Connecticut State Department of Education

Teacher of the Year Ceremony
Due to inclement weather, the Teacher of the Year Ceremony has been postponed to December 16, 2025 from 5-7pm. Doors will open at 4pm. The Ceremony will take place at the Bushnell Theater in Hartford, and the order of events will remain the same.

Connecticut Core Standards

Content Area Units - TeachFest Connecticut: Summer Academy

Text Complexity and Vocabulary Analyses - TeachFest Connecticut: Summer Academy

Lesson Plans for Grades K-5

Grade Title Created by
K-5 You can kick a ball, but can you do a pushup? Tracy Williams
K-5 The Weather by Kira Freed Stephanie Held

Lesson Plans for Grades 6-8

Grade Title Created by
6-8 If the Taliban takes power, Afghan women fear their freedoms may vanish Veronica Gelormino
6-8 Study May Spur Wider Use of Prenatal Gene Tests Trisha Pytko
6-8 This tree produces 40 different types of fruit Sherree Wolfgang
6-8 Revisiting the World of Wikipedia: Wicked or Wonderful Shelley Stedman
6-8 Malala the Powerful: the Amazing True Story of a 15-YearOld Girl who Stood up to a Deadly Terrorist Group Shannon Betts
6-8 A Ball of Energy - Gabrielle Sierra Ryan Connelly
6-8 Public divided on genetic testing to predict cancer risk: American national poll Michelle Hier Trani
6-8 Los 15: Orígenes y tradiciones Mary Fuller
6-8 Cassini spacecraft reveals 101 geysers and more on icy Saturn moon Kim Speight
6-8 Mexico’s President Asks for Tax on Soft Drinks to Cut Down on Obesity Harriett Canty
6-8 A Great Speech - Harold Holzer Donna Drasch
6-8 The Tour de France, again, has no women cyclists Debra Cassidy
6-8 Global Warming Could Cause More Wars, A Study Finds Blaise Messinger

Lesson Plans for Grades 9-12

Grade Title Created by
9-12 The Final Run of Ladder 3 Wayne Prygoda
9-12 Excerpts from The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli Tim Zeuschner
9-12 This Was Their Finest Hour - Winston Churchill Steve Turgeon
9-12 Courthouse Rock Santina Scalia
9-12 Is it Plagiarism Yet? Sally Markiewicz
9-12 Shredderman 1 ~Secret Identity Rose Otten Paggioli
9-12 Pros and Cons of Social Media In The Classroom Nancy G. Maisonet
9-12 Sodium, Hiding in Plain Sight by - Jane E. Brody Martin Swanhall
9-12 Obama Asks for $3.7 Billion to Aid Border Melodee Smith
9-12 The Brown Man’s Burden - Henry Labouchere Lea McCabe
9-12 Heat of Fusion and Heat of Vaporization Experiment 19 Kristen Record
9-12 Tragedy of the Commons -Hardin K.Papa
9-12 The Plague Hits Florence - Giovanni Boccaccio Kailee Donovan
9-12 Qualitative Childcare: The Missing Element—MEN Jill Skidgell
9-12 Natural Gas: Pros and Cons - RP Siegel Joe Pellecchia
9-12 A New University Library Not Built for Books Greg Beyer
9-12 Letter in an American Missionary - Saum Song Bo Frank Macchi
9-12 The Bill of Rights: A Transcription Elizabeth Kowal
9-12 Play in Preschool: Why it Matters - Traci Geiser Dolores Walsh
9-12 The Battle of Stalingrad David Thoman
9-12 Even medical devices are not safe from cyber crime Donald Mason
9-12 We’ve taken the hysteria out of head lice Danielle Howarth
9-12 Preamble - The Founding Fathers Cheryl Lee
9-12 3-D printers use lasers on plastic and metal, not ink on paper Catherine Ellis
9-12 Chronicles of the Barbarians Bill Heughins
9-12 Ocean Algae Can Evolve Fast to Tackle Climate Change Ann-Marie Anderson