Here is a selection of sites I’ve found useful or interesting. Suggestions always welcome.
Please remember that links to other sites are provided for reference and do not necessarily imply my endorsement of those sites or their opinions.
Information and Advocacy Groups
Local
- Cheltenham United Parents Group
- Cheltenham Association for Gifted Education
- Cheltenham Special Needs Advisory Group
- Montgomery County Intermediate Unit
Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) and related State sites
- Main PDE Site
- PDE Standards Aligned System
- School Finance Portion of the Pennsylvania Department of Education Website
- Accounting Information From the Pennsylvania Department of Education – Includes Manual of Accounting and Chart of Accounts
- PDE Web Portal Log In – PDE web Portal Log-in for FAI and other PDE portals
- Act 1 Information – Information on SS Act 1 of 2006
- PASBO Act 32 EIT Collection
- Information for Employers on the Public School Employees Retirement System (PSERS)
- PSERS data also on the PSBA, PASBO, and PSEA sites
- Charter School Funding – Information on Charter School Funding to include reconciliation and
- PDE School Construction and Facilities – Information on PLAN CON & Reimbursable Projects
- PDE Enrollment Projections for your School District
- PDE Transportation Division – Information on Subsidy, Frequently Asked Questions and Reporting
- PDE Division of Child Accounting – Information on Calculation of “Average Daily Membership” and other attendance and instructional time calculation matters
- PDE Division of Food and Nutrition – Information on National School Lunch Program. Note Subsidy payment information is received in FAI and/or PEARS
- PDE Teacher Certification Guidelines – Certification and Staffing Policy Guidelines (CSPGs)
Other Region/State
- Education Policy & Leadership Center (EPLC)
- PA Assoc for Career & Technical Administrators (PACTA)
- Pennsylvania School Board Association (PSBA)
- PA Assoc for School Administrators (PASSA)
- PA Assoc of School Business Officials
- PA Assoc of Elementary and Secondary School Principals
- Commonwealth Foundation
- PA School Funding
- Education Law Center (and more good links)
- PACareerZone
- PA Education Network (for Special Needs children)
- PA State Educators Association (PSEA)
- PA Career Standards
National
- Coalition of Essential Schools
- Coalition for Community Schools
- American Youth Policy Forum
- National School Board Association
- Center for Public Education
- Center on Education Policy
- Institute for Educational Leadership
- Nations Report Card
- National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
- Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
- National Coalition for Public Education (Search for it. You won’t find a website, but notice how many organizations are tied into it. It’s co-chaired by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.)
- Office of Civil Rights Data (part of Ed.Gov)
Education
- Mathematics Pedagogy
- http://www.teachervision.fen.
com/gifted-education/teaching- methods/3778.html - http://gold-debate-group.
wikispaces.com/file/view/2s5. pdf - http://educationnorthwest.org/
webfm_send/755 - http://challengebychoice.
wordpress.com/tiered- instruction-and-assessment/ - http://www.k8accesscenter.org/
training_resources/ mathdifferentiation.asp - http://www.eric.ed.gov/
ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/ servlet/ERICServlet?accno= ED441302
Miscellaneous Sites
- PENNData – Special Education Reporting System of the Pennsylvania Department of Education
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Sir Ken Robinson on TED
- EduBlog Awards
- Richard Dreyfus on Preserving Democracy Through Education
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Cheltenham Alumni Association
- Edutopia
- SDCT on Sunshine Review
- When is it time to keep your mouth shut?
- Be sure to look for many of these groups on Facebook and Twitter
Links on Contract Negotiations
