The Teachers.Net Meeting Room is available to NBPTS teachers (CT’s, candidates, mentors) for informal chat and peer support on Saturdays, 4 – 6 pm. This is informal, unmoderated real time chat open to all without pre-registration.
Enter the Meeting Room through http://teachers.net/chat/meetings.html, sign in with a nickname (email is optional), click on “join Chat,” then post [...]

Webinars for Educators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Posted on 11/13/09
The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers “Webinars for
Educators”: a way for teachers to explore works of art and
museum resources though their computers by interacting
though online discussion and activities with Museum Staff.
We offer live 75-minute sessions that include a range of
activities that teachers can adapt [...]

Posted by a teacher on Teachers.Net Chatboard
I have a student I adore: half the time he’s on planet who-am-I-where-am-I-and-where’s-my-notebook? The other half he’s demonstrating what a truly old soul he is: surprising, empathic, insightful.
Last Wednesday, at the end of the day, the girls in the class were lining up to attend an
after-school science program that [...]

November 4, 2009
Teachers.Net has received the sad news that educator, lecturer and Teachers.Net Gazette contributor Dorothy Rich passed away on October 25.

Former Washington Post columnist, founder and president of the nonprofit Home and School Institute, MegaSkills Education Center in Washington, DC, Dorothy Rich was the author of MegaSkills and developer of the MegaSkills Teacher Training [...]

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