"Foundations Learning & Skills Saskatchewan (formerly READ Saskatoon) has a long history as a local literacy organization that offers free literacy services to adults and families.

Since 1979 we have provided adult tutoring services with the help of trained volunteers and community partners. Today we have expanded to offer adult, family, children’s, and financial literacy programs, as well as literacy facilitator trainings and resources."

The offer:
*family literacy
*financial literacy
*adult literacy
*children's literacy
*workshops
*training
*volunteer opportunities

Four Corners Graphic Organizer for Math
Main idea, connect, brainstorm, solve, write.

The purpose of this portfolio is to give an overview of your child’s progress in all the developmental areas throughout the school year. Samples of your child’s work are collected and used to show his/ her learning. Your child helps to make decisions about what to put into this portfolio. They are accessible to you and your child at anytime throughout the school year.

The work samples collected in this portfolio will give you an idea of the curriculum and daily activities used in our prekindergarten program.

During the preschool years, young children greatly expand their knowledge, understandings and abilities. They actively explore and discover their world through experiences using their senses of touch, sight, smell, hearing and taste.

Here's a way to use ChatGPT to help students grow confidence in their writing!

🛠️ How it works: Take a writing prompt and generate three responses from ChatGPT (or another AI assistant). Students pick the best parts from those responses and assemble their final version, commenting on the writer's decisions they made. Students reflect on their writing decisions with draggable arrows.

☝️ Why this works: It's a scaffolding technique. It gives students practice making decisions as a writer without having to write all of the words.

Use a downloadable PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation.

For more information on ChatGPT, head over to https://ditchthattextbook.com/ai.

This document outlines the steps to using the Frayer Model graphic organizer. It includes a blank organizer for classroom use.

This resource provides a scope and sequence and matching decodable texts for the skill you are teaching!
Included:
Short vowels
Double consonant endings
Suffixes
Digraphs
Trigraphs
Review passages
Blends
Consonant patterns (various)
Multisyllable words
Three-syllable words
R-controlled vowels
Magic e
Vowel teams
Dipthongs
Silent consonants

This site offers free resources for all educators from teachers to instructional coaches and counselors to principals.

Topics include: Assessment & Evaluation, Brain-Based Teaching & Learning, Literacy, Mathematics, Education Leadership, English Language Learners, Emotional Intelligence, Equity & Diversity, Instructional Technology,
Science/STEM, Lesson Plans, Lessons & Strategies, and more!

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains, Intervention A, a 40-week scope and sequence of primarily phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade "core" or "basal" program.

20 Online Resources for Fantastic Free Science Videos. Because seeing is believing, especially when it comes to science. Videos have long been an excellent way to engage kids in learning. When it comes to science, today’s online videos take us places far beyond field trips. They show us science experiments that you just can’t do in the real classroom. They help answer the eternal “Why does it do that?” question. In short, they make science learning fun and meaningful. Take a look at our favorite sources for free science videos online.

Looking for some basic courses in conversational American Sign Language? Check out these self-paced free courses developed by the Oklahoma School for the Deaf, taught by their ASL Specialist.

Courses being offered are:
American Sign Language I
American Sign Language II

These websites/apps for cultivating compassion are completely free! Teaching ToleranceThe WondermentThe Compassion Project Learn Storm SDG's in ActionCharacter Playbook Story Corps Sit with Us The Harry Potter Alliance Liyla and the Shadows of War 

"The Core Knowledge Foundation provides open access to content-rich curriculum materials for preschool through grade 8, including the Core Knowledge Curriculum Series™, with many materials now available and many more in development."

You will need to provide your email address to download these amazing resources. CK has aligned their ELA to the Science of Reading in collaboration with Amplify Reading.
*Full Units
*Books for Students
*Teaching Materials
*Scope & Sequence

Instructional expert Jim Knight visits John Cusick to observe a small groups project and discuss the classroom management techniques he is using. John and Jim discuss structured lessons, giving students respect, and finding the key to unlocking their love of learning.

Give a 5 question mixed review quiz to students every Friday.The questions can focus on current learning, but should also include questions from the entire year (especially concepts needed for next week's lessons, or foundational items that need to be mastered). This strategy will help develop mastery, provide opportunities for mixed practice to ensure comprehension beyond specific learning content.  

From Apology to Reconciliation: Residential School Survivors was developed in response to the Government of Canada’s formal apology to Aboriginal people who attended residential schools. The project was created to help Manitoba students in Grades 9 and 11 understand the history of the residential school experience, its influence on contemporary Canada, and our responsibilities as Canadian citizens.

Students will learn about the water cycle, watersheds, and specifically, the watershed that feeds Springfield, Oregon. After analyzing drought maps, reading news reports, and seeing images and videos, students will realize that drought is a real life concern. Students, as concerned citizens, will create a water collection device, at first on a small scale, and then a true to life water collection system to help re- purpose rainwater in our garden area.

This Frontline Education webinar is a tutorial on how to administer Dr. Kilpatrick's Phonological Awareness Screening Test (P.A.S.T.)

In this lunch and learn video, facilitator's explore how easy and inexpensive it is to implement STEAM activities into early year classrooms.  Facilitator's offer examples of supplies, costs, ideas, and make connections to cross curricular outcomes and beyond.  The video also illustrates a STEAM activity which was adapted for grades K-2 and how this STEAM activity was implemented to a K-2 classroom.  The STEAM activity and resources highlighted in the video are also shared within this resource.

Information on plants, flowers and trees. How plants flower and parts of a flower. What is a plant, parts of a plant and how plants make food. Trees, evergreens, deciduous trees, how trees grow, fruits nuts and berries and plants as food. How a plant is pollinated, how seeds are spread, meat-eating plants and plant defense. A tree through the seasons and leaves.

St. Vrain Valley School District discusses how to create a system that supports personalized learning from start to finish. Career pathway focus. Design thinking.

Personalized Professional Learning for Future Ready Leaders
http://tech.ed.gov/leaders