Teachers & Staff

 

Virtual Library

Welcome to the GJSD Virtual Library! This site is designed to assist staff in locating valuable researched based information that can be used to raise student achievement in the Greater Johnstown School District.

 

Education Journals

  • Education Week
  • ERIC

    The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. Effective October 1, more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free."

  • Teacher Magazine
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education

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English

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Evidence/Research-Based Solutions

  • Child Trends

    Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that provides social science research to those who serve children and youth.  To advance its mission, Child Trends collects and analyzes data: conducts, synthesizes, and disseminates research; designs and evaluates programs; and develops and tests promising approaches to research in the field.

  • Best Evidence

    Best Evidence Encyclopedia is a free website created by Johns Hopkins University Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE). Its intention is to give educators and researchers fair and useful information about the strength of the evidence supporting a variety of programs available for students in grades k-12. BEE provides summaries of scientific reviews produced by many authors and organizations, as well as links to the full texts of each review.

  • The Campbell Collaboration

    The Campbell Collaboration is a non-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas. Their vision is to bring o=positive social change and improve the quality of public and private services by preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of existing social science evidence.

  • Promising Practices Network

    The Promising Practices Network (PPN) is dedicated to providing quality evidence-based information about what works to improve the lives of children, youth and families. The site features summaries of programs and practices that are proven to improve the outcome for children. All of the information on the site has been carefully screened for scientific rigor, relevance, and clarity.

  • What Works Clearinghouse

    The What Works Clearinghouse was established in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education. The current nationwide emphasis on ensuring that all students and schools meet high standards has increased the demand for evidence of "what works" in education. Currently, few resources exist to help education decision makers differentiate high-quality research from weaker research and promotional claims. As a decision-making tool, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) helps the education community and locate and recognize credible and reliable evidence to make informed decisions.

  • Blueprints for Violence Prevention
  • The Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education

    The Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE), at Johns Hopkins university started its work in 2004 under a 10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences to create a research center focused on helping low performing schools meet their states' academic performance standards.

  • The Access Center

    The Access Center is a national technical assistance (TA) center funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs.  Our mission is to improve educational outcomes for elementary and middle school students with disabilities.

  • The Florida Center for Reading Research
  • National Dropout Prevention Center
  • Center on Innovation and Improvement
  • Wisconsin Center for Education Research

    The Wisconsin Center for Education Research is one of the oldest, largest, and most productive education research centers in the world.  WCER provides a productive environment where some of the country's leading scholars conduct basic and applied education research.

  • School Matters

    Despite a 50 percent increase in per pupil spending over the past two decades, nearly one third of public high school students fail to graduate, and two thirds of all students leave high school unprepared for a four-year college, according to the Manhattan Institute. Given the diminishing economic prospects for Americans without a quality education, the need for reform is clear.

    Policymakers, educators, and individual parents are working hard to improve our schools, and they deserve respect and gratitude for taking on such a difficult challenge. However, education leaders are often forced to make critical decisions based on incomplete information, simply because there hasn't been a national, easily searchable clearinghouse for education information and analysis-until now.

    SchoolMatters gives policymakers, educators, and parents the tools they need to make better-informed decisions that improve student performance. SchoolMatters will educate, empower, and engage education stakeholders.

    • The information and analysis will educate Americans about how schools and school districts are performing and help them understand the complex relationships between achievement and investment.
    • SchoolMatters will empower educators and policymakers, giving them easy access to the information they need to craft strong education policies.
    • Finally, SchoolMatters will engage the public in a widespread movement to improve our nation's school systems. For the first time, parents and the general public will have instant access to a wide range of data on local schools and schools districts, enabling them to make informed decisions, ranging from policies they advocate to the schools their children attend.
  • Teaching LD

    TeachingLD is a service of the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) of the Council for Exceptional Children. DLD is the largest international professional organization focused on Learning Disabilities. The purpose of TeachingLD is to provide trustworthy and up-to-date resources about teaching students with Learning Disabilities. In addition to serving as a resource for members of DLD, TeachingLD.org publishes content about assessment, instruction, and policy related to Learning Disabilities. Readers can find information about curriculum-based measurement for monitoring student progress; teaching methods such a co-teaching and direct instruction; and current issues such as response-to-intervention models.

  • Common Core State Standards

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Math

  • AIMS Foundation

    This site is run by the AIMS (Activities Integrating Math and Science) foundation. It has the AIMS magazine online, which features activities you can use in the classroom. Included is information about AIMS workshops, an online product catalog, and state specific correlations (EALR's). There are also puzzles, activities and teacher resources. Good source of activities for teachers that students will enjoy.

  • Math at Rice
    This website provides exercises and information about geometry. It also gives the history of geometry and geometric terminologies. There are problem solving questions and examples for students to practice. There are links to various sites related to geometry (polygons, isosceles triangle puzzler, impossible triangles, the golden ratio, etc.).

 

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Miscellaneous

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Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE)

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PSSA & Assessments

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Reading

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Research Resources

  • Google

    One of our favorite sites for research.

  • AskJeeves

    Go ahead, ask him a question!

  • Dewey Decimal Made Fun

    Collection of web sites for the Dewey Decimal System to include web sites that have been organized by the Dewey Decimal System

  • Research Cards

    A selection of printable card templates will help guide and organize students in their research projects. Choose from question cards, quotation cards, computer cards, and graphic organizers.

  • Wikipedia

    Online free encyclopedia

  • News Bank
  • Yahooligans

    Information, games and research tools for kids

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Science

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Social Studies

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Standards Aligned System

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STEM

  • MIT Open CourseWare
  • STEM: Defined Learning Defined stem is brought to us by PAIUnet.  Access to the site will be available until June 30th, 2012.  To enter the site, please use the appropriate promotional code below to create user accounts. Promotional code:  IU08t25 (case sensitive).

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