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This website is an excellent resource for all teachers. With the use of mainstreaming, almost all teachers have at least one ESE student in their day. This website is an excellent resource for dealing with learning disabilities. It has links for parents, teachers, and kids to help them to understand different exceptionalities. LD Online is run by the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities and has many articles written by doctoral level specialists.

This site is a good resource for dealing with difficult parents. Topics include, but not limited to: Defining Parents' Involvment, How Does Parents' Involvment Help Kids,, Implementing Parent-Involvment Programs, and Pitfalls. Any teacher will find this site useful.

This web site addresses rationale and research on modles of disciplining with dignity. Teaching grades from k through twelve, and examples of instructional materials. Topic covered are: Kids are worth it. Positive classroom discipline. Assertive discipline. Stress free discipline. Reality theory and discipline. Teacher effectiveness training. Theories and more.

Youth Change is a website devoted to helping educators and other "youth professionals" solve problems with kids. It has many articles and tips available for free. It also has links to live chats and in-person workshops. E-books are also available for download from this site. The site is mostly commercial but has excellent free resources available and some of the paid resources may also be a worthwhile investment.