Teacher Sites

	TampaREADS Contains many types of reading-related worksheets
	Colorin Colorado Offers excellent resources for teachers of students for whom English is their second language.
	Reading A-Z - Provides teachers with downloadable, leveled books.
	ReadWriteThink - Provides educators and students access to the highest quality lessons and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
	Dositey - Has good resources for Language Arts in grades K-8
	Sites for Teachers
	Teacher Information Network
	Children's Literacy Initiative
	Using Poetry to Teach Reading

	Read Across America - Events and information concerning the National Education Associations Read Across America project.
	Web English Teacher - Collection of English-related resources.
	Summer Reading Lists - A site of links to summer reading lists.
	The Reading Genie - Lessons, research, resources, and materials that can help you teach reading.
	Story Arts Online - How to incorporate the power of storytelling into the classroom.
	ABCTeach - a site with free printable activity sheets, templates for graphic organizers, and many more ideas for their use in the classroom
	The Solution Site - K-12 lesson plans that focus on problem solving, exploring alternative, student collaboration, and the revision of the thinking process.
	Education Index - A guide to quality education-related sites.
	Book Adventure - A reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create book lists, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.
	EdHelper - A site that has a wide selection of worksheets, teacher's lesson plans, WebQuests, and primary teacher resources
	Nickelodeon for Teachers - Information on interesting programming, related lesson plans, and feature articles for teachers.

	We Read -a web site dedicated to making reading and writing fun and entertaining for children! The site has many fun and exciting activities like E-Stories, E-Coloring, E-Poems, and E-Safe-Surfing! Even parents can enjoy the Modern Parent section of the site.
	EduFly - A teacher resource hub easily accessible by grade level, topic, or keyword and added to by teachers.
	Read In Day 2000 - K-12 students have a chance to interact with authors and illustrators of children's books.
	Score Language Arts Page - Language arts resources based on California content standards.
	The Lexile Framework - A unique reading comprehension evaluation tool.
	Reading Room - Games, activities, and school textbooks by Houghton Mifflin.
	InfoMine - A collection of academically valuable resources for all ages.
	Disney Learning Partnership - Initiative designed to foster creative, innovative teaching strategies and practices.
	EduHound - A pre-screened database directory of more than 30,000 K-12 educational links.
	Traits of an Effective Reader - The article offers an overview of the reading traits in the 6 Trait Reading instruction and assessment program.
	Educational Paperback Association - An association of publishers and distributors who supply paperback books, prebound books and other materials to schools and libraries.
	MarcoPolo - Free lesson plans, classroom activities, powerful search engines and other online standards based resources.

	Learning Technology Resources - Teacher Angel gives you clip art, lesson plans, WebQuests, safe search engines, and more.
	Copernicus Education Gateway - Online resources and feature articles for teachers, kids, and parents.
	The National Foundation for the Improvement of Education - The National Foundation for the Improvement of Education offers suggestions on how teachers can improve student achievement as well as create a mentoring program.

WiredKids - Follow the links to Assessment, Rubrics, Professional Development, Student-Centered Curriculum, and using the Web in the Classroom.

	A Planning Guide for Staff Development This site provides extensive information about how schools can implement professional development. Explore the benefits of having existing staff become technology experts.
	Ednow - A web page covering a broad number of topics for teachers, librarians, and school administrators.
	Gateway to Educational Materials - K-12 lesson plans, curriculum units, and other educational resource search engine.
	Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Educational resource with a broad range of subjects that include; arts, educational technology, foreign language, health and safety, language arts, math, science, social studies, physical, and vocational education.

	Online Autumn - online games, printable materials, student writing, and autumn links
	Reading Rainbow - Activities, resources, and information about the award-winning television series Reading Rainbow.
	Teaching is a Work of Heart - Teaching ideas, inspiration, links, lessons, units, activity sheets, virtual sites, and some humor designed for teachers.
	National Women's History Project - Features on women leaders of today and the past.
	Literacy Portfolios - A site intended for professors and students of reading and language arts education and children's literature.

	ProTeacher - A site with lesson plans, materials, education news, and a reference desk.
	Gander Academy's Language Arts Page - Information on readers theater, myths and legends, award winning children's books, children's authors and illustrators, and children's novels lesson plans.
	Subject Curriculum Guide - Curriculum, and professional and personal growth information.
	ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading - Educational materials, services, and coursework.
	Phonics Link - A place to build background knowledge about phoneme awareness and phonics as well as discuss professional books with other teachers and to find practical classroom lessons.
	Weekly Reader - Order Weekly Reader magazines PreK-12. Links for parents and teachers as well.
	Word Wizard - Everything for those who love the English language.
	Kid Reach - Teaching and learning aids that include lesson plans, interactive internet activities, and electronic tutoring.
	Awesome Library - A great way to find educational web resources. 18,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
	Pathfinder Schoolhouse - Assessment, immersive and integrated curriculum, library, special needs, school reform, and more.
	The Lesson Plans Page - Over 1500 lesson plans for PreK-12. Math, science, language arts, social studies, music, art, physical education, and computers/internet.

	Marc Sheehan's Lesson Plan Page - A page of lesson plans, lesson plan links and subject resources.
	Learning Disabilities Online - Read the newsletter, ask questions, learn new techniques, and read current articles.
	Web Sites & Resources for Teacher - List of sites, organized in nine categories, include lesson plans, instructional materials, online activities and projects, and virtual trips to museums and countries around the world.
	Busy Teacher's Site - A K-12 teacher web site resource page with some interesting categories beyond the norm. Subjects include Archaeology. Geology, Paleontology, and Astronomy.

	National Center for Education Statistics - The Federal entity that is responsible for collecting and analyzing education related data about the United States and other countries.
	Yahoo! Lesson Plans - Yahoo provides K-12 lesson plans on all the typical subjects but also includes news and current events, television, theater, and web quests.
	Education Central - A site that allows educators to exchange views and experience, questions and answers, broaden their collegial associations, discuss educational issues and policy, and easily find resources related to professional education.
	Education.com- Homework help, educational activities for families and children, and tools, tips, and resources for teachers.
	Columbia Education Center's Mini-Lessons - K-12 lesson plans developed by a consortium of teachers from 14 states to focus on math and science skills.
	Scholastic - K-8 lesson plans, professional resources, authors, books, online activities, tips, and news.
	Education Week - Daily news, special reports, hot topics and individual state information in an online newspaper.
	Ask ERIC - Submit a question about the field of education and receive a personal e-mail response from a network information specialist within two business days. They will send you a list of ERIC database citations that deal with your topic and will also refer you to other Internet resources for additional information.
	Classroom Connect - Learning resources for K-12 educators and students.
	Web 66 - This is a program designed to facilitate the introduction of this technology into K12 schools by teaching educators how to create their own servers, connect those servers, and use appropriate web resources.
	Pizzaz! Ideas for Teachers - A site that provides simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with handouts for use with students of all ages.

	Instructor Magazine - Teaching tips, education news, lesson plans, and activities.
	Teacher Magazine - Current events in education, hot topics, feature articles, books, special events, and state information.
	The Education Center - Educational magazines and books.
	Language Arts in the Sky Language Arts Lesson Plans - PreK-12 language arts lesson plans.
	Teach Net: Language Arts Projects for Kindergarten Children - A nationwide, non-profit education organization that identifies and connects innovative and creative teachers through grants and fellowships in the areas of curriculum, leadership, policy, and new media.
	Collaborative Lesson Archive - A web resource intended to be a forum for the creation, distribution, and archival of education curricula for all grade levels and subject areas.
	Learning with Mysteries - Use the engaging and entertaining power of mysteries to teach critical thinking, reading, and writing skills, and utilize a higher order level of learning.

	Epals - Student-safe, e-mail based, international online learning community.
	Eduzone - Varied information on colleges
	Teachers First - A quick way to find lesson plans, activities, and associated resources.
	Lightspan Partnership - A compilation of educational resources that tap into every child's intrinsic desire to know more.
	Microsoft Lesson Connection - Internet search engine for ready-to-use lessons that match your school's learning objectives using the Lesson Connection Search
	Education World - 500,000 web resources and lesson plans.
	Education Resources - All of they normal subjects plus behavioral/social sciences and economics.
	Discovery Channel - Hundreds of interesting and original lesson plans written for teachers by teachers.
	Concept to Classroom Workshops - This site has many articles and workshops on interesting subjects such as multiple intelligences, cooperative and collaborative learning, inquiry based learning, web quests, and more.

	State Standards
	Achieve Standards Database
	Indiana Professional Standards Board
	Indiana Department of Education
	National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
	Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium
	National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
	American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
	Advice for the New Teacher - A compilation of sites that focus on helping the new teacher get settled in their environment.
	Recruiting New Teachers - This non-profit organization was created to raise esteem for teaching, expand the pool of prospective teachers, and improve the nation's teacher recruitment and development policies and practices.
	Education Jobs Page - A national educational jobs search engine and employer job posting site.
	K-12 Jobs for Teachers - A national educational jobs search engine and employer job posting site.
	Teach for America- A web site about the national corps of outstanding and diverse recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools.
	Teacher as Researcher Site- An interesting new role that can increase teachers understanding of the learning process.

	Learning Page- Hundreds of free worksheets and fun pages
	Motivating Quotes

Motivating Moments - Inspirational Quotes for Teachers
http://www.motivateus.com/teachers.htm

Motivational Quotes Archive
http://www.sperience.com/motivation/resources/

Josh Hind's Motivational Quote Searchable Database
http://joshhinds.com/searchquote3.html

Quotes for Teachers - compiled by Richard D. Zakia
http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-quotations.html

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Teacher Sites

TampaREADS Contains many types of reading-related worksheets

Read Across America - Events and information concerning the National Education Associations Read Across America project.

Summer Reading Lists - A site of links to summer reading lists.

The Reading Genie - Lessons, research, resources, and materials that can help you teach reading.

The Solution Site - K-12 lesson plans that focus on problem solving, exploring alternative, student collaboration, and the revision of the thinking process.

Book Adventure - A reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create book lists, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.

Reading Rainbow - Activities, resources, and information about the award-winning television series Reading Rainbow.

National Women's History Project - Features on women leaders of today and the past.

Literacy Portfolios - A site intended for professors and students of reading and language arts education and children's literature.

Gander Academy's Language Arts Page - Information on readers theater, myths and legends, award winning children's books, children's authors and illustrators, and children's novels lesson plans.

Subject Curriculum Guide - Curriculum, and professional and personal growth information.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading - Educational materials, services, and coursework.

Phonics Link - A place to build background knowledge about phoneme awareness and phonics as well as discuss professional books with other teachers and to find practical classroom lessons.

Weekly Reader - Order Weekly Reader magazines PreK-12. Links for parents and teachers as well.

Word Wizard - Everything for those who love the English language.

Kid Reach - Teaching and learning aids that include lesson plans, interactive internet activities, and electronic tutoring.

Awesome Library - A great way to find educational web resources. 18,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.

Pathfinder Schoolhouse - Assessment, immersive and integrated curriculum, library, special needs, school reform, and more.

Marc Sheehan's Lesson Plan Page - A page of lesson plans, lesson plan links and subject resources.

Learning Disabilities Online - Read the newsletter, ask questions, learn new techniques, and read current articles.

Web Sites & Resources for Teacher - List of sites, organized in nine categories, include lesson plans, instructional materials, online activities and projects, and virtual trips to museums and countries around the world.

Busy Teacher's Site - A K-12 teacher web site resource page with some interesting categories beyond the norm. Subjects include Archaeology. Geology, Paleontology, and Astronomy.

National Center for Education Statistics - The Federal entity that is responsible for collecting and analyzing education related data about the United States and other countries.

Yahoo! Lesson Plans - Yahoo provides K-12 lesson plans on all the typical subjects but also includes news and current events, television, theater, and web quests.

Education Central - A site that allows educators to exchange views and experience, questions and answers, broaden their collegial associations, discuss educational issues and policy, and easily find resources related to professional education.

Education.com- Homework help, educational activities for families and children, and tools, tips, and resources for teachers.

Columbia Education Center's Mini-Lessons - K-12 lesson plans developed by a consortium of teachers from 14 states to focus on math and science skills.

Scholastic - K-8 lesson plans, professional resources, authors, books, online activities, tips, and news.

Education Week - Daily news, special reports, hot topics and individual state information in an online newspaper.

Classroom Connect - Learning resources for K-12 educators and students.

Web 66 - This is a program designed to facilitate the introduction of this technology into K12 schools by teaching educators how to create their own servers, connect those servers, and use appropriate web resources.

Pizzaz! Ideas for Teachers - A site that provides simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with handouts for use with students of all ages.

Instructor Magazine - Teaching tips, education news, lesson plans, and activities.

Teacher Magazine - Current events in education, hot topics, feature articles, books, special events, and state information.

The Education Center - Educational magazines and books.

Language Arts in the Sky Language Arts Lesson Plans - PreK-12 language arts lesson plans.

Teach Net: Language Arts Projects for Kindergarten Children - A nationwide, non-profit education organization that identifies and connects innovative and creative teachers through grants and fellowships in the areas of curriculum, leadership, policy, and new media.

Collaborative Lesson Archive - A web resource intended to be a forum for the creation, distribution, and archival of education curricula for all grade levels and subject areas.

Learning with Mysteries - Use the engaging and entertaining power of mysteries to teach critical thinking, reading, and writing skills, and utilize a higher order level of learning.

Epals - Student-safe, e-mail based, international online learning community.

Eduzone - Varied information on colleges