OETSBSI Webinars are the answer for you! Participate live or attend our prerecorded sessions. Our Webinars offer a wide range of topics that will enhance your everyday teaching styles. 
In order to create more 21st century leaders, we need to engage girls in the science and technological fields. Girls Who Code is a training program to teach young girls in New York City from underserved communities a coding language and inspire them to enter STEM careers.
The New York State Education Department is working with the College Board to provide FREE professional development for math, science, and technology teachers of grades 7-12 in schools that were in Improvement Status in 2010-2011.
Learning Resources announces the sponsorship of a teacher grant hosted by WeAreTeachers.
Make learning more accessible for all. Enter our contest between April 1 and May 31, 2012, and you could win a SMART Table interactive learning center for the school of your choice. It's intuitive. It's multitouch. And it integrates with many assistive technologies. SMART Table helps create inclusive learning environments and promotes academic and social participation for all students. So take a few minutes to complete the entry form for your chance to win.
Each year NYSCATE awards up to 6 grants worth up to $2,000 each for classroom projects using technology. Do you know of a colleague who is deserving of statewide recognition through receiving either the Lee Byant Outstanding Teacher Award or the State Technology Leader Award? Please consider nominating your colleague for one of these prestigious awards.
Be a hero at your school by entering to win a School Lounge Makeover, valued at $7,500, courtesy of California Casualty.
You are cordially invited to NYC Department of Education Division of Equity and Access Closing the Achievement Gap Series entitled SUPPORTING YOUNG MEN OF COLOR IN THEIR PURSUIT FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: Fulfilling President Obama’s 2020 Goal for College Achievement. National speaker and Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali will be the keynote speaker, with more dynamics speakers to be added.
We want to know how you would set up the “Things” in a classroom to best access the “Stuff.” Where would you put your interactive whiteboards (IWBs) and digital signage? Would you use round tables or desks? Most importantly, how would your classroom work for students, teachers and caregivers.
Hey Educators!
Kids and teens are making their dreams a reality as they create their very own video games right from their home! Using their vast experience in the classroom, Game Builders Academy makes it accessible for anyone around the world to experience with the new HOME LEARNING SERIES, all in a fully narrated, hands-on,interactive video course!
We're celebrating 10 years of transforming classrooms. Enter the Win a Wireless Lab sweepstakes each and every day and your school could win one of three grand prize wireless labs, weekly technology prize giveaways and more!
The Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge, a premier national environmental sustainability competition for grades K–12, benefits all of us as they learn about science and conservation while creating solutions that impact our planet. At stake is more than $300,000 in scholarships and prizes. Lead your students in this venture as they “change their world.” For more information about participating, visit www.wecanchange.com.
Kick off the new year by applying to free STEM professional development this summer. Discovery Education and the Siemens Foundation invite middle and high school STEM teachers to apply to the 2012 Siemens Summer of Learning programs.
Westbury, NY, December 19, 2011 – Game Builders Academy announced today its new Home Learning Series with the nationwide release of its Video Game Development instructional product. The online course provides a combination of curricula, tools and techniques that teaches kids and teens how to make their very own exciting video games.
Fourteen of us–special education teachers, school psychologists, speech therapists, and other educators–recently spent six hours brainstorming with the goal of producing a starter iPad app catalog for teachers and students in our district, and beyond. Thanks to my colleagues for helping the district pioneer through new territory!
From its inception, Apex Learning has sought to increase access to high quality educational alternatives for all students through online learning. From the start we recognized that a successful online learning experience depends on the quality of the curriculum and its ability to meet the unique needs of each student.
Objectives:
Students will:
- research the events that took place at Pearl Harbor;
- write an in-depth article as though they experienced those events firsthand; and
-discuss what lessons can be learned from Pearl Harbor.
Starting this month, iZone is accepting school applications for the 2012-2013 school year. Up to 200 new middle and high schools will be accepted into the iZone360 or iLearnNYC initiatives. At this time, we are not accepting applications for InnovateNYC.
School leaders, teachers and staff interested in joining the iZone are encouraged to attend one of the iZone Open Houses held in November and December. Open Houses will give an overview of the iZone, a look at classrooms implementing iZone strategies, and the opportunity to speak with current iZone school leaders and teachers.
For School Leaders, Teacher Leaders and Families
Scholarship help is available for City government employees who want to pursue a graduate degree, but you must apply soon!
The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) is accepting applications for the 2012-13 Mayor's Graduate Scholarship Program (MGSP). This is a competitive program - a limited number of scholarships are available.
There are hundreds of web tools that have been developed educators in mind. Although it is not possible for us to know and use all of them, there are some tools that we should all have in the bag.
The new version of Encyclopedia of Life - referred to as EOLv2 - is now available. The platform is more engaging, accessible and personal. Thanks to collaboration with colleagues at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, the new EOL is also fully internationalized with interfaces provided for English, Arabic, and Spanish speakers. Global users have embraced the new interface and thousands around the world, from Spain to India to Hungary have joined the EOL community. Come visit EOL!
The concept of "Flipping the Classroom," which involves having students learn independently from video-based lessons and do their “homework” in school with the teacher’s help, is gaining popularity -- and a successful track record. It looks different in different classrooms and is also known as inverted learning. The practice has a wide variety of uses that are transforming student learning. This Webinar will feature the two educators who coined the term and representatives from two award-winning districts that have taken the concept and made it work well for their schools. You’ll learn exactly what a Flipped Classroom is, why it works, how to do it, and where it is in practice today.
Over the past decade, many organizations such as P21 have advocated for standards that adequately address both the core academic knowledge and the complex thinking skills that are required for success in college, life and career in the 21st century. Partnership for 21st Century Skills urges the integration of the CCSS into teaching and learning in ways that honor the fusion of the 3Rs and 4Cs. You can downlowd the toolkit Here
Tikatok Across the Curriculum is a monthly series created specifically for K-8 educators! This free monthly series of activities, project ideas and student worksheets integrates writing across a variety of subjects from math, science, social studies, art, and more. Check back every month to download a new set of ideas and activities for a complete guide to writing across the curriculum.
All FREE, and all just for you!
Welcome back to another year with VITAL. We're back with a new look, new collections to launch and new professional development videos to share. This year our goal is to learn more about you, so each month we'll be asking you to share some of the ways you're using VITAL in your classroom. Looking ahead, plans for the 2012 Celebration of Teaching & Learning are already underway. Over the next few months we'll keep you posted on the latest developments leading up to the excitement in March. It's going to be a busy year and we're ready!
We know that districts are being held accountable for more, and being asked to do so with less funding. As a result, districts today are looking for new ways to effectively implement technology that can engage students and boost academic achievement. Blended learning, the teaching practice that combines both face-to-face and online learning, offers several models of instruction to engage students in and out of the classroom. It has proven highly effective in helping schools and districts address the challenges of student achievement, limited resources, and the expectations of 21st-century learners. It is also the fastest growing component of online learning.
