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Character Education These programs are fully-integrated, public school-approved curriculums that have a proven track record of success.
"Values In Action" is a national award-winning school-wide comprehensive character education program with eighteen years of research and successful implementation (K-12).
WiseSkills K-12 character education program is a teacher-friendly and inter-disciplinary way to build the character of young people. Innovative and exciting activities are conveniently organized around monthly Character Themes and include: Character Education, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum Integration, Career Awareness, Service-Learning, and Parent/Community Involvement.
I CAN Character Curriculum: Thousands of educators, students, and parents across America are excited about Zig Ziglar's I CAN Character Curriculum. Through I CAN, they are learning not only the ABCs of education, but also more importantly, the ABCs of life: Attitude, Behavior, and Character. Available in two complete curriculums: one for kindergarten through 5th grade, and a second for 6th grade and up. For more information contact:
Jefferson Center for Character Education has two programs: S.T.A.R. (Success Through Accepting Responsibility) (K-6) and How To Be Successful (7-9). Both use the STAR process (Stop, Think, Act, Review) as a conflict resolution and decision making process.
Lessons in Character includes a wonderful multicultural literature collection (ten lap books) and audio cassettes, a thorough teacher's management guide, student activity books, and a poster set. Step-by-step guidelines for using the components are given for the twenty-four lessons at each grade level. Reading, reflecting, writing, and developing life skills are all prominently featured, following a thematic approach of promoting the character traits of Trustworthiness, Respect for Others, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, and Citizenship. This curriculum is for Grades K through 6, and is available from:
STARS (Students Taking a Right Stand) helps students in grades 6-12 refrain from the use of alcohol and other drugs, and learn positive living skills through programs of positive peer pressure and caring confrontation. The Victor Team program is designed to reach children early in their development (K-6), and to teach them important skills to prevent drug abuse and other unhealthy.
Character First! Education was brought to life through the commitment and vision of public school and police officials to address the real issues of today's youth. The Character First! Education Series is designed specifically for elementary-age children, pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. The colorful and lively curriculum helps capture children's attention with songs, stores, crafts, games, memory work, object lessons, coloring pages, collectible Character Cards, and posters. For more information, please contact:
Grants and Funding
DonorsChoose.org is a nonprofit that connects public school teachers with people who want to support classroom projects. Propose a funding project for your classroom on the website and recruit passionate donors from across the country to contribute. www.donorschoose.org Job Recruiting and Job Postings
ABC Teaching Jobs posts K-12 teaching and administrative jobs by state, grade level, and subject area. In addition, post your resume and let schools find you. www.abcteachingjobs.com
EdZapp offers educators a free, easy-to-use online application for PK-12 schools and districts throughout the U.S. and Western Canada. Currently used by over 300 districts, EdZapp provides free tools to research any district in the U.S. and apply to thousands of job openings nationwide. For a small fee, EdZapp will also manage an official electronic credentials portfolio for you, receiving official documents from your university or other sources (e.g. transcripts, placement files, licensure, test scores) so you only need to request and pay for them once. www.edzapp.com
K-12jobs.com posts job opportunities for teachers and school administrators at kindergarten, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and vocation schools. It also provides resources on job fairs, certification, salaries, a news group forum, and other educational links. www.k12jobs.com
Teachers-Teachers.com is a free academic placement service. Register to make your resumé available to thousands of schools that are hiring teachers. www.teachers-teachers.com
TopSchoolJobs.org, Education Week's career community, provides career resources to K-12 educators and administrators to help them explore their career potential, and to connecting K-12 recruiters with the most highly-qualified candidates globally. Reaching over 100,000 engaged readers each week in print and over 300,000 each month online, Education Week is the largest and most respected news and information source in the K-12 education community. Attn: Customer Service
WantToTeach.com assists new teachers in locating their first or second K-12 teaching job throughout the country. Also designed to aid current teachers who desire to move within a state or move to another state, find a suitable position. It features administrative, support and non-instructional positions as well. www.wanttoteach.com Educator Blogs
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Watch. Practice. Watch almost anything for free. With a library of over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 240 practice exercises, they are on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. www.khanacademy.org
Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Their goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner. Like Facebook, Edmodo is exclusively an education tool www.edmodo.com
Strategies on differentiated instruction straight from the classroom, passed along to teachers. www.differentiationdaily.com
Connect with the 21st century student. In a world where children are smarter, faster, and sharper than ever before, Shua Life Skills aims to empower and teach children, parents and educators essential life skills, such as confidence, respect, self-control, team work and selflessness, so that they may live powerful, successful lives, and ultimately pass these skills on to those they meet. www.shualife.com Classroom Management with Harry & Rosemary Wong. Every month, classroom management gurus Harry & Rosemary Wong publish a new collection of classroom strategies and approaches designed to help teachers - new and seasoned - master the routine matters that can consume so much of a teacher's time. www.teachers.net/gazette/wong Teacher Quality and Certification
The American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) is a non-profit organization, dedicated to recruiting, preparing, certifying and supporting dedicated professionals to improve student achievement through quality teaching. ABCTE offers an innovative, online teacher preparation and certification program for highly knowledgeable individuals who want to change careers and become teachers. ABCTE has issued over 2,000 teaching certifications to date. The organization offers certification in ten subjects including the high-need areas of math, science and special education. The program is currently accepted by nine states for public schools: Florida, Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Utah. Many charter schools and private schools in other parts of the country also accept ABCTE certification. You can get access to ABCTE’s resources through a free one-week trial of their teaching certification program to help determine if the program is right for you. ABCTE has a YouTube channel, where ABCTE teachers talk about the program and share teaching success stories. The organization has also created www.CharterTeacher.com, an online resource for charter school teachers, administrators and those who aspire to teach in a charter school. Also, listen to podcasts from ABCTE's web radio program, New Teacher Hotline. 1225 19th Street N.W. Suite 400
American College of Education is a regionally accredited college where teachers can pursue an affordable, accessible, high quality master’s degree in one of five education programs. This highly engaging online coursework was developed by educators to ensure that it will improve your teaching practice, increase career opportunities and help you move up the salary schedule. American College of Education
Through a partnership with Drexel University Online, Association of American Educators members and immediate family members are entitled to receive a 10-30% tuition reduction on Drexel’s top-ranking online degree and certificate programs. Receive the same quality education as on-campus, without the commute or career interruption. Advance yourself with a degree from Drexel University Online. To learn more, please visit www.drexel.com/aae. Print and share: Drexel University Online-AAE Partnership Flyer (PDF).AAE Partnership Liaison:
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e-Literacy is a user friendly, comprehensive teacher professional development program, designed to improve and encourage teacher practice and to develop a classroom framework for teaching reading in grades K-3.
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LessonLab is an internationally recognized research and consulting firm that offers state of the art Online Professional Development programs for teachers. LessonLab, Inc.
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan,nongovernmental organization. It was formed in 1987 to advance the quality of teaching and learning by developing professional standards for accomplished teaching, creating a voluntary system to certify teachers who meet those standards and integrating certified teachers into educational reform efforts. National Headquarters
National Council on Teacher Quality is a nonprofit organization devoted to the pursuit of teacher quality by bringing common sense to bear on this urgent national priority. NCTQ aims to provide up-to-the-minute information on what the various policy options are, which may work well, which seem not to work at all, and how we could learn more. Kate Walsh, Executive Director
The National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) was established with the mission of ensuring a highly skilled, strongly motivated and competitively compensated teacher for every classroom in America. NIET seeks to accomplish this mission through engaging in a broad range of effective initiatives focused on implementing comprehensive teacher quality reforms across the country. 1250 Fourth Street
Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) is a nonprofit organization of institutions of higher education and others devoted to the improvement of academic degree programs for professional educators. The Council's primary work is the accreditation of these professional programs through a system that examines and verifies competent, caring, and qualified professional educators.
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Educator abroad travel experiences: Founded in 2007, GEEO is a 501c3 non-profit organization that helps and encourages educators to travel abroad. Please take a look around our website to find out more about us, our programs and general useful information about GEEO. www.geeo.org Curriculum
By outlining the precise content that every child should learn in language arts and literature, history and geography, mathematics, science, music, and the visual arts, the Core Knowledge curriculum represents a first-of-its kind effort to identify the foundational knowledge every child needs to reach these goals–and to teach it, grade-by-grade, year-by-year, in a coherent, age-appropriate sequence. www.coreknowledge.org
Gateways to Better Education is a national organization dedicated to helping public schools appropriately and lawfully teach Judeo-Christian history, thought, and values. Eric Buehrer, President
Lessonplans.com, Provides tools and resources to aide teachers in delivering curriculum that is timely, relevant and useful to their students. Through online collaboration, individual teachers can now share their lesson plans with educators in all corners of the globe. www.lessonplans.com
OER Commons, is a place for you to find and share open educational resources. www.oercommons.org
Curriki is a non-profit, open-source website that empowers teachers to deliver and share curricula www.curriki.org Student Programs
Resources for Schools and Indispensable Educators (RISE) seeks to make teaching in a low-income community more sustainable for a greater number of teachers. RISE membership offers teachers who are bolstering student achievement in low-income communities an opportunity to network with fellow teachers, financial resources, and career opportunities. 177 Post Street, Suite 900
Student Paths is a free, nationally recognized showcase program designed to help students with the transition from high school to their future. Founded in 1997 by a college student, Student Paths takes a been-there-recently approach, making it fun, interesting and relevant for high school students. The Student Paths program includes a classroom publication along with a corresponding Lesson Plan Guide. Numerous resources and worksheets are also available. Gayle Saunders, Client Engagement & Support Consultant Associations
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving learning and teaching by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. www.iste.org
International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) membership association based in the Washington, DC area with over 3,800 members. They are unique; with members representing a diverse cross-section of K-12 education from school districts, charter schools, state education agencies, non-profit organizations, research institutions, corporate entities and other content & technology providers. www.inacol.org
National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET) is a national professional association dedicated to special education teachers, professors who teach future special education teachers, students who are working towards their teaching certification in special education, and inclusion classroom teachers working with children with special needs. NASET provides practical information, useful resources, member benefits and an extensive special education database. www.naset.org
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