portaportal

Welcome, Stanford Teacher!

Quick Links

INFINITE CAMPUS
Regular MNPS username and password.
Webmail/Office 365
new link! username: mnpsusername@mnps.org password: your current MNPS password
Teaching Strategies
Pre-K assessment tool
District Calendar
Learning A - Z (account login)
Reflex Math
IXL sign-in page
PebbleGo
Limitless libraries- scroll to the bottom of the page
Renaissance Place (AM, AR, STAR)
SchoolNet
Stanford Kids' Portaportal
Stanford Web Site
Starfall
username: christy.wood@mnps.org password: stanford
Studies Weekly
SuperTeacher Worksheet site
username: 690stanford password: montessori
ThinkCentral (Journeys web site)
username: [your mnps username] password: Password1!
Twitter
Stanford Montessori's Twitter page.
YouTube

NEW STUFF

Infinite Campus
Using Google Chrome

MNPS links

Blackboard (MNPS)
Campus Resource Portal
Infinite Campus tutorial videos and information.
Data Warehouse
Edmodo
Employee Portal
FastBridge login
Gradespeed (teacher login)
KBox
MAP login
Login page for the MAP testing.
MICA
MIST Proctor
username: TPRAC6XSAYMS password: 875921
MNPS Assessment Calendar
MNPS blog - Curriculum & Instruction
MNPS Learning Technology
Technology resources.
MNPS RTII site
MNPS.org
MNPS main web site
MNPSNC wikispace
Balanced Math, other
New Teacher Portal
Office 365
Username: [mnps login]@mnps.org Password: mnps password
Pay Stub Login
Use your first and last initial with the last 4 digits of your employee number. Password is TMP# + last 4 of your SSN.
RANDA Tower (observations)
MNPS username/password ... elec signature is last 4 of SS#
Renaissance Customer Care
RetireReadyTN
MNPS retirement web site.
RTI Sharepoint
SafeTeachers
SchoolNet (MyHub)
Find Professional Development opportunities, access instructional resources.
SmartFind - Find a Substitute!
your user id and pin
Stanford Sharepoint
TDOE
Teaching Strategies
Pre-K assessment tool.
TEAM Evaluation rubrics
Use these when you have an observation coming up!
Technology Solutions (sharepoint)
Assist your students with Office 365 passwords.
TNCompass (view your evaluation scores)
You must sign up for an account first.
TNCore

RTI Enrichment

Curriculum

• College of William and Mary’s Center for Gifted Ed Units of Instruction
*research based *I utilize in pull-out

Literacy

Byrd Seed Language Arts
• Great for ideas and lessons
Reading Fluency Strategies
One-page Nonfiction Reading/Thinking passages

Math

Gifted Sources - Various Links
• Supplemental Math Resource for Advanced Students
Byrd Seed Math
Great for ideas and lessons

Other Sites

Open CourseWare University
(great resource for independent study full of lectures, videos, tests etc.)
• Open CourseWare resources

Science

Science Enrichment
STEM Resources for Educating Gifted Students
Science Spot #1
Great for ideas and lessons
Science Spot #2

Team-Building/Leadership activities

National Speech and Debate
Science Olympiad
National History Day
Geography Bee
Math Olympiad
Destination Imagination
Future Problem Solving
Model United Nation
Odyssey of the Mind
Mentorship
o Contact community members who may be willing to donate an hour of time to mentor a student in a field of interest (medicine, l

PBL (Project-Based Learning)

Article with PBL links
databases
Buck Institute for Education
You can search by Keyword, by grade level, or by subject
Solution Fluency
You will need to sign up (no cost). You can search by ideas or themes.
STEM MI-Champions
More projects

Portaportals

School portaportal
guest login: schoolinfo
Mr. Travis's interactive links for the classroom
Lots of interactive educational sites for kids! guest login: mistertravis
Ms. Wiebe's Portaportal
Lots of great educational sites! guest login: twiebe
Ms. Cage's Symbaloo
Educational games and information. Check it out!

Tutorials (for teachers)

Accelerated Math 2.0 Tutorial Video
Edmodo tutorial #1 (basic)
Edmodo tutorial #2 (full)
Guided Reading video
This is the one Dr. Lipsey shared with us.
Infinite Campus Simulations
Corrie showed us this during our training.
INVEST Video Library
Lots of great videos to help teachers refine their skills!
IXL tutorial video
In case you're interested, this video shows you all about IXL.
IXL Tutorial video #2
A nice, quick tutorial.
Journeys (ThinkCentral) tutorial video
From MNPS, this shows how to create tests, etc.
Journeys tutorial video #1
Journeys tutorial video #2
What parents and students see.
Journeys tutorial video #3
Creating a custom test or assignment.
MNPS ThinkCentral Tutorial
MNPS Tutorials
Includes ThinkCentral, Type to Learn, Blackboard, and much more!
ThinkCentral PDF - June 2014
ThinkCentral Tutorial - Brainshark

RTI/FastBridge

FAST Bridge Powerpoints
Use these to help your K & 1st graders prepare for the FAST assessments.
FastBridge login
MNPS RTII web site
Response to Intervention Resources
RTI Intervention groupings
MNPS login required. This folder contains spreadsheets that will stay updated with RTI grouping information.
RTI Sharepoint
Webinars - Scientific Learning
Sent by Ms. Gray, especially for Tier II and Tier III interventionists.

Standards

Technology

"The Digital Citizen" article
Great article about digital citizenship.
Accelerated Math 2.0 Tutorial Video
This might help you get started on AM 2.0
Class Dojo
Free behavior management program!
Digital Literacy article
Digital Literacy Scope and Sequence
Digital Literacy video #1 - YouTube
Edmodo
Teachers/students can upload, share, collaborate online.
EdTech Index
Helps you figure out which edtech products are best for your needs!
EdWeb.net
Blended Learning community
HELP - software issues
Example: ThinkCentral, Gradespeed issues.
Kahoot
Play a trivia game with your students!
Khan Academy
Online lessons about everything!
Microsoft Office - get it at home for $10
Work Email: firstname.lastname@mnps.org Program Code: A8BA74D9C6
MNPS Blended Learning
Lots of great blended learning resources!
Mouse Clicking Game
For your young students who need practice with their mouse skills.
Mystery Skype (how to)
NearPod
We used this at the Christmas faculty gathering. Way to receive responses from all students!
No Red Ink - grammar site
O Smart Ball
Stick your phone in this foam ball, download the app, and let your kids pass it around and do all kinds of fun activities!
Online Stopwatch
Pic Monkey
Online photo editor.
Pics4Learning
Copyright-free pics for students!
Plicker
Use this as a way to easily survey students!
Random Name Pickers
Use these to choose a student's name at random!
Technology Integration Matrix
Rubric for teachers to use more blended learning.
Technology Solutions - MNPS
TodaysMeet
Allows students to have a "backchannel" conversation during a lesson. (ideally 1-to-1 technology during this)
Typing Club
Free online typing program!
TypingTest.com
See how fast you can type.