• Michigan K-8 Grade Level Content Expectations

• Standards for Teaching and Learning 

• Beating the Odds: A City-by-City Analysis of Student Performance and Achievement Gaps on State Assessments(Council of Great City Schools) 

• Michigan Curriculum Framework 
The Michigan Curriculum Framework includes standards focused on content, teaching and learning, assessment, and professional development.

• GLCE English Language Arts Across the Grades Documents v.12.05

• Coalition of Essential Schools
For over twenty years, CES has been a national leader in public education transformation. Guided by the Common Principles, CES strives to create and sustain a network of personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools.

• Leadership Folio Series: Sustaining School Improvement
McREL?s Leadership Folio Series: Sustaining School Improvement is intended to help school leadership teams ? teachers, administrators, and other school leaders ? deal with the complexity of change by explaining what it takes to sustain improvement and by providing guidelines for addressing the factors that affect the ability to do so.

• Annenberg Institute's Tools for School Improvement Planning
Web site contains observation protocols, focus group samples and questions, surveys, questionnaires, and other techniques to help you examine your specific school-improvement concerns.

• Surveys of Enacted Curriculum
Surveys 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. SEC tools are currently available for K-12 teachers of English language arts (including reading), mathematics, and science.

• Lesson Planner
The Lesson Planner is a free, comprehensive tool for teachers who desire a complete and exhaustive means to plan curriculum units aligned with standards that address assessment, content, teaching strategies, and use of technology while incorporating their own unique content and conditions.

• Curriculum Mapping Web Site
Curriculum Mapping is a free, user-friendly, and interactive Web site supporting district leaders and curriculum experts in refining existing mathematics and science curricula. It was developed by North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), the U.S. Third International Science and Mathematics Study (TIMSS) National Research Center at Michigan State University, and First in the World Consortium.

• National Education Association: School Quality Website
A website committed to identifying the conditions a school needed to have in place for students to achieve at the highest levels.

• National Association for Bilingual Education

• (SCoPE) Sample Curriculum and Plans for Education
One-of-a-kind web resource, created for teachers - by teachers - to improve student achievement.

• National Education Association Teacher Toolkit
The NEA Teacher ToolKit? is a fully integrated web-based application that empowers teachers to make curricular decisions with confidence.

• Comprehensive School Reform Program Registry

• Ensuring Excellent Educators 

• Improving Teaching and Learning by Improving School Leadership 

• Michigan Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
This site provides information and awareness about Michigan ASCD; to create a forum for educators to discuss, become knowledgeable about, and conduct research on educational topics; to post professional development and growth opportunities available through the organization; to identify promising and effective educational practices and much more.

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
A web site housing information from a community of educators, advocating sound policies and sharing best practices to achieve the success of each learner.

• ESCORT
A national resource center dedicated to improving the educational opportunities for migrant children.

• Schools Moving Up
SchoolsMovingUp, a WestEd initiative, helps schools and districts address the immense challenge of raising student achievement in low-performing schools.

• Macomb Intermediate School District Lesson Study Website
This site provides a basic overview of the Lesson Study process as well as a series of videos that illustrate the Lesson Study Process.

• Minority Student Achievement Network

• Michigan Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (MITESOL)
Represents the interests and concerns of those who teach English to children, young people, and adults throughout the state of Michigan.

• Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA)
Provides national leadership in promoting high quality education for the nation's population of English language learners (ELLs).

• The SIOP Model of Sheltered Instruction
Offers a research-based approach to sheltered lesson planning and implementation that has proven effective with English language learners throughout the United States.

• Macomb ISD Bilingual Additional Resources
Additional Resources on the Web

• Teacher Quality Resource
A new resource is available to state agencies and school districts. It is an online publication from Learning Point Associates called TQ Research & Policy Brief.

• The Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA)
A professional organization serving over 550+ education service agencies (ESAs) in 44 states.

• Teachers.net

• Finding Time For Professional Development; Evaluating Professional Growth And Development

• Professional Development. Learning from the Best

• Understanding the Keys to Motivation to Learn
By Barbara L. McCombs

• WestEd.org

• Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics (2001)

• Authentic Pedagogy: Standards that Boost Student Performance 

• Brief for Practitioners: Turning Around Low Performing Schools -- Implications at the School, District, and State Levels 

• A report from McREL's diversity roundtable. Including at-risk students in standards-based reform.

• School Improvement Research You Can Use (NWREL)

• Results-oriented professional development by Thomas Guskey

• The Future of Schooling: Educating America in 2014
After analyzing key demographic, economic, cultural, global, political, and technological trends in the US, McREL has written 16 scenarios that describe how these trends may converge to create different futures for schooling in America.

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

• National Council of Social Studies

• National Council of Teachers of English

• International Reading Association

• National Science Teachers Association

• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

• American Educational Research Association

• National Association of Education of Young Children

• Teachers of English to speakers of Other Languages

• Council for Exceptional Children

• ASCD Book Resources for Strand I 
ASCD Book Resources for Strand I

• Books