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If you are not accessing Edutopia via the Internet or on Twitter, I would highly suggest you do. There are endless quality resources.
Edutopia

EdTechTeacher and Common Sense Education provide some great educational technology resources.
EdTechTeacher
Common Sense Ed

Student Engagement Resources
There are numerous resources but this was one that connected with me:
​ ​http://www.edutopia.org/blog/student-engagement-pbl-suzie-boss
Student Engagment

Learning Targets
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A shared learning target unpacks a "lesson-sized" amount of learning—the precise "chunk" of the particular content students are to master (Leahy, Lyon, Thompson, & Wiliam, 2005). It describes exactly how well we expect them to learn it and how we will ask them to demonstrate that learning. And although teachers derive them from instructional objectives, learning targets differ from instructional objectives in both design and function.
Learning Targets

Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR)
The video provides a great overview and model of the gradual release of responsibility. 

​The gradual release of responsibility instructional framework purposefully shifts the cognitive load from teacher-as-model, to joint responsibility of teacher and learner, to independent practice and application by the learner (Pearson & Gallagher, 1983).
Video: GRR
Article: GRR

Developing a Growth Mindset in Teachers and Staff
Based on the work of Stanford University psychologist, Carol Dweck, the idea of mindset is related to our understanding of where ability comes from. In a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that’s that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In a growth mindset students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. They don’t necessarily think everyone’s the same or anyone can be Einstein, but they believe everyone can get smarter if they work at it (Morehead 2012).​
Growth Mindset

Essential Questions
Per Essential Questions by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins:
"A finer-grained examination of such questions reveals three different but overlapping meanings for the term essential. One meaning of essential includes the terms "important" and "timeless."  A second connotation for essential refers to "elemental" or "foundational." A third and important connotation for the term essential
 refers to what is vital or necessary for personal understanding—in the case of schooling, what students need for learning core content.
Video: Essential Questions
Book: Essential Questions

Student Engagement
These video provide some tools and strategies so that all students, including reluctant or shy ones,  feel comfortable in a collaboration team and tips so that everyone is fully engaged.

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Video: The Wingman
Video: Student Engagement

Learning Menus
Learning Menus are a nice tool for differentiating instruction and provide students with choices in mastering material. 

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Video: Learning Menus
Interactive Learning Menu

​Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning allows students to study and create things that interest them. Teachers guide and monitor the process but it puts the responsibility of learning on the student and enables them to be active participants in their education rather than passive spectators.
Article: Personalized Learning
Video: Personalized Learning

10 Ways to Increase Student Engagement
Helping Student With Self-Motivation
The Highly Engaged Classroom
Article: 10 Ways
Motivation Strategies
Highly Engaged Classroom

Tech & Education Gurus
Leslie Fisher
Ron Houtman
Andy Mann
Rick Wormeli
Jay Gross
David Tchozewski

Professional Development Opportunities
iFireUP
Exceptional learning experiences offered via face-to-face conferences and on-line classes. 
Twitter Chats
There are several interest groups that meet online.
Jackson MI ISD
Classes and sessions available via face-to-face and online.
Michigan LearnPort
Online professional learning

Interesting Websites
http://www.livescience.com/topics/experiments-for-kids
http://www.kidsknowit.com/
Stuff for Kids

Other tech implementation resources:
http://www.learning.com/
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