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helps adults make their communities better places for families
and children.
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Wisconsin school job listings
- Job Seeker is a job vacancy listing on the State of Wisconsin's
Portal site. It 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.
Wisconsin State Reading Association
- WSRA and more than 20 local reading councils coordinate their efforts
to promote literacy in Wisconsin. Reading councils throughout the
state sponsor a variety of opportunities that focus on literacy issues
and encourage professional growth.
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.
Nominate
an educator for an award
- Do you know an outstanding teacher who deserves some praise and
recognition? Six Wisconsin television stations need your help to find
outstanding Wisconsin educators and sing their praises.
Wisconsin
Citizen Action
- Wisconsin Citizen Action 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.
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.
Oprah Winfrey's Tribute to Teachers
- As Oprah has said at least a thousand times, she just loves teachers!
This Web site features video from her Tribute to Teachers show. Watch
some of their stories.
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.
BigLabor.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.
