Professional Resources
(This page is dedicated to "Ms. Research Says..." Caren Abbott,
who walks the walk and is always searching for a better way...she loves purple by the way!)

Congratulations Caren!!!  The 2002-2003 Teacher of the Year at Orlando Tech (She is a teacher in the Early Childhood Department)!!!

Loving Guidance	Educators for Social Responsibility
Responsive Classroom	NAEYC
Courage to Teach	BrainGym
Building Blocks Literacy Model	Building Blocks Resources
Dr. Dick's Picks (Richard Allington's site!)	Stenhouse Publishers (Read books online!!)
Reading Lady	Mosaic of Thought
The Wright Group	Joy Cowley
Donald Graves	Florida Reading Association
Kidwriting	Literacy Center.net
Math Their Way	Investigations Math
AIMS	Box It or Bag It Math
Todd Parr	Mem Fox
Nancy Carlson	Teachers Net
Busy Teachers Cafe	Learning Station
Dr. Jean	Jack Hartmann
Heinemann Books	Kidwriting
Mr. Al	Kevin Henkes
A to Z Teacher's Stuff	Hubbard's Cupboard
Webbing Into Literacy	ABC123 Kindergarten
Preschool Printables	Nellie Edge
Laura Numeroff	AddALL (Buy books cheap!)
4 Blocks/Building Blocks "Goodies"	Building Blocks Resources/Links
TinSnips	ReadyWeb (This is a great site for school readiness  information and resources)
Tribes	Kididdles
The Best Kids' Book Site	Moral Intelligence.com
NIEHS Kid Pages (This site has song lyrics and MIDIs!)	National Institute for Literacy
Kindergarten Kafe	TeacherFeatures.com
The Teacher's Guide	DLTK Teacher Resources
Early Childhood.com	Project Approach
	The Teachers' Parking Lot
Daily Apples (Inspirational quotes and more for teachers!)	Charlotte Diamond
Bry-Back Manor	PrimaryGames.com
PeaceJams (info and links on peace education)	Association for Conflict Resolution
CRU Institute (Conflict Resolution resources)	Proveneffective.com
National Child Care Information Center	Child Trends DataBank
Bank Street College	Bank Street College/America Reads
ahaprocess, inc. (Ruby Payne's website-she is a noted researcher on working with children in poverty)	SDE (Jim Grant is a FANTASTIC speaker on early childhood education and where it's headed!!)
Jerrie's Curriculum Hotlists (TONS of ideas)	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Busy Educator's Guide to the World Wide Web	The School Page
Early Literacy Telecollaborative Project	Early Childhood Research & Practice (Lilian Katz is the editor!)
Safe Culture Project
The Global Classroom	whocaresonline.com
Educational Resources Information Network (Go to the AskEric link for easier navigating)	123 Kidz area.com
Idea Box	Early Childhood Educators' and Family Web Corner
trelease-on-reading.com (Jim Trelease's site) *Check out the section on rain gutter bookshelves!!!	Kids Care Clubs
Tom Chapin ("Together Tomorrow" is one of the most beautiful songs-my kids (and me!) love it...)	edutopia (The George Lucas Foundation-check out their Emotional Intelligence link)
The Guidance Channel	Education Planet
Literacy Collaborative @ The Ohio State University	Mrs. Hicks' Educational Links
SECA (Southern Early Childhood Association)	Connect For Kids (You can track our current legislation's every move at the national and state level!)
KinderArt	Science Inquiry Model
Literacy Empowerment Foundation (This organization offers books at reduced costs and has a recycling program your school can participate in that trades books for recycling receipts)	LITE (Literacy, Information and Technology in Education)
CASEL	National Kindergarten Alliance
antiracism.com/coAction	JRichardGentry.com
Math Solutions Online (Marilyn Burns' site)	Teacher Information Network
Center for Social and Emotional Education	Developmental Studies Center
The Center for Advancement of Ethics and Character	6 Seconds-Emotional Intelligence Network
National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth	Committee for Children
The American Association for the Child's Right to Play	Creative Classroom Online
Early Childhood Today (My Favorite Magazine!)	Scholastic Resources:  Dr. Bruce Perry (Dr. Perry is one of the leading international experts on the brain and children's mental health-this is a collection of some of his articles published by Scholastic)
TeacherView.com	The Global Schoolhouse
NAPTA (National Association for Prevention of Teacher Abuse)	Educators Writing For Change
Early Childhood Educators Home Page	IPPA
Tammy's Tidbits	Awesome Library
The Chalkboard	iKeepBookmarks.com
Starfall (Order free materials!)	NAECS/SDE
Reading Matters	Developmental Studies Center
Building Blocks Publishing	Kid's Page Archive
Educational Games	Hummingbird Educational Resources
Linda's Links for Teachers-n-Things	Kindergarten.com
ReadWriteThink	Marcia's Lesson Links (This is a great site-so much hard work was put into it-WOW!!)
HeartMath (I cannot recommend this site enough!!  This is really amazing breakthrough research-please visit and see!)	Overstock.com (You can get major deals on books!!)
Literacy Connections	Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
child-reading-tips.com	NCTE (Check out the article, "No More Letter of the Week")
Brains.org	bigchalk
Succeed to Read	BrainConnection
Expeditionary Learning Home Page	National Service Learning Clearinghouse
Learning In Deed National Commission on Service Learning	Learn and Serve
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project	Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
KizClub (Great printables!)	Baby Bumblebee (Free printables)
Lighthouse Records (Vincent Nunes' site-I Love Him!!)	Ooey Gooey.com (Lisa Murphy's site-she rocks!!)
LoveTwoTeach

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