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PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards and professional development opportunities delivered online.

The goal of Verizon Thinkfinity's professional development is to help educators, parents and afterschool practitioners engage students and enhance learning using their online resources. The site also offers many lesson plans and interactives for teachers to use in their classrooms.

This site offers teachers resources in lesson planning, professional development and tech integration. There are also links to resources for administrators and issues concerning our schools.

This site has a professional development section. Some articles have suggestions for new teachers, strategies for classroom management, bullying, and character education to name a few.

This is a place where teachers can gather and share ideas. This resource includes lesson plans, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, articles written by educational experts, web site reviews, and employment listings. I believe we can all share ideas and build upon those ideas to create lessons that are meaningful to students.

This is a stellar site. There is lots of great materials for the classroom as well as professional development. There are online modules that you can take or ready made materials you can use to deliver.

This may be of interest for those looking to attend a conference for professional development.

National professional development standards guidelines.

Love this site! Google has provided schools with a professional development guideline to teach Google apps. These are awesome tools that are not utilized enough in the classroom and this would be a great way to show your colleagues what is out there for them.

This site shares many different features from news for education, blogs, conferences, professional development courses, and much much more! You do have to join and become a member to this site if interested in taking part in their resources. There are also journals, articles, and webinars to follow from this site.

Education Week is great to follow with daily articles on educational topics, as well as discussion boards, events, and blogs. Don't worry if you miss a daily article they have an archived section too. This site would be beneficial to both teachers and district personnel.

This is a PBS site about media literacy. It has teacher resources and professional development ideas related to media literacy.

This site offers so much. The teacher activity packs allow teachers to upload lessons, links, and activities to their own websites. There is a PD section with online courses for teachers. Lesson ideas are connected to standards and are available for many different grades.

A site full of lessons that can be categorized by grade levels and topics. With each category there is a "professional development" tab with great instruction and ideas.

Kansas Coaching Project from KU Center for Research on Learning. KU-CRL offers Instructional Coaching Institutes to explore issues and ideas related to this form of professional development.

4Teachers.org: Helping Teachers Integrate Technology into the Classroom. This site includes many tools that can be used in the classroom. There are also several links that include helpful information. I would recommend this site to teachers interested in learning more about integrating technology.

This is a website dedicated to help teachers integrate technology into the classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. I think any teacher who wants to teach with the current tools should look at some of the ideas given at this website.

Site about teaching with technology, it has links to great online tools, educational games, professional development, grant resources and technology integration/planning

aMap is short for 'argument map'. The idea's very simple - to get more people arguing by mapping out complex debates in a simple visual format. At its heart, aMap is about helping people get to grips with complex (or otherwise) issues and get people thinking. aMaps come in two different formats: Printed pocket-sized aMaps, which you can buy on the eMaps website Interactive personalised aMaps, which you can make on the eMaps website The underlying structuring of aMaps is based around "informal logic" - this is the logic people use to argue in everyday life. Informal logic has a four-tiered structure: - Your position (I think . . .) - what you think over all - Propositions (Because . . .) - reasons that support your position - Arguments (As . . .) - supporting arguments that back up each of your propositions - Evidence (Supported by . . .) - supporting evidence to back up your arguments Although aMaps can be used just for fun, to help students improve and/or develop their reasoning and critical thinking in their essay writing and verbal communication.

This site is an online journal that contains many useful materials for educators. This specific aricle is all about professional development in the 21st century.

eLearning eVolution: Transforming Teaching & Learning through Innovative Technology. This edublog gives tips on using technology for your professional development. This would be helpful for your school and district when planning professional development days.

This is a blog about professional development and Web 2.0. You might use this site for your district for ideas for professional development topics.

The purpose of this site is to provide professional development for educators by sharing resources, lesson plans and files for classroom use. There are even podcasts that you can listen to. This would be great for me personally to get to see others lesson plans and files.

Great site with free educational resources and lesson plans. It has sections for teachers, students, parents, and an "after school" section with activities, interactives, and projects. It even has free Webinars in Professional Development for teachers!!!

A list of resources for school librarians ranging from Evaluation and Weeding, Book Repair, Selection Tools, Collection Development Policies, and General Collection Development. This is a great site to bookmark for any librarian.

A blog that lists web 2.0 tools (social networking, explanation of RSS, etc.). The author has additional resources listed on the page as well (Twitter, Facebook, Diigo, etc.)