BACK-TO-SCHOOL -- NEW SCHOOL YEAR
Commercial and non academic sites, but each contains some helpful information for returning to school

Administrators

Great Starts: Veteran Principals Offer Opening Day Tips
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin317.shtml
Education World 

Back to School Tips and further links for MS and HS principals
http://www.principalspartnership.com/feature803.html
The Principals' Partnership 

Fifteen Must-Do Items for School Principals: A July to Mid-September Agenda That Leads to a Smooth School Year
Excerpted from The Principal's Leadership Sourcebook by Evan Robb.
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3749289
Scholastic

Starting a New School Year: What Every Administrator Should Know
http://www.pilambda.org/horizons/v81-4/Clement.pdf
educational HORIZONS, Summer 2003

First Days of Middle School
http://www.middleweb.com/1stDResources.html
Middle Web's Resources

New Teachers

Lifelines to the Classroom: Designing Support for Beginning Teachers
http://www.wested.org/online_pubs/tchrbrief.pdf
WestEd, 2000

Become a Teacher:  Survival Guide for New Teachers
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/become/about/survivalguide/index.html
U.S. Department of Education, May 2000

New Teacher Support Pays Off: A Return on Investment for Educators and Kids
http://www.newteachercenter.org/pdfs/NTC_Policy_Brief-Hill_Briefing.pdf
NTC Policy Brief New Teacher Center At The University Of California, Santa Cruz Fall 2007

Get Off to a Smart Start [Commercial site from Scholastic, but with interesting tips]
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=10623
Scholastic Inc

Teachers

Back to School from TeachNet
Links to tips and ideas
http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/backtoschool/index.html
Teachnet.com

Back-to-School Headquarters
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/back-to-school/teacher- esources/6600.html?detoured=1
Free Teacher Resources from TeacherVision, part of Family Education Network

Back to School Teacher Tips
http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/downloads/teachers/tchrtips.pdf
American Federation of Teachers

These two brief articles are on the decade-old but still popular page at MiddleWeb for middle grades teachers (now migrated to NMSA as "MiddleTalk")
Discipline Tips from a Teacher-Survivor
http://www.middleweb.com/INCASEdiscsteps.html
Tips on Conducting the First Ten Minutes of Class [Scroll down to view the following article]
http://www.middleweb.com/INCASEdiscsteps.html

Starting Off New School Year: Getting the New School Year Off to a Good Start [With further links]
http://www.thinkport.org/career/newteachers/topics/startnewyear.tp
Thinkport  funded by The U.S. Department of Education Star Schools Program.

Start The Year Off Right [Math]
http://snipurl.com/3gd7v
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Strategies to Start Off a New School Year [Tips]
http://www.ldonline.org/lavoie/7283
LD OnLine
 

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