Make Device Management Simple

Seamless, centralized control for administrators. Easy classroom management for teachers. A learning experience that goes far beyond the limitations of other solutions. Introducing the all-in-one device integration and management tool for schools that combines ease of use with the power, flexibility, and familiarity of Windows devices—no compromise required. See if the bundle is right for your classrooms.

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Reveal the Wonders of Chemistry

Since 2008 more than 600 high school chemistry teachers have received American Chemical Society–Hach High School Chemistry Grants to support ideas that enhance classroom learning, foster student development, and reveal the wonders of chemistry. High school chemistry educators teaching in a US or US-territory school can request up to $1,500 for their ideas. Grants are typically offered for laboratory equipment and supplies, instructional materials, professional development, field studies, and science outreach events. Interested applicants will find this grant opportunity on GetEdFunding, a free database sponsored by CDW•G of thousands of funding opportunities for educators.

Deadline: April 1, 2016, for applications

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Encourage Critical Inquiry

The McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation offers Teacher Development Grants to support small teams of teachers in the formation and implementation of groundbreaking classroom instruction. The grants provide opportunities for K–12 teachers to integrate fresh strategies that encourage critical inquiry and to observe the effects of these strategies on students. The foundation awards grants to individuals in amounts of up to $10,000 per year for a maximum of $30,000 over three years, provided the eligibility requirements continue to be met.

Deadline: April 15, 2016, for applications

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Promote Intercultural Learning

The nonprofit AFS-USA (formerly the American Field Service) offers international exchange programs in more than 40 countries around the world through independent, nonprofit AFS organizations. Teachers can be involved in an Outreach to Educators Event (OEE) in their community by conducting targeted, global learning outreach or hosting a workshop or seminar on global competency through intercultural learning (ICL) for educators and administrators. The overarching goal of this year‘s programs is to strengthen the link between global learning and cultural exchange as a means to promote public diplomacy. Outreach to Educators Events Grants are available to offset the cost of intercultural learning events. Proposals for a grant should demonstrate how to foster closer connections directly with educators through ICL in all its forms. The suggested topics for 2016 are Service Learning, Global Education, ICL through Arts and Technology, Human Rights & Cultural Understanding, and Experiential Learning. (Other topics are welcomed.) Applicants should highlight the critical link between cultural exchange and 21st century skills in their proposals. Accepted applicants will be awarded a grant between $500 and $1,500 for their event.

Deadline: April 18, 2016, for proposals

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Share Exemplary EdTech Collaborations

Educators are invited to enter the Collaboration Nation video contest by telling CDW•G about their school or district’s exemplary educational technology collaboration and the measurable impact it has had on learning and teaching. By sharing their successes, schools or districts have the opportunity to win a $50,000 grand prize or one of three $15,000 monthly prizes from CDW•G. To enter, simply create a 90-second video highlighting your school or district’s cross-departmental collaboration project and upload the video to YouTube. Then complete the entry form and submit. Monthly contests are won by votes received through CDW•G’s Facebook page; three industry experts will determine the grand-prize winner.

Deadlines: Monthly through April 30, 2016

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Maximize Potential of BYOD Initiatives

Educators can collaborate and deliver lesson content to their touch-enabled Windows 10 devices with NetSupport School 12, offering genuine multi-platform support. Instructors can visually interact with, apply e-Safety controls to, and deliver assessments to any student desktop and BYOD technology across Windows, Chrome, iOS, and Android platforms.

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Champion Children’s Books

Established in 1919, Children’s Book Week is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. Every year commemorative events are held nationwide at schools, libraries, bookstores, homes—wherever young readers and books connect. Children’s Book Week is administered by Every Child a Reader, a 501(c)(3) literacy organization dedicated to instilling a lifelong love of reading in children. Each year the Children’s Book Council enlists beloved children’s literature illustrators to design the commemorative Children’s Book Week Poster. The poster for Children’s Book Week 2016 (May 2–8) was designed by Brian Won, an author, illustrator, former animation artist, and “2015 Children’s Choice Illustrator of the Year Award” finalist for his debut picture book, Hooray for Hat! The book stars Elephant and his animal friends, who appear on this year’s Book Week poster. The poster and free activity guide are available from the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader at no cost beyond shipping.

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Write Across Academic Disciplines

HarvardWrites, a project of Harvard University, has made available a wide range of writing guides that encourage better writing by giving students practical advice and useful examples. There are four principal types of writing guides: guides for disciplines or interdisciplinary programs; guides for specific courses; guides for specific genres of writing, such as senior theses; and guides for general education courses. The writing guides may be viewed online or downloaded as PDF files.

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Plus: HarvardWrites Instructor Toolkit offers concise advice about best practices for teaching writing and an array of customizable lesson plans and exercises available for download at no cost.

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Plus: The HarvardWrites online learning platform features Harvard professors talking about writing in their courses and in their fields, with interactive learning exercises to help students see how scholars work with the elements of academic argument.

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Encourage Active Global Citizenship

A curriculum long in the making, The Volunteers: Americans Join World War I, 1914–1919 is available for secondary school classrooms worldwide. Commissioned by AFS Intercultural Programs in honor of its centennial and that of the war, the curriculum examines the volunteer service of American men and women during World War I and its legacies. Primary Source’s program directors developed six lesson plans in partnership with an international committee of advisors and AFS archivist. These lessons represent a unique perspective on the war, emphasizing the significance of volunteerism for global citizenship, past and present, and the role that young people can play in local, national, and international service. Open-sourced and fully accessible for classrooms around the world, the lessons engage critical thinking and rigorous historical analysis, with a focus on use of digitized primary source documents, many made available for the first time.

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Integrate Digital Resources into Classroom Instruction

Discovery Education invites teachers and administrators across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to participate in the 2016 Day of Discovery tour, which begins April 2, 2016, in Boston. This series of no-cost, one-day professional learning events will provide participants not only creative new ideas and strategies for integrating digital resources into classroom instruction to support student achievement but also valuable opportunities to network with peers. The 2016 Day of Discovery tour is scheduled to visit 17 locations across the US, Canada, and the UK over the next eight months. Educators can participate in one of these events by visiting the Day of Discovery website, selecting their location, and then registering.

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Practice Evidence-Based Argumentation

The National Speech & Debate Association has announced a new partnership with the Boston Debate League to bring Evidence-Based Argumentation (EBA) to classrooms across the United States. The EBA professional development program helps teachers in all disciplines create a classroom environment where students regularly practice the 21st century skills of critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, questioning, and problem solving. Using EBA, teachers infuse their classroom with activities that teach a core skill of speech and debate: creating an argument on any subject by evaluating evidence, developing claims, and using sound reasoning. School districts can learn more about EBA, including sample activities and results, by visiting the EBA website.

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Connect Learning to Work

The National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education (CTE) Consortium offers a range of free webinars about CTE. Past webinars (available on demand with full recordings and presentation PDFs) covered globally minded CTE programming, employer engagement, and CTE as a STEM strategy. Other webinars highlighted specific states that revitalized work-based learning. A full listing of both upcoming and archived webinars is online.

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Engage Students in Current Events

Designed for the iPad and iPhone by Press4Kids, the News-O-Matic, Daily Reading for Kids app provides images, videos, and maps to accompany five daily news stories, in English and Spanish, at three reading levels. The app also includes a bilingual Read to Me feature. The articles are reviewed by child psychologists before publication to ensure content is age appropriate. An interactive map includes quirky facts, puzzles, and games; and the News Room exposes students to current events, helps them develop critical thinking skills and understand point of view, and provides opportunities to read a variety of informational texts—all features of the Common Core State Standards. Cost: Free

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Create and Solve Algebra Problems

Developed for the iPad and iPhone by Regular Berry Software, Algebra Touch teaches and provides practice of algebraic concepts. Students learn to drag and rearrange single-variable polynomials so that like terms are together for easier adding. Then students can tap the operator between the terms to compute answers. Terms can be factored or combined until the variable is isolated. Students can also create their own problems to rearrange and solve. The app saves students’ problems for later use. Students can contact others via email or Facebook to get help with problems. Cost: $2.99

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Get a “Bird’s-Eye View” of Earth

Satellite Safari by Southern Stars is students’ tour guide to the universe of satellites that humans have launched into orbit around Earth. Students can use Satellite Safari to learn more about the International Space Station and many hundreds of other satellites already in orbit. Satellite Safari can show students the spacecraft that will pass over their location at any given time. They can even get a “bird’s-eye view” from a satellite itself and see Earth from orbit exactly as the satellite sees it. Every day the app automatically updates its satellite orbit data (from celestrak.com). All satellites include facts and figures computed for students’ precise GPS location; the information is updated every second. Many satellites also include descriptions that give students the mission’s history, purpose, and more. The app is designed for both the iPad and the iPhone. Cost: $2.99

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Dive into the Aquarium

Perhaps aquatics and studies in marine biology seem out of reach for classroom connections, especially if students are hours away from the nearest coastal region. The Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida, offers countless resources in the fields of aquaculture, ecotoxicology, ocean life, fisheries, and more. Although many of the web resources lack interaction with a live biologist, Mote provides digital outreach programs for schools. One such program is SeaTrekTV, which features real scientists working in the field and live from the shark tank. Designed for students in all grade levels, the companion curricula cover sharks, sea turtles, reefs, sea-life rescues, careers, and more.

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Explore the Brave New World of Manufacturing

Alcoa Foundation and Discovery Education have partnered to present Manufacture Your Future—a comprehensive online website that offers middle school and high school educators, guidance counselors, students, and families hands-on resources to build excitement around postsecondary manufacturing career opportunities. Manufacture Your Future encourages the development of critical thinking skills through real-world application. It offers standards-based, STEM-focused lesson plans, career guides, discussion starters, and other online resources that highlight today’s advanced manufacturing careers and demonstrate the crucial role that manufacturing plays in daily life.

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Sing Along with Scientists

Space School Musical, a multimedia Discovery Program from NASA, takes students on a trip through the solar system in a “hip-hopera” that uses song and dance to introduce the planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and even some rockin’ scientists and engineers—present and past—who present facts about the galaxy. From the program’s website, educators can freely download nine songs for students to sing while performing the dance routines themselves, or just to play while watching the dance videos in class. Students learn about the solar system through academic, art, fitness, and life-skills lessons. In addition to the videos and songs, the website provides teaching tips, a glossary with the terms used in the songs, and 36 activities based on the content of Space School Musical.

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Get Movin’ and Groovin’

Over the last 30 years, the National Association for Music Education has designated March for the observance and celebration of Music in Our Schools Month (MIOSM). The purpose of MIOSM is to raise awareness of the importance of music education and to advocate for equitable access to music education for all students in all schools. Whether students are celebrating holidays, exploring new cultures and languages, or just having fun, music has a way of opening their ears and minds. World Music for Children, a website from an award-winning educator and musician, was given a Parents’ Choice Award for its family-friendly introduction of world music to young people and its resources for teachers, parents, and special education professionals. The Instruments section allows children to color, hear, and find instructions on how to make world music instruments, such as cajónes (box drums), didgeridoos, shekeres, powwow drums, and güiros, along with cultural background information.

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See Ancient Rome Reborn

It’s impossible for anyone to see what Ancient Rome looked like in all of its splendor, but this video, which shows a 3D rendering of Rome in 320 CE, is about as close as people today can get. The video was created by Rome Reborn, an academic research project with the central mission of creating a full model of Rome at its greatest heights, working in conjunction with Khan Academy. The goal is to take historical depictions of the city and create a true-to-life model of every period of Roman development, ranging from 1000 BCE to 552 CE. The video also includes a discussion of how the Romans thought about architecture and beauty.

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Probe Youth’s Addiction to Screen Time

Teenagers spend almost nine hours each day in front of screens, including television and smartphones, according to Common Sense Media. A new documentary, Screenagers, focuses on youth’s addiction to screen time and the importance of setting boundaries. Screenagers probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including the director’s own, and depicts messy struggles over social media, video games, academics, and Internet addiction. Through surprising insights from authors and brain scientists, solutions emerge on how to empower youth to best navigate the digital world. Visitors to the film’s website can view a trailer, join the conversation on Tech Talk Tuesdays, create media agreements to help establish guidelines around screen time, and more.

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Celebrate Extraordinary and Ordinary Women Throughout History

From artifacts on the Seneca Falls Convention to a video on Susan B. Anthony’s arrest to a timeline on major events in the fight for gender equality, NewseumED is a source for lesson plans and activities that can be used to observe Women’s History Month in March—and all year long. Newseum’s ED Collection includes a searchable timeline featuring more than 200 historical front pages, videos, and photographs. Many entries cover major events in securing rights for women, including Myra Bradwell’s Fight for Employment, the First Female Presidential Candidate, and the 19th Amendment. The collection also includes a media map exploring how the women’s suffrage movement and its critics tried to influence public opinion. Units with standards-aligned lesson plans, activities, and worksheets support historical connections, media literacy, and civics and citizenship. The Unsung Heroes section features articles about women who were pillars of change for women’s rights and voting rights. Their accomplishments have historical significance and continue to influence issues of gender equality today.

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