{"id":1259,"date":"2015-07-18T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T17:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2015-07-18T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T17:08:30","slug":"getting-ready-for-the-new-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for the New School Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as one school year ends it is time to get ready for the next. \u00a0For me that means that I start getting materials ready for new teacher orientation and set up new professional development for the teachers. \u00a0This year we are developing our self-serve PD using Schoology and will be adding badges to mark staff successful completion of the various topics.<\/p>\n<p>In prepping my material I review the old sites we recommend for teachers, as well as, look for new ones. \u00a0There are numerous sites that help teachers in developing dynamic and engaging curriculum. In going through them I was reminded about <a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TED Ed<\/a> and the tool they have to help develop flipped lessons and a list of curated lessons that are ready to use. \u00a0If you have not used it or need a refresher may I suggest starting with the <a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\">website tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as one school year ends it is time to get ready for the next. \u00a0For me that means that I start getting materials ready for new teacher orientation and set up new professional development for the teachers. \u00a0This year we are developing our self-serve PD using Schoology and will be adding badges to mark staff successful completion of the various topics. In prepping my material I review the old sites we recommend for teachers, as well as, look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1259\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,27,37,33],"tags":[208,207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}