Edutopia is a comprehensive website and online community that increases knowledge, sharing, and adoption of what works in K-12 education. They emphasize core strategies: project-based learning, comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, social and emotional learning, educational leadership and teacher development, and technology integration.
edWeb.net hosts game-based learning which provides free professional development for educators who wish to improve upon or learn more about GBL in the classroom.
This lesson plan helps students to understand leaders and why they do what they do.
"EEK!" stands for environmental education for kids, and was created by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. EEK! provides teacher activities, lesson plans, and other educational resources for students. In addition, students can visit the website to research fun facts and play games to learn about nature.
This website is designed to help children learn about the role they can play in the environment.
By Victor Battistich, Eric Schaps, and Nance Wilson
Published in The Journal of Primary Prevention, Vol. 24, No. 3, Spring 2004.
This research examined the effects at follow-up during middle school of a comprehensive elementary- school intervention program, the Child Development Project, designed to reduce risk and promote resilience among youth. Parental consent to participate in the middle school study was obtained for 1,246 students from six programs and six matched comparison elementary schools. Three of the program elementary schools were in the “high implementation” group, and three were in the “low implementation” group during the elementary school study. Findings indicated that, studywide, 40% of the outcome variables examined during middle school showed differences favoring program students, and there were no statistically reliable differences favoring comparison students. Among the “high implementation” group, 65% of the outcome variables showed differences favoring program students
EGAD! Ideas is a collection of online games, activities, and resources compiled for youth pastors and youth workers. The ideas are submitted by visitors to the site and are edited by the site administrator.
This fact sheet provides programs with a check list to ensure they are meeting the 8 principles for managing mentors.
El Camino is a comprehensive toolkit of educational resources that support Spanish-speaking families' aspirations for education.
The Youth Ministry program of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America provides and supports resources, information, networking, and programs for people who serve in ministries with youth and young adults. It’s a place where they are listening to and striving to amplify the voices and the songs of young people, focusing on youth ages 14 to 18.
Teachers can find resources from ElectriKIDS for lesson plans and other activities to try with their students.
On this site you will find a wide variety of elementary physical education games, including cooperative games and activities, sports games, lead up activities, and much more.
This site provides blogs, information on small and large group counseling, school-wide programs, and storyboards for counseling working with elementary age students.
This guide offers information for starting a mentorship program. Elements include mentor/mentee recruitment, mentor training, matching participants, and monitoring outcomes.
A blog and resource written with a background in law about how to deal with the digital age and how to get students to help decrease cyberbullying going on around them.
A basic guide for New Yorkers on what to do before and after detention or deportation of a family member.
Draws on findings from four studies by MDRC, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research firm.
Findings from these evaluations suggest that positive change is associated with a combination of instructional improvement and structural changes in school organization and class schedules. The brief is organized according to five cross-cutting challenges that high schools face in seeking to influence student outcomes: assisting students who enter high school with poor academic skills, improving instructional content and practice, creating a personalized and orderly learning environment, providing work-based learning opportunities and preparing students for the world beyond high school, and stimulating change in overstressed high schools.
The Emerging Leaders Web site highlights internship and leadership development opportunities for students with disabilities.
This activity is open and gives space for students to learn about representing in a graph with different dimensions but without numbers.
Emotional ABCs is America's #1 Awarded Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Curriculum. The program is a Common Sense Education "Top Pick" for 2019 and is currently in more than 50,000 elementary schools across the USA.