Youth

Teacher Resources

BrainPop Educators

BrainPop is a trusted learning resource supporting core and supplemental subjects, reaching millions of learners worldwide. It provides teachers with lesson planning resources, professional development, academic standards, Tools & Features support, and school to home connections.

Common Sense Educators

Common Sense Education supports K–12 schools with everything educators need to empower the next generation of digital citizens. Our innovative, award-winning Digital Citizenship Curriculum prepares students with lifelong habits and skills, supports teachers with training and recognition, and engages families and communities with helpful tips and tools.

Crayola for Educators

CreatED, Crayola’s new educational solution is for students, educators and families. Together, we can transform school culture and climate to welcome and build engagement, collaboration and creativity.

Flipgrid

Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create “grids” to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called “topics,” and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

National Geographic Education

National Geographic Education helps teachers bring National Geographic resources to their classroom. It showcases curriculum ideas, professional development, student experiences, and classroom resources.

Nearpod

Nearpod offers K-12 interactive lessons, videos, and formative assessments. Built for distance learning, hybrid, and school-based settings.

New Jersey Department of Education

The official website for The Department of Education in New Jersey. The New Jersey Department of Education supports schools, educators and districts to ensure all of New Jersey’s 1.4 million students have equitable access to high quality education and achieve academic excellence.

North Bergen Public Schools

North Bergen Public Schools website has information about local schools, school year schedules, contact information, and more.

PBS Learning Media for Teachers

NJTV and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for teachers.

Read Write Think

ReadWriteThink’s mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.

Scholastic Book Wizard

A resource for teachers on Scholastic that helps teachers level their classroom libraries based on Guided Reading, DRA, Lexile, and Grade Level Equivalent levels.

Scholastic for Teachers

A resource for teachers on Scholastic with lessons ideas, books and authors, Top Teaching Blog, Teacher’s Tool Kit, student activity ideas, book clubs, book fair information, and more.

Teach Reference Center

A database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals.

Teacher Tube

Teacher Tube seeks to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. It is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

The Conscious Kid

An education, research, and policy organization dedicated to equity and promoting healthy racial identity development in youth. Provides book lists and resources for educators, parents, and families in taking action to disrupt racism in young children.

Today’s Parent

Today’s Parent speaks to parents with children from birth to ages 9+. They will get insightful information for all ages and stages on discipline, health, behaviour, education, plus easy and nutritious recipes and so much more.

We Need Diverse Books

Nonprofit organization that provides diverse book lists and advocates for essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.

WNET Education

WNET Education creates video and interactive projects for multiple platforms, infusing fun with a range of curriculum-based content for kids from preschool through high school. Projects exploring STEM, social/emotional development, language learning, history, global understanding, social justice, and the arts spark imagination, encourage critical thinking, and reflect diverse perspectives.

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