Welcome to the New Schoolnet.com!
If you’re a parent or educator, where do you go for answers about K12 education? The problem isn’t too little information but too much information. And the quality varies widely – particularly when it comes to the web. How do you know what information you can trust, and how do you find it?
Welcome to schoolnet.com, the first online community designed to empower educators and parents to work together to achieve their collective goal – attainment, equity and excellence for students. Schoolnet.com not only aggregates education strategies, best practices, research, resources and tools from all over the web, but also allows the K12 community to share ideas with one end in mind – to help students achieve more:
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"Best of" content, resources, materials and tools from all over the web – all focused on empowering district and school administrators, teachers and parents in their pursuit of improved student achievement
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A deeply personalized experience, so that the content and the experience are relevant, and the information and tools actionable for a superintendent of a district with 20,000 students or a teacher with a class of 20
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The latest Web 2.0 concepts applied to education in easy-to-use but powerful ways – social networking, user-generated ratings/rankings, tagging, user-generated content
What You'll Find at Schoolnet.com
Our goal at schoolnet.com is to become the single, most trusted education site in the world. The following features are already available or in development:
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A unified search engine with results from trusted K12 sources
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Viewpoint pages maintained by educators and parents consisting of timely information, discussion forums, web links, and practical advice on a range of K12 topics
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Concise "need to know" articles and reports culled from a host of sources
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Proven strategies for improving student achievement – from the district level to the classroom to the living room
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Targeted content recommendations based on user profile and interests
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Peer-rated and reviewed teaching and learning materials – supplemental programs and materials, multimedia resources, lesson plans, collaboration tools, homework help and more
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Contests and awards for user-submitted material
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Education news and information, including the latest academic research, policy trends, and local news
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Stories of success – how districts, individual teachers, parents and learning communities are inspiring school and student performance
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The first comprehensive, community-maintained K12 wiki encyclopedia
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"Best of the Web" education career opportunities
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Community and networking tools designed to help educators share ideas, solve challenges, increase personal productivity, and create a true global network for K12 achievement
Please Tell Us What You Think and What You Want!
If you are part of the K12 community, schoolnet.com is your site as much as ours. We want to know what you think of it, and what features and content would be most useful to you. Please send your thoughts and ideas to us at contactus@schoolnet.com or check out our Community Suggestion Box.
Become a Schoolnet.com Contributor
In a few months, we hope to allow any registered schoolnet.com user to create a Viewpoint page so that they can share success stories, advice, links and other information with other users. Until we make this feature publicly available, we are looking for educators and parents to serve as charter Viewpoint contributors. If there is a topic that you are passionate and knowledgeable about and you would like to share your ideas with the schoolnet.com community check out, our editorial guidelines and send us an email at editorial@schoolnet.com. Let us know the topic you’re interested in covering, and tell us about your personal and professional background.