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• The School Collective
  A new tool to help teachers store, organize, and share materials.

• Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
  Represents more than 16,000 women and men working in Philadelphia public schools today. This group includes teachers, librarians, school nurses, counselors, psychologists and social workers, secretaries, paraprofessionals, and classroom assistants.
• American Federation of Teachers
  The American Federation of Teachers has more than 3,000 local affiliates, including the PFT, 43 state affiliates and more than 1.4 million members. Founded in 1916 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of classroom teachers, it is an affiliated international union of the AFL-CIO.
• The Pennsylvania State Education Association
  Represents the labor, policy, and professional interests of more than 187,000 public school teachers and education support professionals, staff in state higher education institutions, nurses in health care facilities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers
• National Education Association
  The nation's largest professional employee organization, it is committed to advancing the cause of public education. NEA has 3.2 million members who work at every level of education-from pre-school to university graduate programs, and has affiliate organizations in every state, including the PSEA, and in more than 14,000 communities across the United States.
• Philadelphia Writing Project
  Located at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, this organization works to enhance the teaching of writing as a critical tool for learning in all Philadelphia schools.
• Need in Deed
  Need in Deed’s mission has been to prepare youth for civic responsibility and service to others, enabling young people to become capable, contributing members of their community by using the My Voice service-learning framework in public schools.
• Teachers Learning Cooperative
  The Philadelphia Teachers' Learning Cooperative (PTLC) TeacherSPACE is a teacher center welcoming teachers and parents in Philadelphia to network, share ideas, and collect resources in a creative environment. PTLC is committed to developing our teaching and inviting others to share resources in order to support Philadelphia students’ creative voices, academic engagement, and emerging leadership.
• Education Policy and Leadership Center
  Focuses on education policy, education leadership, and education advocacy.
• Fair Test: National Center for Fair and Open Testing
  Advances quality education and equal opportunity by promoting fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial evaluations of students, teachers and schools. Also works to end the misuse and flaws of testing practices that impede those goals.
• U.S. Department of Education
  This extensive site includes resources and data on student achievement and on federal efforts to ensure equal access to high-quality education.

• Educators Professional Development
  A worldwide database of professional development opportunities for educators.
• Continuing Education through U.S. Department of Education
  Learn about a variety of professional development options, including instruction on how teachers can create a safe and drug-free classroom.
• Knowledge Delivery Systems
  Provides online professional development courses for K-12 teachers to earn continuing education (CEUs), in-service, or graduate credit. Courses can be applied towards state license re-certification, salary increase, and career advancement.

• Edutopia
  A publication that offers teachers information about integrated studies, project-based learning, teacher development, and other educational topics.
• Rethinking Schools
  A magazine that covers a variety of educational topics of interest to teachers and other educators.
• Teaching for Change
  Provides teachers and parents with various tool to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world. Some of these tools include professional development workshops and publications.
• Teachers Learning Cooperative/TeacherSPACE blog
  The Philadelphia Teachers' Learning Cooperative (PTLC) TeacherSPACE is a teacher center welcoming teachers and parents in Philadelphia to network, share ideas, and collect resources in a creative environment.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art education pages
  The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Wachovia Education Resource Center provide a wide range of free services and materials for Philadelphia teachers and their students that help make learning come to life! Learn more about class visits and videoconferencing lessons for Pre-K - 12th grade, teacher workshops, and teacher resources.
• Teaching Tolerance
  A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, this organization isdedicated to reducing prejudice, improving inter-group relations and supporting equitable school experiences for the nation's children.
• PA Education Voters
  A non-profit organization that promotes a pro public education agenda with elected leaders, legislators and the public by lobbying for laws that further a sound education policy.
• Education for Liberation Network
  A national coalition of teachers, community activists, researchers, youth and parents who help to improve the practice of a liberatory education.
• Pennsylvania Department of Education Academic Achievement Report: 2007-2008
  Here you will find Philadelphia School District and school reports that contain information about Adequate Yearly Progress targets, last year’s results and next year’s targets, and a discussion of results for parents and educators.
• Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children's Learning
  A 52-page document that provides information about the use of children’s cell phones and other hand-held devices in an effort to support learning in and outside of school.
• The New York Times Learning Network
  A mix of activities for students, parents, and teachers that promote education. Learn about using the New York Times as a teaching tool in your classroom. Get free lesson plans for grades 6-12.
• Philadelphia Inquirer’s Report Card on Schools
  School-by-school information from the Inquirer’s Report Card on the schools.
• School Data Direct
  An online service providing comprehensive education data as well as analytic tools.
• School District Office of Accountability, Assessment and Intervention
  Monitors and reports on the performance of schools and district support functions. Reports student achievement and demographic data to multiple audiences such as central offices, schools and regions, the State and federal governments, and the public. Also collaborates with the District's Office of Information Technology and outside vendors in the design and maintenance of district data systems.