The OER "Developing Emotional Intelligence: Understanding and Managing Emotions" is designed for children aged 4-12 to help them recognize, understand, and manage their emotions while fostering empathy and strong social skills. This resource provides engaging activities such as drawing feelings faces, creating calm down jars, and practicing empathy through charades. Additionally, it includes storytelling sessions with books like "When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry" and interactive activities like keeping a feelings journal. Complemented by songs and videos, this OER equips children with essential emotional skills for positive interactions and personal well-being.

When we put ourselves in another person’s shoes, we are often more sensitive to what that person is experiencing and are less likely to tease or bully them. By explicitly teaching students to be more conscious of other people’s feelings, we can create a more accepting and respectful school community.

Are we teaching what we think we are teaching?""Are students learning what they are supposed to be learning?""Is there a way to teach the subject better, therefore promoting better learning?"In problem based learning, assessment needs to not only reflect the learning process but the content being learned as well.This online learning module will explore the following learning targets: •Identify how formative and summative classroom assessments are integral to instruction.•Recognize and develop high-quality performance assessments for evaluating student work.•Recognize and develop high-quality rubrics for evaluating student work.

These mini posters can be viewed, modified, and printed to provide staff and parent volunteers with vocabulary tools to use to enhance vocabulary with children during developmental center play.

Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your body doesn’t make or use the hormone insulin properly. It causes too much blood glucose (sugar) to build up in the blood.

This article discusses the challenge of blending cultural practices with developmentally appropriate care.

This is a resource for studetns to use during class while trying to learn about different "outfits" that are used for different jobs. 

This resource was created by Brandee Drahota in collaboration with Rick Meyer as part of the 2019-20 ESU-NDE Digital Age Pedagogy Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Lesson Plans promoting both content area and digital age skills. This Lesson Plan is designed for PreSchool Earth Science.

This is a Media Mentor-driven program teaches parents how to use an iPad with their children effectively with educational apps that help with early literacy.

This is a storytime for children's ages 3-6 years old, including a book list, songs, fingerplays, and craft ideas. This for librarians, childcare providers, early educators, and parents to use.

El concepto de innovación educativa resulta cada día más ambiguo e impreciso por la falta de claridad en cuanto a concretar si estamos hablando de acciones y proyectos puntuales o por el contrario nos referimos a una dinámica que se genera en el seno de la comunidad de aprendizaje. Esa es la razón clave que nos lleva a plantearnos la necesidad de indagar sobre este tema.Nuestro objetivo es contribuir a generar esa dinámica de innovación sostenible en los centros educativos de manera que desde la respuesta que cada claustro da a las necesidades del alumnado surjja la vivencia de la innovacion. Para ello ha sido muy importante construir una fundamentación teórica que da soporte a la herramienta que hemos ccreado y utilizado para la recogida de información.Resulta complicado resumir los resultados por ser una investigación centrada en la narrativa, el discuro y la identidad de cada centro en torno a la innovación, sin embargo, podemos recoger que la utilización de la rúbrica construida, nos ha permitido realizar una propuesta de rasgos que pueden ser considerados claves para la sostenibilidad de la innovación.Y, finalmente, señalar que las conclusiones significan una puerta abierta para seguir indagando sobre el tema de la innovación educativa desde la vivencia que tiene lugar en cada uno de los centros educativos.

ISTE and New America interviewed district and state leaders, who shared key takeaways from their experiences with using PreK-12 open educational resources (OER).

Doceri is an app that allows students to look over the things they did in class to help them re-learn or study for tests. 

Learn about inspirations for a story and how that story can inspire a new song. Mary and Mike travel to the Music Resource Center in Charlottesville to meet up with the author, Marc Boston, and the musician, Tevin White. Marc shares his beautiful children’s book, inspired by his own daughter. And Tevin shares a special song that he wrote, inspired by Marc’s book. Together, we learn how to stop carrying so much stuff!

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Songs and Stories with Mary and Mike uses music and story as the joyful pathway to learning for young children while integrating and modeling the state's new EC learning standards for literacy, math, and social-emotional learning as well as the National Standards for Music Education. The show forges connections across the greater community by featuring guest teachers, artists, musicians, authors, and community members. With every music selection, book selection, and guest spotlight, Mary and Mike strive for a rich, diverse, beautiful representation of all people and cultures. The message to beautiful learners is clear: they are loved, they are valued, and they can do amazing things.

How do you ensure students get the most out of black history and Black History Month? Here are some suggestions.