Resources & Tools
AskERIC
http://ericir.syr.edu
AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education
information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and
others throughout the United States and the world. AskERIC encompasses the
resources of the entire ERIC system and beyond. Got an education question?
AskERIC!
Audiblox: Resources for Dyslexia and other Learning Difficulties
www.audiblox2000.com
Developed by Dr. Jan Strydom (MA, HED, DEd), Audiblox is a system of
cognitive exercises which are effective in overcoming dyslexia and other
learning difficulties by addressing the underlying shortcomings that interfere
with academic performance.
FinalSite
www.finalsite.com
A parent frantically searches a school Web site for a child ’ urgent homework
assignment. A principal wants to use the school Web site to explain to parents
the new district discipline policy. A private school admissions officer wants to
use the Web to promote the schools’ record of academic excellence and recruit
new students. Thanks to finalsite®, it’s now possible for schools to
benefit more from their Web sites and spend less money. finalsite software, from
Active Internet Technologies of East
Hartford, CT, enables even non-technical school staff members to create, edit,
maintain, manage and publish pages in real time. If they can use Microsoft®
Word®, they can post content to the school Web site.
FL2010
(Financial Literacy 2010)
www.fl2010.org
FL2010 is a joint project of the nonprofit Investor Protection Trust, the
North American Securities Administrators Association and CT state securities
agency, and the National Association of Securities Dealers Office of Individual
Investor Services. The project tackles the financial illiteracy in our schools
by providing teachers with the tools, training and support they need to do
something about this major national problem. Produced in conjunction with the
National Institute for Consumer Education at Eastern Michigan University in
Ypsilanti, the core product of FL2010 is the "Basics of Savings", a
multi-module teaching guide that is available both in print and online.
The Future of Children
www.futureofchildren.org
The primary purpose of The Future of Children is to disseminate timely
information on major issues related to children's well-being, with special
emphasis on providing objective analysis and evaluation, translating existing
knowledge into effective programs and policies, and promoting constructive
institutional change.
Gradeworks.com
www.gradeworks.com
FREE web-based tool for teachers that promotes communication between parents,
teachers and students by giving the families easy access to grades, assignments, schedules
and class activities in a secure environment that’s available 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week.
Global Response
www.globalresponse.org/teachers.html
Global Response, a non-profit environmental organization, offers a great
resource for bringing environmental education to students. Teachers can sign up
to receive the YEA (Young Environmentalist's Action) or ECA
(Eco-Club Action) Bulletins. The organization can also give presentations.
Action Bulletins and presentations provide students with current, accurate
information about critical environmental issues and the people, animals, and
plants that need protection. The Bulletins also provide students with
information about how they can help.
Healthy Eating Active
Living Resource Toolkit
www.cthaned.org/HEALRT/highlights.htm
Putting together a Wellness Committee in your school? Check out the
Healthy Eating Active Living Resource Toolkit. The Purpose of the Toolkit
is to encourage the building of partnerships and opportunities for collaboration
across a large, diverse group of community members. The toolkit can help promote
understanding and identification of policies, practices, and environmental
factors that affect nutrition and physical activity choices in a community.
The toolkit includes a list of practical tools to facilitate and support
community efforts for improving nutrition and physical activity. The Toolkit
provides guidance for establishing your team and planning for change, working
effectively with the media and initiating activities and interventions.
iCONN
The Connecticut Digital Library
Click here for more information
K2College.com
www.k2college.com
K2College is a unique destination that provides quality materials in math
and English language arts from kindergarten through college. It also provides
specialized studies in Information Technology and CAD/CAM at the college level.
K2College offers a broad selection of well-designed electronic books (ebooks),
instructional lessons, activities, and games.
K12Nation.net
The mission of K12Nation is to enhance the educational experience of K-12
teacher, students and their parents with free online communications tools.
http://k12nation.net
National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse
www.recruitingteachers.org
The new National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse site was launched to help
schools meet the demand for educators, fueled by record school attendance
levels.
NetDayCompass
www.netdaycompass.org
NCES Classroom
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids
Features include in-depth college search, educational games, activities,
and statistics about America’s schools
ParenTech
www.parentech.org
Site is helpful to educators who want to incorporate technology into their
classrooms. Resource kits, guides, tips, case studies, success stories, lesson plans, and
links to other resources. Resource kits are free, thanks to a grant from Ameritech. Geared
mainly towards middle-school educators.
REDI Emergency Planning Software For
Schools
www.mil.state.ct.us/OEM.HTM
The Connecticut State Office of Emergency Management purchased special software
to be used for emergency planning by all Connecticut Public Schools. The
software known as "REDI" was introduced to School Districts in special training
sessions held at the 6 Regional Educational Training Centers located throughout
the State during September 2002, and an additional training session that was
held in December 2002. The REDI software provides a unique management system
that gives school personnel the same framework to address emergencies as first
responders. As the trainers from the Office of Emergency Management stated it,
"our administrators and teachers are first responders to any emergency until
fire or police appear". Therefore, school administrators and teachers would
benefit by having a similar management system and the terminology would also
give them the ability to communicate more effectively with first responders when
they appear.
reQuest - the Statewide Library
Catalog of Connecticut
ReQuest is the Statewide Library Catalog of Connecticut
Click here for more information
SafetyEd International
SafetyEd works in many areas of Internet Safety
Click here for more information
SchoolCenter
www.k12schoolwebpages.com
The School Center program allows for the development and maintenance of a fully
functioning website for your school. Administrators, teachers and students can
have unlimited web pages, which would include calendars, scrapbooks and much
much more.
SharkFriends
www.sharkfriends.com
This site is dedicated to educating visitors about sharks! The
site attempts to dispel the myths and highlight the truths about these wonderful
and intriguing animals that swim our oceans! This site focuses on sharks, but
also shares information about other sea animals too. Great site for students and
teachers!
StudyWeb
Click here for more information
Teachers Discuss
http://oeri3.ed.gov:8000/Teachers
Experimental site launched by the Dept. of Education where teachers can
share ideas on 10 topics ranging from class size to special education.
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Cultural Arts Programs
EnrichmentLink
www.enrichmentlink.com
EnrichmentLink, known to many as the former EventsLink, was created in the early
'00s by a small group of cultural arts/PTA moms determined to find a more
efficient way to discover performers and programs for their schools. Through
years of hard work and lots of fun along the way, they not only found a better
way, they created it. EnrichmentLink was developed to make the lives of all
cultural arts volunteers (and parents in general) somewhat easier.
Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau
www.waldenplay.com
"Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau" is an educational performance play about the
final two days Henry David Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden
Pond.
This two act, one set, four character play is designed for use
by high schools and colleges. The play script (available in English and Spanish)
plus a customized lesson plan are being made available FREE OF CHARGE to 10,000
schools in the USA, Canada and around the world for performance as an Earth Day
2007 event.
Thoreau is America's original "tree hugger" and forefather of
our environmental movement. He was a gentle naturalist, earth lover, author,
pencil maker - and is the most quoted American writer in history. Yet, when he
passed, he was more well known for having helped market the pencil than for a
single word he wrote with it. Aside from the massive educational nature of this
project (consider the Earth Day event, American literature, environmental and
science tie-in plus conservation) Thoreau certainly matches the imagery of what
Earth Day means across the country and worldwide.
Beginning October 15, 2006, educators can go to the website
with a provided password to access the teachers page. There you will be able to
download the play as a 55 page PDF, posters, theater programs, handbills and the
lesson plan.
The project is underwritten and endorsed by the national
Earth Day Network (Washington, DC) American Forests (Washington DC) and the
Dixon-Ticonderoga pencil company (FLORIDA.)
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CiviConnections:
Constructing the Past, Creating the Future.
The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) has received a grant
from the federal Corporation for National and Community Service to fund
“CiviConnections: Constructing the Past, Creating the Future.” The new
program will provide an opportunity for teacher teams and students in
grades 3-12 to link local historical inquiry with community
service-learning activities. Thirty-three teams of teachers will be
awarded grants of $7,500 for implementing the program in classrooms and
communities all across America. Application deadline: April 30, 2004.
CLICK HERE
"Teaching Tolerance Grant Program"
The Teaching Tolerance project of the Southern Poverty Law Center offers
grants of up to $2,000 to K-12 classroom teachers for implementing
tolerance and youth activism projects in their schools and communities.
Proposals from other educators such as community organizations and
churches will be considered on the basis of direct student impact.
Proposal deadline: ongoing.
CLICK HERE
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Grants Programs
$500 Dollar Grants Available to School Music Programs
www.hornsforkids.org
Grants of up-to $500 dollars are available now to Connecticut school music
programs. Horns For Kids, a non-profit subsidiary of The Great CT Jazz
Festival, is offering the grants to support music education in Connecticut
schools. The grant application is available now on-line at the Horns For Kids
website: www.hornsforkids.org.
Applications must be received by Friday, April 16. Co-directors of
Horns For Kids, Fred Rossomando and Lee Walkup, were successful music educators
for 32 years in Wallingford and Shelton, respectively, and have operated Grace
Recording Studio in Hamden since 1974. Rossomando and Walkup hope that Horns For
Kids will help schools create opportunities for young people to develop a
passion for music. Horns For Kids also accepts donations of new or used
instruments, and distributes them to schools. For information on Grants or
instrument donations, visit their website
or call (203) 288-9771.
Grantionary
www.eduplace.com/grants/help/grantionary.html
The Grantionary is a list of grant-related terms and their definitions.
GRANTS.GOV
http://www.grants.gov
This site allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive
grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Navigation of the
site is simple. The site includes customer support resources that will help you
find answers to your questions.
GrantsAlert
www.grantsalert.com
GrantsAlert is a website that helps nonprofits, especially those involved in
education, secure the funds they need to continue their important work.
Grant Writing Tips
www.schoolgrants.org/grant_tips.htm
SchoolGrants has compiled an excellent set of grant writing tips for those that
need help in developing grant proposals.
FastWEB
www.fastweb.com
FastWEB is the largest online scholarship search available, with 600,000
scholarships representing over one billion in scholarship dollars. It provides
students with accurate, regularly updated information on scholarships, grants,
and fellowships suited to their goals and qualifications, all at no cost to the
student. Students should be advised that FastWEB collects and sells student
information (such as name, address, e-mail address, date of birth, gender, and
country of citizenship) collected through their site.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
www.ed.gov/free
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of
federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result
of that work is the FREE website.
Fundsnet Online Services
www.fundsnetservices.com
A comprehensive website dedicated to providing nonprofit organizations,
colleges, and Universities with information on financial resources available on
the Internet.
Department of Education Forecast of Funding
www.ed.gov/offices/OCFO/grants/forecast.html
This document lists virtually all programs and competitions under which the
Department of Education has invited or expects to invite applications for new
awards for FY 2003 and provides actual or estimated deadline dates for the
transmittal of applications under these programs. The lists are in the form of
charts - organized according to the Department's principal program offices - and
include programs and competitions the Department has previously announced, as
well as those it plans to announce at a later date. Note: This document is
advisory only and is not an official
application notice of the Department of Education.
eSchool News School Funding Center
www.eschoolnews.com/resources/funding
Information on up-to-the-minute grant programs, funding sources, and technology
funding.
Philanthropy News Digest-K-12 Funding Opportunities
http://fdncenter.org/funders
K-12 Funding opportunities with links to grant-seeking for teachers, learning
technology, and more.
School Funding Services Grant of the Week"
www.schoolfundingservices.org
Each week, School Funding Services, a division of New American Schools,
features a new grant on their website. This week they highlight the Gannett
Foundation, Inc. Grant. This grant program supports qualified nonprofit
organizations to improve the education, health, and advancement of the people in
those communities in which Gannett Co., Inc. has a local daily newspaper or
television station. The Foundation values projects which take a creative
approach to such fundamental issues as education and neighborhood improvement,
economic development, youth development, community problem-solving, assistance
to disadvantaged people, environmental conservation and cultural enrichment.
School Grants
www.schoolgrants.org
A collection of resources and tips to help K-12 educators apply for and obtain
special grants for a variety of projects.
Team Nutrition
Grant
The Connecticut State Department of Education was selected to receive funding
for a USDA Team Nutrition Grant for the period of September 30, 2004
through September 30, 2006 CLICK HERE
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