General or Cover More than One Area

ISTE - International Society for Technology in Education--Site with teacher and administrator technology standards.

A Strong Research Base--The Metiri Group's list of research based sites incorporating technology.

Technology to Support Learning--A chapter from "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School" dealing with various ways to use technology.

NCRTEC's Guiding Questions for Technology Planning--This site is a technology planning "how-to" site with guiding questions (other WWW resources related to the questions), examples of plans, and general information about the need to develop technology plans.

Apple's Technology Planning Guide--This site is designed to help districts develop a technology integration plan.

No Child Left Behind--The NCLB's main web page.

Technology Resources to Support the School Improvement Process--Cathy Poplin from Creighton school district developed this page of resources. There are links to reports and web pages that can help in the planning of using technology in schools.

Milken Family Foundation's Educational Technology Page--More information about best practices in educational technology.

WestED RTEC's Planning for Technology: Putting the Pieces Together--The toolkit provides educational leaders resources for developing their technology plan. There are links for rubrics, checklists, and links to best practices and other resources.

Surveying the Digital Future-A three-year report created by UCLA. The project Internet Project created a baseline profile of behavior and attitudes about Internet use and non-use in five major subjects: who is online and who is not, media use and trust, consumer behavior, communication patterns, and social effects.

Student Achievement and Educational Practices

Key Building Blocks for Student Achievement in the 21st Century--The CEO Forum on Education and Technology's report on how district's can help students to be contributing citizens and productive workers in the 21st Century.

Just For Kids Best Practices--Just for Kids is a non-profit organization that studies schools to determine what are practices that raise academic standards and increase student learning.
Institute of Education Sciences--This is the United States Department of Education site devoted to developing evidence-based education

ISTE's CARET Website--CARET bridges education technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions. This site can be used to find research-based technology in education practices that work.

NCREL's Educational Technology Resources Online--More information about best practices in educational technology.

Recent Research on the Effects of Technology on Teaching and Learning-An article that illustate the research findings of by the Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET) and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) on the benefits and appropriate uses of technology on teaching and learning.

Finance

Taking TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) to the Classroom--This site was developed to help school leaders understand the long-term costs involved  in building and operating a network of computers.

Strategies for Funding Technology--Links to web sites that provide information about trying to fund technology.

Professional Development

Factors Influencing the Effective Use of Technology for Teaching and Learning--An article written by SIERTEC from lessons they learned when helping resource-poor schools with technology support and professional development.

National Staff Development Council Professional Development Standards-Standards for effective professional development.

Technology for Special Needs

Educational Literature on Differentiated Instruction--Links to articles on differentiated instruction.

Success for All Students with Technology--This is an online lesson but has some ideas on how technology can help all students learn.

Adaptive Technology for the Internet--This site talks about how technology can support people with disabilities.

Parental Involvement

Family and Community Connections with Schools-A site with resources dealing with parental and community involvement in schools.

Parents' Online Resource Center-A site with links about parental involvement.

Raising Achievement, Parents and the Community-Links to various resources on parental involvement.

Tech Plan Template

Arizona's Technology Plan Template-The Tech Plan template in Word format.