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Links to K-12 Resources
This link will take you to the K-12 Outreach Data Services website which contains a comprehensive set of links to many useful data sources, including grade level content expectations, MEAP data, Census of Population, the Education Policy Center at MSU, and much more. These data resources are critical for determining indicators that are useful to parents, educators, community members, for school and district improvement planning, planning for individual students, classes and programs.
Annenberg: The Learning Classroom: Theory into Practice (awesome and free)
Thirteen half-hour programs featuring leading education researchers illustrate a variety of learning theories with applications to classroom practice. Videos of teachers demonstrating practices that apply the theories are provided. It is FREE! You must have Windows Media Player (latest version) which can be downloaded for free. Register for free, and you have access to Video on Demand
This comprehensive website contains over 1000 research based, practical, downloadable tools and resources organized around comprehensive teacher induction and critical areas of teaching. The tools and resources are intended for direct use in classrooms, with school based professional learning communities, in mentoring relationships and for organizing comprehensive induction. The tools are about fostering good teaching practice, and all educators will find them useful.
Research for Better Teaching announces the launch of its new and improved website! Explore resources on the Pyramid of Professional Knowledge. View videos from the RBT DVD Training Series. Access many free resources and downloads on Skillful Teaching and Leadership.
Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning
CASEL is a collaborative that works to advance the science and evidence-based practice of social and emotional learning (SEL). They write books, articles, and briefs that synthesize scientific advances in SEL and explain their implications for practice. This site provides a wealth of resources that address social and emotional learning.
The George Lucas Education Foundation
http://www.edutopia.org/aboutus
Project learning, student teams working cooperatively, children connecting with passionate experts, and broader forms of assessment can dramatically improve student learning. This site makes available at no cost an archive of best practices from classroom tips and tools to recommendations for districtwide change. It provides downloadable media programs by leading educational experts and instructional modules that are centered around the George Lucas Foundation's Core Concepts: Integrated Studies, Project Learning, Technology Integration, Teacher Development, Social and Emotional Learning and Assessment.
This site, sponsored by the National Board for professional Teaching Standards, provides exhibits of teaching practice in video and text by National Board certified teachers. You may have access to these classroom teaching videos and accompanying explanatory text at no cost. These exhibits cover various subjects, levels and exemplary pedagogical practices.
Aha! Process Incorporated Free downloads available (link) http://www.ahaprocess.com/Downloads.htm
For more than a decade aha! Process has been committed to improving the educational and occupational lives of people in poverty with eye-opening learning opportunities—both for the poor and for those who work with them. Beginning with an emphasis on education and the difficulties children from poverty experience in most schools, the company has worked extensively with educators and other professionals to understand how the hidden rules of class operate—and to help raise the achievement levels of individuals from poverty.
Education Organizations
American Association of School Administrators Online
American Education Research Association
American Federation of Teachers
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Center for Occupational Research and Development
Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Coalition of Essential Schools
Council of Chief State School Officers
Council of the Great City Schools Online
Education Commission of the States
International Technology Education Association
Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children
Michigan Education Association
http://www.charterschools.org/pages/index.cfm
Michigan Association of School Administrators
Michigan Association of School Boards
Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals
Michigan School Business Officials
National Association of Elementary School Principals
National Association for the Education of Young Children
National Association of School Psychologists
National Association of Secondary Principals
National Association of State Boards of Education
National Education Association
National Middle School Association
National School Boards Association
National Science Teachers Association
North Central Association of Michigan
Institute for Urban and Minority Education Columbia University Teachers College
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