Teaching is one of the most important jobs in your town, in your country, and in your world. And the bottom line is, new teachers don’t get enough help.  That’s why this site is here-- to help new teachers support each other, to let experienced teachers serve as mentors, and to keep us all in the most rewarding profession of all.

     Whether you teach early childhood, primary, elementary, secondary, or college, or vocational-technical school, just about all new teachers run into many of the same problems.  This is the place to find ways to work through them, and to share how you solved a problem of your own.

Check out the Show All Your Work blog!

Resource of the week!

Another addition to the ongoing debate:  Does technology and the internet make us smarter or dumb us down? 

Interesting article from HBR on How to Use the Last 5 Minutes of Your Day.

Interested in getting your students blogging?  Check out this list of Do’s and Dont’s.

Evernote is a fantatic tool for capturing learning, ideas, links, pictures, and audio clips.  Here’s how one teacher uses it with her students.

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Monkey Machine drumming is awesome!  Check out this free online drum machine.  Perfect for music class and beyond!

Wow!  Biblio Bouts makes citations competitive!  It’s an online tool that makes learning proper citation even more fun than it already is... didn’t think that was possible!

An important, sobering article on the impact that the very wealthy have on education-- a must-read if you’ve seen Waiting for Superman or The Cartel.