Staff Development






 

General Resources

 

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
"A categorized, annotated list of over 1600 sites to help educators, teachers, and parents enhance instruction and support the curriculum"

NY State Education Department
 Includes school report cards, graduation requirements, Regents proposals, and more
 

NYSED Curriculum Publications
Publication links for Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment (CI&A)
 

CHARACTER COUNTS!
A nationwide nonprofit initiative -includes a "How To Get Started" section, a discussion forum, online resources, suggested reading, materials to order, and much more

Character Education

 

The Character Education Partnership
Resources for character education programs including free online quarterly newsletter, publications for ordering, and a database of links

  Lesson Plan Resources

Curriculum Hotspots
Links to the best education sites on the web - for all subjects

EconEdLink
Classroom-tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students

EDSITEment
Lesson plans by subject from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Educator's Reference Desk
2000+ lesson plans, 3000+ links, 200+ question archive responses across subjects and grade levels

Gateway to 21st Century Skills
Articles and information on learning sources facilitated by Web 2.0 technologies

Library of Congress
More than 10 million primary sources online

National Geographic Xpeditions
Thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures to bring the U.S. National Geography Standards to life

National Science Teachers Association
Resources for science educators

Science NetLinks
Lessons, tools, resources, and benchmarks for K-12 science educators

Webquest.org
Search for webquests on the web

Video/Multimedia

TeacherTube
Education videos

Annenberg Media Learning
Covers a wide variety of subjects and grade levels

NOVA
Watch videos online in a variety of subjects

Open Video Project
Thousands of short videos for classroom use