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General K-12 Education & Education Portals

Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction
This site provides subject-oriented curriculum links and general information from DPI including job openings, Wisconsin education calendar, and links to other Wisconsin resources.
IDEAS
The IDEAS web site provides Wisconsin educators access to high-quality, highly usable, teacher-reviewed web-based resources for curricula, content, lesson plans, professional development and other selected resources. These resources help Wisconsin educators use technology to meet the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards and create the foundation for a statewide knowledge management system.
GEM: The Gateway to Educational Materials
A consortial effort by professional educators and organizations to provide quick and easy access to high quality educational materials on the internet. Browse by subject or search by subject, keyword and grade level. Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Educator's Reference Desk
The Educator's Reference Desk contains 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the Internet, useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.
Education World
Education World provides links to education related sites only so educators can find information without searching the entire Internet; searchable by topic and grade level. Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom.
KidsClick!
This fantastic site offers a searchable collection of quality internet sites. Created by librarians and no advertising.
Pitsco Launch to Resources for Teachers
The Pitsco Launch site is arranged by categories such as Activities, Curricula, Grants & Funding, Special Needs, the Pitsco site provides links of educational resources for educators.
Ednow.org
A portal site targeted at the K-12 community, the "resources" section on the left provides a wealth of links arranged by subject.
Microsoft Innovative Teachers
This Microsoft portal site targets all K-12 teachers, providing links to resources, online discussions, interviews, and lesson plans. Also teacher-oriented tutorials for MS products such as Access, FrontPage, etc.
700+ Great Sites
700+ Great Sites, provided by the American Library Association, is a great site with a lot of links to websites for kids and the adults who care about them.
Classroom Connect on the Net
Classroom Connect provides a wealth of K-12 information, maintained by the publishers of the newsletter "Classroom Connect".
Busy Teacher's Cafe
The Busy Teacher's Website offers resources, ideas, lesson plans, free printables, and more. Many resources are organized by theme.
Tired Teacher's Website K-12
Tired Teacher's Website K-12 offers lesson plans, source materials, and classroom activities for grades K-12 indexxed by topic.
Education Central
Education Central is an electronic communication and resource center for professional educators. It is a vehicle by which all educators can exchange views and experience, questions and answers, broaden their collegial associations, discuss educational issues and policy, and easily find resources related to professional education.
Scholastic Central
From Scholastic Books, this site offers areas for Teachers, Parents, and Kids and provides a wealth of information from technology in schools to links to their "Magic Schoolbus" and "Goosebumps" pages.
AASL Online Continuing Education
The American Association of School Librarians provides opportunities for continuing education.
National Center for Education Statistics
The U.S. Department of Education provides information, programs and publications from the federal government, including a link to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Assn. for Experiential Education
The mission of the Association for Experiential Education is to develop and promote experiential education. The Association is committed to support professional development, theoretical advancement, and evaluation of experiential education worldwide.
Center for Research on Learning & Technology
Located at Indiana University, this Center is dedicated to helping people find the appropriate application of technology to improve teaching & learning in diverse settings.
Teaching Copyright
A customizable learning plan designed to assist educators in providing students with fact based, unbiased information about copyright laws as well as their rights and responsibilities as users of technology and media. 
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