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An education management PhD is designed for teachers who are interested in a career as a principal or other senior manager in a school, school district or college.  This page provides information on what is studied in these degrees and where you can study them on campus or by online and distance learning. 

John Stossel explaining news, for elementary school and middle school, with teacher resources

Annenburg videos for middle school and high school, with some for postsecondary on arts, foreign language, literature, math, science, social studies, and history

Sometimes, it seems everyone who ever went to school is an expert on education and has a plan to make it better. Actual teaching experience, years of professional learning and formal training are all easily swept aside. The result is an ongoing dialog around what schools should do, what teachers need to do more of or less of and how the academic success of the nation is linked to strategy x or y.

This unavoidable and irreducible complexity means that schools are challenging place to study, to understand and to manage change within. Even for the teacher who spends everyday inside the school there is so much going on that unguided observations and the plans based upon them come with no guarantee of success. - We need a lens and a lever to manage this complexity. -  Such a lens is offered by the 'cultural forces'.

For schools in Australia and many parts of the world, we are heading towards the end of another school term and year. That means report writing season. For the next few weeks, teachers across the country will be huddled in front of computer screens, writing reflections on the progress their learners have made. Mark books will be opened, assessments consulted, work samples will be reviewed. All so that in the first week of the long Summer vacation students can sit and read their report and make plans for how they will enhance their learning in the coming year.

Survey on teacher and principal attitudes to equity and education

Whether you're a new teacher entering the classroom for the first time or a veteran teacher with experience to spare, we're all looking for ways to improve our performance and better serve our students. Setting goals for development before the year begins enables you to track your evolution and share your progress with colleagues.

some free and some paid for, but the directory is free

a photography site set up by a high school teacher

short videos on many tech products used in schools, like glogster, animoto, gogle forms, screen recording, voicethread, and slideshare

Edublogs is wordpress based custom blogging platform to individual teachers, school districts and hundreds of thousands of students.  Share materials, news, links, lesson plans, downloads, Replace your newsletters, Create class publications, post videos, podcasts, and discussions, Facilitate discussions

Free account for teachers. Add pics to websites and make slide shows for school.

This is the wave of the future. No more books in school.

a career in teaching has lots of opportunities in it for delivering an interesting and a fulfilling career.

Teaching is one of most satisfying jobs

address from the director of the U of Chicago Lab school to incoming teachers in 2010

"As Congress and the Obama administration weigh a major reform of education policy, the government should overhaul testing methods that have handcuffed teacher creativity and done little to boost student achievement, according to a new report from the National Research Council."