Best practices

From simple articles to multimedia tutorials and entire books, our best practices provide teachers (and administrators) with a wide range of self-guided professional development.

Hot topics and special collections

Classroom management: Resources on building classroom culture, organization, classroom design, and more.
Formative Assessment: Resources to help you integrate more ongoing assessment into your teaching.
Reading: Learning to read, reading comprehension, content-area literacy, and studying literature.
Writing: The five features of effective writing, the writing process, and writing across the curriculum.
Mathematics: Student-centered math, teaching to multiple intelligences, formative assessment, and more.
Teaching with Primary Sources: Process guides, model lesson plans, and teaching strategies.

Education Reference: Background articles and research summaries on key topics in education, from A to Z.
New Teacher Support: Resources and guides to LEARN NC for beginning teachers and their mentors.
Differentiated Instruction: Teaching all students in the 21st-century classroom.
Technology Integration: Best practices for making innovative and meaningful use of classroom technology.
COLT: Carolina On-Line Teacher: A certification program for online instructors.
Visual Literacy: Strategies for teaching students to read and interpret photographs, maps, charts, and other images.