This is a video that explains in-depth what GRR (gradual release of responsibility) is and talks about the four different stages.  A great tool for any teacher in any content area.

This reference sheet breaks down the phases of the Gradual Release of Responsibility and articulates key components, teacher actions, student actions, and possible instructional strategies that can be utilized in each phase. This reference sheet was created from the key details presented by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey in their book Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility, 2nd Edition (2013). 

Grafton School District Libraries (K-12) Reopening Plan and COVID Response - Proposed plan as of June 30, 2020.

This web page offers an interactive, game style experience for students to practice various grammar and punctuation skills.  Students immediately know if they did the exercise correctly and have a chance to do over if necessary.

One of the principles of water is that it absorbs and releases heat easily. When there is a basin of water, like the Great Lakes, the ability to hold onto and release heat can have a significant impact on the surrounding coastal areas. Those coastal areas throughout the Great Lakes are often referred to as “The Fruit Belt.” This lesson and accompanying activities explore water's ability to absorb and release heat, the affect the Great Lakes can have on the surrounding land, and how the relationship between those two influence the economy and culture of Great Lakes coastal areas.

This inquiry embeds an Academic and Career Planning concept into historical inquiry, allowing students to make connections between historic accident analysis and the type of accident chain analysis a business might do today. By investigating the compelling question “Can the Accident Chain be disrupted?” students evaluate secondary sources about the Great Molasses Flood and address the issue of whether there are points along the accident chain when alternate decisions can avoid a calamity. The formative performance tasks help students build knowledge and practice skills so they can answer the supporting questions. Students create an evidence-based argument to answer the compelling question.

This Greek Mythology resource can be used for a mini lesson to introduce allusions. It can also be presented after students have background of different Greek Mythology stories.

This is an image of the retractable banners that were created that feature the stories of the Wisconsin immigrant students who shared their stories in the book Green Card Youth Voices - Madison and Milwaukee.

3:06 video where Sal Kahn talks with Stanford Professor Carol Dweck about her research on the Growth Mindset. What is it? Why is it important?

Guidelines for Choosing Culturally Appropriate Literature About Native American People Mike Mestelle from Lakeland Union High School in Minocqua, WI and Carol Amour from Lac du Flambeau, WI discuss guidelines to help classroom teachers choose literature written by Native American authors or about Native American people that would be appropriate for use in school classrooms. Carol Amour represents the First Nations Traveling Resource Center, she works with the Indian Community School of Milwaukee in Franklin, WI, and has worked with the George W. Brown Museum in Lac du Flambeau, WI.

Our utilization of the WISELearn OER Innovative Grant funds was designed to elevate the standard of our school's early learning instructional materials. Recognizing the importance of quality instructional resources in shaping student outcomes, we allocated the grant to procure essential materials and texts from Add+Vantage Math Recovery (AVMR). These resources are tailored to provide our teachers and interventionists with evidence-based interventions spanning Tiers 1, 2, and 3, thereby catering to diverse student needs comprehensively. Furthermore, we leveraged the grant to pilot Illustrative Math in an accelerated 3rd/4th grade classroom, a pioneering initiative aimed at aligning our curriculum with rigorous standards and fostering deeper mathematical understanding among students. Additionally, we invested in Illustrative Math Centers Kits, laying the groundwork for seamless implementation of the curriculum in the forthcoming academic year. Through these targeted investments, we are not only empowering our educators with the tools they need to excel but also nurturing a dynamic learning environment primed for student success.

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W3schools presents thousands of code examples.  The site contains an online editor allowing teachers/students to edit examples and execute computer code experimentally, to see what works and what does not, before implementing it.

W3Schools is a completely free developers resource.  Permission is granted to link the site and use small snippets of code in examples.

This lesson is intended to help students realize that they can learn a lot about chickens—and animals in general—through close observation. They also should come to understand that it is important to learn about the special needs of eggs/chicks in order to take care of them, whether on a farm or in a classroom hatching project. This lesson can be used as an orientation for students before doing a chicken-hatching unit in class. It may also be used in conjunction with the unit to emphasize the importance of the proper care for eggs/chicks. 

This resource is a video posted by Finoit Technologies that provides an overview of the 10 largest challenges our healthcare system faces today and will continue to face in the future. For an activity, I would have your students watch the short video and then have each of them pick one of the ten problems from the video and propose a solution. This will allow your students to think critically and this activity will give them an idea of the problems leaders in healthcare face every day.

Health insurance can be confusing and hard to navigate in the complex healthcare system. The following resources can be applied to your lesson plan to support students understanding of health insurance. 

Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust is an educational program developed by Wisconsin Health Literacy to help students learn how to navigate and feel confident searching for health information online.  This lesson plan highlights: searching for trusted health information, how to read a webpage – quick facts and key points, how to tell if the information you found is from a good source, finding websites in other languages, and local places to use the internet.

Open source health lesson and resources are searchable by health education topic, arranged by grade-band, and reviewed using the Health EQuIP Tool/Resource Review Rubric.

This series of classroom activities were written to support educators who use the 2022 video series "Elections 101" from the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC).

"Helping at the Polls" helps students answer the questions "What are ways I can civically participate in my community?" and "How do we hold elections in my community?". Teachers will use the videos "A Day at the Polls" and "Election Security" from the WEC to build a recruitment brochure, poster, or other media to encourage people to volunteer as pollworkers.