Websites for Teachers

Common Core Standards
Provides clear expectations for students, with information for teachers and parents on how to help them.

National Education Technology Standards
Standards for learning, teaching, and leading in the digital age that are widely recognized and adopted worldwide.

ECAP Collaborative
ECAP hosts research, technical assistance, and service projects that focus on educating and raising young children.

Education Week
Best practices, hot topics, and news in the world of education. 

Education World
Professional development tools, lesson plans, technology, and news.

Edutopia
This site provides teachers with teaching resources, blogs, publications, technology integration & development.
 
Common Sense Media
This site provides trustworthy information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume.
  
Annenberg Learner
This site provides teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum.

Read Write Think
This site provides proven instruction and Internet technology to deliver powerful online tools for teaching reading and language arts in grades K-12.

Discovery Education Teachers
This site provides free resources to teachers across grades and curriculum supported by the Discovery Channel.

 

 

ASSOCIATIONS

International Reading Association
This site promotes reading by continuously advancing the quality of literacy instruction and research worldwide. 

National Art Education Association
This site provides tools for visual arts teachers from lesson plans to professional development opportunities.

National Association for the Education of Young Children
This site provides support for early childhood programs and professionals working with young children. 

National Association of Special Education Teachers
This site provides support  to special education teachers and those preparing for the field of special education teaching.

National Council for Teachers of Mathematics
This site provides tools for mathematics teachers to ensure equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students. 
 
National Council for the Social Studies
This site provides resources for social studies teachers including lesson plans, publications, professional development, and grant opportunities.

National Education Association
This site provides teachers with information on current issues, lesson plans, and teaching resources.