The Young Adult Library Services Association is a great site to keep English teachers up to date on contemporary Young Adult Literature being publishing and winning awards. This site links you to annual Micheal L. Printz award winning YA literature. YALSA is the platform from which Teen Read Week and its library counterparts work from. Overall a great site for fabulous literature.
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YouTube is a limitless resource. If navigated tactically it can truly link students to visual education aids and inspiration that light up a classroom. The particular channel subscriptions are very helpful in creating a network of resources.
Edutopia is my go to source for educational inspiration. The site is loaded with educational strategies, research, and currently trending topics. Edutopia has a fabulous video library for use in the classroom and teacher education. Edutopia also offers a "join the conversation" option which allow member to comment and ask questions.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute offers a vast array of information for students and teachers. It is a great content research tool for students, but also provides links to fellowships, internships, scholarships, exhibitions and a section they call History Now. The institute supports AP History and provides an AP study guide, as well as online courses. Primary Source documents are available for educators as well as curriculum.
The Council on Foreign Relations is an amazing site to access various publications put out by CFR. They also support an media interactive page for educators which allows you to bring current global affairs into the classroom. These media inter-actives are applicable to any content area particularly science, history, geography, ecology and international politics. CFR also has a link to their U Tube channel which can be very useful in the classroom.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum site has an incredible collection of primary source documents, historical documents, images and reports about the holocaust. It also houses a vast array of information, images, and new links to genocide throughout history. USHMM also covers migrant and refugee crises throughout history and current issues. Thus the site has links, photographs and stories about current migrant movement in Europe and the South Pacific.
Flocabulary creates educational hip-hop videos. I use these videos in ELA classes to make learning literary strategies fun and entertaining. The websites purports to raise test scores and create videos that are designed to achieve common core standards. But in my classroom we use them to bring joy into learning and the students love them. They often ask me to play them over and over.
Kirkus Reviews is a fabulous source for critical and analytical reviews of books. They cover everything from old classics, to young adult literature, to contemporary books hot off the press. When I'm having students chose a book for a book group project or read alone project, I use Kirkus as one of the review sites they visit to make their final choice.
Teenreads is an amazing source for young adult book reviews. Their reviewers are fun, quirky and write their reviews in a style appealing to adolescents. Teenreads is a subset of the larger Book Reporter group who also manages Kidreads, 20somethingreads, GroupReads, GraphicNovelReads, Faithfulreaders and AuthorOnTheWeb. Teenreads also has an inspiring program where adolescents can apply to become a reviewer and they will receive the books they want to review from the publisher for free.