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  • Free Resources for Teachers from PBS
    Posted January 25, 2012 by Rachel Wadham

    The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) provides access to a variety of high-quality preK-12 educational resources at their website PBS Teachers. From lesson plans to on-demand video there is a wide variety of classroom materials suitable for akll content areas and grade levels. Correlated to state and national educational standards and linked to PBS’ on-air and [...]

  • Website On America’s First Languages
    Posted December 28, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

    http://ourmothertongues.org/Home.aspx Produced by by Makepeace Productions in partnership with Cultural Survival and Interactive Knowledge with funding from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB),  the website Our Mother Tongues provides interesting information about American’s native languages including: – LANGUAGE MAP: Explore Native American language programs from Alaska to North Carolina. [...]

  • Open Access EBooks on Cyberbullying from Ebrary
    Posted November 9, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

    ebrary, a major distributor of eBooks, recently  announced that they have added new e-books to their open access collection on cyberbullying.  This collection, which is subsidized by ebrary, now includes over 100 titles, that will help parents, educators, and others better understand, prevent, and take action against this growing concern. Newly added titles include Cyberbullying: [...]

  • Database of Award-Winning Children’s Literature
    Posted October 26, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

    DAWCL is a free website that contains almost 8,000 award-winning, English language titles that have each received one of seventy-nine awards presented in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, or Ireland.  Most entries have summaries, and all can be searched for by reader’s age, setting, historical period, keyword, format, genre, gender of protagonist, [...]

  • Resources from the Center for Applied Linguistics
    Posted October 19, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

    The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) website provides an informative index to collections of online ESL resources.  These resources include their free downloadable digests cover topics from immersion programs to education policy.  Also provided are links to databases and directories such as the foreign language assessment directory with information about over 200 tests in 90 [...]

  • Federal Resources for Educational Excellence Highlight
    Posted October 5, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

    Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) is an superior resources that provides a one stop index to teaching and learning resources provided by federal agencies.  The scope of this website covers all content areas and offers unique resources that can be applied in many different classroom situations.  Here is just one of those many resources: [...]

  • U.S. Department of Education College Costs Website
    Posted July 20, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

    In compliance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act and it an effort to increase transparency about college costs, the U.S. Department of Education has launched the website, College Cost (http://collegecost.ed.gov/)  Information about tuition and other net prices to attend college.  It also shows how these prices are increasing or decreasing.  Searches by type of institution [...]

  • The Vital Role of School Libraries
    Posted June 15, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

    Despite the fact that school librarians in Los Angeles are having to defend their jobs (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0513-tobar-20110513,0,3002882.column), there are many who still believe that libraries are vital (http://www.salon.com/books/libraries_and_librarians/?story=/books/laura_miller/2011/05/11/nypl_centennial).  The vital place school libraries is evident I many recent studies that have shown that there is a strong relationship between a well-staffed, well-funded school library and student [...]

  • Reading Rockets
    Posted May 25, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

    Interested in helping kids not only learn to read but to love books and reading?  Looking for ways to help your struggling reader? Then check out Reading Rockets (http://www.readingrockets.org/)  This website offers resources for professionals and parents to help them learn how to help kids learn to read.  Full of videos, practical tips, research, reading [...]

  • I Love Utah History: A New Website
    Posted May 11, 2011 by Rachel Wadham

    Utah State History has recently launched a new website, “I Love History”  (http://ilovehistory.utah.gov/index.html).  This website covers a variety of topics from people and places to geography and government.  Easy to navigate the websites purpose is to encourage critical thinking and understanding about Utah history.  Adding greatly to the site are the primary documents including photographs, [...]