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New Resources

American Indian Reading Series
All 140 titles All 140 titles in this acclaimed series of culturally relevant stories are now posted on-line. The booklets, written and illustrated by local American Indian artists and authors, are geared to Levels 1-6. Out-of-print for several years, the stories and teacher’s manuals can be downloaded and used free of charge for educational purposes. www.nwrel.org/indianed/indianreading/index.html

Help for Mentoring Programs
This site features a generic policy and procedure manual for mentoring programs that is designed to help streamline operations, address risk management issues and ensure quality and consistency of services. The manual contains everything a program needs to create a sustainable set of program, rules, guidelines and procedures. www.nwrel.org/mentoring/policy_manual.html 

ESEA Reference Sites

Text of the Law
www.ed.gov/legislation/ESEA02 
 
Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Overview of ESEA 
http://webserver2.ascd.org/web/focus/overview.cfm?pageid=34
 
American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
Resources and Best Practices for Implementing ESEA 2001
www.aasa.org/issues_and_insights/ESEA/ESEA_best_of_web_index.htm

Other State Associations

Association of Washington School Principals 
www.awsp.org
 
Washington State Learning First Alliance
www.sbe.wa.gov/WSLF/wslfa.htm
 
Northwest Regional Education Laboratory
www.nwrel.org
 
Partnership for Learning
www.partnership4learning.org 
 
Washington Association of School Administrators
www.wasa-oly.org
 
Washington Education Association
wa.nea.org 
 
Washington Education Research Association
www.wera-web.org
 
Washington State Parent Teachers Association
www.wastatepta.org
 
Washington State School Directors' Association
www.wssda.org 

Useful Educational Links

www.4teachers.org
sampling of best teaching practices
 
www.learning.space.org
A learning site for teachers
 
www.wateach.com
Site listing of available teaching positions
 
www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/
U.S. Dept. of Education - Office of Educational Research and Improvement
 
www.edhelper.com
Contains teacher lesson plans in a variety of content areas
 
http://valetc.com
Resources for educators on brain research, facility planning, science inquiry, and Native American curriculum
 
www.ruralschools.net
On-line support and resources for educators in smaller, rural schools.
 
www.learningconnections.org/ai/
The Center for Learning Connections serves community and technical college administration in Washington State. The Appreciative Inquiry page on its Web site examines an approach to organizational change based on strengths rather than weaknesses, on a vision of what is possible rather than an analysis of what is not.

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