Helpful Links
ASCD Action Center
Congress is making education policy decisions that affect you, your local schools, and your students. Do not let Congress make decisions without the critical information you can provide. You can help them, and they will welcome your input. As an Educator Advocate, you will receive e-mail alerts when your action can make a critical difference. We will provide the materials and information to make sure your advocacy time will be minimal, but your influence will be significant.
ASCD Publications
Educational Leadership
EL is ASCD’s flagship publication. With a circulation of 175,000, EL is acknowledged throughout the world as an authoritative source of information about teaching and learning, new ideas and practices relevant to practicing educators, and the latest trends and issues affecting prekindergarten through higher education.
EL is published eight times each year, September through May, with a combined December/January issue. Copies are mailed to all ASCD members. Subscriptions and individual issues are also available for sale.
ASCD Books
Go beyond reading - ASCD Talks with an Author is a new audio feature on the website, providing insights and commentary from the authors of our recent publications
Browse sample chapters from nearly 200 other ASCD books.
Find out about upcoming books, including Teachers as Classroom Coaches: How to Motivate Students Across the Content Areas; Connecting Leadership with Learning: A Framework for Reflection, Planning and Actions; and The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice.
Learn about new books, available now
Print free study guides for selected books (ideal for reading groups)
View a list of hundreds of books in translation ASCD Around the World features publications in 26 languages
Buy electronics books.
View a list of upcoming ASCD member books.
These and other great publications including DVDs and videos, mixed media and audio CDs are available from the national ASCD organization. These award-winning materials are available to ASCD and NMASCD members at discounted prices. Click here to join.
New Mexico Coalition of School Administrators
NMCSA is an association that represents school administrators in New Mexico. The governing board has representatives from 10 affiliates, six administrative units and the Public Education Department. Overall there are approximately 1500 individual members of NMCSA.
It's the organization that has a representative who attends meetings of legislative interim committees, and agency meetings affecting education. NMCSA represents administrators during the entire legislative session. NMCSA conducts seminars, conferences and provides professional development in concert with other educational entities. We also provide mentoring and networking opportunities for our members.
New Mexico Public Education Department
Obviously, the hub of all things education in New Mexico is the Public Education Department. Visit this site for everything from state standards and benchmarks to bilingual education to special education issues to licensing, and much more!
Teach New Mexico
This site, Supported by the Educator Quality Division at the New Mexico Public Education Department, has resources for beginning and experienced teachers and administrators alike. This site nicely outlines the three tier licensure process and the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) “Highly Qualified” definitions
As a teacher, what does it mean to you to be healthy? Safe? Engaged? Supported? Challenged?
Throughout the 2010-11 school year we will be seeking answers to these questions. This year’s NMASCD fall conference centers on the theme Whole Teacher/Whole Child—Building Bridges of Efficacy. We believe it is teachers who must first be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged if they are going to effectively advocate for the Whole Child. Our newsletter will introduce each one of these concepts during a specific month and then pose a central question eliciting your feedback. Action researchers will gather your monthly responses and identify the most salient points from the discussion. The results will be reported back to you in the next month’s edition.
July—Healthy Teacher, Healthy Child
August—Safe Teacher, Safe Child
September—Engaged Teacher, Engaged child
October—Supported Teacher, Supported Child
November—Challenged Teacher, Challenged Child
Our fall conference, scheduled for November
4-5, 2010, at the Marriott Pyramid in
Albuquerque will focus on these five tenets, as
we seek to equip you with some key strategies,
ideas, and information aimed at promoting the
Whole Teacher/Whole Child.
Join the conversation! We want to hear from
you! Click on the Whole Teacher/Whole Child
blog to join in the discussion.
