Blog Assignment 13

ALEX Stands for Alabama Learning Exchange program.   This is a project produced by the Alabama Department of Education, that is designed to share information such as lesson plans, professional learnings, and web resources, just to name a few and is available to educators, parents, and students.  ALEX is a great website, I checked out some of the lesson plans and they are really good.  Most of them contain life lessons and morals along with a learning experience in Math, Science, Reading, Language Arts, and/or Social Studies (there are many more than this).

The lesson plans available are definitely something I will be using in the future.  I think it is a great thing.  I also read that it is a work in progress and they are always looking for more information and advice for the website.
ACCESS is Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide.  This is a program that is available to all Alabama public high school students to "create equity through additional educational offerings for them".  This website gives very detailed information for parents and students about course offerings, advanced placement testing, and the graduation exams; to name a few.  You can go the students tab and it gives a place for the parents to look and has testimonials from other students that shared their experience.  I really enjoyed this site.