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Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
A comprehensive guide written in response to violence in schools and the efforts by the US Department of Education and the Department of Justice to develop early warning signs of violence in schools. This guide is designed to provide...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: School Law for the Educator
A collection of information and links on legal issues related to education. Topics include search and seizure at school, free speech, student discipline and due process, student safety, zero tolerance policies, and harassment.
PBS
Pbs: School: The Story of American Public Education: Evolving Classroom
A detailed comparison of the classroom in a nineteenth century schoolhouse to that in a twenty-first century school. Looks at many features of school life, e.g., discipline, technology, homework, testing, etc. Supported with many images...
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Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
A comprehensive guide written in response to violence in schools and the efforts by the US Department of Education and the Department of Justice to develop early warning signs of violence in schools. This guide is designed to provide...
Other
National Association of Special Education Teachers: Discipline of Students in Special Education
From this introductory page of a monthly series of nine articles about IDEA's requirements in specific disciplinary areas relating to students with special needs. While these brief introductions provide some information, membership is...
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Overview of Discipline Procedures for Students Receiving Special Education Services [Pdf]
This flowchart provides a guideline for the steps to be taken when school officials deem that disciplinary removal is necessary for a special education student. From the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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Parents Centre: Behaviour and Discipline
It can be difficult for some children to adjust to the differences in what behaviors are expected at school. This site provides an overview of school expectations, detention, the use of force to restrain, and many other important topics.
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Discipline by Design: Four Steps for Better Classroom Discipline
Even if you understand that children function at different stages of discipline, it is not easy to sell administrators, school board members and parents on the idea that you are going to have different sets of rules for different kids in...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Schools That Offer Graduate Programs in Bioarchaeology
Bioarchaeologists study human remains found at archaeological sites in order to understand how humans lived in the past. This resource provides a list of universities, and links to their websites, that offer graduate courses in this...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Engineering Is...collection
This is a diverse collection of media resources that focuses on the intersection of engineering and science. Middle and high school students can learn how scientists and engineers work together across disciplines to investigate issues,...
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Parent Guide to Functional Assessment and Support [Pdf]
This 21-page guide describes what a functional assessment is and what it can do to help your child. You can use this information to help your child at home, and also work with school staff to put a plan into place at school.
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South Dakota Department of Education
Links take the viewer to data and information about all aspects of education within the state (e.g., accreditation, school finance, alternative education, transportation, legislation affecting education, and various services for teachers...
Colorado State University
Colorado State University: The Wac Clearinghouse
Although this site is primarily designed for instructors at the post-secondary level, the information and suggestions given can also be used, with only minor changes, at the high school or middle school levels as well. Learn ways for...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Environmental Science
This interactive module gives students the opportunity to study how environmental science integrates several different disciplines of science as well as economics and political science.
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Wizzlewolf's Webpage for Beginning Teachers
Is this your first year teaching? Here are tricks of the trade that are helpful to know. Includes tips on management, discipline, lesson plans for all grades and subjects and more! This is your complete survival guide!
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Confucius
This Stanford University encyclopedia entry discusses Confucius (551-479 BCE), who, according to Chinese tradition, was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought.
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Statement on Effective Parenting: Positive Support [Pdf]
The National Association of School Psychologists has compiled a list of techniques meant to help parents prevent misbehaviors, deal with them when they occur, and how to support discipline at school. This article is brief, yet contains...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Summer Bridge Programs
More students fail ninth grade than any other grade and many of these students ultimately drop out. Can pre-emptive interventions lead to increased graduation rates? Emerging evidence suggests that eight-grade transition programs...
Rice University
Galileo Project: Galileo Galilei
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University contains information about Galileo's lifespan, father, nationality, education, religion, scientific disciplines, means of patronage, patronage, technological involvement, and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating Class Rules a Beginning to Creating Community
Contains plans for two lessons that teach about proper classroom behavior and creating community by discussing why they are in school and what they need in order to accomplish their goals while there. In addition to objectives and...
Arizona State University
Epaa: Critical Evaluation for Education Reform
Gisele Waters of Auburn University here discusses her view of how academic evaluation has only in the last four decades developed as a government function and academic discipline. She also examines the role that Lyndon Johnson's Great...
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen [Pdf]
Helping a child become responsible isn't always an easy process. This comprehensive site is directed towards parents (and can be easily adapted for educators) who would like to teach their children to become responsible citizens.
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Brains.org: Classroom Management
Discipline is widely regarded by most educators and the public alike as the number one concern in schools. Even though administrators and teachers alike view discipline as their number one issue, newly graduated teachers still feel...
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Fisher Science Education: Headline Discoveries Archive
What's new in the world of science? Find the latest articles about the newest discoveries and research in all the science disciplines: anatomy, astronomy, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, consumer science, environmental, forensics,...