ABC Teach is a wonderful website that offers ideas and activities for teachers and students, printable activity sheets, project helpers, flashcards, decorations, puzzles and more. 

AOL @ School was built for primary, elementary, middle school and high school classes, presents K-12 education content. They work hard at providing a variety of age-appropriate educational content, to make the Internet more powerful for teachers and students. Search the online database of educator-reviewed classroom materials to quickly find teaching activities, lesson plans, learning games, tutorials, research and multimedia resources.

NGA Classroom: For Teachers and Students
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/ 

ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/ 

Kinder Art
http://www.kinderart.com/

Pint Sized Printing: An Arts and Crafts Printing Guide For Children
http://www.amsterdamprinting.com/Article/Pint+Sized+Printing+An+Arts+and+Crafts+Printing+Guide+For+Children/6827/Default.aspx

Keeping Schools Colorful: An Art Education Resource Guide
http://www.onlineschools.org/resources/art-education-resource-guide/

Borders offers a variety of resources for educators, from classroom materials to fundraising opportunities.

Classroom teachers, homeschool educators, and school librarians are eligible for the Classroom Discount Card. This card offers discounts of 25% off the list price of books and music CDs and 10% off the list price of DVDs for professional use. Applications are available at all Borders stores, and signing up is completely free. You'll need to show proof of your educator status when you submit your application.

Since 1994 Classroom Connect has been helping teachers use technology to improve learning. Classroom Connect's high quality professional development programs and online instructional materials meet the changing needs of K-12 school districts nationwide.  Classroom connect provides: K-12 educational resources, interactive databases and a newsletter, you can participate in online projects from around the world, and you can find pen-pals for your students.

The Discovery Education provides innovative teaching materials for teachers, including vocabulary, questions and activities to help to enhance what you are already doing in the classroom. The site is constantly reviewed for educational relevance by practicing classroom teachers in elementary school, middle school, and high school.

DonorsChoose.org is a nonprofit that connects public school teachers with people who want to support classroom learning. DonorsChoose.org provides an avenue for public school teachers to submit project requests for the specific materials their students need to learn. Once a project is funded, the materials are delivered directly to the school. In return, teachers submit photos of the project in use and thank-you notes from students, which are then sent to the project’s donors.

Education Week is the American educator's newspaper of record.  Whose primary mission is to help raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in American education. Education Week covers local, state, and national news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade.

The Educator's Reference Desk provides 2,000+ lesson plans written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
FREE was originally conceived in 1997 by a federal working group and launched a year later. It was redesigned and relaunched for the first time in November 2006. FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. FREE is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources being offered by participating federal agencies.

US Department of Education

The National Archives
The National Archives' gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students is called the Digital Classroom. It is a great resource for both educators and students alike!

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

Word Lingo
Word Lingo translates texts, websites or e-mail into and from different languages. You can send e-mail and have it translated to and from any of the following languages English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

GCF LearnFree is a non-profit funded by the Goodwill Community Foundation of Eastern NC that provides free online classes to educators that deal with Microsoft Office programs. Each class offers 1-1.1 CEU’s upon completion. All of the classes can be used for teaching license renewal in North Carolina.

LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, provides lesson plans, professional development, and innovative web resources to support teachers, build community, and improve K-12 education in North Carolina.

NCCAT is a recognized national leader in professional development programming for teachers. Established by the state legislature in 1985, NCCAT provides a year-round curriculum of intensive cross-disciplinary seminars in the sciences, arts, humanities, technology, leadership, communication, and health and wellness. NCCAT is a place where teachers “advance teaching as an art and a profession” through a wide range of experiential study and learning opportunities. NCCAT keeps good teachers teaching.

The North Carolina School Report Cards Web site offers a collection of up-to-date data about student achievement and attendance, class size, school safety, teacher quality, school technology and other topics of interest to parents and others in the school community. The site was developed to provide the big and small pictures for many of the critical components of our students’ educational experience.

The North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS) is committed to raising achievement and closing learning gaps with 21st century innovation by providing access to world class learning opportunities for all North Carolina students. They provide the vehicle for school districts to accomplish the State Board of Education's goals of producing 21st century learners, professionals, leaders, and systems by providing easily accessible, online learning opportunities for the state's children. NCVPS's mission is to provide skills, student support, and opportunities for 21st century learners to succeed in a globally competitive world.

General Links:

Department of Public Instruction (DPI)

NC State Board of Education

State Health Plan

Topic Specific Links:
SALARY GUIDES
Here you can find: the State Salary Manual, State Salary Schedules, Local Salary Supplements, etc.

PBS TeacherSource's provides a vast array of resources, including: resources by curricular subject, topic and grade level and standard; in-depth online professional development through PBS TeacherLine; details on PBS station outreach activities in your community; tips on how to effectively teach with technology; PBS television programs with extended taping rights for educators; access to convenient online shopping for your favorite PBS videos; convenient tools for teaching, such as recommended books and Web sites; interdisciplinary teaching suggestions; free weekly electronic newsletter highlighting new TV and online programming from PBS; and much more!

PraxisIITest.com is provided as a free study aid to students having to take the PRAXIS II Exam.

It was inspired by the trials and tribulations of some former test takers that wished there were more free resources online for students to use. PRAXIS II Test Questions offers free PRAXIS II practice test questions and PRAXIS II exam information to students preparing for the PRAXIS II test.

Here you can find: the State Salary Manual, State Salary Schedules, Local Salary Supplements, etc.

TeAch-nology - The Art and Science of Teaching with Technology. TeAch-nology's mission is to provide services designed to support educators' in effectively incorporating technology in teaching and learning. Their goal is two-fold: to provide a reservoir of online resources for educators to access at any time and to provide effective tools for designing instruction that are time and energy saving.

The purpose of the Teacher Evaluation Process is to assess the teacher's performance in relation to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards and to design a plan for professional growth. To learn more about the new evaluation instrument, visit NC DPI's website.