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Local Partnership Links
Promising
Practices: New ways to Improve Teacher Quality (www.ed.gov/pubs/PromPractice/index.html)
A report announced by Secretary Riley descirbes promising efforts to improve
"teacher quality." Includes characteristics and profiles of promising:
teacher recuritment initiatives; teacher education programs; ways to improve
licensing and certification of teachers; induction programs for beginning
teachers; professional development programs; and teacher accountability
programs.
Teachers
Leading the Way: Voices from the National Teacher Forum - April 1998
(www.ed.gov/pubs/TeachersLead/leadership.html) Report on how teachers
can spur change in their schools & coomunities and how schools and communties
can support teacher leadership. Looks at why teacher leadership is needed,
ways teachers can lead, how schools and communities can support teachers
as leaders, and steps teachers can take to get started.
Entrepreneurship
Education (www.entre-ed.org) Resources for for teachers,
instructors, program developers and others who help students of all ages
find their own entrepreneurial opportunities. This page provides information
on Entrepreneurship Education, small business design, micro-enterprise,
small business management, and enterprising behavior.....home-based businesses,
self-employment, or just plain business start up!
Kid Info (www.kidinfo.com)
Includes information for students, parents and teachers on school subjects,
reference resources, student leisure, teacher resources, young children,
search engines, parent resources, and more.
The Big Picture Company (www.bpic.org/nuhs/bpic.html)
The Big Picture Company is a non-profit corporation dedicated to networking
and supporting innovative high school reform efforts across the United
States. The Big Picture was founded in Providence, RI by Elliot Washor
and Dennis Littky, both nationally-known educators and pioneers in school
reform. Check out their site for reviews of the New Urban High School
Network, discussion groups, and much more.
Teacher
Talk Home Page (education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/tthmpg.html)
Teacher Talk is a publication for pre-service and secondary education teachers
that exists as a series of World Wide Web documents. Anyone is welcome to
use these resources as long as they indicate that the article or lesson
plan is a part of Teacher Talk which belongs to Indiana University. "In
other words..." is a place where everyone can go to read the great
suggestions and comments classroom teachers and other readers have offered
in response to Teacher Talk. Previous Issues : (Volume 1, Issue 1) Caring
Teachers; Service learning;What is Teacher Talk?; Winning Ways: Teachers
Talk about building rapport with students
Armadillos
K-12 WWW resources
(www.rice.edu/armadillo/Rice/Resources/reshome.html) This directory of K-12 WWW Educational Resources has been developed for teachers and students of the K-12 community. It is intended to be a list where teachers can quickly access resource materials for direct use in their lesson plans or as additional resources for students to explore.
Job Shadow Day (www.jobshadow.org)
Job shadowing can open up doors and career opportunities for thousands of
young Americans. On February 2, 1998, Groundhog Job Shadow Day will be celebrated,
a day dedicated to giving young people across America job shadowing experiences.
Job shadowing enables kids to spend time in the workplace, providing an
up-close look at what a "real job" is like and how the skills
they learn in school can be put into action. Check out the Job Shadow Day
Checklist to get ready in your community!
Early Childhood Technical Assistance
Center (www.nectac.org) Provides technical assistance to States, territories, and projects funded through the Early Childhood Program. Conduct periodic needs assessments, technical assistance plans, deliver technical assistance, and evaluate technical assistance activities.
GLARRC
(Great Lakes Regional Resource Center) (www.glarrc.org)
Includes searchable Early Prevention of Violence database, current Issues,
and a state-by-state listing of federal and state projects, hotlinks including
U.S. Department of Education News Updates, Federal Register, Guide to U.S.
Department of Education Programs, and relevant reports that can be downloaded
including Pennsylvania State Advisory Panel Recommendations on Inclusion
of Students with Disabilities in Statewide Assessments.
National Center for Research
in Vocational Education (NCRVE) (ncrve.berkeley.edu) The
nation's largest center for research and development in work-related education.
AskERIC (www.askeric.org)
Site includes full text lesson plans, education research, studies, conferences
papers, hot topics, InfoGuide, listserv archives, current journal articles,
and more. AskERIC also offers an online interface to the ERIC database,
the world's largest collection of education related materials.
Connect for Kids
(www.connectforkids.org) This is an action information center for parents,
grandparents, policymakers, media, volunteers, mentors, businesses, educators,
and more. Includes taking action in your community, current information
on hot children's issues, volunteer opportunities, and more.
American Goes Back to School
(www.ed.gov/Family/agbts) Encourages parents, grandparents, community
leaders, employers, employees, religious leaders, and every caring adult
to play a more active role in improving education in their communities.
Includes Partners Activity Kit, Creating Family-Friendly Schools, events
with businesses, family and school organizations, community and cultural
organizations, satellite town meetings, and more.
Multiculturalism/Diversity Resources and Links (www.muskegon-isd.k12.mi.us/multicultural/links.htm) One of the best sites for students and educators because of the great links to other Internet sites! Check out links to Career Magazine, On-line job choices, Sports careers, FBI Academy, Food Science Careers, and much more.
Classroom Connect (www.classroom.net)
The premier website for K-12 teachers and students. Includes the best K-12
Internet sites, connections to thousands of schools on-line, materials for
educators, contact with other teachers, and products.
Peterson's Education and Career
Center (www.petersons.com) From college guides to guidance
software to the biggest WWW education resource, Peterson's has been establishing
essential information links between students and education for 30 years.
School-to-Careers
- South Western Educational Publishing (websites.swlearning.com/careerreadiness_d/highschool/)
Designed to facilitate distribution of School-to-Careers (STC) information
to educators, students, and businesses. Includes a glossary of terms, STC
catalog, curriculum guide, calendar of events, STC news, STC links, and
more.
Educator's Reference Desk
(www.eduref.org/) The people who created AskERIC announce a new service and
name to access the resources you've come to depend on for over a decade.
While the U.S. Department of Education will discontinue the AskERIC service
December 19th, you will still have access to the resources you've come to
depend upon. Through The Educator's Reference Desk
you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online
education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
Education World
(www.education-world.com) A searchable database of 50,000 education
links for teachers, parents, and students. Includes lesson plans, education
news, an educators forum, and more.
AskA+ Locator (www.madsci.org)
A database of services designed to link students, teachers, parents and
other K-12 community members with experts on the Internet.
ECENET-L
(http://ecap.crc.uiuc.edu/listserv/ecenet-l.html) ECENET-L is a discussion list
for anybody interested in early childhood education. Operated by the Early Childhood
and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative at the University of Illinois, ECENET-L is the place
where parents, teachers, representatives of professional associations and government
agencies, faculty and researchers, students and teachers, librarians, and anyone else
interested in early childhood education come together to share ideas, resources,
problems, and solutions.
MIDDLE-L
(http://ecap.crc.uiuc.edu/listserv/middle-l.html) MIDDLE-L is a discussion list for anybody
interested in middle school education. Operated by the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP)
Collaborative at the University of Illinois, MIDDLE-L is the place where parents, teachers,
representatives of professional associations and government agencies, faculty and researchers,
students and teachers, librarians, and anyone else interested in middle school education come
together to share ideas, resources, problems, and solutions.
SPECED-L This is a listserv for anyone interested in special education.
To subscribe, send a message to: listserve@uga.cc.uga.edu. Leave the subject
line blank. In the body of the message, write: subscribe SPECED-L your firstname
lastname.
TAG-L This is a listserv for anyone interested in all topics related
to gifted children. To subscribe, send a message to: listserve@listserv.NODAK.EDU.
Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the message, write: subscribe
TAG-L your firstname lastname.
Multi-Cultural Resources
Multicultural
Pavilion (curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/multicultural) Multicultural
Pavilion, strives to provide resources for educators to explore and discuss
multicultural education; to facilitate opportunities for educators to work
toward self-awareness and development; and to provide forums for educators
to interact and collaborate on multicultural education. Includes resources
for teachers, including reviews of children's music, multicultural activities,
and on-line literature archives; papers, book reviews, and published materials
submitted by educators around the world; research and inquiry including
statistical data archives, an online article archives links to online libraries,
E-journals, and research organizations; sequentially arranged activities
to heighten multicultural and diversity awareness;and a collection of online
networking strategies, web tutorials, commentaries on Multiculturalism and
the Net, and lists of online interactive forums.
Martha's Gender
Equity In Education Page (http://girltech.cs.rice.edu/Participants/mborrow/GenderEquity/gendsite.html) Provides valuable resources, including a book list pertaining to math, science, and technology education. Also includes links to lessons and other gender equity sites.
American Indian Higher Education
Consortium
(www.aihec.org/) Includes a listing of all Tribal Colleges, an overview of the Washington Office, and information on the Tribal College Journal - a publication addressing Indian reservation communities, economics, health, spirituality and more.
Index of Native American
Resources on the Internet (www.hanksville.org/NAresources)
Maintains a very large listing of links to Native American or Indigenous
resources on the Internet including culture, language, health, education,
books, jobs, activist sites, nations, and more.
Universal Black Pages (www.ubp.com)
A complete and comprehensive listing of African Diaspora related web
pages at a central site. Links to MANY different sites - event calendars,
businesses, resources, educational opportunities, schools and student organizations,
history, art, and a search mechanism.
Articles, Abstracts, & Other Resources
Excellence and Accountability in Teaching: A Guide to U.S. Department
of Education Programs and Resources. Excellent guide addressing recruitment
of talented people into teaching, setting high standards for teachers, investing
in high quality teacher preparation and career-long professional development,
and rewarding and retaining good teachers. Available from Teacher Excellence
Desk, U.S. Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
D.C. 202002-0170. Phone: 202/260-4794 or e-mail: teacher_excellence@ed.gov.
As Teachers Tell It: Implementing All Aspects of the Industry.
(A new publication sponsored by the National Center for Research in Vocational
Education). All Aspects of the Industry (AAI) is a powerful reform approach
that combines the real world richness of vocational education with the broad,
transferable skills associated with education. Includes extensive case studies
on implementing AAI from four schools. This document can be ordered through
NCRVE at (800) 637-7652 or e-mail: NCRVE-MDS@ wiu.edu.
AskERIC Question & Answer Service. Educators.....are you looking
for a shortcut to education information on the Internet? Try AskERIC, a
FREE Internet-based resource for professional educators and anyone interested
in the practice of education. AskERIC is sponsored by the Department of
Education, the National Library of Education and Syracuse University's Schools
of Information Studies and Education.
AskERIC's personalized question-answering service will respond to your
e-mail questions about the theory and practice of education. We compile
and send you citations from the ERIC database as well as electronic resources
such as World Wide Web sites and listserv discussion groups. Typical turnaround
time is two business days. E-mail your questions to us at: askeric@askeric.org
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