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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 4
   Celebrate John Venn's Birthday!
   Students celebrate the birth of English logician, philosopher, and creator of the Venn Diagram by building community within the classroom by comparing and contrasting likes, dislikes, and characteristics about one another.
2. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Disciplinary Literacies in Content Area Classrooms: Instructional Design for Responsive Instruction
   This webinar will discuss key elements of disciplinary literacies instruction that include considerations for instructional design and assessment.
3. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Exploring Intersections between Digital and Disciplinary Literacy: Leveraging Synergies for Deeper Learning
   This interactive Web seminar will examine digital practices essential for learning in the disciplines.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Finding Fabulous Financial Literacy Vocabulary With Fancy Nancy
   Fancy Nancy teaches fancy words. Did you know Nancy also teaches about fabulous financial literacy concepts? Explore basic economics vocabulary with the entrepreneur extraordinaire!
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
   Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
6. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   On Demand Web Seminar Package: Literacy Across the Disciplines
   Take the guesswork out of choosing the best on demand Web seminars while building your professional library on teaching literacy across all content areas.
7. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
   Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   QARs + Tables = Successful Comprehension of Math Word Problems
   Using census data for an example, students use the question-answer relationship (QAR) strategy to understand and solve word problems that refer to tables and other graphics.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Talking, Writing, and Reasoning: Making Thinking Visible with Math Journals
   Students explore how their problem-solving strategies work by writing in math journals as they work in small groups to solve a math puzzle with multiple solutions.