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Writings in prose or verse.

• Critical Issue: Establishing Collaboratives and Partnerships
  Overview of collaboration with external partners Provides links to model program and other resource. Audiotape available from experts in the field.
• Publications
  Publications available online for urban school systems. Written in English and Spanish, the publications address issues of equity.
• What is collaborative planning?
  Overview of the concept of collaboration, how to get started and links to other resources.
• Action Research
  Overview of the concept of action research, how to get started and links to other resources, such as a chapter from an ASCD book on action research.
• Action Research Resources
  Action Research International Journal provides resources, links, and articles on action research.
• Action Research/Teacher as Researcher
  Resource links to articles on action research.
• Administrative Support
  Provides articles with discussion/reflection tools. Focuses on the principal's responsibility for teacher learning.
• American Association of School Administrators
  Professional organization that provides an online journal, links to other resources, and up-to-date information for school leaders.
• Analyze student data
  Provides articles with discussion/reflection tools. Good for use with study groups.
• Association for Training and Development
  Professional organization for trainers in the private sector. Most resources require membership, but there are online articles.
• Building a Committed Team
  Describes the value of teams, highlight experts in this area, and links to resources for building teams.
• Building a Learning Community
  Provides articles with discussion/reflection tools. Good for use with study groups.
• Building Leadership Capacity
  Provides articles with discussion/reflection tools. Good for use with study groups.
• Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy
  Offers leaders publications and other forms of information to identify ways that leaders, policymakers, teacher developers, and the reform community can support teachers' work and careers.
• Clearinghouse on Educational Management
  Resource for administrators to get information on relevant and hot topics.
• Conduct Evaluation
  Provides articles with discussion/reflection tools. Good for use with study groups.
• Connect teacher and student learning
  Provides articles with discussion/reflection tools. Good for use with study groups.
• Critical Friends Groups
  Critical Friends Groups bring teachers together over at least 2 years to help each other look seriously at their classroom practice in order to improve it.
• Critical Issue: Creating High-Achieving Learning Environments
  Series of websites on identified critical issues. Another topic is .
• Critical Issue: Realizing New Learning for All Students Through Professional Development
  Overview of designing professional development for teachers to teach all students. Provides links to model program and other resource.
• Critical Issue: Educating Teachers for Diversity
  Overview of professional development for teachers in the area of diversity. Provides links to model program and other resource.
• Critical Issue: Evaluating Professional Growth and Development
  Overview of evaluation of professional development. Provides links to model program and other resource.
• Critical Issue: Finding Time for Professional Development
  Overview of time for professional development. Provides links to model program and other resource.
• Critical Issue: Leading and Managing Change and Improvement
  Overview of change process. Provides links to model program and other resource.
• Cycle of Inquiry
  Coalition of Essential Schools' model to analyze the design of school structures and practices.
• Designing Effective Professional DevelopmentA Conceptual Framework
  Conceptual framework for professional development in science and mathematics.
• Digital Divide
  PBS website on the inequities caused by lack of access to technology.
• EdLinks: Teacher Training & PD
  Selected collection of education-related web sites. Briefly describe each site to help find the information needed.
• Educational Research
  Resources for teachers involved in action research. Provides information for math and science education.
• Educational Research Network
  Ed Links component searches other resources based on keyword.
• Edutopia: Ongoing Professional Development
  Through a combination of articles, video clips and links to other resources, this site offers an overview of ongoing professional development. Lucas Foundation Site.
• Enlist Colleagues in Reflection and Planning
  Newsletter (Summer 2000) describing the value of collaboration and links to examples.
• Funding issues
  Provides articles with discussion/reflection tools. Good for use with study groups.
• Ideas that Work
  Professional development strategies for teachers of math and science.
• Leadership & Teams
  Toolkit developed by the National School Boards Association. Topics include:Leadership Qualities Leadership Self-Assessment Leadership Teams Team Climate Survey Dealing with Conflict Communication Styles Behavioral Styles Leadership Anecdotes .
• League of Professional Schools
  Provides an overview of the League of Professional Schools. Action research is a primary component of this school reform model.
• Looking Collaboratively at Student Work: An Essential Toolkit
  Article (1996) on activities related to looking at student work.
• Mathematics Professional Development
  Professional development strategies for math education. Model programs are highlighted as are several technical assistance providers around the country.
• Measure Results
  Provides articles with discussion/reflection tools. Good for use with study groups.
• Mentoring at a Glance
  Through a combination of articles, video clips and links to other resources, this site offers an overview of the mentoring process.
• Mentoring Leadership and Resource Network
  Network of educators within a professional organization who are interested in learning more about mentoring.
• National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science
  Provides resources and links for teachers of mathematics and science.
• National Council for Social Studies
  Professional organization that provides workshops and links to other resources.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  Professional organization provides resources and links to additional resources.
• National Council of Teachers of English
  Professional organization that links to resources.
• National Network of Partnership Schools: Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships
  Purpose of the Center is to conduct and disseminate research, development, and policy analyses that produce new and useful knowledge and practices that help families, educators, and members of communities work together to improve schools, strengthen families, and enhance student learning and development.
• National Writing Project
  Official site for the National Writing Project. Provides links to resources.
• NEA Publications
  Professional organization provides publications online that assist teacher leaders.
• Pathways to School Improvement
  Comprehensive set of tools to help school leaders. Survey provided, scored and linked to critical issue topics.
• Pathways: Action Research
  Defines action research and provides suggested reading.
• PBS Teacher Source
  Provides resources and links in multiple content areas.
• PDA Links
  Provides links to PDA websites.
• Peer Coaching
  Offers tools and articles on peer coaching.
• Peer Coaching: What Are Peer Coaching and Peer Review?
  Description of peer coaching.
• Professional Development Through Learning Communities
  Article by Fulton & Riel about professional learning communities. Provides links to other resources on this topic.
• Professional Development: Global SchoolNet
  Web resources will be useful as you plan and implement your own professional-development program.
• Professional Development: NSBA
  Toolkit developed by the National School Boards Association. Topics include: Models for Professional Development, Planning Professional Development, Evaluating the Professional Development Plan, Professional Development Issues, Professional Development Research and Resources.
• Project Based Learning
  Describes the process for project based learning.
• Public Engagement
  Provides articles with discussion/reflection tools. Good for use with study groups.
• Questions for Self-Study: Assessing Our School's Professional Learning Community
  Series of questions to assess school as a professional learning community. Links to selected readings about professional learning communities.
• Short Cuts
  Multiple resources for math and science teachers to get information quickly.
• Solutions
  Designed for the private and nonprofit sector, this site provides strategies, newsletters and other information for training.
• Standards and Frameworks
  Links to national and state math and science standards and frameworks.
• Study Groups: What is a study group?
  Overview of the concept of study group, how to get started and links to other resources.
• Supporting Technology in Education through Professional Development
  A planning resource for technology professional developers, school technology specialists, and K-12 administrators. Organized around the following themes: Visualizing Technology-Supported Engaged LearningCurrent RealityEffective Staff DevelopmentEvaluationImplementation .
• Teacher Change
  Focused on the TIMSS, this set of resources provides leaders with tools to help teachers understand the purpose for school change.
• Teacher Research
  Focuses on an action research model, Instructional Improvement through Inquiry and Collaboration (IITIC). Provides model research questions and rationale for teacher research.
• Teacher-Researcher Network
  Demonstrates how one school system supports action research. The system supports action researchers, produces a newsletter and organizes an annual conference for presentation of teacher research.
• Technology in Education
  Provides resources in the following areas:Teachers Administrators Policymakers Around the Region Hot Topics Products Presentations .
• Technology Professional Development: At a Glance
  Article on how to provide professional development for teachers in technology. Links to other resources.
• The Change Process
  Provides articles with discussion/reflection tools. Focuses on the change process.
• Time issues
  Provides articles with discussion/reflection tools. Good for use with study groups.
• Welcome to ITTE
  Designed by the National School Boards Association to promote technology in education. Provides links, articles on hot topics, and other resources.
• What is Reflection?
  Describes the rationale for professional reflection.