More From the Leading Edge

• LearnZillion and the Literacy Design Collaborative aren’t the only cool tools in the chest when it comes to innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Here are more places teachers can go for support, help with content, and the opportunity to collaborate with educators across the country.
• BetterLesson.com is an online community where educators can connect, create, organize, and share curricula. Founded by a group of teachers from Atlanta and Boston public schools, this free site focuses on aggregating and scaling innovative content and practices from high-performing teachers across the country.
• The Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org) is a not-for-profit site that hosts more than 3,600 videos on K-12 math and science topics, as well as some topics on finance and history. All materials on the site are free.
• The Mathematics Design Collaborative (www.groupgenius.org/mathematics) is the mathematics counterpart to the Literacy Design Collaborative.
• Promethean Planet (www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us) provides lesson planning tips, strategies, content, and resources for a range of topics and grade levels. Membership is free.

Resources To Go

The LearnZillion website (https://learnzillion.com) is the hub for educational content, but there’s also a blog where additional video clips and resources are uploaded frequently, along with posts by LearnZillion co-founder Eric Westendorf and links to webinars and media coverage (check out the story about Bill Gates at https://tinyurl.com/cf53v7q). And there’s the option to follow LearnZillion on Twitter (https://twitter.com/LearnZillion) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/LearnZillion).

Similarly, the Literacy Design Collaborative website (www.literacydesigncollaborative.org) is the host for templates and fully fleshed out sample modules as well as the collaborative’s Guidebook 1.0, which explains the how and why of the framework.

Additional resources include the Think Tank, a social learning network where Literacy Design Collaborative participants can
connect, collaborate, reflect, and improve their practice. To watch a video of Susan Weston discussing the collaborative, see https://vimeo.com/27219167.