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**Emergency Planning** [|Emergency Planning for Schools] is a one-stop website offering information that can help school leaders plan for any emergency, including natural disasters, violent incidents, and terrorist acts. Excerpts from a soon-to-be-published model "emergency response and crisis management plan" are also available. (Department of Education) [|Disaster Resources for Parents and Teachers] provides a list of disaster relief documents relating to preparation and early warning systems, making schools more disaster resistant, helping child victims of disasters, talking to children about the threat of biological warfare or terrorist attack, and more. (Federal Emergency Management Agency)  [|Summer Workshops] provides materials from dozens of teacher presentations on literacy, math, science, history, and the arts at the U.S. Department of Education's Teacher-to-Teacher Summer Workshops. Topics include reading, writing, English language learners, Chinese language and culture, algebra, computation, data, geometry, peer teaching, earth systems, cells, physical science, labs, science mysteries, historical literacy, arts and reading, and more. (Department of Education) [|Teacher Workshop: Literacy] provides materials from 2007 summer teacher workshops sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Find slides and handouts on teaching reading, comprehension, vocabulary and writing in every classroom, struggling adolescent readers, narrative writing, expository compositions, persuasive writing, reading and writing in math and science, reading and writing for limited English proficient students, literature and the arts, and more. (Department of Education) [|Teacher Workshop: Math] provides materials from 2007 summer teacher workshops sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Find slides and handouts on teaching algebra, algorithms, computation, data collection, cooperative learning, decimals and fractions, density, geometry, integers, linear equations, multiplication and division, nature and mathematics, polynomials, problem solving in a primary classroom, vocabulary in math, word problems in elementary math, and more. (Department of Education)
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**Professional Development** [|How to Organize Your Teaching] suggests ways to organize instruction to improve students' ability to remember information, solve problems faster, understand abstract concepts, and transfer what they've learned to new situations. (Department of Education)

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