Alief Absence System - Since the link is nearly impossible to find, here it is!

Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers - Lots of great ideas, updated daily

Sites For Teachers - Hundreds of educational web sites rated by popularity

Read Write Think - Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction

Time Savers for Teachers - Lots of free teacher resources to organize your classroom and time.

Printable Paper - Great stationery, graph paper, lots of fun stuff to print

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -Free teaching and learning resources from Federal Agencies

WorldCat Libraries - Will help you locate materials in libraries close to you. Once you see if a library has the title, you can click through for availability.

HotChalk - more than 70 years of footage from the NBC Video Archives along with additional educational resources, lesson plans, and more.

Teachers' Domain -  an online educational service with two related components — Collections and Courses — that help teachers enhance their students' learning experiences and advance their own teaching skills.

Gateway to 21st Century Skills - a consortium effort to provide teachers with quality materials and tools found on federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial internet sites

PBS.Org for Teachers - Multimedia resources & professional development for America's preK-12 educators

Creative Commons - Find images, music, & sounds to use in projects

TeachingBooks.net - an online collection of K-12 multimedia author and book resources.

Educational Web Portal  - Your guide to Educational Web Sites and Portals for Education

21st Century Literacy Skills - A closer look at the new literacies for students

Chronicle in Education - Fabulous ideas for using the newspaper in your classroom with curriculum guides and discount prices for ordering newspapers

QuotationMark - Great source for quotations (other than standard ones you find lots of places - some religious, some not)

Digital Library for Earth System Education - Funded by the National Science Foundation, this site has lots of resources for science teachers.

Study Guides and Strategies - tips on every aspect of learning!

USA Today K-12 Education ONLINE - Lesson plans as well as access to full text daily articles (all on an easy reading level)

Copyright in the Classroom - A good explanation of copyright and fair use

Education World - The Educator's Best Friend

Find Articles - a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free; updated regularly

Pics4Learning - copyright-friendly images for education

4teachers.org - Online space for teachers integrating technology into the curriculum

Links for ESL and Foreign Language Students and Teachers

TENET - provides useful, current resources for the Texas education community

Rubrics - a free tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch

Paper Airplane Fliers Club - download paper airplanes, advice on world record throws, paper airplane links

Texas Newspapers, Radio, and TV Stations - Links to Texas resources

Marcopolo - Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated daily to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

Houston Public Library - Contains great links as well as HPL information and searchable catalog.

The Big Six - The Big6™ is the most widely-known and-used approach to teaching information and technology skills in the world.

 Professional Journals - Full-text education journals online

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence  TWENTY RESOURCES for teaching & learning in arts, math, science, & social studies have been added to FREE, a website that makes hundreds of learning resources from 40+ federal organizations available (& searchable) in one place.

emTech Over 12,000 resources organized by topics for teachers, students, parents, and others.

Gateway to educational materials The key to one-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units, and other education resources on the internet.

Teach with Movies  Learning guides to each recommended film describe the benefits of the movie, possible problems and helpful background.

CNN Student News The ultimate news and information site for students

EconEdLink This site, sponsored by the National Council on Economic Education includes lesson plans using real world, relevant information and links to data that can be used in the study of economics. Lesson plans are provided by type and grade level.

EDSITEment Educators will find content and activities in the areas of literature, foreign language, art and culture, and history and social studies.

ArtsEdge Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts provides this site integrating art throughout the curriculum. The Teacher Resources section provides lesson plans and online resources.

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies serves as a gateway to the Smithsonian's educational resources.

Shadow Poetry gives definitions of different types of poetry and provides examples

Literacy Website - Great ideas for teaching literacy