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Dawn Cooper's organization website

Very interesting stats on education--check out Education 2.0, how technology enhanced learning, etc. Socrato! website

NAEP administers assessments in the areas of mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history. These assessments are conducted periodically and adhere to a uniform approach using the same set of test booklets across the nation. This site represents the different components of the NAEP assessment. Another website, The Nation's Report Card (nationsreportcard.gov), publishes the results of the assessments.

The DECA Institute was formed with grant funds awarded to the Dayton Early College Academy. The purpose of the grant was to share successful practices for urban students with other Ohio schools. Video and PowerPoint resources from the Institute are available on the website.

On blip.tv. A series of websites and other technology that aid the teaching and learning process. The resources are are curated by instructional designers at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Website run by Skip Downing, author of On Course: Strategies for Success in College and in Life. The site provides practical applications of the On Course principles (free of charge). Strategies are designed with the goal of empowering students to become active, responsible learners. There are links to descriptions of workshops and to registration options.

Website of Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. In 2009, Willingham authored Why Students Don't Like School and writes extensively on applications of cognitive psychology to K-12 education.

By Chris Rawlinson, posted on his website. An alternate version of the Did You Know video.

Civic engagement resource from EnCorps, an organization concerned with CE, website

Hey, guys, this is a resource that Jason, Wes, and Jacque found in their Task Force development. Pay special attention unit 6.

Website for grammar building exercises by Robin L. Simmons, professor at Valencia Community College in Florida. Very clever and engaging!

Elmore's current writing on the instructional core; Harvard Graduate School of Education Usable Knowledge website

Website for using social media to create a ladder of engagement to inspire people to take action and change. The question for MCNC is how to create a ladder of learning engagement through the SLI I-Lab.

Website from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. "...the social organization of the research enterprise is badly broken and a very different alternative is needed. " Part of a series on "networked improvement community" that "creates the purposeful collective action needed to solve complex educational problems."

"Unlike most traditional academic conferences, sessions at an unconference don't consist of one or three or five people delivering papers to an audience. Instead, they might feature project demonstrations, discussions, creative work sessions, or other formats that build on the knowledge and expertise of whoever attends. For the Texas THATCamp (and I think this is fairly typical at others), participants posted session ideas beforehand on the website, followed by a 45-minute scheduling process as THATCamp began. Topic headings generated by those initial session ideas were posted on the walls of a large meeting room, and participants circulated through the space to meet up with others interested in similar topics. After some productive chaos (which admittedly tested my structure- and schedule-loving personality a bit) the group developed a schedule of sessions that represented not only a variety of interests but also the desire to cluster certain topics into tracks. Like any conference, I frequently wanted to be in two places at once - which I see as one marker of the event's success."

Website offering a library of over 2,400 educational videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 150 practice exercises.

Website of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. The site supports the work of the foundation, providing resources for and about schools. The "Foundation is dedicated to improving the K-12 learning process by documenting, disseminating, and advocating for innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies that prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives."

Website of the journal Academic Exchange Quarterly, published 4 times/year. For some articles, full-text is available here, for free. For others, only abstract is available with full-text by subscription only.

Organization website offers a rich set of resources for educators, administrators and students. The Illumnations section, under Lessons and Resources, provides Activities, Lessons, Standards and Web Links. Subscribers to NCTM Journals can access them on the site.

Official website. Includes information about state common core performance standards.

Part of the Georgia Dept. of Education, Georgia Standards.org "is a free, public website providing information and resources necessary to help meet the educational needs of students. "