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Publications:

District-Union Collaboration: A report by the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) explored the power of collaboration between local unions’ and districts’ efforts to close the achievement gaps. Their report highlights the progress, challenges and lessons learned from two districts that are at the forefront of addressing achievement gaps through collaboration: Hamilton County, TN and Clark County, NV. The strategies employed by these two collaborations and outlined in the report help to ensure that educators remain at the center of reform efforts in their districts and schools. Utilizing a powerful tool to build and sustain collaboration, Interest Based Bargaining (IBB), both districts employed a set of strategies aimed to close the achievement gaps through empowering educators. Strategies targeted schools with low levels of student achievement. They included providing mentoring supports to new teachers and embedded professional development and professional learning communities within schools for all teachers; listening to educators’ ideas and building a shared vision and collective action through surveys, focus groups, and school-based leadership teams; and providing financial incentives to teachers. The report includes strategies and tips for other union leaders, district officials, policy makers and stakeholders.

Funding for this effort was provided by The NEA Foundation.

Full Report | Report Summary

Connecting the Bits provides information for integrating technology into teaching and learning in K-12 schools.

Creating a Teacher Mentoring Program outlines issues and questions that school districts, teacher associations, and universities should consider when developing mentor programs.

Creating Teacher-Led Professional Development Centers identifies guiding questions and issues to consider when designing teacher-led professional development centers.

Engaging Public Support for Teachers' Professional Development outlines issues that education employees and advocates should consider when preparing a public engagement effort.

Teachers Take Charge of Their Learning asserts that continuous teacher learning is the key to helping students achieve high standards and that the profession itself must take responsibility for weaving continuous learning into the fabric of the teaching job.

Teachers with Class: True Stories of Great Teachers, a special gift volume by Marsha Serling Goldberg and Sonia Feldman, honors the outstanding work of educators throughout the United States. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the book will be donated to The NEA Foundation.

Using Data about Classroom Practice and Student Work to Improve Professional Development for Educators examines how data analysis can be the focus of teacher learning and how it can help guide sound decision-making about professional development.

Using Data to Improve Teacher Induction Programs investigates an essential, yet often overlooked, aspect of teacher induction: data collection and analysis to determine results. It also examines the roles that unions, together with school districts and their partners, can play to improve induction programs through better use of data and other strategies.

Technology and Science Resources:

National Science Foundation

National Teachers Enhancement Network

Education with New Technologies

Project 2061: Science Literacy for a Changing Future

Federal Resources for Educational Technology

Federal Resources for Science

International Society for Technology in Education

Virtual Immersion Science Inquiry for Teachers

Arts Education Resources:

National Endowment for the Arts

ArtsEdge

ArtsEdNet

Surdna Foundation Arts Programs

Federal Resources for the Arts

Humanities & Social Sciences Resources:

Pennies for Peace is a service learning program that helps children broaden
their cultural horizons, as well as discover their own capacities as philanthropists. Pennies for Peace - building bridges of peace, one penny
at a time.

Beyond Words is a new school library disaster kit that provides advice on emergency preparedness, district resources, basic planning and emergency kit fundamentals. With support from the Dollar General Foundation, the National Education Association, The NEA Foundation, the American Library Association and the American Association of School Librarians this easily accessible toolkit and poster was developed to help librarians prepare for the unthinkable.

AskAsia

EDSITEment

National Endowment for the Humanities

Linguanet Europa

Federal Resources for Language Arts

Federal Resources for Social Studies

National Geographic Expeditions

Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trips

ePALS Language and Culture Exchange

Mathematics Resources:

Federal Resources for Mathematics

Math Forum Teachers' Place