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Academic Competency Resources

To help close achievement (and opportunity and attainment) gaps, I've highlighed in red below 100+ of the academic development skill and advocacy resources (including evidence-based classroom curricula) that every School Counselor can share with K-12 stakeholders via their School Counseling Program Advisory Councils, School Counseling Core Curriculum classroom lessons, planning for every student, group and individual counseling, and School Counseling Program website resource tabs for students, educators, and families:

• #scchat: Hashtag for ongoing professional school counselor chat on Twitter moderated by school counselor educator Dr. Erin Mason  & school counselor and school counselor education doctoral candidate Danielle Schultz
• #SCcrowd: Hashtag for School Counselor crowdsourcing, online twitter school counselor to school counselor consultation, networking, and creativity; website and blog: schoolcounselorcrowdblog.weebly.com
• #WeNeedDiverseBooks: Campaign to increase the # of picture and chapter books written by and for  children of color, mixed race children, and mulitple cultural identities
• 9 Evidence-based Study Tips: https://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/09/9-evidence-based-study-tips.html
• 84 Books/Speeches Banned in 2012 in Tuscon, AZ by the school board when they closed the social justice education program focused on Mexican-American studies (annotated bibliography by doctoral candidate Elaine Romero): Abu-Jamal's Live from death row; Acuna's Occupied America: A history of Chicanos; Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto fist fight in heaven and Ten little Indians; Allende's Zorro; Anaya's The Anaya Reader and Bless me Ultima; Anzaldua's Borderlands La Frontera: The new mestiza; Appleby et al's The American Vision; Baca's Black mesa poems and A place to stand and Martin & Mediations on the South Valley and  Immigrants in our own land and selected early poems and Healing earthquakes and C-Train and thirteen Mexicans; Baldwin's The fire next time; Berliner & Biddle's The manufactured crisis: Myths, fraud, and the attack on America's public schools; Bigelow & Peterson's Rethinking Columbus: The next 500 years; Bjorkquist's Suffer smoke; Burciaga's Drink cultura: Chicanismo; Carlson & Hijuielos's  Cool salsa: Bilingual poems on growing of Latino in the United States and Red hot salsa: Bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States; Castillo's So far from God and Loverboys; Cavez's Address to the Commonwealth Club of California; Cisneros's House on Mango street and Women hollering creek; De La Pena's Mexican whiteboy; Delgado & Stefancic's The Latino condition: A critical reader and Critcal race theory: An introduction; Diaz's Drown; Duarte's Let their spirits dance; Espada's Zapata's discipline: Essays; Esquivel's Like water for chocolate; Friere's Pedagogy of the oppressed; Garcia's When living was a labor camp; Garcia's La Llorona: Our lady of deformities; Garcia-Camarillo et al's Cantos al sexto sol: Anthology of Aztlanahuac writing; Gilb's The magic of blood and Woodcuts of women; Gonzales's I am Joaquin/Yo SoyJoaquin and Message to Aztlan: Selected writings; Goodman et al's Saving our schools: The case for public education, saying no to 'No Child Left Behind'; Guevara's At the Afro-Asian conference in Algeria;  Hooks's Feminism is for everybody; Jimenez's The circuit: Stories from the life of a migrant child; Kozol's Savage inequalities: Children in America's schools; Martinez's Does anti-war have to be anti-racist too? and 500 anos del pueblo Chicano/500 years of Chicano history in pictures and  De colores means all of us: Latina views for a multi-colored Century; Montoya et al's Culture clash: Life, death, and revolutionary comedy; Munoz's Zigzagger; Rebolledo et al's Infinite divisions: An anthology of Chicano literature; Remy's United States government: Democracy in action; Rivera's ...y no se lo trago la tierra/"...And the earth did not devour him."; Rodriguez's Always running-La vida loca: Gang days in L.A.; Rodriguez's The x in la raza II and Justice: A question of race; and Codex Tamuanchan: On becoming human; Rosales's Dictionary of Latino civil rights history; Ruiz's Two badges: The lives of Mona Ruiz; Sandoval-Sanchez et al's Puro Teatro: A Latina anthology; Shakespeare's The tempest; Sheridan's Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican community in Tucson, 1854-1941;  Skolnick et al's Crisis in American institutions; Tafallo's Curandera; Takaki's A different mirror: A history of multicultural America; Tatum's Mexican American literature and New Chicana/Chicano writing; Thoreau's Civil disobedience; Urrea's By the lake of sleeping children and  Nobody's son: Notes from an American life and Into the beautiful North; and The devil's highway; Valdez's Zoot suit and other plays; Yolen's Twelve impossible things before breakfast: Stories; Zepeda's Ocean power: Poems from the desert; and Zinn's A people's history of the United States: 1492-present and Declarations of independence: Cross-examining American ideology and Voices of a people's history of the United States  http://www.librotraficante.com/annotatedBibliography.pdf
• 100 National Standards from Mrs. Puglisi: https://www.susanohanian.org/show_sarahsnotes.php?id=29
• A Rotting Apple: Education Redlining in New York City: Schott Foundation study of inequitable opportunities facing NYC students of color and low-income students, recommends performing equity audits in every middle school and additional change https://schottfoundation.org/publications-reports/education-redlining
• Abiendo Puertas/Opening Doors bilingual curriculum and college readiness skills for 4th-12th grades) www.familiesinschools.org
• Academic Earth: Giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education www.academicearth.org 
  
• Academic Success Skills: (free online worksheets/inventories for academic success/planning, choosing a major, goal-setting, learning styles, money management, note-taking/reading, planning and organization, study skills/memory, test taking, and time management) www.redlands.edu/student-life/7266.aspx
• Achieve: Helping states raise academic standards and graduation requirements (funded by corporations and politicians focused on their brand of educational "reform") www.achieve.org...   
• ACT Question of the Day https://www.act.org/qotd/
• Advisory Guides/School Counseling Core Curriculum Lessons aligned with ASCA student standards for grades 6-12 (College Board Schools) https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-started/educator-resource-center/college-board-advisory-guides
• The Algebra Project: Using mathematics as an organizing tool to  ensure quality public school education for every child in the USA www.algebra.org 
• Alliance for Quality Education New York (AQENY) https://www.aqeny.org
• Alternative Education Resource Organization: The education revolution www.educationrevolution.org
• American Diploma Project: 35 states promoting carer and college readiness via aligned high school standards, graduation requirements, and assessment and accountability systems funded by corporations and politicans and their "brand" of "reform" www.achieve.org/adp-network
• American Educational Research Association (AERA): Advancing knowledge about education,  encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education, and promoting the use of research to improve education and serve the public good www.aera.net
• American Federation of Teachers (AFT): www.aft.org
• American Library Association (ALA): Ensuring access to information for everyone www.ala.org
• American Sign Language (ASL): www.handspeak.com
• American Student Achievement Institute: Changing school culture and practices to close achievement gaps and increase community members with postsecondary degrees https://asainstitute.org
• ARIS Parent Link: NYC's DOE Achievement Reporting and Innovation System: Educators Using data to close achievement gaps (vimeo explanation) https://vimeo.com/17932153
• ASCD: Programs, products, services for how educators learn, teach, and lead www.ascd.org
• Attendance Works: National and state initiative that promotes awareness of the important role that school attendance plays in achieving academic success starting with school entry. Our goal is ensuring every district tracks chronic absence data beginning in kindergarten or earlier and partners with families and community agencies to intervene when attendance is a problem for children or particular schools www.attendanceworks.org/
• Banned Books Week: National celebration of the freedom to read and challenging censorship. More than 11,000 books have been challenged since 1982. www.bannedbooksweek.org
• The Becoming Radical Blog: A place for the pedagogy of kindness (public and scholarly writing of Dr. P. L. Thomas challenging corporatization of education and systemic classism and racism) http://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/
• Best-of-the-Best Enrichment Materials Database https://www.gifted.uconn.edu/sem/enrichment/typeii_enrichment.cfm
• Better World Books: Collecting and selling books online to fund worldwide literacy initiatives  www.betterworldbooks.org
• Big Picture Learning: Changing education by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools with authentic, rigorous, and relevant learning and assessment working with the real world and greater community www.bigpicture.org
• Books for Africa: Ending the book famine in Africa www.booksforafrica.org/
• Black History Pages: https://www.blackhistorypages.com
• Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning (updated): Moving learners form low-level to higher-order thinking https://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm
• BrainPop: Animated education site using digital media for K-12 students https://www.brainpop.com/
• Brains.org: Practical classroom application of current brain research www.brains.org
• Broader Bolder Approach to Education: Promoting policies ensuring all children start school ready to learn with good food and health care and out-of-school enrichment to support learning with acountability focused on improving instruction, identifying strong teachers, and broadening students' educational experiences (as opposed to closing schools, attacking teachers, and narrowing curriculum) www.boldapproach.org
• Campaign for Fiscal Equity: Leading the effort to protect and promote the constitutional right to the opportunity for a sound basic education for all New York’s public school students https://www.cfequity.org/ 
• The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading: Evidence-based resources to support school readiness, end chronic absence,  end summer learning loss, increase parent engagement, and increase early literacy skills for low-income children by 3rd grade https://gradelevelreading.net
• Campaign for High School Equity: Ensuring every high school prepares every student for graduation, college, career, and life, particularly students of color and low-income students https://www.highschoolequity.org/#fbid=CYK7x3dzGPQ
• CASA Middle School's (Bx, NY) Solidarity Anti-Violencehttp://www.wnyc.org/story/bronx-middle-school-students-wont-be-silent-ferguson/
• Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)   www.cal.org/
• The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) www.carla.unm.edu
• Center for Excellence in School Counseling and Leadership (CESCAL) www.cescal.org... 
• Center for School Counseling Outcome Reserach and Evaluation (CSCORE) www.umass.edu
• Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education: the Center aims to publish cutting-edge implications for education policy and practice, with an explicit focus on improving equity in P-12 schools, colleges and universities, and social contexts that influence educational outcomes www.gse.upenn.edu/equity/
• Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships https://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/center.htm
• Challenge Based Learning: Encouraging learners to leverage technology to solve real-world problems through collaboration, asking good questions, developing deep subject knowledge, identifying and solving challenges, and taking action www.challengebasedlearning.org
• Change the Stakes: Advocating an end to inappropriate high-stakes testing in K-12 schools http://changethestakes.wordpress.com/about-cts/
• Chess in the Schools (NYC): Through structured classroom, after-school, weekend, and summer programs, using chess as an educational tool to promote learning and to help young people develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills chessintheschools.org/
• Children, Teens, and Reading Infographic (Common Sense Media: Showing a sharp decline in USA adolescent reading and continued stagnation in reading scores and achievement gap) https://www.commonsensemedia.org/children-teens-and-reading-infographic
• Class Size Matters www.classsizematters.org...
• Codeacademy: Learn how to code interactively (computer science) for free any age anytime anywhere www.codeacademy.com
• Committee for Children: Working globally for children's academic and social success www.cfchildren.org
• Common Core State Standards Initiative: Preparing America's students for college & career (although being challenged by educators who question the lack of research and evidence base and narrowing the curriculum and lowering of fiction-based literacy by corporations' and politicians' brand of "reform") www.corestandards.org
• Common Sense Media: Family media and technology information and free K-12 school curricula/lessons on digital media skills including safety, critical thinking, and making wise media and technology decisions www.commonsensemedia.org
• Communities in Schools: Empowering students to stay in school and achieve in life www.communitiesinschools.org...
• Computer Clubhouse: Building after-school technology youth competencies in under-resourced communities in 20 countries www.computerclubhouse.org
• Computers for Youth: CFY's Take IT Home program improves children’s learning environment at home and to strengthen the school-home connection www.cfy.org
• Cool Math for Kids: Games for the math-challenged and for math whizzes https://www.coolmath4kids.com/
• Cooperative Extension: National Institute of Food & Agriculture's system of education networks in rural communities coordinated by land grant universities across the USA including education and child/youth/family resources https://www.crees.usda.gov/Extension/index.html
• Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) www.caepsite.org
• Council of the Great City Schools www.cgcs.org
• Coursera: Free online classes from Penn, Princeton, Stanford, U. of Michigan.  www.coursera.org
  
• Data Quality Campaign: Using data to improve student achievement https://www.dataqualitycampaign.org/
• Dial-A-Teacher (UFT Homework helpline for K-8 NYC students--staffed in 12 languages, 4-7pm EST, M-F) 212-777-3380
• Digital Learning Environments: Tools and technologies for effective classrooms. Today’s students grew up with technology and expect to use it to get information, solve problems and communicate. These are the very skills they need now and in the future. When classrooms are equipped with the right combination of technology tools – in a digital learning environment - students can learn all the skills they need. This web site is dedicated to demonstrating how the technologies available in a digital learning environment can be the catalyst for teaching and learning in an era where new skills – and the ability to change as times demand – are paramount https://www.guide2digitallearning.com/
• Digital Literacy & Citizenship Classroom Curriculum (K-12): Free and customizable, downloadable lessons on all topics digital to keep students well-informed and safe using multiple devices in the digital world in eight domains: internet safety, privacy & security, realtionships & communication, cyberbullying, digital footprint & reputation, self-image & identity, information literacy, and creative credit & copyright  https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum ; scope and sequence: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/scope-and-sequence
• Early College High School Initiative: 240 public high schools in 28 states and D.C. combining academic rigor and the opportunity to save time and money to motivate for students  compressing the time it takes to complete a high school diploma and the first two years of college with a targeted focus on low-income youth, first-generation college goers, English language learners, students of color, and other young people underrepresented in higher education www.earlycolleges.org
• Eatiquette: Transforming  poor and working class children's school lunch from an assembly line to family-style focused on healthy locally sourced food prepared on site to increase student interaction, communication skills, and readiness to learn www.ventrifouncation.org/what-we-do/eatiquette/
• EconEdLink: 430+ K-12 lessons for economic education and financial literacy free to teachers, school counselors, college counselors sponsored by the Council for Economic Education http://www.econedlink.org/
• Education Law Center (NJ): Standing up for public school children--If given the oppportunity, all children can achieve high academic standards https://www.edlawcenter.org  
• Education Sector: A hybrid institution formed at the intersection of public policy, research and journalism creating independent analysis and innovative ideas--USA students deserve a high-quality publicly financed education through high school and the financial help necessary to attend high-quality colleges and universities. www.educationsector.org
• The Education Trust: Closing achievement & opportunity gaps K-16 funded by corporate interests and their "brand" of reform www.edtrust.org
• Educators for Social Responsibility: Creating safe, caring, and equitable schools so that all young people succeed in school and life, and help shape a safe, democratic and just world https://www.esrnational.org
• Edu4: A network of educators,  parents, students, administrators resisting the multi-layered, neoliberal assault on education to cultivate a more equitable and socially just educational landscape www.Education4.org
• Edudemic: Our mission is to make people smart giving everyone access to the leading edge of thinking www.edudemic.com/
• Edufactory: Organizing globally to challenge inapporopriate practices in university knowledge production and especially student and faculty struggles https://www.edu-factory.org/wp/about/
• EdX: EdX is a MIT and Harvard University partnership offering free online learning www.edxonline.org
• Edible Schoolyard Project: Building and sharing an edible education curriculum K-12 envisioning gardens and kitchens as interactive classrooms for all academic subjects, and a free, nutritious, organic lunch for every student to transform the health and values of every child www.edibleschoolyard.org
• Elementary School Counselors of Oceanside, CA Video
  https://www.youtube.com/edit?ns=1&video_id=HplRzoP47Ag
• Equal Opportunity Schools: With at least two-thirds of a million USA students qualified for AP/IB courses not enrolled in them annually, Equal Opportunity Schools demonstrate how missing students can be identified and quickly moved into advanced courses leading to increased student engagement and performance and closing achievement, opportunity, and attainment gaps www.eoschools.org
• Equity Assistance Centers: Funded by the U.S. Department of Education under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They provide assistance in  race, gender, and national origin equity to public schools to promote equal educational opportunities www.equityassistancecenters.org
• Everyone Graduates Center: Ensuring college-, career-, and civic-ready high school graduates www.every1graduates.org
• Excelencia! in Education: Accelerating Latino student success in higher education https://www.edexcelencia.org/
• EZAnalyze and Time Tracker--Data Tools for Educators: EZAnalyze provides free, Excel-based tools designed to enhance the data-driven work educators engage in. While Professional School Counselors are the target audience for EZAnalyze products, professionals and students in other disciplines also find these tools useful www.ezanalyze.com
• Families and Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE): Helping parents and advocates improve educational results for children with disabilities www.fape.org...
• Family and Community Resources for Infants, Toddlers, Children, and Adolescents with Disabilities (English, Español) https://nichcy.org/families-community
• Families in Schools: Building partnerships for student success (including early childhood Abiendo Puertas/Opening Doors bilingual curriculum and college readiness skills for 4th-12th grades) www.familiesinschools.org
• First Book: Access to new books for children in need https://www.firstbook.org/
• The Flagway Campaign: Creating environments where students can practice and celebrate learning math www.typp.org/flagwaycampaign
• Flashcard Machine: Create, study, and share online flashcards www.flashcardmachine.com
• Flipped Learning: Turning learning on its head! https://flipped-learning.com
• Forvo: Accurate pronounciation for words in multiple languages www.forvo.com
• GED General Educational Development Exam: Originally developed for returning WWII vets in the US, one of three high school equivalency exams www.gedtestingservice.com
• The Geography Game: How well do you know the world? https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/interactive/2012/dec/20/geography-game-how-well-know-world
• Graduation Plans grades 6-12: Indiana's academic, career, and college planning docs requried for all grade 6-12 students to be updated annually with school counselors--easily adaptable for other states www.learnmoreindiana.org/K12academics/Requirements/Pages/GradPlan.aspx
• Great Websites for Kids (animals, the arts, history & biography, literature & languages, mathematics & computers, reference desk, sciences, social sciences) https://gws.ala.org/
• HandsOn Science Partnership: Improving student and teacher access to hands-on science and technology equipment with increased resources for inquiry-based curricula, tools, materials, and technology to increase STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) student achievement https://handson1.tmdhosting960.com/
• Hemispheric Dominance Inventory/Brain-Based Learning Styles https://frank.mtsu.edu/~studskl/hd/learn.html 
• High-Quality Decision Making: (research-based ACIP model:  alternatives, consequences, information, plans) https://www.careerkey.org/asp/your_decision/high_quality_decisions.html
• High School Study Tips & Study Skills: https://academictips.org/study-skills/high-school-study-tips/
• HiSET High School Equivalency Test Exam: Administered by Educational Testing Service, which co-developed it with Iowa Testing Programs as a GED alternative https://www.hiset.ets.org
• How to Study: When you hit the books--and they hit back www.howtostudy.org...
• Illustrative Mathematics: Demonstrating types of work students experience as teachers implement Common Core Standards including videos of math www.illustrativemathematics.org 
• Implementing the Common Core State Standards: The Role of the School Counselor Action Brief https://www.achieve.org/publications
• Innovations for Learning: Nonprofit improving student literacy with  digital learning applications, online tutoring and coaching to improve reading in underperforming elementary schools www.innovationsforlearning.org
• Inside Schools: Independent blog guide to NYC public schools (elementary, middle, high school, registration, gifted & talented, special education, bilingual, free academic and college preparation resources, and specialized high school prep programs and testing, deadlines, and reviews of high schools) www.insideschools.org
• Indykids!: A free paper for free kids (social justice and current events news by and for 4th-8th graders and high school English language learners) www.indykids.net
• Institute for Mathematics and Education www.ime.math.arizona.edu
• Institute for Research and Policy on Acceleration: Evidence-based resources for gifted and talented student development www.accelerationinstitute.org
• International Baccalaureate credit recognition policies at colleges/universities worldwide: http://www.ibo.org/universities/listalluniversities.cfm
• International Model for School Counseling Programs: Adding global/cultural/family domain/standards/competencies to ASCA Model (click on International Counseling Standards): https://www.aassa.com/page.cfm?p=356
• International Student Movement: Activists exchanging information, networking, and activities in struggle against world wide commercialization of public education seeking free emancipatory education for all www.emancipating-education-for-all.org
• Intervention Central: Free resources to help struggling learners and implement Response to Intervention (RTI): https://www.interventioncentral.org/home
• Jumpstart: Fostering skills for life-long learning in early childhood www.jstart.org...
• Kahoot: Free game-based social learning interactive quiz platform for all platforms and all ages and all subjects https://getkahoot.com/how-it-works To join a Kahoot learning game/quiz enter code & create user name here: https://kahoot.it
• Khan Academy: Free, nonprofit, math, science, history, finance lessons www.khanacademy.org... 
• Kids Gardening: Helping young minds grow https://www.kidsgardening.org/
• Kids In Need Foundation: School supplies, changing lives--ensuring every child is prepared to learn and succeed by providing free school supplies www.kinf.org...
• The Kids Right To Read Project: Challenging censorship and promoting freedom of reading https://www.ncac.org/Kids-Right-to-Read
• Kids' Zone: (National Center for Educational Statistics--K-12 schools, college selection, libraries, math, graphing, and fun with data) https://www.nces.ed.gov...
• Learning Forward: Every educator engages in effective professional learning every day so every student achieves (National Staff Development Council) www.learningforward.org/
• Leading Success: Online toolkit for educators leading and collaborating for equitable K-12 student academic, career, and college access success (College Board) www.leadingsuccess.org
• Little Free Library: "Take a book return a book" free library where neighbors/students build a miniature "library" and share favorite books/literature--2500+ in USA and abroad http://littlefreelibrary.org/
• Little Miss Geek: Inspiring girls to be tech pioneers www.littlemissgeek.org
• Lost Opportunity: A 50 state report on the opportunity to learn in America (Schott Foundation 2009 study demonstrating opportunity gaps nationwide) https://www.otlcampaign.org/resources/lost-opportunity-50-state-report
• MIND Research Institute: Enables elementary and secondary students to reach their full academic and career potential through developing and deploying math instructional software and systems https://www.mindresearch.net
• Money as You Grow: 20 things kids need to know to lead financially smart lives www.moneyasyougrow.org
  
• Montessori Method: Use of mixed-age grouping, indivdual learning choice, and focused concentration to develop learning in Pre-S-12 students www.montessori.edu
• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): The Nation's Report Card https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
• National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE): www.nabe.org
• National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth https://www.naehcy.org/ 
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) www.naeyc.org
• National Association for Multicultural Education www.nameorg.org...
• National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) www.naesp.org
• National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS): Includes equity and justice resource Assessment of Inclusivity & Multiculturalism www.nais.org...
  
• National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP): Promoting excellence in middle level and high school leadership through research-based professional development, resources, and advocacy so that every student can be prepared for postsecondary learning opportunities and be workforce ready www.nassp.org/
• National Center for Education Statistics: The primary USA entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education www.nces.ed.gov
• National Center for Homeless Education https://center.serve.org/nche/  
• National Center for Transforming School Counseling (NCTSC): Includes Data tools, Access to Success Project, College Results Online, and New Vision Definition of SC  www.edtrust.org...
• National Center on Education and the Economy: Researching the world's best-performing education systems to unlock their secrets www.ncee.org
• National Center on Response to Intervention (RTI): Integrating instructional and assessment components into an effective prevention system. When educators systematically monitor students’ academic and behavioral progress to make data-based instructional decisions, educators teach more effectively and their students’ achievement increases considerably www.rti4success.org
• National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) www.socialstudies.org
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) www.ncte.org
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) www.nctm.org
• National Dropout Prevention Centers www.dropoutprevention.org
• National Education Association: Great public schools for every student www.nea.org...
• National History Day: NHD inspires children through competitions and transforms teaching through project-based curriculum and instruction www.nhd.org
• National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students https://blog.northgeorgia.edu/transferinstitute
• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment www.learningoutcomesassessment.org
• National Association of State Boards of Education www.nasbe.org
• The National Numeracy Network: Promoting quantitative literacy for everyone www.serc.carleton.edu/nnn/index.html
• National Science Teachers Association www.nsta.org
• National Summer Learning Association: Providing evidence-based services to communities, school districts, and programs to support quality summer learning programs accessible to youth and helping close "summer loss of learning" and achievement gaps www.summerlearning.org
• Naviance: Naviance empowers schools to increase student achievement through a structured approach to course, college, and career planning and advising www.naviance.com/about
• NCAA 2016 changes for eligibility http://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2012-04-26/new-eligibility-standards-start-2016
• New York State Suggested School Counseling and School Counseior Education Prepration Regulations Changes(submitted to NYS Regents December, 2014) https://www.runmyclub.com/NYSSCA/ClientFiles/NYSEDRegentsMeetingItemDecember2014.pdf
• New York State's Extreme School Segregation: Ineqality, Inaction, and a Damaged Future (paper from the Civil Rights Project by Drs. John Kuscera and Gary Orfield, 2014) http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/ny-norflet-report-placeholder/Kucsera-New-York-Extreme-Segregation-2014.pdf
• Next Generation Science Standards: developed by a group of corporate and political interests with a specific "reform" brand www.nextgenerationscience.org
• OER Commons: Open Educational Resources www.oercommons.org
• Opportunity to Learn Campaign: Closing the opportunity gap in public education with quality early childhood education, highly prepared/effective teachers, college preparatory curriculum, and equitable instructional policies and materials for every student www.otlcampaign.org
• Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC): 23-state consortium working on common assessments of Math and Literacy that are internationally benchmarked and that have been developed by a group of corporate and political interests with a specific "reform" brand www.parcconline.org
• Plans of Study: 16 career clusters and career pathways for advising high school students' academic course selection and beyond (school counselors and parents/guardians) www.careertech.org/career-clusters/resources/
• Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) https://www.oecd.org/pisa/aboutpisa/
• Progress in International Reading Literacy Study https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pirls/
• Quality Education is a Constitutional Right (QECR): A student-led, national movement for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution ensuring the right to a high-quality education is needed to significantly transform American public education and to raise the floor for what students expect of themselves, and what schools, families, and communities expect of their children www.qecr.org
• Quizlet: Flashcards and study games for all subjects (English, Espanol) quizlet.com ; https://quizlet.com/blog/hablas-espanol/  
• Radical Math: Integrating social/economic justice www.radicalmath.org
• Read for the Record (Jumpstart): Preparing preschool children in low-income neighborhoods for success in school and life www.jstart.org
• Read, Write, Think--The International Reading Association: New approaches for teaching literacy www.readwritethink.org/
• Readistep: Academic assessment tool for middle school college and career readiness and assessing pre-high school academic achievement level skills https://readistep.collegeboard.org/
• Reclaim the Promise of Public Education: Seeking equity and excellence through strong public schools and challenging corporatizing practices that harm them with a vision summarized in: "The Principles that Unite Us" https://www.reclaimpublicednow.org/home
• Redesigning School Counseling: The American Student Achievement Institute's School Counseling program resources to create data-driven, accountable, and locally focused results aligned with the ASCA RAMP; used by hundreds of K-12 schools and school counselors to demonstrate higher academic achievement, college/career opportunities, and personal/social success https://cgi.asainstitute.org/cgi-bin/rsc/intro
• Regents, Advanced Regents & Honors HS Diploma Requirements (NY) https://www.hesc.com/content.nsf/SFC/Regents_Requirements
• Responsive Classroom: Evidence-based academic and social success pedagogy for safe, challenging, and joyful elementary classrooms https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/principles-and-practices-responsive-classroom
• SAT Question of the Day: https://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/sat-question-of-the-day
• Save Our Schools: Supporting equitable public school funding; ending high-stakes testing for evaluation; family/community leadership in education policy formation; curriculum responsive to and including local communities; qualified and committed teachers in every school www.saveourschoolsmarch.org
• SchoolBook: Blog on NYC school news, data, conversation sponsored by WNYC & NYT www.schoolbook.org
• School Counselor Central and Blog: Resources for school counselors to close achievement and opportunity gaps including a graduation tracker, personalized learning plan, multiple mangement and accountability tools, and a blog with reguarly updated SCCC lessons https://schoolcounselorcentral.blogspot.com and www.schoolcounselorcentral.com
• Schoolwide Enrichment Model (Renzulli): Applying gifted/talented strategies in every classroom http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/sem/
• Schott Foundation for Public Education: Advocating and empowering a movement to achieve fully resourced, quality P-12 education www.schottfoundation.org
• Science Buddies: Science fair project ideas & STEM career descriptions www.sciencebuddies.org
• Science Daily: Internet-based digest of latest research in science www.sciencedaily.com
• Scientist Interview Videos: The joys of science from the National Academy of Sciences https://nas.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=INTERVIEWS_by_subject
• Scratch: Youth creating interactive stories, games, animations, and learing how to code www.scratch.mit.edu
• Second Step social and academic skills and bullying prevention curriculum: for Early Childhood-Grade 8 https://www.cfchildren.org/second-step.aspx
• Start School Later: Ensuing school start times are compatible with student health, safety, and equity (focus on moving adolescent school start times later for better academic/personal outcomes) https://startschoollater.net
  
• Storybirds: Short art-inspired stories made for free and shared on any digital device www.storybirds.com
• Study Guides and Strategies (multiple languages) www.studs.net
• Study Habits Inventory: Which Study Skills Can You Improve? https://www.educationplanner.com/students/self-assessments/improving-study-habits.shtml
• Student Success Skills curriculum: Evidence-based school counseling curriculum for cognitive and social skills K-12 www.studentsuccessskills.com
• SusanOhanian.org: Educator blog challenging corporate education reform in K-12 schools with evidence, research, and advocacy www.susanohanian.org
• TASC Test Assessing Secondary Completion: CTB/McGraw Hill's GED alternative https://tasctest.com
• Teach-nology: Providing free services designed to support educators' in effectively incorporating technology in teaching and learning. www.teach-nology.com
• TeacherSolidarity: Education in most countries is subject to neo-liberal education 'reform' slowly starving public schools, promoting privatization, destroying teacher professionalism to produce a minimally educated workforce that can read instructions and advertisements but discouraged from thinking critically about the world. Teachersolidarity records resistance to such reform of teachers, their unions, communities and researchers defending public and democratic education www.teachersolidarity.com
• TED: Free motivational talks https://www.ted.com/
• Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) http://nces.ed.gov/timss/
• TurnAround Arts: Using arts education to turn around low-performing USA schools www.turnaroundarts.pcah.gov/#section-what-we-do
• Universal Design for Learning www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/udl.html
• United Opt Out National: Ending corporate education reform and over-emphasis on high-stakes testing in K-12 public schools https://unitedoptout.com
• The Urgency of Now--The Schott 50 state report on public education and Black (and Latino) males: Online interactive state data map & resources demonstrating both the pushout problem and lockout crisis https://blackboysreport.org/
• VARK Questionnaire: A guide to learning styles (multiple languages) www.vark-learn.com/english/page/asp?p=questionnaire
• Whole Movement: Folding the circle for information www.wholemovement.com
• World Savvy: Preparing the next generation of leaders as responsible global citizens via systemic change in K-12 education providing every student skills to be leaders and changemakers in diverse local and global communities. www.worldsavvy.org
• The Young People's Project--Math, Literacy, and Social Change:

  Develops students aged 8-22 from traditionally marginalized populations as learners, teachers, leaders, and organizers through math and media literacy, community-building, and advocacy in order to build a unique network of young people who are better equipped to navigate life’s circumstances, are active in their communities, and advocate for education reform in the USA https://www.typp.org/