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  • Dr. Douglas Reeves answers your questions about educational assessment, accountability, and standards.
  • Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs, president of Curriculum Designers, Inc.  Consulting services include: staff development, keynote addresses, curriculum reviews, publications, district planning and corporate consultations.    
  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation  This site provides balanced information concerning educational assessment, evaluation and research methodology.  It also provides resources to encourage the responsible use of educational data.
  • Grant Wiggins/Jay McTighe The Understanding by Design Exchange is a cooperative Web site devoted to the development and peer review of curriculum units. Understanding by Design is a research-based approach to curriculum development created by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.
  • Test Preview This site gives you the opportunity to practice the SAT for free.

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  • The Backyard Project seeks to build young women's awareness of careers in the computer industry. The Project does this through numerous avenues, including the hosting of field trips to high tech industry offices, sponsorship of career day conferences, disseminating information to high schools, and coordinating interviews for Backyard Girls with industry role models. In addition, the Backyard Project sponsors a summer computer camp for girls interested in careers in the computer industry.
  • Bridges is a wonderful site to browse for career opportunities. The HUHS Counseling Department highly recommends this site.  Please contact Pat Redmond if your school is interested in a free trial of this program.
  • Moraine Park Technical College Check this site out for a wide variety of information about Moraine Park Technical College.

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  • Axios Corporation is home of The Behavioral Elements and The Character Encyclopedia. We created The Behavioral Elements Character Classification System that is used in businesses and schools in over twenty states. Axios Corp. is a leading content provider of objective tools for exploring behavioral character in the home and classroom, and a leading content and services provider for developing professional character in the workplace.
  • Caring Teachers  What is caring?  Why is it important in schools?  How can it be nurtured?  Answers to these questions can be found on this attractive and helpful Web site.  An excellent array of lesson plans helps teachers develop the skills and attitudes of caring in students of all ages.
  • Character Counts! Some great resources and classroom ideas.
  • The Character Education Partnership,  National Schools of Character and organizations supported by many national associations.
  • Ethics Resource Center, The Character Education Encyclopedia in this source is interactive and contains many fine links.
  • www.searchinstitute.org 
  • http://www.tolerance.org

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  • AeraSig, Fifty scholarly electronic journals in the field of education.  (Full text accessible without cost)
  • Awesome Library Information and resources on how to teach, well, just about anything!
  • Education World A searchable guide to Web-based education resources in every content area for teachers, students and administrators.
  • EducatorsNet.com Resources on major education topics including safe schools and school reform.
  • The Gateway to Educational Materials, search for instructional materials from over 140 states, federal, nonprofit and commercial websites.
  • Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. Free learning resources available from more than 40 federal agencies
  • Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, a site that is making a difference in the quality of education and learning for all through excellence in applied research, product development, and service.
  • WiscNet, Networking for Wisconsin, a site that brings together public and private colleges and universities in Wisconsin to bring Internet access to their faculty, staff and students.

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  • Family Education.com to connect with information, with experts, and with each other to create a supportive and engaging community.

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  • AOL.School, this site has a variety of teaching tools, including sources for lesson plans and a free newsletter.
  • ARTSEDGE supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the creative and appropriate uses of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach in, through and about the arts.
  • Ask Eric, access to lesson plans in eleven different categories
  • CEC Home Page, to access lesson plans and many fine links to lesson plan sites.
  • Education World, a website with an unbelievable amount of fascinating information!
  • Fast Search, This appropriately named search engine found 10, 807 documents in only 0.0774 seconds!
  • Google provides a feature that finds Web pages linked to each item.

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  • The Copyright Implementation Manual Have you ever wondered exactly what you and your students are allowed to photocopy? Copyright law is complex, constantly evolving, and open to a wide range of legal interpretation.  This policy from Groton Public Schools in Mystic, Connecticut, serves as a model to help schools traverse the waters of intellectual property and copyright law.
  • http://www.adec.edu/user/copyright.html  Discusses electronic media copyright issues.
  • http://www.copyright.com Another site that has interesting information about copyrights.

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Attention School Webmasters:  If you would like your web page linked here, please email Curriculum Webmaster and we will be more than happy to add your school to our links page.

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