• NCREL: Professional Development Services

• Professional Development: Staff Learning for Student Results NCREL's comprehensive Web source

• The Center for CSRI - New NCES Report on Teacher Professional Development

• Using Data about Classroom Practice and Student Work to Improve Professional Development for Educators - NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Standards For Staff Development (revised)

• Improving Professional Development Practices

• Professional Development Best Practices - Teaching Pre K-8 Magazine and website

• Helping Teachers Teach Well: Transforming Professional Development. CPRE Policy Briefs - ERIC 

• Marzano, R. J. (1998). A theory-based meta-analysis of research on instruction. 

• 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.

• National Staff Development Council (NSDC)
Committed to ensuring success for all students through staff development and school improvement.

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

• ASCD Book Resources for Strand III 

• National Staff Development Council

• McREL

• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Continuing Education-Ed.gov

• Teacher Net Professional & Career Development

• McREL - Advancing the science of classroom instruction

• NWREL, School Improvement Research Series - Staff Development

• Improving Evaluation of Teacher Professional Development in Math and Science

• MDE Office of Professional Preparation Services

• Eisnehower Three Year Study - Does Professional Development Change Teaching Practice? 

• Redesigning Professional Development March 2002 issue of Education Leadership devoted entirely to "Redesigning Professional Development."

• 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.