Free reading options for all Pre K - 12 students. Sites include access for English learners as well as students with reading barriers. Opportunities are highlighted for online reading, downloadable eBooks, audiobooks, apps to read content on smartphones/tablets, and read aloud stories for our youngest learners.

In this collection you will find all the resources shared originally at our Reliable Resources workshop on April 22, 2021.  These resources include lesson plans, curriculum, teaching strategies, and games for teachers and students to develop a better understanding of economics and personal finance.

Learning Management Systems (LMS) specialists from the Washington Association of Educational Service Districts have put together a list of key words and their meanings to help families become familiar with the basic vocabulary around LMS. Available in multiple languages.

This document was created by staff from the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the nine Educational Service Districts as a resource to educators across the earliest years of school, PreK–3rd grade. It is intended to support a smooth transition this fall for students who are just beginning their formal education or who may have experienced disruptions to their early education due to COVID-19

This guidance document describes Retro Report in the Classroom. Retro Report is a documentary news organization dedicated to examining stories after their headlines fade; it is non-partisan, independent and nonprofit. Their award winning videos are accompanied by lessons that inspire critical thinking and discussion in the classroom.

Within this collection you will find lessons, videos, handouts, and teacher guides you can use in your classroom.  You will also find a brief summary of each resource with the source sited for further exploration, appropriate grade level, approximate lesson length, and learning standards

This unit by Northshore School District, Washington, contains four progressive lesson activities created for primary grades which connect Washington Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Standards 1, 4 and 5 with Washington Music Standards 1, 2 and 8 using the creating/responding processes to generate original songs and express personal feelings.

This unit, developed by Northshore School District in Washington, contains four days of lessons with suggested extensions that connect with SEL Standards 1, 2, 4, and 5 and Music Standard 2, 3, 4 and 11. The class will create the verses to the song “Floating in Space”. Students will engage in activities where they analyze emotional characteristics of music, practice emoting without words, review “song form” and rhyming patterns, and review space vocabulary words.

Through a sequence of activities using songs, creative movement, and picture books,  students will learn about each others’ similarities and differences, gain an appreciation for cultural diversity, and identify ways that various social and cultural groups bring new ideas to society.

This unit, developed by Northshore School District in Washington, contains four days of lessons where students engage with music from a variety of cultures and analyze how emotions are communicated through different styles of music. Students will make connections between showing emotions with their words, their bodies and with instruments and will perform instruments as an ensemble to communicate different emotions. 

This is part of a series of six documents from Mount Vernon School District educators that provide lessons that integrate Washington's Social Emotional Learning and Physical Education learning standards along with educator guidance and strategies.

This is part of a series of six documents from Mount Vernon School District educators that provide lessons that integrate Washington's Social Emotional Learning and Physical Education learning standards along with educator guidance and strategies.

This is part of a series of six documents from Mount Vernon School District educators that provide lessons that integrate Washington's Social Emotional Learning and Physical Education learning standards along with educator guidance and strategies.

These presentations are part of a larger body of resources from educators in Mount Vernon School District in Washington state that explore the intersection of social emotional learning and physical education learning standards.

This is part of a series of six documents from Mount Vernon School District educators that provide lessons that integrate Washington's Social Emotional Learning and Physical Education learning standards along with educator guidance and strategies.

This is part of a series of six documents from Mount Vernon School District educators that provide lessons that integrate Washington's Social Emotional Learning and Physical Education learning standards along with educator guidance and strategies.

This is part of a series of six documents from Mount Vernon School District educators that provide lessons that integrate Washington's Social Emotional Learning and Physical Education learning standards along with educator guidance and strategies.

This lesson is part of a larger body of resources from educators in Mount Vernon School District in Washington state that explores the intersection of social emotional learning and physical education learning standards.

This lesson is part of a larger body of resources from educators in Mount Vernon School District in Washington state that explores the intersection of social emotional learning and physical education learning standards.

This lesson is part of a larger body of resources from educators in Mount Vernon School District in Washington state that explores the intersection of social emotional learning and physical education learning standards.