Selected Web Resources
for Teachers
Thornton teachers and others:
This page has links to a variety of resources for educators. The list below of eight general catgories will guide you to specific sites within those categories. Please let me know of other websites you have found useful so that I may include them here. Let me know of other catgories you'd like to see included, even if you don't have specific websites in mind. Click my name below to send me an email. Thanks to Sean Compagnucci, our Silver Spring Upper School dean of students, for being inspired to set up the original page.
Michael DeHart
General
Information
The
Klingenstein Center
Friends
Council on Education
David
Mallery, Ed Consultant
Teachers.Net
Teacher Focus
(Be patient.This site takes a while to open.)
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New York Times Learning Network
Note: Klingenstein
is affiliated with Columbia University and is a wealth of information.
Friends Council provides general information about Quaker schools and
education. David Mallery has worked with Thornton in the past and has some good resources
as well. The
other sites have interesting potential as they seek to address all kinds of needs:
community building through chat rooms, listservs and bulletin boards, job
searches, lesson plans, libraries of useful teaching documents, calendars of
events, links, etc.
Local
Resources
National
Geographic
The
National Geographic website has materials for teachers, including grant
opportunities.
Smithsonian Institution
The
Smithsonian Institution website includes links to the educational departments of
every museum in the institution and a searchable database of educational
resources.
Washington Post
The
Washington Post online education pages, which include articles of relevance to
teachers as well as some useful links.
PBS
A
searchable database of PBS materials for use in education.
Learning Styles and Differences
LD
OnLine
Definitely
the best site on the web for all kinds of information about learning
disabilities and for ideas about teaching students who have them.
All
Kinds of Minds
This site focuses on
differences in learning styles and represents the organization behind the recent
video "Developing Minds" as well as "Schools Attuned," a
well-regarded summer training program for teachers.
Wrightslaw
This
is a great site for information about the law as it concerns education for the
learning disabled.
Research/Professional
Organizations
Association
of Independent Maryland Schools (AIMS)
Association
of Independent Schools of Greater Washington (AISGW)
National
Education Association (NEA)
American
Federation of Teachers (AFT)
Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE)
AIMS and AISGW are the two
major regional associations of independent schools. NEA and AFT are the
two major teachers' unions. ERIC
is divided up into clearinghouses on different topics and contains over 1
million articles about education, some can be read full-text, others must be
ordered. ASCD has more about
conferences, professional development, etc. SCORE is a research resource for teachers of history and social studies which organizes and rates web links on hundreds of topics in Social Studies.
Local
Public School Districts
Maryland
State Department of Education
Virginia State
Department of Education
Montgomery
County Public Schools
Prince
George's County Public Schools
Arlington County Public Schools
Alexandria City Public Schools
District of Columbia Public Schools
Useful
information about local issues and resources, curriculum, calendars of events,
etc.
Fellowships/Grants
The
Fulbright Program
There
are several excellent fellowships available for international study, travel
and
professional development through the Fulbright program.
National
Endowment for the Humanities
Each year
the NEH offers teachers paid opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of
Summer Seminars and Institutes around the country (and a couple
abroad).
Klingenstein Summer Institute
This is a two-week, summer
fellowship program targeting beginning teachers (2-5 years) for seminars in
educational practice and philosophy.
NEA
Foundation
The
NEA Foundation explicitly states that it supports public school teachers, but it
may be worth exploring.
Information About
Quakerism
The
Religious Society of Friends
A website of links to all
things Quaker. You can find publications, history, historical writings, Quaker
organizations, Quaker-run businesses, you name it.
Quaker
Information Center
Similar to the website
above but more limited in scope, includes some great service opportunities.
Baltimore
Yearly Meeting
The organizing body for
Friends Meetings in the area, includes information about programs and meetings.
Critical Friends Group (CFG) and Related
Coalition
of Essential Schools (CES)
The reform effort that is closely allied with CFG's, the
CES resource page has a number of excellent articles and ideas about
student-centered teaching and school reform.
National
School Reform Faculty
This is the group that was born with the beginning of the
critical friends group idea in 1995. This site includes information about
training and other resources as well as national events.
Relearning
by Design
Formerly CLASS, this organization founded by Grant Wiggins
focuses on the assessment end of school reform and provides training, resources,
consulting, etc.
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