ASCD encourages members to join one or more of our networks. These networks allow educators to exchange ideas, share resources, solve problems, grow professionally, and establish collegial relationships.
ASCD networks produce newsletters, conduct meetings at ASCD's Annual Conference, and provide information and resources to network members. Each network is operated independently, and some charge a small annual membership fee.
The list below highlights the focus of each network. A full description of the networks, available links, and membership and contact information can be found at http://www.ascd.org/aboutascd/networks.
To form a new network, request a Network Proposal Packet by calling ASCD at 1-800-933-2723 or 1-703-578-9600.
Accelerated Learning and Teaching
Serves as a clearinghouse for accelerated learning models.
Affective Factors in Learning
Focuses on studying the affective areas of teacher education and the role that emotions have in thinking, knowing, and learning.
African American Critical Issues
Provides a forum for collaboration and information sharing regarding education issues affecting African American youth.
Arts in Education
Gives educators the opportunity to share ideas and activities for teaching the arts.
Authentic Assessment
Allows members to share philosophy, visions, and pilot programs for developing and implementing performance-based assessments.
Basic School Network
Brings parents, communities, and businesses into partnerships for students.
Block and Alternative Scheduling
Aims to advance the study and implementation of block and alternative scheduling involving all stakeholders.
Brain-Compatible Learning
Connects educators who have a mutual interest in the brain as the organ for learning.
The Change Agency: An Electronic Vehicle for Learning
Hosts an international e-mail discussion group featuring a wide range of educational issues.
Character Education
Provides access to current and hallmark research within the field of character education.
Differentiated Instruction
Provides information on learning environments that support the differing needs of all learners.
Dimensions of Learning
Provides an organized framework to share ideas and support for the exploration and use of the Dimensions of Learning model.
Early Childhood Education
Fosters the sharing of information, knowledge, research, and resources among persons committed to the study of early childhood education.
Early Childhood Reading
Fosters the sharing of information between early childhood teachers and other professionals working in this field.
Environmental Education
Provides a forum for members to network and discuss issues related to environmental education.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Allied Issues in Education
Strives to increase awareness of contributions made by lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals to our history and cultural heritage and to create equity in schools.
Global Education
Develops and sustains communication on global and multicultural perspectives and initiatives.
Health in Education
Provides a forum for networking and discussing issues related to school health instruction and comprehensive school health programs.
Higher Education and K-12 in Service of Teaching and Learning
Focuses on the connections between higher education and K-12 as they influence preservice and inservice teacher preparation. Identifies and develops collaboration models.
Hispanic Critical Issues
Provides a forum for members to collaborate and share information about contemporary issues relevant to the education of Hispanic youth.
Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education
Fosters the sharing of programs, instructional strategies, and research designed to help make students more "whole" in terms of body, mind, and spirit.
Holocaust and Genocide Education
Recognizes the historical lessons of the Holocaust and genocide and their importance to people of all races, religions, and ethnic groups.
Indigenous Peoples Education
Links together practitioners engaged in the education of American Indian/Native American, Alaskan Native, Hawaiian Native, and Pacific Islander children.
Instructional Supervision
Encourages members to identify and study issues related to supervision and encourages research, evaluation, and theory development in both supervision and instruction.
Integrating Technology in the Elementary Classroom
Strives to build educators' understanding of how technology can be used as an effective tool to enhance curriculum.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Instruction
Promotes the development, implementation, and evaluation of interdisciplinary curriculum at all levels of education.
Invitational Education
Promotes invitational education, a theory of practice that maintains that every person and everything in and around schools and other organizations adds to or subtracts from the process of being a beneficial presence in the lives of human beings.
Language, Literacy, and Literature: Whole Language Perspective and Practice
Focuses on gathering and disseminating information on the teaching of language arts including the Whole Language philosophy.
Language Varieties (Pidgins, Creoles, and Other Stigmatized Varieties)
Raises educators' awareness of issues of Pidgins, Creoles, and other stigmatized varieties, thereby increasing understanding of variant-language issues.
Mentoring Leadership and Resources
Shares mentoring experiences and mentorship program information; provides a vehicle for mentoring initiatives.
Middle Grades
Creates an alliance of educators to discuss, develop, promote, disseminate, and evaluate new knowledge and practices designed to improve learning and success for all middle grade students.
Multiple Intelligences
Provides a forum for members to share strategies and techniques for implementing multiple intelligences.
Online Learning Network: Learning on the Internet
Provides a forum for curricular courses to be studied in the online environment.
Overseas and International Schools
Focuses on issues and concerns related to teaching and learning in international settings.
Parenting Education for Youth in Schools and Other Programs
Supports members advocating for "parenting education" as a recognized term; explores the roles of caregiver and nurturer in promoting healthy physical, mental, and emotional development.
Performance Assessment for Leadership
Promotes an integrated view of the educational leader's role while providing a forum for sharing what works in performance-based assessment.
Problem-Based Learning
Supports an interpersonal network among educators interested in problem-based learning to facilitate the sharing of information, methods, and materials.
Quality Education
Provides members with opportunities to learn and share ideas, concepts, processes, and experiences related to the application of Total Quality Management principles.
Religion and Public Education
Focuses on the interchange of information about issues concerning teaching about religion.
Restructuring Schools
Provides a forum for discussing changes in roles, rules, and responsibilities that are evolving as a result of school restructuring.
Service Learning/Experiential Learning (SELNET)
Helps to identify contacts and resources for implementing a service learning/experiential learning model as part of a school reform movement.
Systems Thinking and Chaos Theory
Fosters exploration and exchange of organizational ideas and information while providing a forum for dialogue among systems and chaos theory scientists and educators.
Teaching Thinking
Provides a link among educators who are planning, implementing, and assessing curricula that stress a cognitive focus.
Technology in the Middle School
Promotes the inclusion of technology into the middle school curriculum; provides educators with opportunities for Web-based professional growth.
Women's Leadership Issues
Provides professional development information and activities for women educators.