Resource Links

WISCONSIN SITES

Wisconsin school job listings

• This State of Wisconsin page includes openings for licensed education positions throughout Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Covenant

• The Wisconsin Covenant is designed to ensure that any good student is able to get into a Wisconsin college or university.

Curriculum Resource Center

• This site includes thousands of high-quality lesson plans, classroom activities, instructional television programs and more. Each resource is aligned with Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards, and the site is searchable by subject, grade, content standard, and keyword.

History Alive!

• History Alive! is a Web resource for educators about Wisconsin's Underground Railroad system. The site includes maps, stories, quotes, lesson plans, curriculum ideas and more.

BadgerLink

• This site provides access to a huge database in cooperation with the state's public, school, academic, and special libraries. It includes access to information from more than 4,000 magazines, newsletters and newspapers, including about 10 daily newspapers in Wisconsin.

TeachingBooks.net

• This Web site is an online resource on children's literature. It is available to all Wisconsin students, teachers, parents, librarians and residents via the Department of Public Instruction's BadgerLink.

Wisconsin's model academic standards

• Wisconsin's model academic standards on various basic and specific subjects such as English, Mathematics, Science, Business and many more.

Wisconsin Center for Education Research

• WCER, operated out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides a productive environment where some of the country's leading scholars conduct basic and applied education research.

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

• The DPI Web site contains links to several internal and external Web sites, with emphasis on libraries and PK-12 schools.

Distance Education Clearinghouse

• The Distance Education Clearinghouse is a regularly updated site dealing with news headlines, articles, and much more information about Wisconsin education.

Rethinking Schools

• Rethinking Schools is an independent Milwaukee-based organization dedicated to improving education and helping shape reform throughout the public school system in the United States.

Wisconsin Council on Children and Families

• WCCF's mission is to promote the well-being of children and families in Wisconsin by advocating for effective and efficient health, education, and human service delivery systems.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Education Outreach

• The Office of Education Outreach provides credit and non-credit courses for school teachers, administrators and psychologists.

Wisconsin Educational Communications Board

• This site offers quick and easy access to a wide variety of instructional television and Internet resources. Educational resources are grouped in “Professional Development” and “Classroom Resources” sections.

Citizen Action of  Wisconsin

• Citizen Action of Wisconsin is the state’s largest public interest organization and plays a unique role in Wisconsin, combining lobbying, media, leadership development and grassroots organizing around issues and elections.

AFSCME District Council 48

• News, information and service gateway for Milwaukee's biggest union, AFSCME District Council 48, with three dozen locals and more than 10,000 workers. Contains stories, events, opinion, newsletters and photo albums.

FightingBob.com

• FightingBob.com is a nonprofit, nonpartisan online opinion magazine that provides an educational forum for writers, viewpoints and topics not welcome on the pages and airwaves of most mainstream media outlets in Wisconsin. It honors and revives the spirit and mission of its namesake, Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette, the populist governor, U.S. Senator, and presidential candidate from Wisconsin who founded the Progressive Party and spent his career battling the corrupting, impoverishing and anti-democratic influence of big moneyed interests over government and public policy.

K-12 at the University of Wisconsin

• This site offers a set of UW System educational resources for K-12 teachers, parents, and students.

Educator Compensation Institute

• This site serves as a clearinghouse for educator pay, focusing on alternative approaches to compensation.

Launchpad

• Launchpad is a music competition for high school students who are in bands formed outside of school. One person in the band must be in the high school music program, like band, choir, or orchestra.

School for Workers

• The School for Workers is the labor education department of the University of Wisconsin-Extension, Continuing Education, Outreach & E-Learning. Its mission is to educate workers and others about issues of concern in the workplace. Each year it offers hundreds of programs to thousands of union representatives, officers, members, and employer representatives.

Arts @ Large

• Arts @ Large is an innovative program that provides multidisciplinary arts experiences for youth throughout Wisconsin. Created in 2001, Arts @ Large provides sustainable arts programming for students and teachers in public schools and highlights the essential role that art and music specialists and members of the greater arts community play in creating an inclusive atmosphere of classroom learning.

OTHER SITES

National school job listings

• Teachers-Teachers.com helps you locate jobs throughout the nation. You can post your resume online. The service is free and NEA is a partner in the site.

School and School District Information

• NCES has a powerful search tool to make looking for public school and school district information easy. You can access data including but not limited to: type of school (special education, vocational education, charter, magnet); students by grade, race/ethnicity and gender; free lunch eligibility; and classroom teachers and for districts information such as: student, staff, and graduate counts.

Family Education Network

• The Family Education Network is the largest K-12 Internet community for parents, teachers and students It is an interactive learning community that links parents, teachers, students and schools to timely resources, to educational activities, and to each other.

Council for Exceptional Children

• The Council for Exceptional Children site is designed to assist teachers, school administrators and related services professionals in implementing the nation's primary special education law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Gateway to 21st Century Skills

• The Gateway provides one-stop access to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources.

"Success for All" program

• The Success For All program, operated through Johns Hopkins University, is a comprehensive restructuring program designed primarily for use in elementary schools serving many disadvantaged students.

American School Directory

• The American School Directory is the Internet guide to all 106,000 K-12 schools, providing information and communication for teachers, students, parents, local communities and families planning a move. Annual subscription at $36 per year; monthly subscription at $9.99 per month.

Education World

• Education World is a weekly updated site with educational news, articles, books, curriculum, special features on schools, and many more interesting features.

U.S. Department of Education

• The U.S. Department of Education Web page is dedicated to keeping the public current in the developing topics in schools. It provides a wide variety of information for educators and students.

Education Commission of the States

• The ECS mission is to help state leaders develop and carry out policies that promote improved performance of the education system as reflected in increased learning by all citizens.

People for the American Way

• People For the American Way promotes full citizen participation in our democracy and helps safeguard the principles of our Constitution. It is very active in opposing private and religious school vouchers.

Education Week on the Web

• Education Week is the nation's most popular education newspaper. Its Web site explores education reform, schools, and the policies that guide them.

Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program

• The Fulbright program provides opportunities for teachers to go abroad and teach, as well as learn from other cultures.

Education Disinformation Detection and Reporting Agency

• This site is dedicated to analyzing reports, dispelling rumors, and rebutting lies about public education in the United States. It is a product of public education advocate Gerald Bracey.

Grade Connect

• Grade Connect is an electronic course management system packed with an array of features to help teachers manage their courses easier. Designed by teachers, the program includes an online gradebook that allows you to post up-to-the-day grades and keep students informed on their standing, so there are fewer questions. It will automatically calculate quarter grades as well as allow you to post homework and project assignments along with due dates - the students' personal calendar feature constantly reminds them of upcoming deadlines. The system is online so it requires no special network server or connection. It is free to educators who register at the site.

Exposing the Anti-Union Network

• The anti-union network is well-financed, well-established, and well-coordinated — and yet virtually unknown. Look behind the scenes as this site exposes the funding, the origins, the tactics, the motives, and the players involved in undermining workers and their unions.

Unionist.com

• This site, developed by Union Communication Services Inc., has a dozen exclusive features that change every week, from labor cartoons to labor quotes, jokes and history to steward tips and a list of unions on the web.

 TeachAbroad.com

• This site provides comprehensive international education and alternative travel databases. The staff is made up of international education professionals and leading design and programming specialists.

NationalTeacherRegistry.com

• The National Teacher Registry is a free service for schools and teachers that enables them to create a list of the items they need for their classrooms. Conceptually it is similar to a wedding or baby shower registry. With the National Teacher Registry, parents and others can find a teacher's registry, purchase items from the list, and have the items delivered to the classroom.