On October 3, 2002, Hurricane Lili roared through south Louisiana and devastated the city of Ville Platte, located 150 miles west of New Orleans. The buildings that housed Sacred Heart Elementary School were spared, but the playground was littered with the remains of the nearby pecan orchard...

  Accountability
in Schools

In a recent seminar in Cheyenne, Wyoming,
I made the statement that educational leaders have given up their leadership--
that they have taken the politicians and business leaders' approaches of accountability and competition as the models for learning...

It's December! You made it! Winter break is just around the corner! Before you take advantage of some much-deserved rest and time away from school you have to survive some of the most challenging weeks of school...

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Listening to mailringers at Teachers.Net lately has revealed that a number of teachers are a bit frantic at this point in the year about the timing issues involved in Four-Blocks...

In that spirit, the best kind of test to give your students in December is the one to see if they still believe in magic. Just jingle a bell at the end of Chris Van Allsburg's classic, The Polar Express, to find out...

Dear Beth,
I am a parent and I hate homework! There is plenty of research that indicates that homework is not beneficial to students, particularly in elementary school. I graduated from Yale and completed graduate school...

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Once upon a time there was a teacher who wanted to find a terrific piece of writing software that would work for students in grades K through 6. Then one dark and stormy night that teacher...

Think about it. When you write, do you write more often with the first draft as a final copy (write-on-demand), or do you use process writing with quality revision and editing? The truth is people need to know how to do both...

Sites For Grades 7 to 8

Here are five sites for teachers of grades 7-8...

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