Links to Professional Organizations/Networks

• International Reading Association provides literacy resources and professional development activities for literacy professionals
• Network of Performance Based Schools an action research community to improve student learning and to strengthen public education in B.C.
• Lower Mainland Council of the International Reading Association promotes lifelong love of literacy.
• Choice Literacy provides practical resources for literacy leaders.
• National Association for Young Children focuses on educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8.
• BC Association of Mathematics Teachers
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics supports teachers to ensure high quality.

Research and Teaching Resources

• BC Performance Standards are available for voluntary use in B.C. schools. They describe the professional judgments of a significant number of B.C. educators about standards and expectations for key areas of learning.
• B.C. Ministry of Education Curriculum
• Literacy Videos Developed by School Districts
• The Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) uses research to advance scientific understanding of the importance of early child development in realation to health outcomes.
• Alliance for Excellent Education: Adolescents and Literacy is a non-partisan Washington, DC-based national policy and advocacy organization that works to improve policy so that all students can succeed.   
• The Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education (SAEE) provides non-partisan education research and information to policy-makers, education partners and the public.
• Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse offers policy and practice briefs and coaching tools for literacy coaches, teachers, administrators, and researchers.
• Reading Online: International Reading Association focuses on literacy practice and research in classrooms serving students aged 5 to 18.
• Education Resources Information Center provides access to education literature to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
• Educator’s Reference Desk provides resources and services to the education community.
• Teachers.Net features over 4000 lesson plans and classroom ideas submitted by teachers.
• Discovery Channel Classroom Resources provides a variety of free classroom tools.
• National Adult Literacy Database provides research and learning materials to support adult literacy.
• Literacy in the Middle Years – Excerpts from Faye Brownlie’s presentation, originally held October, 2004.
• Early Numeracy – Excerpts of Heather Kelleher’s presentation, originally held January, 2005.
• The Encyclopedia of Language and Literacy Development

• Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) is a tax-sheltered education savings account that can help you, your family, or friends save for a child’s education after high school.
• Canadian Family Literacy Directory provides information about family literacy initiatives.
• Prints Family Literacy Network is an independent voluntary organization dedicated to promoting literacy development.
• Storytellers of Canada supports the art of oral storytelling through its storytellers and its story listeners.
• Parents as Literacy Supporters is a family literacy program that helps parents and caregivers to encourage learning in their pre-school and kindergarten-aged children.
• Resources for Families written in Chinese, English and Punjabi helps children succeed in reading, writing and math.
• ABC Life Literacy Canada offers fun tips and activities to keep the whole family reading and learning all summer long.

• Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) is a tax-sheltered education savings account that can help you, your family, or friends save for a child’s education after high school.
• Full Day Kindergarten is being implemented in school throughout B.C.