Links
Teacher in a Strange Land
A blog written by Nancy Flanagan, a thoughtful and skilled teacher with a lot to say.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Perspectives
Contains in-depth discussions of a wide variety of topics from a respected organization that funds educational research.
Awesome Stories
This website presents fascinating stories broken onto chapters so readers can access just the parts that interest them. The tone of all entries is conversational and the writer offers simple analysis of issues. Reluctant readers might like this site as an alternative to texts or traditional chapter books. Introduces primary sources simply and engagingly.
ASCD
ASCD is a national educational organization with 175,000 members which publishes Educational Leadership and books about education. They offer a ‘Smart Brief’ daily email summary of happenings in research and education that you can sign up to receive at http://www.smartbrief.com/ascd/.
Teaching Tolerance
The Southern Poverty Law Center offers this website filled with lesson plans, discussion starters and access to their free, biannual magazine, Teaching Tolerance.
Fetzer Institute
The Fetzer Institute is dedicated to individual and community transformation and their site contains interviews with well-known world figures.
Rethinking Schools
Source of an online magazine and the classic Rethinking our Classrooms I & II, which are filled with lesson plans that offer experiences to lead student to new understandings.
Parker Palmer: Courage Renewal
Parker Palmer’s site invites us to avoid the inaction of either corrosive cynicism or irrelevant idealism and work at the midpoint where positive action is possible.
Teachers.net
Browse through this packed site for things that may fit your own needs.
Harry Wong’s Monthly Column
The famous Harry Wong writes a monthly column on Teachers.net, sharing ideas that help students learn.
Teacher Leaders Network
The Teacher Leaders Network is the virtual home to a number of communities united around improving student learning and advancing the teaching profession.
