Great back-to-school resource links for all year long!

Newly relevant and classic fare for teachers, students, parents, including three from NEA.

A to Z Teacher Tips
Including Bulletin Boards-Decor, Calming Jitters, Icebreakers-Getting Acquainted,
Just for Secondary Teachers, Open House-Orientation, Organization-Record Keeping,
Parent Communication, Welcoming Students, and more. http://atozteacherstuff.com/tips/Back_to_School/

A Better Beginning: Helping New Teachers Survive and Thrive
Designed to help local NEA affiliates set up new teacher support systems, this guide is full of advice on how to welcome teachers into the profession and support them in their vitally important work.
http://www.nea.org/teachershortage/betterbeginnings.html

Education World's Back to School Checklist
"Here you'll find pages... of resources to help you set up and decorate your classroom, create "getting to know you" letters, name tags, and icebreakers, plan new lessons, locate effective worksheets, keep current on education news and issues, and much, much more. Included: Twenty Education World resources to take you from the first day of school to the last."
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev081.shtml

ESEA Watch
Rethinking Schools provides this site of articles critically analyzing different aspects of policies and implementation of the ESEA 2001 ("No Child Left Behind") legislation.
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/bushplan/index.shtml

The Family Education Network's back-to-school section features homework help by grade, printable checklists, tips, recipes, ideas and more.
http://www.familyeducation.com/channel/0,2916,44,00.html?wtlAC=featured,FENhome

National PTA - Back to School Resources provides parenting articles that offer advice on such topics as helping students deal with school transitions and parent-teacher communication. It also provides child advocacy resources and ready-made back-to-school promotional tools.
http://www.pta.org/parentinvolvement/bts/index.asp

NEA Professional Library's Top Ten Best Seller List
New and perennial educator favorites.
http://home.nea.org/books/list.cfm?groupid=5

SmarterKids offers essential back-to-school tips. http://www.smarterkids.com/rescenter/library/articles/back_to_school_tips.asp?redir=true

Student Teacher's Survival Guide
NEA provides a few resources to get a student teacher started off right.
http://www.nea.org/student-program/tools/survival.html

The Teacher's Corner - Back to School Activities (August's Thematic Unit) gives links to activity resources indexed for Any Grade, Primary Grades (K-3) Intermediate Grades (4-6), Teacher Resources, and Literature.
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/thematicunits/current.htm

Teacher's Net - Gazette
Tips for Nervous New Teacher (advice via chat board)
http://teachers.net/gazette/AUG03/tip.html

School-Home Communications
The Family Education Network (FEN) provides parents and educators with tools and support to develop free Internet school-home communications services.

Math and Science Literacy
"Sharing a World of Resources" discusses how NASA and the National Park Service are working together to improve public math and science literacy.