Annotated List of Websites

• The Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) website (http://www.ciera.org/) offers general information about the center, details of center reports (some are available online, while others can be purchased through the site), and links to other websites relevant to improving the reading achievement of young children.
  
  
• At the area on the Vanderbilt website devoted to the Learning Technology Center (http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/ctrs/ltc/ ), which houses the Cognition and Technology Group, visitors will find general information about the center and its people, research, and resources. Among the research most directly related to teaching for understanding is the Schools for Thought project, designed to restructure the school day consistent with cognitive and social research on learning and instruction.
  
  
• The website for Wiggins and McTighe's entire Understanding by Design (UbD) package (http://ubd.ascd.org/) provides information about UbD resources and training workshops, an opportunity to contact the UbD authors, and other UbD material. Some areas of the site are still under construction, and registration is required for full access to bulletin boards, etc.
  
  
• The homepage of Harvard's Teaching for Understanding (TFU) research group (http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/tfu/index.cfm) contains information on TFU, examples of TFU projects, tools for designing TFU instruction, and opportunities to communicate with TFU staff. At present, a number of the site's features require registration, and user fees will eventually be levied. The TFU pages are housed at the website of Active Learning Practices for Schools, a Harvard Project Zero resource.
  
  
• The full text of Perkins' “Teaching for Understanding,” which first appeared in the Fall 1993 issue of American Educator and describes the author's work and thinking, is available online within the website of the 21st Century Learning Initiative ( http://www.21learn.org/cats/testing/perkins.html). The initiative is a “transnational programme to synthesize the best of research and development into the nature of human learning, and to examine its implications for education, work and the development of communities worldwide.” Its site contains the full texts of a number of articles relevant to the initiative's goals and to teaching for understanding, including work by Alan Collins, Howard Gardner, and Neil Postman.

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