{"id":98787,"date":"2019-08-19T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=434065"},"modified":"2019-08-19T16:54:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:54:49","slug":"teachers-can-get-free-top-rated-english-language-arts-curriculum-for-their-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/19\/teachers-can-get-free-top-rated-english-language-arts-curriculum-for-their-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers can get free top-rated English Language Arts curriculum for their student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/Education-Blog\/Microsoft-Education-amp-Open-Up-Resources-partner-on-English\/ba-p\/388905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Education &amp; Open Up Resources partner to launch top rated English Language Arts curriculum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we\u2019re announcing the general availability of the Open Up Resources ELA curriculum and Microsoft Education free offering.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/openupresources.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Up Resources<\/a>&nbsp;is an education nonprofit that creates high-quality, standards-aligned curriculum, and provides it for&nbsp;<strong>free<\/strong>&nbsp;to improve education equity. This&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openupresources.org\/el-education-k-5-language-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum<\/a>&nbsp;was written by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openupresources.org\/el-education-k-5-language-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EL Education<\/a>, and currently spans grades K\u20135.&nbsp; Recently, EdReports.org rated this curriculum as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openupresources.org\/el-education-curriculum-reviews-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest rated<\/a>&nbsp;K\u20135 ELA curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Any educator can now easily&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/access.openupresources.org\/sign_up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up<\/a>&nbsp;to use the Open Up Resources curriculum. With today\u2019s announcement, Microsoft Education is offering this ELA curriculum through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onenote.com\/classnotebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OneNote&nbsp;Class Notebooks<\/a>. This solution is free and can be used by teachers and students on any platform and device.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Any educator can now easily&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/access.openupresources.org\/sign_up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up<\/a>&nbsp;to use the curriculum. With today\u2019s announcement, Microsoft Education is offering this ELA curriculum through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onenote.com\/classnotebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OneNote&nbsp;Class Notebooks<\/a>. This solution is free and can be used by teachers and students on any platform and device.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Classroom-Friendly Materials Access with OneNote Class Notebooks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<u>Office 365 Education<\/u>&nbsp;solution takes the <em>EL Education K\u20135 Language Arts<\/em> curriculum by Open Up Resources and pairs it with a&nbsp;<u>free<\/u>&nbsp;solution for content.<\/p>\n<p>Organize all your class materials, including those provided by Open Up Resources, into one digital notebook with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onenote.com\/classnotebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OneNote Class Notebooks<\/a>. Then, create more compelling, interactive content that&nbsp;you can&nbsp;easily collaborate on with students and colleagues. &nbsp;Students can also use the built-in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.onenote.com\/learningtools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immersive Reader<\/a>&nbsp;to help access content. To get a sense of the solution, we put together a video for the original&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/Education-Blog\/Microsoft-Education-and-Open-Up-Resources-announce-partnership\/ba-p\/174041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Math pilot<\/a>&nbsp;demonstrating the overall concept.<\/p>\n<p>OneNote Class Notebooks integrate seamlessly with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.onenote.com\/edupartners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">common LMS and SIS platforms<\/a>&nbsp;and now it\u2019s easy to import any OneNote content (such as Open Up Resources!) <a href=\"https:\/\/educationblog.microsoft.com\/en-us\/2019\/06\/teams-for-education-celebrates-two-years-with-new-updates-for-back-to-school\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">into your Microsoft Teams Class Notebook.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Started today!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To help teachers and schools get up and running, we have put together&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/OpenUpResourcesMicrosoftELAPD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Getting Started materials<\/a>&nbsp;on the Microsoft Support site which includes instructions and support information.&nbsp; You can also file a Help ticket easily&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/OpenUpResourcesSupport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you or your district would like to begin using the new offering,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to the Open Up Resources <a href=\"https:\/\/openupresources.org\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contact page<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fill in your information, and scroll down the page<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/openupresources.org\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Request sign up instructions<\/a>&nbsp;and check the boxes for \u201c<strong>EL Education K\u20135 Language Arts<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>OneNote integration<\/strong>\u201d<br \/><span><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/teachers-can-get-free-top-rated-english-language-arts-curriculum-for-their-student.jpg\" alt=\"ELA Choice.jpg\" title=\"ELA Choice.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/teachers-can-get-free-top-rated-english-language-arts-curriculum-for-their-student.jpg\" alt=\"ELA Choice.jpg\" title=\"ELA Choice.jpg\"><span class=\"lia-inline-image-caption\">Example of choosing ELA and OneNote<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We look forward to your feedback on this exciting new offering for the new school year!<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/Education-Blog\/Microsoft-Education-amp-Open-Up-Resources-partner-to-launch-top\/ba-p\/778074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a> was originally published on this <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/Education-Blog\/bg-p\/EducationBlog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"scl-wrapper\">\n<a class=\"scl-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/educators\/student-centered-learning?ocid=FY19Q5SCL_blg_omc_edu_CLEbutton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"off\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/teachers-can-get-free-top-rated-english-language-arts-curriculum-for-their-student.png\" alt=\"Click here for free STEM resources\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"on\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/teachers-can-get-free-top-rated-english-language-arts-curriculum-for-their-student-1.png\" alt=\"Explore tools for student-centered learning\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Education &amp; Open Up Resources partner to launch top rated English Language Arts curriculum Today we\u2019re announcing the general availability of the Open Up Resources ELA curriculum and Microsoft Education free offering.&nbsp;Open Up Resources&nbsp;is an education nonprofit that creates high-quality, standards-aligned curriculum, and provides it for&nbsp;free&nbsp;to improve education equity. 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