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The Education hub at BrightHub.com offers informational articles and quality discussions about the many facets of the educational process, including the technology and policies affecting today's schools and universities. Technology is a hot topic on this site, bringing learning out of the classroom. I particularly appreciate the lessons on helping students study, take notes, and get organized so they can succeed in school. The classroom management conversations are great, too!

BrainPOP is one of my favorite website for engaging students and supporting educators. The authors have created animated, curriculum-based content Flash-based movies, quizzes, experiments, timelines, activity pages, and much more covering hundreds of topics within Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health. All of the content is aligned with state standards. BrainPOP is accessible entirely online; there's no software to install or download. You can use BrainPOP's resources with PCs, Macs, projectors, or interactive whiteboards. Check out the BrainPOP for educators' site full of useful teachers' resources: Lesson plans, academic standards, curriculum calendar, blogging and so much more! FYI, there's also a free BrainPOP app for your iTouch or iPhone.

Discussion of the contributions of schooling and the broader community in the education of the members of a democratic society. A forum for sharing experiences of some teachers, professors, and administrators as they developed their commitment to helping all children learn to be effective members of a democratic society.

An anotated list of helpful websites and tools for educators.

Prezi is a tool that allows you to create movable presentations. You can sign up for an account with your edu email address and create accounts for your students. This particular site is a list of some educational prezis that you can view and use in your own classroom. Consider using prezi instead of powerpoint.

This website has unlimited resources for just about anything you could want related to science. There are ideas for science fair projects, science experiment ideas, answers to science questions, links to careers in science, and links for students, parents, and educators. This site is fun and informative.

This Civic Education portion of the website of the Washington State Legislature provides information about teacher training about the legislative process, information about Capitol tours, and lesson plans and activities for students to learn about the State and the legislative process.

A new site for educators, TeacherTube, takes the sharing, production, and community-building aspects of YouTube and offers an educator's version. According to TeacherTube's founders, "We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners."

This is a Washington state level site listing contacts at the state level regarding finding jobs, and also links to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Learning Links has everything teachers need for literature-based reading programs - books, study guides, audios, videos and more. As pioneers in publishing study guides for novels and picture books, our signature product, Novel-Ties Study Guides, sets a standard for excellence. With over 600 Novel-Ties in print, teachers and educators have come to expect, and always receive, serious, chapter-by-chapter guides that "talk" to students, and save hours of teacher preparation time.