Literacy and Educational Organizations

• American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
• American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
  • How We Teach Children How to Read and Reading Index
• American Library Association (ALA)
• Arts Education Partnership (AEP)
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA)
• Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
• International Federation for the Teaching of English (IFTE)
• International Reading Association (IRA)
• National Association for Developmental Education (NADE)
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
• National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
• National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
• National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA)
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• National Education Association (NEA)
• National Humanities Center (NHC)
• National Middle School Association (NMSA)
• National Reading Conference Online (NRC)
• National School Boards Association (NSBA)
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Technology Integration

• Focus on Technology from NEA
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
• International Technology Education Association (ITEA)

U.S. Department of Educational Regional Laboratories

The following ten regional educational laboratories are sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Their web sites feature an enormous wealth of resources helpful no matter where you teach and many of the laboratories have training modules, research articles, curriculum frameworks and links pertinent to all areas of literacy and technology.

• Appalachia Educational Lab (AEL) serves Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
• Laboratory for Student Success (LSS) serves Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C.
• Mid-Continent Regional Educational Lab (McREL) serves Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.
• North Central Regional Educational Lab (NCREL) the Regional Educational Laboratory serves Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
• Northwest Regional Educational Lab (NWREL) serves Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.
• Pacific Region Educational Lab (PREL) serves the Pacific region.
• South Eastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE) serves Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina.
• Southwest Educational Development Lab (SEDL) serves Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
• WestEd serves the Regional Educational Laboratory serving California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.
• vLAB at Brown University serves Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

This page last updated March, 2002.

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