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| Nature of Schools as Workplaces | ||
| About Teaching and the First Year | ||
| U.S Department of Education Website. Many useful tips, guidelines, links, lesson plans, discussion opportunities, etc. for new teachers to utilize and make their first year of teaching as stress free as possible. ( http://www.ed.gov/teachers/become/about/edpicks.jhtml?src=ln ) | ||
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| Build a School Culture That Nurtures Staff Collaboration and Participation in Decision Ma... | ||
| U.S. Department of Education Website. This paper discusses strategies to go about building school culture and nurturing collaboration and shared decision-making. ( http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Reform/pt2d.html ) | ||
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| Allexperts Teaching Q&A | ||
| Volunteer experts tell you what it's really like to be a teacher, and provide career-advancement tips. You may e-mail your questions or concerns and a professional teacher will respond. ( http://www.allexperts.com/getExpert.asp?Category=1493 ) | ||
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| SchoolNotes.Com | ||
| School Notes links educators to the community, by offering a free service that allows teachers to post weekly study topics, homework assignments, event schedules and other school-related information to the web. This site includes resources for parents, teachers, and students alike. ( http://www.schoolnotes.com/ ) | ||
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| Schools as Workplaces | ||
| A bank of useful links! ( http://www.school-works.org/reference7.asp ) | ||
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| School Culture and Climate | ||
| School culture and climate refers to the sum of the values, cultures, safety practices, and organizational structures within a school. ( http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.255a4a2dd64a76fddeb3ffdb62108a0c/ ) | ||
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| School Effectiveness and School Reform | ||
| Build a School Culture That Nurtures Staff Collaboration and Participation in Decision Ma... | ||
| U.S. Department of Education Website. This paper discusses strategies to go about building school culture and nurturing collaboration and shared decision-making. ( http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Reform/pt2d.html ) | ||
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| National Institute for Urban School Improvement | ||
| The National Institute for Urban School Improvement facilitates the unification of current general and special education reform efforts. ( http://www.inclusiveschools.org/ ) | ||
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| Data-Driven High School Reform | ||
| A discussion of the Breaking-Ranks Model. ( http://www.alliance.brown.edu/pubs/hischlrfm/datdrv_hsrfm.pdf ) | ||
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| The Annenberg Institute for School Reform | ||
| The Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University promotes and advocates the serious redesign of American schooling. ( http://www.annenberginstitute.org/ ) | ||
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| The Catalog of School Reform Models | ||
| The Catalog of School Reform Models provides descriptions of whole-school models plus additional entries on reading/language arts models. ( http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/catalog/index.shtml ) | ||
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| The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement | ||
| A website created to improve the national dissemination of information on comprehensive school reform. ( http://www.csrclearinghouse.org/ ) | ||
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| The Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform | ||
| The Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform is an organization that provides high-quality and responsive support to those who are leading school reform efforts across the nation. ( http://www.schlechtycenter.org/index.asp ) | ||
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| School Improvement and Parent Involvement | ||
| What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching | ||
| U.S. Department of Education Website. Tips, resources and guidance for beginning teachers or those thinking of entering the profession. ( http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FirstYear/ ) | ||
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| Writing HTML: A Tutorial for Creating WorldWide Web Pages | ||
| This web site was created to help teachers develop learning resources that access information on the Internet. You may use this site to practice and learn to create your own web site (a volcano lesson plan), but the site stresses that the tutorial may be used by anyone who wants to create web pages. Upon completion of the tutorial, you will be able to construct a series of linked web pages for any subject that includes formatted text, pictures, and hypertext links to other web pages. ( http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/ ) | ||
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| Teacher-Parent Partnerships | ||
| A site that reiterates the need for parents and teachers to act as partners to create optimum learning environments for their students. ( http://npin.org/library/pre1998/n00381/n00381.html ) | ||
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| Preventing and Resolving Parent-Teacher Differences | ||
| This site stresses the importance of parent-teacher relationships. ( http://npin.org/library/1998/n00044/n00044.html ) | ||
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| SchoolNotes.Com | ||
| School Notes links educators to the community, by offering a free service that allows teachers to post weekly study topics, homework assignments, event schedules and other school-related information to the web. This site includes resources for parents, teachers, and students alike. ( http://www.schoolnotes.com/ ) | ||
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| About Teaching and the First Year | ||
| U.S Department of Education Website. Many useful tips, guidelines, links, lesson plans, discussion opportunities, etc. for new teachers to utilize and make their first year of teaching as stress free as possible. ( http://www.ed.gov/teachers/become/about/edpicks.jhtml?src=ln ) | ||
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| National Education Association | ||
| Issues, online discussion, and union news for the largest teachers union in the United States. ( http://www.nea.org/index.html ) | ||
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| American Federation of Teachers | ||
| Issues, online discussion, union news for this important organization. ( http://www.aft.org/ ) | ||
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| National Institute for Urban School Improvement | ||
| The National Institute for Urban School Improvement facilitates the unification of current general and special education reform efforts. ( http://www.inclusiveschools.org/ ) | ||
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| Parent Involvement in the Educational Process, ERIC Digest | ||
| This site explores the fact that children whose parents are involved in their formal education, among other things, have better grades and test scores. ( http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9213/parent.htm ) | ||
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| Involving Parents in the Education of Their Children, ERIC Digest | ||
| The involvement of parents in the education of their children is discussed briefly in this digest. ( http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9212/parents.htm ) | ||
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| Links for the Resource Handbook | ||
| Centers and Regional Laboratories | ||
| This site provides a complete list of centers and regional educational laboratories ( http://www.relnetwork.org/ ) | ||
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| The ERIC Clearinghouse | ||
| The ERIC Clearinghouse is an online database of education articles. ( http://www.eric.ed.gov/ ) | ||
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