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• AimChart
  http://www.aimchart.org/
  Precision Teaching Tool
  
  
• Alternative Certification Evaluation Template
  http://www.ncrel.org/datause/tools/altcert2.php
  Research-Based Assessment
  
  
• Curriculum Mapping Software
  http://currmap.ncrel.org/default.htm
  Interactive web site designed to assist districts in their efforts to map out new mathemathics and science curricula.
  
  
• Educating for Democracy
  http://www.ncrel.org/cscd/pubs/lead41/41check.htm
  The Educating for Democracy checklist is a free questionnaire for all educators to reflect on and evaluate the conditions of democracy education in their school or district. The checklist covers four areas: democratic school structures, culturally relevant learning, parent and community involvement, and the quality and context of democracy education.
  
  
• enGauge
  http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/
  This site is designed to help districts and schools plan and evaluate the systemwide use of educational technology.
  
  
• Leadership Audit Tool
  http://www.ncrel.org/cscd/proflead.htm
  This participatory management checklist can help leaders take stock of their management style and focus on participatory management skills and techniques that they would like to change or improve.
  
  
• Lesson Planner
  http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/lp/index.html
  This Web site is intended to help teachers write focused lesson plans. The Planner addresses essential questions that are often overlooked when planning curriculum units.
  
  
• Making Good Choices: A Guide for School and District
  http://www.ncrel.org/csri/choices/makegood/title.htm
  chools across the Unites States are taking a new approach to school improvement called comprehensive school reform, or CSR. Rather than implementing isolated programs that may or may not improve the academic performance of all students, CSR schools seek to revitalize themselves by implementing scientifically based models for comprehensive school improvement that focus on all aspects of the school's operations.
  
  
• Quality School Portfolio
  http://qsp.cse.ucla.edu/
  The Quality School Portfolio (QSP) is a web-based decision support tool for schools and districts. Districts or individual schools wishing to use QSP need to become members of the QSP User Group.
  
  
• Scoring Guide for Student Products
  http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/sgsp/index.html
  The Scoring Guide for Student Products was created to evaluate the content knowledge and the effective use of technology in communicating ideas and information that is evident in the products that students create with computers.
  
  
• Self-Assessment Tool for School Leaders: Technology and Transformation
  http://www.ncrel.org/cscd/pubs/lead51/51assess.htm
  Questions are intended to guide you through a self-assessment of your district's and school's plan for technology and to assist you in determining some directions for integrating technology into your vision of learning.
  
  
• Surveys of Enacted Curriculum
  http://www.secsupport.org/
  urveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) are affordable, research-based questionnaires developed through collaborative efforts of state specialists, content experts, and education researchers at the Council of Chief State School Officers, Learning Point Associates, and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
  
  
• Technology Challenges during Teachers' Induction Years
  http://www.ncrtec.org/pd/cee/cee.htm
  Technology Challenges During Teachers' Induction Years is a free, online publication that addresses challenges faced by new teachers in technology preparedness.
  
  
• Teaching Quality Source
  http://www.tqsource.org/
  This online resource offers valuable information on fundamental issues of teaching quality, including teacher preparation as well as recruitment and retention.
  

Last Updated
August 4, 2005

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ETC is a collaborative project of the Bureau of Educational Technology, Florida Department of Education and the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida. The links included in this clearinghouse appeared to contain useful information at the time they were chosen. If you discover that a site linked from this clearinghouse is no longer relevant, or has inaccurate or inappropriate content, please email the project director.