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Whether you want to be a teacher, principal or even an educational policy-maker, learning all you can about the field and how to be a more powerful leader while you're still in college is essential. These blogs will fill you in on the latest news, provide inspiration, and ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest educational technologies so you can be the best education leader you can be.

This blog or post is not specifically about education. But it is about the economy and what we are preparing kids for. Interesting perspectives....

has been set up to provide an opportunity for students, teachers, administrators, parents, and others to help promote an understanding of the benefits of educational blogging. The menu for the website is to the left. Please explore AND contribute. This website is actually a "wiki," which means that it is hoped that you will contribute to the content of this website.

Thisis the blog of Lisa Sykut, Reading coach in Phoenix. Check it out! She is using it for a book study she is doing with teachers.

This blog is the collected thoughts of school administrators that want to share best practices in education. All of the authors have different experiences in education but all have the same goal; ensuring we do what is best for studentsþff.

I think this is something of interest for us as educational leaders...we need to accept that things really are changing and how we educate kids must change too.

Interesting ideas from a non-educator on what high school is for...

Links, blogs, and other information related to cell phone use and text messaging in school

Welcome! I am Jeff Thomas and I have been an educator for 30 years, most recently as a Director of Technology at a private middle school. I am currently consulting on edtech integration in the classroom.

Founded in 2003 by Jenny M. Buccos, ProjectExplorer.org is a nonprofit organization (501c3) that produces free, online global travel series. Designed for family and classroom, ProjectExplorer.org provides students with access to peoples and places they may never have seen or knew existed. ProjectExplorer.org's multi-award winning online video series, photos, educational blogs, and lesson plans are provided free-of-charge. ProjectExplorer.org's programs cover multiple subject areas that foster cross-cultural understanding.

Education is a reflective practice. This blog provides my views on educational leadership, effective technology integration, best practices, and creating a student-centered learning culture.

Freshman in high school writes this blog...amazing. This is what our kids can be doing...talk about writing skills, communication skills, creativity, passion, self-directedness...c'mon, people! If I could go back to teaching....

SymbalooEdu  is a very important web2.0 tool . It is a "new way to organize , share your online life and discover that of others".Teachers will no longer need to worry about long urls being broken when copied by students . SymbalooEdu lets you gather all of your favorite websites into a webmix about the topics you teach. These webmixes can be shared with friends, students, and parents.  

This article and guide outline the importance of effective assessments and how they can be used to measure student learning on project-based lessons. There is an easy downloadable guide w/ 10 tips for asssessing learning at each stage of a project-based lesson. This is relevant guven our need to shift our focus with the Common Core Standards.

How can we encourage students to be entreprenuers?

Taking notes is an everyday skill in education but often overlooked. Technology -- and more specifically, the Internet -- has rendered paper and pencil passé and allowed educators and students to raise note-taking to the next level. Most of the following sites use some form of the "post-it" or "sticky," but with the integration of Web 2.0 technologies.