What I'd like to share this week was put together
by Leslie Cohen, student intern here at the Fund.
Leslie is an undergraduate at the University of
Pennsylvania's Arts and Sciences majoring in Urban
Studies and submatriculating in the Graduate School
of Education. I asked her to start researching World
Wide Web sites that would support one of our
initiatives here at the Education Fund -- the
Carnegie Middle Years Project. (Information about
this Middle Years initiative will be on-line via the
Fund webpage within the coming month).
Leslie was looking for sites that would support
reform in middle years schools and support networking
between and within these school communities. She
found a variety of reform-oriented resources which
you will see below. Although she was looking for
middle years sites in particular, these sites could
certainly be useful for a variety of grade levels.
Thanks for putting this together Leslie!
MIDDLE SCHOOL
NETWORK
This web page is designed to serve
as a source of information and communication among
middle school reformers, administrators, teachers,
and students. Links to research organizations,
foundations, publications, and listservers provide
resources for receiving up-to-date news,
communicating with teachers and reformers, learning
about professional and curricular development
programs, as well as accessing information regarding
reforms, development models, standards, assessments,
evaluations, and grants.
MiddleWeb:
Links to news,
resources, and professional development for middle school
reform!
Highlights:
- Middle Grades
Newswatch: Recent
news stories about the middle grades, standards-based
reform, and student achievement.
- More News: Links to recent articles and news
stories about middle schools all over the US.
Issues include accountability, assessment,
achievement, stereotypes, improvement,
professional development, grants, success stories
and much more!
- Curriculum
Resources:
Resources and teaching strategies for different
subject areas including: geography, social
studies, language arts, math, and science. In
addition there are links to curriculum resources
including lesson plans and teacher interactive
chat lines.
- Assessment and
Evaluation:
Designing effective tasks, new ways of testing
and grading, accountability studies and reform
analysis and more!
- Teacher
Professional Development: Some of the issues addressed in this
site are: the significance of content knowledge,
overcoming training barriers--making progress,
components of a comprehensive staff development
plan, resources, and teacher standards.
- Principal
Professional Development: Links examining the roles of
principals in reform initiatives, creating
effective principal development plans, as well as
links containing briefs from the Center on the
Organization and Restructuring of Schools (University
of Wisconsin). Among the other sites is the diary
of a middle school principal.
- Sites of Reform: Direct links to reforming middle
schools.
- Standards-Based
Reform: Links to
articles and information related to standards-based
reforms, implementation, problems, and academic
discussion.
Middle Grades Page:
Model web-site for
middle school networking effort in Santa Clara County,
California.
- Middle School
Profiles: direct
links to middle school homepages.
- Restructuring
Qualities: a
definition of terms for teachers related to
restructuring in schools.
- Middle Grades Resources:
links to organizations and instructional and
reform information. Of interest may be links
related to the incorporation of service-learning
in middle schools as well as using the Internet.
National Middle School Association: "National Middle School
Association [is] . . . [an] umbrella organization which
provides professional opportunities, varied services, and
publications for all professional and persons interested
in the developmental and educational needs of young
adolescents."
Improving America's
Schools: A Newsletter on Issues in School Reform
The National Center for
Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST): information, networking teachers
Center for Social Organization of Schools (CSOS)
at Johns Hopkins University:
CSOS was established as an educational research and
development center. The Center maintains a staff of
"full-time sociologists, psychologists, social
psychologists,and other scientists who conduct
programmatic research to improve the education system, as
well as full-time support staff engaged in developing
curricula and providing technical assistance to help
schools use the Center's research."
The Center for Research
on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR): CRESPAR's stated mission is "to conduct
the research, development, evaluation, and dissemination
needed to transform schooling for students placed at risk
of educational failure. The work of the Center is guided
by three central themes--ensuring the success of all
students at key development points, building on students'
personal and cultural assets, and scaling up effective
programs..."
Coalition of Essential Schools: reform philosophies, publications, discussions,
and forums related.
Department of Education
Kathy Schrock's Guide
for Educators: links
to subject area resource websites, links to organization
websites, links to search engines
- Grant Sources
for Educators:
links to grant sources and funding sources for
educators.
- Teaching Tools: links to educational tools on
the Web.
- List of
Curriculum Resources Sites: includes general resources, special
needs and psychology links, as well as early
childhood links. Also includes direct links to
teacher materials, lesson plans, and classroom
support for Internet use.
- Educational
Reform, Research, Development, and Teacher
Communication:
links for designing alternative assessments and
for assessment strategy and theory, links for
teachers and counselors, educational literature
and statistics, links to educational associations
and journals, as well as listservers for teachers
(some of the direct links are sorted below).
- Listserv
for teachers:
listing of k-12 listservers and other
related listservers for teachers.
- Newsgroups
for teachers:
listing of newsgroups for teachers.
- TeacherTalk: online newsletter
targeted towards preservice, secondary
education teachers;useful for the
practicing teacher, too.
- Fun Stuff for
Teachers and Students: links for crafts, calenders,
games, tutorials, nutrition information, and
WebCards (electronic greeting cards).
- Fun Holiday
Links: from
EarthDay to Christmas, this site has links to
sites on many American holidays and the history
and traditions related to them.
- Sites for Kids: lists of kid links, sites
related to educational programming and
institutions, and software for kids.
- News Sources,
Newspapers, and Magazines: links to news sources, news papers,
and magazines which may be particularly helpful
to social studies teachers.
- Organizations:
Government: list of
links to government offices, services, and
institutions.
- History and
Social Studies Sites:
links to museums, archives, lessons, and much
more!
- Literature: contains author guides, electronic
texts and online books, network libraries,
classroom lessons, research paper topics and more!
- Math Links: online calculators, instructional
materials, questions, equations, and derivations,
software, and interactive problem-solving links.
- Science and Technology
Sites: links to
sites in the following categories: general
science, biological and animal study, earth
science, geography, and oceanography,
environmental science, physics and optics, space
and astronomy, as well as links to NASA sites.
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