Based on past experience, we can predict with a great deal of certainty that the law (NCLB) will have virtually no lasting effect on student or teacher performance...

As soon as the March Gazette column was posted, the letters of anguish from substitute teachers began to arrive. "What am I to do as a substitute teacher when, as often happens, I find that the regular teacher has not left any instructions?...

Spring is a wonderful time to bring some fun variations into your reading program. There are lots of easy ways to do this without creating extra work for busy teachers. Our motto is "There IS a life beyond teaching"---we promise not to give you more work to do!...

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Reflection has a number of attributes. At the top of the list is that reflection prompts gratitude--which is the key to both happiness and goodness...

This time they've gone overboard---so far overboard that the only viable prospect for a reversal or retraction of these deleterious, disastrous changes is a full-fledged, unified, national, teacher-revolt…a crushing, malevolent backlash...

This war in the desert amazingly resembles the old Popeye cartoons...
About a week ago, President Bush reached his breaking point and opened his can of spinach. However, there are some folks who don't believe that President Bush should have opened his spinach, folks who don't like his brand of spinach, and the spinach rights activists who totally oppose any use of spinach...

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Here are five English As a Second Language (ESL) sites...

Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "If you would not be forgotten…either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing." In honor of such good advice, here is a baker's dozen worth of reading about lives that were definitely worth the writing!...

Lately I've had inquiries from Four-Blocks schools going through the textbook adoption process this year and next. They generally have two questions to ask: 1) What is the best choice of a basal reading series to support their program? 2) Is a basal reading series the best way to go or should the reading program be literature based without a series?...

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April's Printables are;
April Calendar
Pippi Longstocking Novel Study
Math Fact House
0 - 15 Numberline
&
Contraction Strips