Special Needs Education Resources: Find Websites

The Pennsylvania Department of Education's mission to special education is to set high standards for all exceptional students in the Commonwealth receiving special education services and programs. This site outlines special education teaching regulations, standards, assessments, and more.

ISER is a directory of professionals, organizations, and schools that serve the learning disabilities and special education communities.

From education.com, this site offers information for parents of children with special educational needs.

Designed for teachers and administrators, Tools for Success includes research-based effective practices for meeting the needs of children and youth in their schools, including early identification and intervention.

Parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities.

Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.

The purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards.

Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. With 98 percent of the nation's public schools connected to the Internet, the need for a complete online educational guide is evident. Education World is designed to be that resource for educators.

"Great Websites for Kids is a compilation of exemplary websites geared to children from birth to age 14. [...] Newly evaluated and accepted sites are added to the database three times a year. The committee also reviews all sites within the database twice a year to guarantee sites are still relevant, appropriate and accessible."

A great document about parent-teacher conferences from the SchoolSourceNYC.

A great blog that features tons of links to educational websites and tools. Covers grades K-12.

This site offers planning suggestions, preparation advice, conference forms, tips, insights, and communication ideas to help teachers prepare for successful parent-teacher conferences.

Find teaching tips and strategies from real teachers. Come back daily for photos and videos of ideas you can use in your classroom.

Teaching Strategies Articles on an array of teaching topics.

A blog created by teachers for teachers. Read up on the latest teaching tips, insights, resources, and other tidbits from TC Bear and the editorial team at Teacher Created Resources.

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. Create your own for your class or use one that's already created.