http://www.ascd.org/ The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development "a community of educators, advocates sound policies and best practices to achieve the success of each learner."

http://www.eduref.org/ "The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses."

http://caret.iste.org/index.cfm The Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET) "bridges education technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions."

http://www.edutopia.org/ Edutopia, from the George Lucas Educational Foundation. "The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) was founded in 1991 as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools. Since that time, we have been documenting, disseminating, and advocating for exemplary programs in K-12 public schools to help these practices spread nationwide."

http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/ Engauge is designed to help districts and schools plan and evaluate the systemwide use of educational technology. Another helpful part of this site addresses the use of technology to improve student achievement. This site is part of NCREL, the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

http://ideportal.com/Default.asp The IDE portal is "on-line instructional and professional development resource created by the consultants at IDE Corp - Innovative Designs for Education." This is a pay service, with a focus on Problem Based Learning.

http://www.iste.org/template.cfm The International Society for Technology in Education "is a nonprofit professional organization with a worldwide membership of leaders and potential leaders in educational technology." Click NETS to find out about the National Educational Technology Standards. The standards are for administrators, teachers and students. The Teacher Resource page is chock full of goodies.

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/edref.html Kathy Schrock's hot list for Educational Research, Reform and Professional Development

http://www.njaet.org/ NJAET, the New Jersey Association for Educational Technology is a group of over 700 educators (teachers, computer coordinators, administrators, consultants, etc.) who are working to promote the use of technology in education.

http://www.nj.gov/njded/aps/cccs/ The Core Curriculum Standards from the State of New Jersey.

http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/consult/collab/factors.html Noodle Tools links for effective collaboration. A great tool for professional staff developers.

http://www.nj.gov/njded/techno/ettc/ New Jersey's Educational Technology Training Centers. The New Jersey Department of Education also has a list of links to all kinds of professional development resources.

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/teachtech/research.shtm The PBS Teacher Source has a number of links addressing Technology and Teaching.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/news/CAschools/research.htm Pac Bell's Educational Technology News and Research links.

http://www.rtec.org/ "The Regional Technology in Education Consortia (R*TEC) program is established to help states, local educational agencies, teachers, school library and media personnel, administrators, and other education entities successfully integrate technologies into kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) classrooms, library media centers, and other educational settings, including adult literacy centers."

http://www.w-w-c.org/ "The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) collects, screens, and identifies studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies). [They] review the studies that have the strongest design, and report on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC Evidence Standards so that you know what the best scientific evidence has to say.

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