All Kinds of Minds : Understanding differences in learning.
America's Library : The Library of Congress' history site for kids.
Bit by Bit : Bob Sprankle's guide for teachers to blogging and podcasting.
California Learning Resource Network : Hundreds of learning resources in a searchable database.
Calisphere : "A world of primary sources and more," including primary source sets organized to support California Content Standards.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site : A collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom, and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
Children's author Cynthia Leitich Smith's site : Substantial teacher support information about Cynthia's books as well as tremendous resources related to the entire body of children's and young adult literature.
Children's Literature Web Guide (University of Calgary) : Although this site has not been maintained since 2001, it has a lot of great links to children's literature sites.
ClickSchooling : Join the ClickSchooling group, which searches the Net to bring you one, terrific educational website each day.
Colorin Colorado : Information, activities and advice for Spanish-speaking parents and educators.
Curriculum Links for Elementary Teachers : Sites recommended by PAUSD Educational Technology staff
Curriculum Links for Middle School Teachers : Sites recommended by PAUSD Educational Technology staff
Curriculum Links for High School Teachers : Sites recommended by PAUSD Educational Technology staff
Cyberbully : Mobilizing educators, parents, students, and others to combat online social cruelty
Cyberbullying: Another useful site on this unfortunate topic
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
An exhaustive site of searchable information on 60 children's book awards.
EduBlog Insights : A teacher's website to discuss and explore the possibilities for use of weblogs in education.
Educational Resources & Lesson Plans : Thousands of links to lesson plans and other resources of potential use to current and future teachers.
Educator's Resources Information Center (formerly Ask Eric) : Contains 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
Education World : A complete online resource where educators can start each day to find the lesson plans and research materials they are looking for.
Enchanted Learning : Access to over 17,000 pages of activities and printouts.
Facing History and Ourselves : Facing History helps students find meaning in the past and recognize the need for participation and responsible decision making.
Fairrosa Cyber Library : One librarian's personal cyber collection of materials found on the Web related to Children's Literature.
Family Resource Center (of Palo Alto) : Palo Alto's link to community services.
For Parents & Caregivers (The American Library Association) : Access to resources on internet and technology, professional development, special library collections, service to special populations, and building and space design.
Gaggle.net : a safe blogging environment, email for students, safe chat rooms, and secure message boards, "almost like a closed MySpace for schools."
Gale School Site : There's a treasure-trove of library & classroom resources, activities, and more, on the GaleSchools site.
Get Ready to Read! : Research-based strategies for parents, early education professionals, and childcare providers to help prepare children to learn to read and write.
Getting Started With Leveled Reading : An article by Palo Alto Librarian Anita Delaney.
Google for Educators : A "basic platform of teaching resources."
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators : A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.
KidBibs : Information and tools for strengthening reading success.
Kids Online Resources - Learn a Language : Lots of links to language sites, from Arabic to Tibetan.
Lexile Framework for Reading: Educators' page with information and free resource kits.
Literacy Center : Free literacy lessons fro young children in English, Spanish, French and German.
Moodle : Free Open Source software package for course management
New York Public Library's Sites for Educators
PBS TeacherSource: Lesson plans and lots more on technology & teaching.
Picturing Books : A website about picture books, created by a librarian.
Reading Is Fundamental: Advice, articles, lesson plans for educators. Spanish language resources.
Reading Rockets : A national multimedia project that looks at how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.
RSS Ideas for Educators: A primer by Quentin D'Souza, author of the TeachingHacks.com blog.
RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators: A how-to guide especially for educators.
Santa Clara County Office of Education : A great resource for families and teachers, with a helpful Educational Resources database.
Sites for Parents, Caregivers, Teachers and Others :
American Library Association's recommended sites.
S.O.S. for Information Literacy!: Free dynamic database of lessons and teaching materials to help teach information literacy skills.
Teach Engineering: Introduces engineering into the K-12 classroom connects science and math concepts to the everyday engineering that surrounds us.
Teach with Award-Winning Children's Books
Teaching plans, discussion guides, and interviews with many recent award-winning authors/illustrators, along with their biographies.
Teachers' Domain : Multimedia resources for the classroom and professional development. Includes multimedia from public television. Requires registration.
Trelease-on-Reading: This site covers all of Jim Trelease's efforts in helping children make books into friends, not enemies
TV Turnoff Week : Empowering people to take control of technology and not letting technology take control of them so they can live healthier lives.
UsingEnglish.com : This website "provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics."
Youth Community Services: This website offers "support to teachers who are working to use service as a teaching tool to bring the real world into their classroom and make their curriculum relevant."
