Websites for Faculty:

Subject Area Links:

Boarding/Independent School Resources:

• The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS): provides a school finder, workshop and conference details, and articles related to boarding school life
  
  
• Boarding School Review: a commercial site that offers a directory of schools with alumni reviews
  
  
• The Cleveland Council of Independent Schools (CCIS): communicates information about the council and its services to support cooperation between member schools
  
  

• Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS): advertises conferences and workshops and provides information on membership and accreditation services
  
  
• National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS): links to profiles of member schools, thousands of resources by topic, publications, and independent school statistics
  
  
• North Central Association (NCA): provides information on the Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement
  
  
• Ohio Association of Independent Schools (OAIS): supports independent education in Ohio with online documents, resource links, bulletins, and newsletters
  
  
• Secondary School Admission Test Board (SSATB): links to information about the SSAT (Secondary School Admission Test) and the SSATB functions and meetings
  

College Prep Resources:

• AP Central - “Has a great deal of information for AP and pre-AP teachers.  The teaching resource materials, resource reviews, and electronic discussion groups are all extremely helpful and informative.”  (recommended by Frank Patrinostro, Science Department, Physics)

• Steven Haderlie’s AP Chemistry Resource Page: links to resources created by a high school AP chemistry teacher

• Historyteacher.net: provides links to AP quizzes and web sites related to U.S. and European history

National Associations/Organizations for Academic Subject Areas:

• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
  
  
• American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
  
  
• American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
  
  
• The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
  
  
• Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA)
  
  
• Music Teachers National Association (MTNA)
  
  
• National Art Education Association (NAEA)
  
  
• National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
  
  
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
  
  
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
  
  
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
  

Ohio Resources for Educators:

• INFOhio: provides state-funded access to resources such as online databases and toolkits for parents and teachers

• Ohio Department of Education: the state of Ohio’s education site offers online academic standards guides, a lesson plan database and articles about current educational issues

• Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN): provides access to online databases and other resources such as a Discover Ohio section and specific linked pages called Oh! Kids, Oh! Teens and Oh! Teach

Other Helpful Sites:

• http://www.howstuffworks.com: “Not a language link but loads of fun from fixing clogged pipes at home to nuclear power plants and DNA research.” (recommended by Ralf Borrmann, Language Department, German)
  
  

Links to Research Pathfinders on Boarding School Sites:

• Library Research Guides – Brooks School

• Resources Guides - Oliver Wendell Holmes Library at Phillips Academy Andover

• Subject Guides – Philips Exeter Academy Class of 1945 Library

• Subject Guides – The Irene DuPont Library at the St. Andrew’s School

Web Links by Subject Area:

• Classics:
  
• The Internet Classics Archive: “Bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994” - offers online, searchable classical literature with user commentary on the texts
  
• Perseus Digital Library, Greek and Roman Materials: an online digital library through Tufts University that connects users to classical texts, secondary sources and museum photography
  
• Project Libellus: a project administered through the University of Washington, the goal of this archive is to “provide a library of classical Latin (and Greek) texts with minimal redistribution restrictions”
  
• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation: a gateway to online Classics materials (affiliated with the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae at the University of California, Irvine)
  
  
• English:
  
• The Victorian Literary Studies Archive: Hyper-Concordance: “This electronic concordance allows a scholar/researcher to find the exact location of a chosen word/phrase, within a text.  It also lets a reader know how many times an author has used a particular word/phrase; those words appearing prominently in books obviously help the author paint a clearer picture, or they enhance the theme that the writer is trying to convey to his/her reader.”  (recommended by Rich Hoffman, English Department)
  
  
• Foreign Language:
  
• The Ohio Five ViewPoints Project: a project created by college faculty in Ohio that offers audio-visual language exercises in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili with corresponding educational activities
  

• WordReference.com: Online French, Italian and Spanish Dictionary: “All kinds of languages.” (recommended by Ralf Borrmann, Language Department, German)
  

• LEO: “Best English-German, German-English dictionary out there.” (recommended by Ralf Borrmann, Language Department, German)
  
  

• History:
  

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: “By far the best source on the internet for primary sources relating to world history.”  (recommended by Dana Cunningham, History Department and Senior Seminar)
  

• Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research: provides numerous online resources to support K-12 history instruction including links to primary sources, instructional modules, timelines and writing guides
  
  

• Music:
  

• Music Library: Composers: the University of Washington Libraries offers biographical links for more than 100 composers
  

• Composers: the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at the Indiana University School of Music offers biographical links to composers
  
  

• Science:
  

• Anatomy & Physiology I: Animations, Movies & Interactive Tutorial Links: provides online activities on various topics such as cell structure, the central nervous system and protein synthesis (recommended by Beth Amer, Science Department, Biology)
  

• Anatomy & Physiology II: Animations, Movies & Interactive Tutorial Links: provides more online activities on various topics such as the heart, blood and embryology (recommended by Beth Amer, Science Department, Biology)
  

• Access Excellence at the National Health Museum: The Site for Health and Bioscience Teachers & Learners: gives educators access to an online resource center and activities exchange as well as a forum to collaborate and share (recommended by Beth Amer, Science Department, Biology)
  
  

• Technology:
  

• 4Teachers.org: offers tools and resources to assist teachers in incorporating technology into lesson plans (recommended by Ralf Borrmann, Language Department, German)
  

• teAchnology: gives access to over 25,000 lesson plans, worksheets, rubrics and other education tools (recommended by Ralf Borrmann, Language Department, German)
  

• techLEARNING: provides news, current publications, tips and many other resources for teachers and technology professionals  (recommended by Ralf Borrmann, Language Department, German)