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The Success of a Culture of Consistency
Every successful group has a culture of consistency. For example, look at any sports team. They all have a common goal: Win the game. Every player has a role to play, a set of practices that contribute to the team.The team is what matters. Regardless of how good the players are, winning a game is ultimately the result of how well they function as a team. It is the result of how well the players carry out the practices and procedures as a team....
Self-Mutilation: Trichotillomania – Compulsive Hair Pulling
By Lisa Bundrick, LMSWWhen most people feel stress, they find healthy ways to express their feelings. However, others may not engage in healthy ways to release stress and may begin to engage in …
The Secondary School Reform We Need – NOW
By Dave WeissThe call has gone out from the recent governors’ conference and Bill Gates that the American high school is outdated and obsolete. All agree that the current structure reflects a …
Karen’s Pre-K Page
By Karen CoxAnnouncing a new monthly feature, Karen’s Pre-K Page by early childhood educator Karen Cox! Each month Karen Cox will share unique and educational activities preschool and kindergarten teachers …
Advocates for Young Students Protest National Education Standards
By David P. MarchesseaultAt a time when states across the country have been lowering their standards in an effort to avoid the severe penalties coming out of the nearly decade old No Child …
Teachers Deserve High Marks for Perseverance, Dedication
By James P. LouviereTeachers don’t just stand in front of a chalk-board and lecture. They greet children with a hug, they introduce themselves and get to know the children. They meet …
Classroom Monetary System Pays Off in Better Discipline
By David P. ThompsonFirst let me say I consider myself an “old school” teacher. Even though I’ve been teaching sixth grade math for only six years, I just passed the semi-century mark and …
Rewards Work Better than Punishment to Encourage Student Compliance
By Jessica SmithSubstitute Teacher Trainer
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In a study released by researchers from Harvard University in September 2009, the researchers state:
“Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the …
Education – A Marketplace for Sticky Thoughts That Stretch The Mind
By Stephen McClardThis current era of mandated demands in education is creating a marketplace that serves a narrow band of educational outcomes. It forces curriculum into a complicated puzzle box that services …
How to Create a Zen-Like Classroom in One Minute
By Michael LinsinIt happens occasionally. You wake up late, eat something on the run, get stuck in traffic, and arrive at school feeling harried. When the students begin filing into …
Today is… Special Days in May
By Ron VictoriaMay includes some fun and interesting commemorations: Older Americans Month, National Day of Prayer Day, National Hoagie Day, and My Bucket’s got a Hole in It Day. Check out …
Apple Seeds Quotes for Educators
By Barb StutesmanFollowing are the Apple Seeds posted on the main chatboard during April 2010
April 2010
04-01: April 1 is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on …
Debunking the Case for National Standards
One-Size-Fits-All Mandates and Their Dangers
By Alfie Kohn
I keep thinking it can't get much worse, and then it does. Throughout the 1990s, one state after another adopted prescriptive education standards enforced by frequent standardized testing, often of the high-stakes variety. A top-down, get-tough movement to impose "accountability" - driven more by political than educational considerations - began to squeeze the life out of classrooms, doing the most damage in the poorest areas.
By the time the century ended, many of us thought we had hit bottom - until the floor gave way and we found ourselves in a basement we didn't know existed. I'm referring, of course, to what should have been called the Many Children Left Behind Act, which requires every state to test every student every year, judging students and schools almost exclusively by their scores on those tests, and hurting the schools that need the most help. Ludicrously unrealistic proficiency targets suggest that the law was actually intended to sabotage rather than improve public education.
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Are Teachers The Biggest Bullies in School?
By Bill PageSchool bullying and recent tragic “Bullycides” have produced a flurry of television shows, news articles, legal actions, accusations, and outrage. But I know of no research or discussions on …
When to Betray a Student’s Confidence – Advice for Substitute Teachers
By Barbara PressmanLast week, a quiet young lady in the class, named Anna, asked me to please read her journal entry. I told her that I felt uncomfortable reading something private, but she insisted. I became alarmed at what I saw. She wrote about how she enjoyed cutting herself, and she described in great detail her nightly ritual of cutting herself in various places on her body….
From the Principal’s Office – Our Mapquests
By Todd Nelson“A road map tells you everything, except how to refold it,” says Ariel. A mind map folds easily, and is easy to unfold and peruse. It preserves the …
Writing Prompts for May – Factual, Fun Motivation to Think & Write
By James WayneIn 1806, Mary Kies of Connecticut became the first American woman to get a patent in her own name. She invented a way of weaving straw and thread to make …
How to Build Rapport with Parents – Advice for Substitute Teachers
By Barbara PressmanHow do I establish good contact with parents? I never really had to interact with parents the entire time I subbed so I would like to be positive, whether …
Overweight Children – What Educators Can Do
By Leah DaviesWith childhood obesity on the rise for both boys and girls, this children’s health problem should be of concern to educators. According to the United States Surgeon General’s report in …
ROSE’S ROCKETTES – The Self-Sustaining Classroom
By Robert RoseIn my second year I had a terrific bunch. There were six gifted children in my sixth grade class who became my teaching assistants. Melinda of the straight A’s was …
5 Web Sites for Busy Educators
By Marjan GlavacStudy Guides and Strategies is a website devoted to improving students’ success in learning. It contains over 267 Guides on practical suggestions, for time and stress management; basic skills in …
The Lipstick Effect
By Tim NewlinTake a purplish-red seaweed dye, add fine red clay, iron oxide (rust), henna, iodine, and a poisonous alcohol sugar called bromine mannite, then and add a slimy lump of stone-crushed …
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