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The Teaching Excellence Network (TEN) is a free online professional community for teachers across subject areas, grade levels, and school types, welcoming student teachers, new teachers, experienced teachers, and retired teachers to grow and learn together.

What Can Teachers Do On TEN?

- Explore key issues in online discussions
- Share teaching tips, advice, experiences, and insights
- Recommend and review books, website links, and articles
- Find out about grants, conferences, and other opportunities for teachers
- Keep up-to-date on education with our automatically updated education news feeds
- Publish articles, stories, journal entries, and personal narrative about your teaching experience

This site was developed by Connie Amon, a teacher at Orozco Academy. The resources and activities provide a way for educators to use numerous online tools to support academic achievement.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence makes it easy to find learning resources from more than 35 federal organizations. Resources include teaching ideas, learning activities, photos, maps, primary documents, data, paintings, sound recordings, and more. New resources are posted every day.

The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. The site provides resources and information for numerous subject areas.

This resource from The Master Teacher, Inc. offers a discipline model with options for handling 117 student behaviors. The model is designed to enable teachers and other school staff to work together for a mutually satisfying solution to student problems.

The Works4Me Tips Library is an archive for National Education Association's Weekly Classroom Tips E-Mail. Get practical tips about starting school, getting organized, classroom management, delivery, building relationships and using technology.

The Illinois Resource Center (IRC) provides assistance to teachers and administrators serving linguistically and culturally diverse students. Its programs have helped thousands of teachers develop effective instructional practices for language minority students.

DiscoverySchool.com provides innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students and smart advice for parents about how to help their kids enjoy learning and excel in school. It provides lesson plans, teacher's store, custom classroom, teaching tools, curriculum center, on TV and homework helpers.

The Springfield Township High School Virtual Library has developed a "Research Guide", a series of web links designed to help students master the preparation of research projects and provides an excellent source of help for teachers to present curriculum.

This American Life in the Classroom is a site to help teachers present information broadcasted on Chicago Public Radio. Teachers can use these broadcastings to get their classrooms involved with the matters of today.

Blue Web'n is an online library of 1,920 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities & projects).

A Lexicon of Learning is an online dictionary providing clear definitions of educational terms in everyday language.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.

The Free Management Library is a complete, highly integrated library with suggestions for improving interpersonal communication.

This professional development site is devoted to the demonstration and support of effective mathematics teaching methods.

Inspiring Teachers

We are a teacher created and owned business dedicated to empowering and inspiring teachers, creating quality, learner-centered classrooms and improving student success! In working towards this cause, Inspiring Teachers has developed a support system to help new teachers, mentors and administrators. Each element of our support system can be used individually or in conjunction with other parts. We are here to let teachers know that they are not alone. There is someone out there who understands what they are going through and who wants to help them achieve their goal of being a successful teacher. The first few years in the classroom are stressful, overwhelming and often lonely. Our mission is to help ease the stress and offer a listening ear and helpful hand to any teacher in need.

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