A site for both language teachers and language students:

• Dave's ESL Cafe - a virtual coffeehouse in cyberspace for ESL teachers and students.

Some sites with information about language teaching:

• CALLA - the "official" web page for the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach, maintained by Dr. Ana Uhl Chamot, one of the orginators of the method.
• Center for Applied Linguistics - information about this nonprofit organization's projects and publications with numerous links to other worthwhile sites.
• Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics -
• English as a Second Language Special Collection on the web site of the National Institute for Literacy. Information on curricula, organizations, and resources with an emphasis on adult ESL and literacy.
• James Crawford's home page - information on language policy and the politics of language from the former Washington editor of Education Week.  Among the documents on this page is:
• "Beyond Aversarial Discourse" by Jim Cummins - a presentation before the California State Board of Education, in which Cummins (one of the best known researchers in the field) summarizes what the research says about bilingual education, and discusses how the research has sometimes been misunderstood or distorted, especially by opponents of bilingual education.
• MATSOL - home page of the Massachusetts Association of Teachers to Speakers of Other Languages, our local affiliate of international TESOL (see "TESOL Online," below).
• Modern Language Journal homepage - includes abstracts of recent articles from this important journal.
• National Association for Bilingual Education - NABE'S home page reflects the organization's concern with the education of language minority Americans, and especially with existing and proposed legislation and public policies affecting language education.
• National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education - possibly the most information-rich site on the Internet for people interested in language teaching and learning.  Databases, an extensive online library with documents you can download, and more.
• Reading Recovery Council of North America - information about this early literacy program which has as its goal literacy for all children (including but not limited to students for whom English is not a first language).
• TESOL Online - the home page of the international organization Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.  Information about conventions, publications, membership, etc.
• TESOL's Standards for Pre-K through 12 students - the complete text of this important document on-line.
• TESL-L - information about the largest interactive listserv (e-mail discussion group) on the Internet.  Over the years, I have learned a tremendous amount from TESL-L and its sublists.  Choose this link for information about how to join.  (It's easy and it's free!)
• Total Physical Response - a commercial site promoting this "natural" comprehension-based method of language teaching.  Includes a catalog of TPR materials for classroom use.
• In addition to the above, the Annual Editions web site has a very extensive set of links to TESL resources.  From the list of current Annual Editions volumes, select the book on Teaching English as a Second Language, and then select "Related Links."

Some sites with information about educational issues in general:

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development - ASCD's web page reflects the organization's concern with a broad range of issues in education.  Resources on this site include articles from Educational Leadership magazine.
• Spencer Kagan's commercial Cooperative Learning webpage includes information about this company's workshops, publications, and learning materials
• Education Week on the web.
• Teaching Tolerance - information about the anti-prejudice educational program of the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Teaching Tolerance materials are excellent and many of them are available free to educators.