition program. This program is worth the time to investigate and put to good use. Help your students or your own children retain what they’ve learned in school and be steps ahead for the upcoming school year. Set up a teacher account for summer school use or a parent account for home use. Accounts are free.

Check out the extra incentive. It’s sure to capture a student’s interest.

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Insert Learning Supercharges Schoology

This Chrome extension is a must have tool for teachers and students for online studies. Insert Learning add new levels of interactivity to Schoology pages.  No need to reinvent the wheel when you can assess students through questioning within their readings and engage discussions right from the online source. Highlighting and sticky notes are also provided.

View the short video (3:41) below for a glimpse of Insert Learning at work. I’m confident you will be amazed at what this free Chrome extension offers.

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Schoology is Coming!

Schoology (pronounced skoo-luh-jee) is a learning management and assessment management system that delivers content and collects data online for educational purposes. If you are familiar with Google Classroom, Moodle, or Blackboard, then you already have a handle on Schoology.

This summer, Caroline County Public Schools is providing Schoology accounts to all teachers. Training will be ongoing in the 2017-2018 school year. Digital Champion Teachers who were selected through an application process, will pilot the Chromebook and Schoology initiative prior to a 1:1 rollout the following school year (2018-2019). Stay tuned for more information.

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MERLOT II

Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning & Online Teaching

This collection of online teaching and learning services is free and open to the world by an international education community.

The MERLOT collection consists of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials and learning exercises are intended to enhance the teaching experience. All of these items have been contributed by the MERLOT member community, who have either authored the materials themselves, or who have discovered the materials, found them useful, and wished to share their enthusiasm for the materials with others in the teaching and learning community.

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All the materials in MERLOT are reviewed for suitability for retention in the collection. Many undergo the more extensive “peer review” for which MERLOT is famous.