I came across Advocates for Youth in college while working with a sub-group of the Bus Project. It has proven to be an invaluable resource when helping students research current events. They are able to learn about the issues and see what their peers are doing about them.

I have a cousin who contributes to this group and I often recommend articles to other teachers from the site. I find that it can help teachers who have gotten stuck in a rut to break out of it. Most of the perspective are a bit liberal for Salem, OR but they still help colleagues look at issues in a new way.

My favorite poet to use when teaching students about non-traditional/non-rhyming poetry and my favorite in general. He also spent the last 40 years of his life in Lake Oswego teaching at Lewis & Clark College.

I like to use this site for teaching kids about reading charts and graphs; side benefit is making them more aware of the world they live in.