# Presentation: 333837

## Professional Resources for Teachers & Administrators from the Federal Government

- Adriana Edwards-Johnson
- Government Publications Librarian
- University of Central Oklahoma
- _[aedwards@ucok.edu](mailto:aedwards@ucok.edu)_
- 405-974-5156

## Everybody’s Looking for Something

- Continuing Education & Professional Development
- Grants & Loans
- Classroom Issues

## Some of them want to use you

- But don’t know where to look

## Where to look...

- The Usual Suspects:
- Dept. of Education
- Library of Congress
- Smithsonian Institution

- Don’t Underestimate:
- EVERYONE ELSE

## Continuing Education & Professional Development

- ENC Professional Resources _[http://www.enc.org/text/professional/](http://www.enc.org/text/professional/)_
- Ideas that work : science professional development.                   ED 1.302: SCI 2/5
- National awards program for model professional development. (Teacher Quality) ED 1.302: M 72/   _[http://www.ed.gov/inits/teachers/teach.html](http://www.ed.gov/inits/teachers/teach.html)_
- Teacher's participation in professional development               ED 1.341: T 22    _[http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS4039](http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS4039)_

## ENC Professional Resources Site

_**Includes:**_
- Searching the Web Tutorial; Lesson Plans & Activities; Reference Desk; Ask-An-Expert Sites; Using the Internet; Event Calendars

_**Includes:**_
- National Standards; State Frameworks; Related Resources

_**Includes:**_
- Exemplary & Promising Mathematics Programs; Guidebook of Federal Resources; Search Federally Funded Materials; Federal Web Sites

_**Includes:**_
- Journal Articles; Searching the Web Tuturial; Reference Desk

_**Includes:**_
- Going for Grants; Grant Web Sites; Guidebook of Federal Resources

_**Includes:**_
- Mathematics Professional Development; Science Professional Development

## Teacher Quality Site

## Grants & Loans: Electronic

- Dept. of Ed Grants & Contracts Information _[http://ocfo.ed.gov/index.htm](http://ocfo.ed.gov/index.htm)_
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance _[http://www.cfda.gov/](http://www.cfda.gov/)_
- Technology Innovation Challenge Grants _[http://www.ed.gov/Technology/challenge/grants1.html](http://www.ed.gov/Technology/challenge/grants1.html)_
- EPA Environmental Education Grants _[http://www.epa.gov/teachers/grants.](http://www.epa.gov/teachers/grants.htm)__[htm](http://www.epa.gov/teachers/grants.htm)_

- Federal Register _[http://www.access.](http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html)__[gpo](http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html)__[.gov/](http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html)__[su](http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html)__[_docs/aces/aces140.html](http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html)_
- School to Work Grants _[http://www.](http://www.stw.ed.gov/grants/grants.htm)__[stw](http://www.stw.ed.gov/grants/grants.htm)__[.ed.gov/grants/grants.](http://www.stw.ed.gov/grants/grants.htm)__[htm](http://www.stw.ed.gov/grants/grants.htm)_
- NIEHS Center Program _[http://www.](http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/home.htm)__[niehs](http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/home.htm)__[.](http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/home.htm)__[nih](http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/home.htm)__[.gov/centers/home.](http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/home.htm)__[htm](http://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/home.htm)_
- NEA: Cultural Funding _[http://www.arts.gov/federal.html](http://www.arts.gov/federal.html)_

## Technology Innovation Challenge Grants

**SURWEB **(http://www.surweb.org), a federally funded project aimed at  providing resources to students and teachers in remote, rural areas, provides application technologies which allow students to manipulate Internet based multimedia. In addition to acquiring a large number of pictures and text, SURWEB has also developed a media presentation tool that enables users to easily access and organize all forms of digital information and then to display their products in a simple, yet professional manner.

## School to Work Grants

## Grants & Loans: Paper

-  _Humanities teacher leadership program_                    NF 3.2: H 88/9
- _Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance_                 PREX 2.20:
- _School-based partnerships : school-related crime prevention_  J 1.2: C 79/5

## In the Classroom

- Issues & Miscellaneous Resources

## Issues

- Class Size
- Reducing Class Size. What Do We Know? _[http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ReducingClass/](http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ReducingClass/)_
- Improving student achievement : examining the impact of   teacher quality and class size  Y 4.ED 8/1: 106-30
- Health
- Medline Plus _[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/)_
- National Center for Education in Maternal & Child Health http://www.ncemch.org/default.html
- ChildStats.gov  http://www.childstats.gov/

## National Center for Education on Maternal & Child Health

**Publications and Data & Research Tools:**
-   Covers such topics as Abstinence Education; Adolescent Mental Health; Childhood Nutrition; Children with Special Health Care Needs: Guidelines and Standards; Early Childhood Development; Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health; School Health Education; School Health Services; Sexuality Education; Smoking/Tobacco Use Prevention.  As well as the MCHLine Database.

**About NCEMCH: **
-  The National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health provides national leadership to the maternal and child health community in three key areas--program development, policy analysis and education, and state-of-the-art knowledge--to improve the health and well-being of the nation's children and families.
-   NCEMCH is funded primarily through its cooperative agreement (MCU-119301) with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health  Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

## More Issues

- Homeschooling
- Homeschooling in the United States http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/HomeSchool/
- School Violence
- CMHS Approach to Enhancing Youth Resilience & Preventing Youth Violence in Schools & Communities  HE 20.427:Y8
- Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative HE 20.402:SA 1
- Pavnet Online http://www.pavnet.org/

## Pavnet

## Yet, Even More...

- High School Drop Outs
- So You Are Thinking of Dropping Out of School http://www.dol.gov/asp/fibre/dropout.htm
- Answers in the Tools Box: Academic Intensity, Attendance Patterns, & Bachelor’s Degree Attainment http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Toolbox/index.html
- A Recommended Approach to Providing High School Dropout & Completion Rates at the State Level  ED 1.328/7:D83/3

## Thank you!

- Questions or Discussion