WACO Teacher Sites

WACO Teacher Sites
An Internet Hotlist on WACO Teacher Help Page

created by Tina Whalen, Curriculum Director
WACO Community Schools

Introduction
This site was created to assist WACO Teachers.

The Internet Resources

Academic Leadership - Journals on educational topics
Castle - Technology website for school leaders.
Douglas Reeves Lead and Learn - Website featuring many resources from Douglas Reeves
Inside Mathematics - Site for math teachers. Info for coaches, teachers and administrators. Excellent resource with videos and materials.
Iowa Core Moodle - Resources for Iowa Core
Iowa School Board Website -
Learning Forward - Learning Forward's purpose is ensuring that every educator engages in effective professional learning every day so every student achieves.
MAP Web Resources by Reading RIT - Internet sites for RIT Practice for Reading
Mcrel Site - Resources for Leaders and learners
Mind Tools - Decision Making Techniques
SAI Website - School Administrators of Iowa
Success at the Core - How Team and Teachers Transform Instruction

Tools

AEA Online - AEA Online resources:Clip Art, United Streaming, etc.
Awesome Highlighter - Show them what's important - Highlight! Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page.
Curriculum Manager - MISIC Curriculum Manager Site
Delicious - Social Bookmarking--get your bookmarks anywhere and connect to other people with like interests.
Edmodo - Educational Communication Platform.(Like a twitter)
Everyday Math Games - Tools for the Everyday Math program by grade level
Everyday Math Website - Links for students to Everyday Math practice.
Filamentality - Create your own page!
Iowa Testing Center - link to ITBS/ITED
MAP Powerpoint - Powerpoint about MAP testing for students.
MAP Proctor Training - On-line training for proctors.
NWEA-MAP Testing - MAP Testing site with member login
On Line Curriculum Resource - English, Math, Science, Social Studies and Spanish resources
Pocket Mod - Create a paper fold pocket book for notes, etc.
PowerSchool - Grade Book
Renaissance Place - AR Site for test taking
SPED Log-in Page - Link to the GPAEA log in page.
StarrMatica Learning System - K-6 interactive reading and math resources
Survey Site - Create surveys through the GPAEA
WACO Website for Teachers - To build and edit webpages
Web Max - Check out books and videos etc. from GPAEA
Web Tool For Math RITs - Internet tools to practice math skills at different RITs.
Webtools for Reading MAP RITs - Internet sites to practice reading skills arranged by RIT

Information

DE Iowa Secure Log in -
Education Oasis - Graphic Organizers
Educational Leadership - Links for Ed Leadership
Fisher and Frey Website - From the Authors of Better Learning Through Structured Teaching
Great Prairie AEA - AEA link
Healthy Kids - Healthy Children website with usable links for children of different ages.
Heart - AEA Assessment portal
Iowa Core - Explore the academic expectations for all Iowa's K -12 students.
Iowa Department of Education - Official Iowa Department of Education Site
Iowa Futures - Site of innovation for Iowa directed to educational stakeholders.
Iowa Govenor's Page - Webpage of Iowa Governor's Special Assistant to Education
Legislative Updates - Updates from Iowa Legislature
Mid-Iowa School Improvement Consortium - MISIC Website
Midwest Equity Assistance Center - The Midwest Equity Assistance Center provides technical assistance, professional development, and information dissemination in race equity, gender equity and national origin equity to state and local educational agencies in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.
My Learning Plan - Register for classes at GPAEA
Promethean Planet - Resources for electronic white boards
The Book of Awesome - Uplifting website based on the book, The Book of Awesome, by Neil Pasricha.

Ordering

AV Co-op - AV Co-op for ordering
Iowa Educators Consortium - Site where you can purchase reduced price school items.
Professional Development--Learner.org - Resources for PD
Requistions/Orders - Use this site to create PO's.
School Specialty - Popular order site

Web Tools

Educause - Excellent resource of publications, presentations podcasts and blogs.
Web 2.0 Tools - Links to many 2.0 tools.

Vocabulary Studies

1000 Most Common SAT Words - PDF of words and meanings
Core Content Vocabulary - For Elementary and Middle School

Content by Tina Whalen, Curriculum Director, Tina.Whalen@wacocsd.org
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Last revised Fri Mar 16 6:30:27 US/Pacific 2012