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TED-Ed's commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED's mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.

As an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) was created in 2002 to be a central and trusted source of scientific evidence for what works in education. What does that mean? Central. We want to be the place you turn to when you want to know about education research. We have reviewed thousands of studies on hundreds of education programs, products, practices, and policies. Trusted. We strive to provide accurate information on education research. All of our procedures and policies are publicly available, and our goal is to provide transparent reviews of the research literature. Scientific evidence. In order to tell you what works, we conduct thorough reviews of the research literature and critically assess the evidence presented. What works. This website delivers information from our reviews through the "Find What Works" tool, pulling findings from multiple reports, a searchable database of research studies we have reviewed, and publications we have written on our reviews.

The Center links people with research-based information and resources that they can use to effectively connect schools, families, and communities. It emphasizes connections that directly impact student achievement in reading and mathematics, as well as connections that contribute to the students' overall success in school and in life. The Center reviewed emerging findings and research to develop an online database, annual conferences and annual reports to help advance procedural knowledge and to link research findings to practice.

"Anger, hope, and love are among the reasons that a group of urban teachers have stayed in teaching-despite everything."

Nearly half of all new teachers leave the job within five years. What's killing their spirit? How can we get them to stay?

New teachers leave the profession at an alarming rate - and there's no single reason or easy solutions.

IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS AMERICA WILL NEED OVER TWO MILLION NEW TEACHERS. WHO WILL THEY BE? TEACH chronicles the determination and commitment of four young teachers as they fight the real fight: educating our children. Davis Guggenheim's award-winning documentary reveals the human side of the story: showing what it takes to survive the first year teaching in America's toughest schools. (35 min.)

The First Year is an emotional journey of five beginning teachers in the Los Angeles public school system. The camera goes inside the classroom and uncovers the passion, frustration, determination and triumphs of America's real heroes - our teachers. This site was developed to provide support, resources and guidance for aspiring teachers. The first year teachers featured in the film share insights about their journey in their own words.

In this article, Howard (2003) discusses critical reflection as a prelude to creating culturally relevant teaching strategies, and he presents both theoretical and practical considerations for critical reflection and culturally relevant teaching in teacher education.

This resource is the website for the National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI). The mission of NIUSI is to develop powerful networks of urban districts and schools that embrace and implement a data-based, continuous improvement approach for inclusive practices.

This resource is the web site for The Equity Alliance at ASU. The Equity Alliance at ASU works with principals, teachers, parents, community members, students, school boards, and other school leaders to create the conditions necessary for culturally responsive schools.

This resource is the web site for the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt). NCCRESt provides technical assistance and professional development to close the achievement gap between students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and their peers, and reduce inappropriate referrals to special education.

This resource is the web site for LeadScape. LeadScape provides online tools & resources for principals, school leaders, and educators of inclusive schools.

mn-stem.com is an educational website launched as part of a larger initiative promoting science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The goal of this website is to help students discover firsthand how their participation in certain coursework can lead directly to exciting and rewarding careers.

The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), an independent non-profit research institute established in 2002, is a pioneer in knowledge sharing and educational innovation. Dedicated to the study, spread, and strategic use of knowledge management in education, ISKME helps schools, colleges, universities, and the organizations that support them expand their capacity to collect and share information, apply it to well-defined problems, and create open knowledge-driven environments focused on learning and success. In assisting the K-20 education sector, ISKME also helps philanthropic organizations and government agencies examine and improve their own and their grantees' processes for continuous improvement, evaluation, and learning. ISKME's theory of action contains three levels of engagement-study, open, and build:

The Internet is rich with open educational resources that both educators and students might want to use. However, finding those resources is often time-consuming. The OER Commons website was created to help educators, students, and lifelong learners find Open Educational Resources that are already posted somewhere on the Internet. OER Commons is not a search engine (like Google) and it is not a list of links. This site is a structured database of links to high-quality resources found on other websites. OER Commons provides a single point of access through which educators, students, and all learners can search,browse, evaluate, and discuss over 30,000 high-quality OER.

This resource provides information on differentiated instruction and its alignment with culturally responsive pedagogy.

This resource is a practitioner brief. This brief has a twofold purpose: (a) to demonstrate the need for rethinking current approaches to teacher education pedagogy and (b) to provide guidelines for developing culturally responsive teacher education pedagogy.

This resource provides information about culturally responsive teaching.

Culture is central to learning. It plays a role not only in communicating and receiving information, but also in shaping the thinking process of groups and individuals. A pedagogy that acknowledges, responds to, and celebrates fundamental cultures offers full, equitable access to education for students from all cultures. Culturally Responsive Teaching is a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning (Ladson-Billings, 1994). Visit this site to read about some of the characteristics of culturally responsive teaching.