LessonLab, a Pearson Education Company
- Continuing education and graduate programs for K-12 teachers and administrators with an emphasis on multiple intelligences, brain based learning, and literacy. Online, video, and site-based courses are available.
- http://www.lessonlab.com/

National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
- Works to help establish high quality teacher preparation through the process of professional accreditation of schools, colleges and departments of education.
- http://www.ncate.org/

Education Schools Project
- Provides a critical assessment of the ways in which the United States' 1,200 schools of education prepare--and should prepare--teachers, school administrators, and education researchers.
- http://www.edschools.org/

Online Professional Development Seminar Toolboxes
- Online texts and inquiry strategies out of which K-12 teachers can create seminars in American history and literature.
- http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/pds.htm

TAPPED IN Teacher Professional Development Institute
- An online community of over 2800 K-16 teachers, staff, and researchers engaged in both formal professional development programs and informal collaborative activities. Members hold real-time discussions and classes and interact via mailing lists and discus
- http://tappedin.org/

ACS Professional Development Opportunities
- The American Chemical Society provides professional development opportunities for teachers at all levels, kindergarten through post-secondary.
- http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education%5cprofessional%5cindex.html

National Council on Economic Education (NCEE)
- A non-profit group dedicated to promoting economic education in K-12 schools.
- http://www.ncee.net/

Ideas that Work: Mathematics Professional Development
- Strategies, resources, curriculum
- http://www.enc.org/professional/learn/ideas/math/

California Subject Matter Projects
- A professional development community for teachers. Each subject area, such as science or history, has a project. Calendar of development opportunities, discussion forums, resource links, content standards for each project.
- http://csmp.ucop.edu/

Professional Development
- Courses and opportunities for teachers at New York City's American Museum of Natural History.
- http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/index.php

The Smithsonian Office of Education
- Works with teachers in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and in several locations throughout the nation. Special events, for-credit courses, and long-term partnerships, teachers meet their teaching objectives using museum resources.
- http://smithsonianeducation.org/

SkyLight Professional Development
- Provides continuing education and graduate programs for K-12 teachers and administrators with emphasis on multiple intelligences, brain based learning and literacy.
- http://www.skylightedu.com/courses/

Effective Learning Resources
- Three offerings: Motivating the Unmotivated, Practical Ways to Increase Writing Achievement, and Managing Your Special Ed Classrooms. Academic credit available. Live workshops, video classes, inservice training and consulting services.
- http://www.motivatestudents.com

Catholic School Leadership Program
- Professional programs at the graduate level which are capable of fostering critical reflection upon the ends governing the profession, of providing the knowledge and skills required for its practice, and of preparing students for principled and moral lead
- http://www.udallas.edu/cslp/

Cornell Center for Nanoscale Systems Institute for Physics Teachers (CIPT)
- Professional development opportunity. Offers workshops during the school year and a two-week and one-week institute in the summer. Courses contain lectures, tours and hands-on learning experiences designed to update high school teachers on recent advanc
- http://www.cns.cornell.edu/cipt/

Texas A&M University PTRA Program for Rural Physics Teachers
- Selected applicants will participate in a three-year program (2003-2006) consisting of annual summer workshops and two-day follow-up sessions each spring. Full details and application available on the site.
- http://teacher.physics.tamu.edu/

Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers (CIBT)
- Information about annual workshops designed to provide K-12 science teachers with practical teaching tools and a continuing relationship with Cornell and other program participants.
- http://cibt.bio.cornell.edu/

NASA Ames Education Resources and Workshops
- Descriptions and contact information many programs and learning opportunities for students, teachers, schools, and college faculty.
- http://education.arc.nasa.gov/pages/edresources.html

UCLA Service Learning Clearninghouse Project
- Information and resources focusing on faculty issues, K-H partnerships, assessment and evaluation, training and technical assistance, and service-learning research.
- http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/slc/

J. Robert Hanson, Sons & Associates
- Offering training in thoughtful education, the deliberate effort to integrate affect and cognition in teaching.
- http://www.thoughtfuleducation.com/

Bureau Of Education and Research
- Sponsor of staff development training for professional educators in the United States and Canada. Offering seminars, videos and self-study resources.
- http://www.ber.org

Loyola Marymount University Enhancement Courses
- Non-classroom, self-directed, independent study courses for teachers and administrators for professional development credit.
- http://www.enhancementcourses.edu

Professional Development Laboratory
- Supporting teachers in their quest for professional excellence. Providing classroom-based experiences enabling teachers to learn from one another. Based at New York University's School of Education.
- http://www.nyu.edu/pdl

Stetson University Center at Celebration
- Offering professional development and graduate courses for the practicing educator.
- http://www.stetson.edu/celebration/

Show Me Center
- Providing information and resources to support selection and implementation of standards-based middle grades mathematics curricula.
- http://showmecenter.missouri.edu

Behaviour Management in Education Foundation
- Behaviour management skills training for teachers.Handle any classroom crisis or discipline problem with confidence. Plan class and schoolwide discipline programmes.
- http://www.bmef.org/

Focus Educational Services, Inc.
- TeachersOnly publications, instructional products and seminars, including the famous Silly Science.
- http://www.teachersonly.com/

Lecture Management
- Offering keynote speakers addressing relevant topics such as education technology, teacher education, and student achievement.
- http://www.lecturemanagement.com/

CE Credits Online
- Accredited courses for teachers and educators.
- http://www.cecreditsonline.org/

Summer Conferences for Secondary School Teachers
- One-week-long residential conferences, emphasizing the impact of technology on mathematics and science curricula. Hosted by Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH.
- http://mathconf.exeter.edu/

National Writing Project
- Collaborative project for university and K-12 staff who want to improve writing instruction in American schools.
- http://www.writingproject.org/

Enhancement Courses
- Self-directed, independent study courses for teachers and administrators, or any person whose professional and/or salary advancement is achieved with professional development credit.
- http://www.enhancementcourses.com/

Mark Wahl Training for Mathematics Teaching
- Seminars in creative math methods for grades 3-9 that tap the multiple intelligences, learning styles and are compatible with NCTM Standards.
- http://www.markwahl.com/inservice_training.htm

Worlds of the Renaissance - NEH Summer Institute
- A national Summer institute about the Renaissance for thirty secondary school teachers in the humanities. Includes projects intended to serve as curriculum resources for other teachers.
- http://www.svhe.pdx.edu/summerinstitute/index.html

NEA Expo
- Details about past and future gatherings. Annual event.
- http://www.neaexpo.com/

Knowles Science Teaching Foundation
- Established to strengthen the quality of high school (grades 9-12) science and mathematics teaching in the United States. Programs, news, resources and contact details.
- http://www.kstf.org/

National Resource Center for Middle Grades/High School Education
- Provides professional development opportunities for educators, distributes published resources on best practices and research for classroom application, and conducts program, school, and community evaluation studies.
- http://www.coedu.usf.edu

Council For Professional Recognition
- Promotes the Child Development Associate (CDA) National Credentialing Program, a major national (United States) movement to improve the quality of child care. The program is designed to assess and credential early care and education professionals based
- http://www.cdacouncil.org/

Global Links - Global Educators Program
- Opportunity for teachers to gain teaching experience in a foreign country. After spending 3-4 weeks abroad the participants will receive 6 graduate credits from the University of St Thomas.
- http://www.global-links.org/

Martha's Vineyard Summer Workshops
- Graduate level workshops in teaching writing and reading, sponsored by Northeastern University. Two 2 week sessions in July. Master's degree in Writing option.
- http://www.vineyardworkshops.neu.edu

Teachers' Learning Center
- Distance Learning in cooperation with Portland State University, graduate level education classes in education.
- http://web.pdx.edu/~kovalr/

Waterford Teachers' Centre
- Located in the South East of Ireland, an education support centre providing national and local inservices, as well as resources for teachers, students and parents.
- http://www.wtc.ie/

West Central Four Professional Development Consortium
- Resources for K-12 teachers, students administrators and technology coordinators.
- http://www.wc4.org

Prime Presentations
- By McGehe Consulting. Offering teacher workshops in mathematics, science, assessment and school improvement.
- http://www.primepresentations.com/

Data Based Directions
- Offering consultants to present workshops. Also, books for sale on assessment practices and database searches. Database search requires registration.
- http://www.databdirect.com

Teacher at Sea Program
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offers teachers the opportunity to spend one to three weeks working with research scientists at sea.
- http://www.tas.noaa.gov/

The Data Streme Project
- The American Meteorological Society offers an on-line course to train teachers to use the Internet to as a resource to study the weather in the K-12 science classroom.
- http://www.ametsoc.org/dstreme/extras/dsinfo.html