http://www.alaskanative.net/
The Alaska Native Heritage Center offers a wealth of information about Alaska
native cultures, resources, and teaching-learning ideas.
http://www.stedwards.edu/cte/resources/blooms.htm
St. Edward's University (Austin, Texas) offers a multipage website with ideas
for using effective questions, especially for enhancing higher-order thinking.
Includes samples of questions based on Bloom's taxonomy.
http://www.tolerence.org
Teaching Tolerance, the educational arm of the Southern Poverty Law Center in
Montgomery, Alabama, offers an excellent, comprehensive array of activities and
materials that promote positive social interaction, especially focused on reducing
racism and group prejudice. Its "Mixing It Up" materials provide grade-appropriate
tools and resources that promote "mixing it up" among children of different ethnic
and cultural groups.
http://www.esrnational.org
The website of Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR), a national organization
whose focus is developing social skills, caring classroom climates, and effective
educational responses to local, national, and international crises. ESR offers
curriculum units for all grade levels as well as teacher workshops and school
presentations.
http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
The Northeast Foundation for Children in Greenfield, Massachusetts, offers a classroom-tested
approach called "The Responsive Classroom." Schools adopting the RC approach commit
to a set of practices that range from physical furniture arrangements and structured
classroom meetings to discovery learning and communication with families, all
directed at maintaining a climate that fosters responsibility, support, self-control,
self-motivation, independence, and a sense of community. RC offers workshops and
a regular newsletter.
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/friends/bullies/index.html
Created by PBSKids, this website offers children definitions of bullying and ways
to combat it, including how to handle the role of innocent bystander and how to
create bully-free zones. Teachers can find lesson plans to support a feeling of
community and safety in their classrooms.
http://www.rethinkingschools.org
Rethinking Schools is an organization of educators dedicated to teaching for social
justice and curriculum reform. It publishes a journal and book of articles describing
classroom strategies undertaken by teachers working for social change. The website
offers online articles, resources, and links to related associations of researchers,
activists, and practitioners.
http://www.mpbn.net/educators/index.html
Maine Public Broadcasting System's series of programs on Maine history includes
"People of the Dawn," the story of the state's native tribes (Wabanaki) and their
contemporary issues. Includes sample lessons for teachers and background information.