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SAVE is a website about preventing violence among students. It has many resources for ideas about preventing violence among children and teens. It also boasts a student advisory board that works on new ways to prevent violence. The tools on this website can be useful to interact with students to move toward safe schools.

This website provides beginning teachers some great ideas for developing a classroom management plan. It even gives some great pointers on classroom design and where to situate your desk in relation to the students desks. It discusses the 3 major components of controlling and promoting good behavior: preventative, supportive, and corrective procedures. It also provides rationale for the procedures used in the website.

This is a great article about how the way you arrange your room can have an affect on you classroom management. It even give specific seating arrangement. \n

It seems that teachers are having more of a problem with disciplining students than ever before. As teachers, we wonder why our students present such poor behavior. This website talks about the importance of positive discipline and gives various ways of incorporating positive discipline into the classroom.

This website is an excellent source for disciplining all ages. It discusses discipline stategies, what not to do when disciplining your child, and strategies for disciplining teenagers. It also provides information on determining what disciplinary style you are and techniques that can be used to deter bad behavior.

This article talked about a positive parent-teacher conference. I believe like the article suggest meetings should be done in the beginning before there are any problems. Get the parents on your side in the beginning.

This site offers some teachers. It includes things like assessments, technical assisstance, instructional practices, behavior and additional resources for students with disabilities.

This site was a bit different in that it provided a report from 2334 teachers from 49 districts in Distruct of Columbia that gave a breakdown of teacher needs inlcluding classroom management. It was very interesting to see their responses!!

This site provides information on the multiple It is written by Sherri Fisher, MAPP, M.Ed., CPBS who has combines 20+ years experience in PK-12 education with positive psychology. She is a principal of three education-related businesses. She has some very interesting information on the explanation of these.

This site provides including analysis, research and reports, and events on four areas of education including Educational Choice, K-12 Accountability, Teacher Quality, and Undergraduate Education. This sector periodically reviews these areas and gives feedback.This gives specific areas and grade levels that you can zone in on.

This site was I liked because it gives you some of the politics that are currently going on in government. It introduces Education Secretary Margaret Spellings.It gives a lot of information about the Future of Higher Education. One particular proposal is an education policy for at least the next five years that gives penalties for states that slow down spending on higher education.

Great article on the benefites of rewards. Gave some examples of how benefites work at different levels.

This site is written by Howard Seeman, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Education at City University of New York, Lehman College. He teaches classroom management, educational psychology, methods, and has had a hand in the supervision of teachers and student teachers since 1970. He also wrote a book on the subject and is in circulation today.