New Staff recommended sites
• Graphic Organizers: Links to great sites for a huge variety of graphic organizers!

• edHelper: Resources by subject area, activities, themed units, classroom helpers, and lots more. (This is a paid subscription site, check with S. Giunta for GIS subscription).

• Reading A to Z: Downloadable materials to teach guided reading, phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency and comprehension: books, lesson plans, worksheets, and flashcards. (This is a paid subscription site, check with S. Giunta for GIS subscription).

• Teachers First: Lessons, web resources for K-12 teachers: Classroom, Professional, and Site Resources arranged by subject area and grade level.
Content matrix by grade level: http://teachersfirst.com/matrix.htm 

• State Standards.com: Lesson plans and resources linked to state standards. Click on state and get links.

• Home2School: Pages and links for parents.

• The Learning Page: Site for teachers for lesson plans and unit studies by topic and curriculum area.

• ABC Teach: For teachers of young children. Includes reading charts, printable research cards, graphic organizers, etc.

• AccelerateU: Full range of on-line courses relative to NY State Standards; K-12 instructional support site; student tutorials; resource sharing; etc.

• ActDen: Software tutorials for teachers and students: FrontPage 2000, Office 2000, Internet Explorer, PowerPoint.

• Apple Learning Interchange (ALI): Lesson plans, online projects, and resources.

• Buddy Place: Teacher links for educational database; lesson plans; integrating Language Arts; Author Sites; integrating Math; and integrating history.

• Can Teach: Elementary resources by subject area.

• Center for Advancement of Learning - Learning Strategies Database: Extensive site on reading comprehension, including failures to comprehend, and many strategies to address problems and insure better and consistent comprehension.

• Classroom Strategies to Engender Student Questioning: "Toolbox" of strategies aids teachers in increasing lesson understanding, with a specific eye to a problem-solving approach. Guidelines to improve creative learning in their own classrooms.

• Copernicus: Educational Gateway: Educators, students and parents...resources.

• Cooperative Learning: Structures and techniques to employ cooperative learning.

• Copyright Central: What is a copyright? What is public domain? Answers to these questions and more.

• Core of Knowledge: Lesson plans by grade level: Preschool-8th and special topics.

• Discovery School: Lesson plans library by grade level or subject area.

• Easy Test Maker: Free online test generator: multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank; matching, short answer, or true and false.

• EduPlace: Resources for elementary teachers, students and parents. By Subject area or use searchable database.

• Elementary Lesson Plan Ideas: Books to use for character traits. List of books to read to your class, with accompanying activities, which teach character traits such as caring, responsibility, compassion, respect, self-control, etc.

• Encourage the Young Reader: Activities to encourage young readers to further develop their reading skills.

• FunBrain: Games and quizzes on a variety of topics. Section for kids, parents, and teachers.

• Global School House: Lots of collaborative learning projects: online expeditions, field trips; etc.

• Internet4Classrooms: Helping teachers make effective use of the Internet: on-line practice modules for software, Links for teachers, sites to use in the classroom daily, etc.

• Landmark for Schools: Links to teaching and learning resources on the net and collaborative online projects.

• Library of Congress: Primary Sources: Lots of links to find primary source documents

• Library of Congress: American Memory: Collection finder by subject heading for place or time.

• National Geographic Education Guide: Search for online adventures; maps and geography; lesson plans; history activities, etc. 

• Northwest Regional Education Library: Traits of Writing: From the 6+1 Traits of Writing site, prompts to help your students identify various types of writing, and find something specific to discuss.

• Online Learning: Online course training for teachers in technology education.

• Quickies on What Works in Teaching: Practical suggestions for teaching practices.

• Pathways to School Improvement: Comprehensive resource for educators engaged in school improvement.

• Previous Tips for Teachers - Reading Skills: List of tips for reading skills: increasing comprehension, promoting fluency, increasing motivation, etc.

• Reading Comprehension Worksheets and Organizers: Many resources for aiding reading comprehension: focus sheets, graphic organizers, domes, sequencing, semantic mapping, and more.

• Rubrics: Rubrics developed for cooperative learning, reports, oral presentations, project/multimedia/web pages, how to create a rubric, and readings abut rubrics.

• School Express: More than 8,000 free worksheets; thematic units; worksheet generators; on-line activities; etc.

• Schoolwide and Classroom Discipline: Step-by-step, concrete instructions to help you achieve effective group control in your classroom. Also check the useful Techniques That Backfire, at the bottom of the site page.

• Southwest Educational Development Laboratory: Working to improve student learning. Searchable resource links.

• Survival Kits: Guide for grading; a survival kit; welcome bags; supply lists; classroom management; classrooms set-up tips; parent involvement discussion; ideas for new teachers; center set-ups; a before-it-starts list; meeting the parents advice; the first five minutes; and much more.

• Teachers First: Teacher resources by subject or grade level

• Teachers.net: Lesson plans by subject and level.

• Teacher Resource Center...Scholastic: Articles with strategies for spelling.

• Teacher Tools: Good site for lesson plans, curriculum sites, games and puzzles, freebies, software, etc.

• Teacher Tools - Forms and Letters: Download forms and letters for discipline, academics, communication, etc.

• Teaching Research: Teaching research, program development, resources for teachers.

• TeachNet: Lesson plans, tools, sharing and help for teachers
 
• Teach Net - Behavior and Discipline: List of timely tips on all sorts of classroom needs. Links to other management sites at the top of their page.

• Teacher Education Institute: Earn graduate level credits or take professional development courses.

• The New Curriculum: Helping teachers integrate new technologies into their teaching:

• The Playground Pass System: System developed for recess monitoring, and particularly aggressive students. Clear steps for students to recognize own accountability, and to start managing his/her behavior.

• Tips and Strategies From First Year Teachers: Article with tips from beginning teachers who have been there.

• Tips for Teaching Mathematics: Strategies from other teachers for warming up students, making thought processes clear, and offering accessible and lucid presentations.

• Writing Lessons - Grades K-12: A wealth of writings lesson ideas for all grade levels. Also included are lessons for reading comprehension, spelling, a school media center,
and more.