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Information and Resources for Educators 
Behavior/Mental Health Resources
- Aggression in Adolescents: Strategies for Parents and Educators
- Bullying Prevention: What Schools and Parents Can Do
- Children’s Mental Health: Information for Educators
- Coping with Crisis--Helping Children With Special Needs
- Defusing Violent Behavior in Young Children: An Ounce of Prevention: Information for Principals
- Depression in Children and Adolescents: A Primer for Parents and Educators
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Disorders: Roles for School Personnel
- Helping the Student with ADHD in the Classroom: Information for Teachers
- Name-Calling and Teasing: Information for Parents and Educators
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Information for Parents and Educators
- Social Skills: Promoting Positive Behavior, Academic Success, and School Safety
- Substance Abuse in Children and Adolescents: Information for Parents and Educators
- Teaching Young Children Self-Controls: Information for Families and Educators
Academic Resources
- Determining Eligibility for Specific Learning Disability Using an RTI System (video)
- High Stakes Testing and No Child Left Behind: Information and Strategies for Educators
- Test Scores: A Guide to Understanding and Using Test Scores
Suggested Websites
- AdLit.org offers resources to the parents and educators of struggling readers and writers in grades 4-12. The site includes research-based articles, instructional material for classroom teachers, an Ask the Experts feature, a blog by a librarian and children's book reviewer, tips for parents, book recommendations, exclusive interviews with top authors, and a free monthly e-newsletter.
- Colorín Colorado is a bilingual website designed for the parents and educators of English Language Learners. The website gives Spanish-speaking parents a wealth of information in their native language and gives teachers the information they need to be more effective in working with children for whom English is a second language.
- Get Ready to Read! offers skill-building early literacy activities, literacy environment checklists, online games and other resources, in addition to a free online version of the screening tool.
- LD OnLine provides information about learning disabilities and ADHD to over 200,000 people each month. The site features hundreds of articles, multimedia, first person essays and children’s writing and artwork. Monthly advice columns by noted experts, active forums, a comprehensive resource directory, and a Yellow Pages referral directory help parents, teachers, and people with learning disabilities decide what to do.
- National Center for Learning Disabilities’ Transitioning to Kindergarten: A Toolkit for Early Childhood Educators is a comprehensive resource for educators that includes tools and materials to help implement strategies to facilitate and enhance children's transition to kindergarten. The toolkit has been posted with permission from NCLD.
- Reading Rockets looks at how young children learn to read, why so many struggle, and what we can do to help them. The website includes an archive of articles, professional development webcasts, interviews with children's authors, a daily headline service, two blogs, and much more. The Reading Rockets project also encompasses programs produced for PBS, including A Tale of Two Schools and a series called Launching Young Readers.
