Principal Standards
This is a publication of the National Association of Elementary School Principals on Standards for what Principals should know and be able to do.

School Leadership Services
School Leadership Services works primarily with school superintendents, district-level leaders, principals, assistant principals, and teacher leaders.

FADSS Home Page
This is a website for the Florida Association of District School Superintendents (FADSS). The FADSS offers a variety of services to school districts.

FACTS.org
Florida's official online student advising system! High school students, college students, parents, and even counselors can use the services provided on this website to help plan and track educational progress in Florida!

eSchool News
This site is devoted to discussion of technology news and solutions for the daily challenges faced by K-20 educators.

FLDOE Teacher Data
For the number of students graduating from state approved college of education programs in Florida, please reference "Trends in the Supply of New Teachers in Florida."

Literacy Research Institute
The mission of the Literacy Research Institute (LRI) is to conduct research and disseminate the findings on current trends in literacy for secondary education, with the goal of introducing effective research-based methods and practices into secondary schools.

Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., supports research, publications, and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary education reform, as well as significant education reform projects in Dayton , Ohio and vicinity. It has assumed the work of the Educational Excellence Network.The Foundation is affiliated with The Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

Preparing America's Future High School Initiative (PAF-HSI)
In October 2003, Secretary of Education Rod Paige launched the Preparing America's Future High School Initiative (PAF-HSI). This initiative is designed to support leaders at the state and local levels in creating educational opportunities that will fully prepare American youth for success in further education and training, as participants in a highly skilled U.S. workforce, and as productive and responsible citizens.

National Association of Elementary School Principals
The mission of the National Association of Elementary School Principals is to lead in the advocacy and support for elementary and middle level principals and other education leaders in their commitment to all children.

National Association of Secondary School Principals
In existence since 1916, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) is the preeminent organization of and national voice for middle level and high school principals, assistant principals, and aspiring school leaders from across the United States and more than 45 countries around the world. The mission of NASSP is to promote excellence in school leadership.

Video Study Groups for Math Teachers
Professionally produced video case studies, available both on tape and on the Internet, are excellent tools for professional growth for mathematics teachers. But even greater learning occurs when ordinary classroom teachers allow their practice to be videotaped. Opening the classroom door in this way moves educators away from a view of teaching as a solitary activity toward a view of teaching as a professional activity open to collective improvement. This issue of ENC Focus provides articles and resources for both ways of using video for professional development.

The Broad Center for Superintendents
The center identifies, prepares and supports outstanding leaders from all professional backgrounds-educators and non-educators alike-to become successful school district CEOs.

Education Commission of the States No Child Left Behind
Provides policymakers, staff and the public with a one-stop shop for learning the day-to-day status of how state policies match up with NCLB requirements.

Educational Policy Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University
The institute is committed to the expansion of public dialogue and participation in the important issues facing K-12 public education.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC)
ENC Online is a K-12 math and science teacher center. Visit Classroom Calendar, Digital Dozen, ENC Focus, or Lessons & Activities.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Make it easy for teachers, parents, students, & others to find learning resources from 40+ federal organizations.

Southern Regional Education Board (Florida)
The Southern Regional Education Board was founded in 1948 at the request of Southern leaders in business, education and government; it was the nation's first compact for education. Over the years SREB has worked to improve every aspect of education — from early childhood education to doctoral degrees and beyond

Maine School Leadership Network
Leadership Maine was developed by the Maine Development Foundation in 1993 to build the state's leadership capacity.

New Leaders for New Schools
New Leaders for New Schools will improve education for every child by attracting, preparing and supporting the next generation of outstanding leaders for urban public schools.

Principals' Center at Georgia State University
Welcome to the Principals' Center, a safe place where school leaders can confront the issues met everyday while leading and managing school communities.

The Principals' Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
The Principals' Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is dedicated to the personal and professional development of school principals and that of the many others who influence the character and quality of a school.

Best Educational E-Practices
From St. Petersburg College , an incredible resource. The contents of BEEP were developed under a grant from the U. S. Department of Education (DOE).

Florida Leaders
Working with local school districts, the Florida Leaders.net Regional Institutes provide principals with hands-on practical training and on-line support to assist them in including technology into their school improvement planning process and in modeling effective uses of technology as school leaders.

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
ISTE is a nonprofit professional organization with a worldwide membership of leaders and potential leaders in educational technology. We are dedicated to providing leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in K–12 education and teacher education. We provide our members with information, networking opportunities, and guidance as they face the challenge of incorporating computers, the Internet, and other new technologies into their schools.

Intel Teach to the Future
Intel® Teach to the Future is a worldwide effort to help both experienced teachers and Pre-Service teachers integrate technology into instruction to develop students' higher-level thinking skills and enhance learning. Participating teachers receive extensive instruction and resources to promote effective technology use in the classroom.

National Kenan Best Practices Center
In cooperation with the University of North Carolina Center for School Leadership Development and the Best Practices Center within the Kenan Alliance for Partnerships in Education, this website has been established as a clearinghouse of information related to exemplary programs, policy, and schools.

Tech Learning-The Resource for Education Technology
Comprehensive resource for Education Technology leaders, teachers, tech coordinators and administrators.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an act of Congress, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center with a primary mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education."

North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT)
The mission of NCCAT is to “Advance Teaching as an Art and a Profession". The NCCAT is dedicated to attracting and retaining the best teachers.

National Commission on Teaching and America 's Future
The National Commission on Teaching and America 's Future is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing every child with competent, caring, qualified teachers in schools organized for success.

National Research and Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education
Career and technical education programs are an integral part of public education and are designed to educate about, through, and for careers. The National Research and Dissemination Centers for Career and Technical Education, as primary sources of research-based information, will significantly affect the quality of knowledge and understanding necessary to advance career and technical education in the United States .

The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning
The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning is a public, not-for-profit organization dedicated to strengthening teacher development policy and practice. Our Web site features recent information on teacher development including research, state and national policy and legislative initiatives, and models for effective practice. We invite policy-makers, parents and teachers, researchers and journalists, and education and philanthropic organizations to use the resources of this site and join us in helping to ensure that every child learns from a fully qualified and effective teacher.

National Conference of State Legislatures
The National Conference of State Legislatures was founded in 1975 with the conviction that legislative service is one of democracy's worthiest pursuits. NCSL is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories. NCSL provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues. NCSL is an effective and respected advocate for the interests of state governments before Congress and federal agencies.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

National Science Teachers Association

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Math Teachers Share Their Ideas for Engaging Teenagers
In this first installment of the Classroom Ideas series, high school teachers tell how they deal with teenagers who need a bit of convincing to see that math is relevant to their lives. Many of the activities in Classroom Ideas for High School Math can be adapted for use in the earlier grades. You'll find lists of web sites and other resources with hundreds of interesting math problems for your students. Keep watching ENC Focus for future issues on middle school and elementary school math ideas. You can share your ideas by sending them to the ENC Focus editors at editor@enc.org

Classroom Calendar Entries Connect Math, Science and Other Subjects
Classroom Calendar entries contain practical ideas for activities and resources selected by content specialists. Many entries are correlated to national science and mathematics standards. A good example of this is Forensic Friday: CCSI--Classroom Crime Scene Investigation (Grades 9-12), identified as a science topic on the May Calendar. As the chemistry teacher who wrote the "crime scene" project points out, "A study of ballistics provides an exemplary confluence of math and science. Students can use their knowledge of velocity, projectile motion, and gravity to learn how experts calculate the location of the weapon relative to the victim. Ratios of the weight of the propellant charge to the weight of the projectile, the length of bore, and the density of propellant grains are all necessary considerations along with muzzle pressures and spatial distribution of fragments."

Digital Dozen
Each month, ENC highlights 12 valuable sites for math and science teachers in the Digital Dozen. Find hundreds more in the Digital Dozen Archive.

Support for Math at Home, from Digital Dozen
At Home with Math features 10 everyday math activities, in PDF format, for parents and kids to do together.

Baseball: As American as Apple Pie
Outlines a staff development workshop & offers lessons that help students see historical events in context & as a part of a larger story.

Artifact Road Show
This staff development workshop, coupled with student lessons, introduces the use of primary resources -- where to find them, what they are, how to examine them, and how to "construct the context" to tell the whole story.

America at the Centennial
Offers images & texts from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 to help students learn about America at that time. Students work as historians using primary sources to create museum exhibits on issues of the Centennial Era.

1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions
Invites students to use life histories, recordings, & other primary resources to create their own multi-media epic poems about the year 1900. Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" & Hart Crane's "The Bridge" serve as models.

Black History Month Resources
Features African-American Mosaic, African Voices exhibit, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site, The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925, and more.