LESSON PLANNING, CURRICULUM GUIDES, AND MORE

Yahoo Links Directory for K-12 educators resources. Searchable by content area, grade level, state and national standards, etc.

PBS for Teachers - great resources! Downloads, curriculum guides, lesson plans, video, images, sound files and integrated curricular guides

Community Learning Network, "a site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you’ll find over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search."

Sites for Teachers - over 1,100 sites for teachers, ranked by popularity - almost everything is free.

Education World (outstanding and contemporary site) - Lesson Planning, Professional Development, Administrator's Desk, Technology Integration, and School Issues.

Teachnet - A site designed by and for teachers. Lesson plans, Power tools (tips for improving your classroom, skills, organization), and Sharing.

http://www.assortedstuff.com/top101/
top 101 teacher web sites

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/
PowerPoint games for review

http://www.60secondscience.com/
Great site for science activities

http://www.nasa.gov/home/

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Wonderful website for kids, a lot to explore and do, current events and topics

http://littlekids.nationalgeographic.com/littlekids/index.html 
Same as above except for preschool age

http://today.answers.com/
Interesting facts about each day

http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching
Literacy support

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
Miscellaneous information – all levels

http://www.how-to-study.com/
Great study skills

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/javatimer/JavaTimer.html
Java timer

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
Digital math manipulatives

http://www.tolerance.org/teach/index.jsp
Teaching tolerance in the classroom

http://www.rti4success.org/
New site for response to intervention strategies

http://www.ldonline.org/
Source for information on learning disabilities and strategies to use in the classroom

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (ELL)

http://www.thecenterweb.org/library/
ELL strategies

http://www.colorincolorado.org/
A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners

http://www.everythingesl.net/
Outstanding site with lesson plans, resources, research, teaching tips

http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/elementary_sites_ells_71638.php
Elementary Web Sites for English Language Learners - organized by Grade Level

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html
Office of English Language Acquisition (Department of Education)

BULLYING

http://www.pacer.org/bullying 
Resource about bullying for elementary and special education students

http://www.pbis.org/main.htm
Resources for elementary, middle and high school regarding PBIS

http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/
Great resource for dealing with bullying 

LEARNING STANDARDS

Learning Standards Search - All 50 States

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

You Can Handle Them All - a searchable list of behaviors, with explanations of why students behave in certain ways, as well as practical and effective means of responding to unacceptable behaviors in the school setting.

Teachnet.com's resources for classroom mangagement.

http://www.interventioncentral.org/
Classroom management strategies

OFFICIAL STATE OF ILLINOIS EDUCATION SITES

Illinois School Code - Maintained by the Illinois General Assembly

Illinois State Board of Education

SCHOOL REPORT CARDS, STATE LEGAL INFORMATION, RULES AND REGULATIONS

http://www.isbe.net/
Illinois State Board of Education

http://webprod.isbe.net/ereportcard/publicsite/
default.htm
Source for school report cards

http://iirc.niu.edu/
Interactive Illinois Report Card

http://www.state.il.us/DCFS/FAQ
DCFS – FAQs

http://www.icts.nesinc.com/
IL testing website – teacher certification