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Colorful Pushpin U.S. Department of Education
Find the latest educational news, lists of educational publications, legal discussions, featured sites and more here. This is an award winning site with lots to offer.

Colorful Pushpin Teacher/Pathfinder - an Educational Internet Village
Wow! This colorful site offers many nice options for educators. Items on professional development, information and resources on all fields of study, ideas for working with parents and more are all available here. You will want to bookmark this one.

Colorful Pushpin AskERIC
Here you can browse the ERIC virtual library, get lesson plans for an upcoming instructional unit, search for any education related topic, and much more. This is a very nice, user friendly site for educators.

Colorful Pushpin Teaching and Learning Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
This site features tips and teaching suggestions as well as resources on teaching. Though these are written for the university staff, the suggestions are often very usable for teachers of younger students. Several of particular interest are noted below:
A Spinning Golden Ball The Most Important Day: Starting Well
A Spinning Golden Ball Learning Students' Names
A Spinning Golden Ball 101 Things You Can Do the First Three Weeks of Class
A Spinning Golden Ball Questions for Lesson Planning
A Spinning Golden Ball Question Types

Colorful Pushpin A Berkley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence
This is an excellent list of teaching tips with short related readings. Just looking over the list can be beneficial in bringing back to mind the things we know about good teaching.

Colorful Pushpin Illinois State Center for the Advancement of Teaching - Teaching Tips
Colorful PushpinScholastic for Teachers
This site offers many resources for teachers, from online discussions on teaching to reproducible lesson plans. Check out some of their many offerings.

Colorful Pushpin 10 Big Myths about Copywrite Explained
Questions about what is and is not copywrited material on the Internet are frequent and the answers often confusing. The information given at this site may help to clear up some of the more common misunderstandings.

Colorful Pushpin Newspapers in Education Online
This site offers information about newspapers with educational support. It also lists many other educational sites in specific curricular areas.

Colorful Pushpin Ed Web - Homeroom
There is a wealth of information here, especially related to teaching and the Internet. Ed Web's purpose is to "explore technology and school reform". This site is well worth a visit.

Colorful Pushpin Current Issues in Education
This is an excellent online educational journal. Published by the College of Education at Arizona University, you should find this scholarly work to be both interesting and helpful.

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