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Educator's guide

A guide intended for use by educator's as a supplement to a lesson or unit plan.

• Abuse and Neglect
  Through the use of this comprehensive book, you'll learn your specific role and responsibilities in the identification, prevention, and intervention of child maltreatment as mandated by law. Child maltreatment can occur in all socioeconomic levels and cultural backgrounds creating barriers for learning.
• ADL's Collection of Educational and Anti-Bias Resources
  The full complement of educational materials, videos, posters, curriculum guides and books available from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is now accessible in catalogue form. Updated to include the most current ADL educational and resource material, ADL Resources for Classroom and Community is being distributed to schools, parents, organizations and communities.
• Anti-Bias and Conflict Resolution Curricula: Theory and Practice
  The ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education conducted a survey to identify anti-bias projects providing services nationally to schools and organizations, and those with programs easily replicable by local educators. The result is A Directory of Anti-Bias Education Resources and Services, comprised of profiles of 52 such projects.
• Different and the Same
  Researchers have found that children's racial attitudes are formed as early as three years of age. In elementary classrooms everywhere, diversity is a major topic of discussion among children.
• Digital Equity Tool Kit
  The Digil Equity Toolkit points educators to free, high quality resources that help address the digital divide in the classroom and community.
• Hate Hurts: How children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice
  Links to classroom materials and information on the Anti-Defammation League's work.
• Peace Education
  In 1945, the United Nations was established to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war", "to reaffirm faith in the dignity and worth of the human person [and] in the equal rights of men and women", "to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained", and "to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom". Peace education has developed as a means to achieve these goals.
• Programs for English Language Learners
  Materials and a reference tool to assist school districts through the process of developing a comprehensive English language proficiency or English language learners program. The materials discuss helpful steps to follow in designing or revising a program.
• Rights, rights, human rights.
  Rights, rights, human rights. The word gets around.
• Social Relationships and Peer Support: Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices
  Facilitating positive peer relationships and supportive ties between students is essential to creating a successful inclusive classroom. This user-friendly guide for teachers offers proven models on how to build these important relationships.
• Southern University At New Orleans And New Orleans Public School Partnership
  A collaborative program to implement the Comer School Development Program and enhance teacher preparation programs. In 1990, Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) and the New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) formed a partnership, in conjunction with the Yale Child Study Center and the Rockefeller Foundation, to develop a viable, collaborative and cooperative project to replicate the School Development Program (Comer Process).
• Teachers for Chicago
  Teachers for Chicago. Promising Practices.
• Teaching, Technology And Restructuring Partnership (T2ARP)
  A partnership program between the San Diego State University, School of Education and Department of Educational Technology, and O'Farrell Community School, a charter school within the San Diego Unified School District to prepare teachers for middle school.
• The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children
  This book highlights several individuals and programs that have been responsible for improving the academic achievement of African-American students. The author reports on the positive results of culturally conscious education and highlights eight teachers who, though they differ in personal style and methods, share an approach to teaching that strengthens cultural identity.
• The National Institute for Urban School Improvement
  The National Institute for Urban School Improvement focuses on three strategies that are essential to the urban school reform agenda: (1) link existing education reform networks with special education networks; (2) build information systems that assist leadership teams in both focusing on goals for instructional, curricular, and cultural improvement and empowering action research agendas among school professionals; and (3) synthesizes existing research into accessible media, both print and electronic.
• The United Nations Cyberschoolbus
  The United Nations Cyberschoolbus was created in 1996 as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The Global Teaching and Learning Project produces high quality teaching materials and activities designed for educational use (at primary, intermediate and secondary school levels) and for training teachers.
• Transforming Education for Hispanic Youth: Exemplary Practices, Programs,and Schools
  A report on the Hispanic Dropout Project, a two-year study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education.
• Urban Teacher Academy Project (UTAP)
  This site is designed to help school districts and schools, colleges, and departments of education learn about high school teaching career academies -- programs that encourage high school students to consider careers in teaching.
• Who is prepared to teach in urban schools?
  The article examines the hypothesis that alternative routes to teacher certification are more likely than traditional routes to recruit successful urban school teachers. Beliefs and practices of 45 secondary English and mathematics novice teachers from bo th routes were studied.
• Why Urban Parents Resist Involvement in their Children's Elementary Education
  Reseachers examined the perceptions of teachers and parents about family involvement in urban schools. The study generated from several others that have been conducted about teaching in high poverty, urban schools.