This link is taking you to the Math section, but on the left side is a complete listing of teaching ideas for other subjects. Note, these are NOT fleshed out lesson plans, these are ideas for lessons, games, and activities. Each idea is leveled for grade(s).

This site connects you to a cool little store in north Seattle that sells all sorts of educational books, accessories, and tools. Additionally it has a great collection of games, science projects, stocking stuffers and books about math.

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.

Need stuff for your classroom, but out of budget $$? This blog site from Richard Byrne is a compendium of ideas for helping the poor teacher get things done in her/his classroom. Info ranges, from Gmail accounts, to embedding You-Tube videos, to borrowing books online.

Many questions are addressed on this site, but this link takes you to a conversation regarding the Essential Questions topics that we addressed in Jean's class.

Dynamic Paper is part of the Illuminations-NCTM site. This cool tool is described as "Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web."

An extensive listing of lesson plans on a myriad of topics. Sorted by year they were created for some reason, and not sortable, but a nice collection of lessons plans.

Teaching science? This site describes the software applications Vernier creates to help teachers and students "see" what is really happening with gravity, parabolas, progressions, etc.

In one of our classes we watched a video of the amazing Mrs. Toliver teaching math. This site has more information about her and the ways she found to make school great every day she taught.

Great site (thanks Robin!) for asking your students to explore graphs populated with real world data. Amazing number of categories to explore and compare with each other to find correlations. Even more amazing is the "PLAY" button that shows your chosen relationships as they have changed over time.