Happy New Year!
Teaching Gayle to Read (Part 2)... by Grace Vyduna-Haskins She is eager 
to read new stories and we discuss concepts as they arise...
Click for Full story What Are We Aiming At--What Do We Really Want To Aim At?... by Rob Reilly Ed.D. Traditionally educational  pedagogy emphasizes conveying a lot of information and facts, and does not model the learning process...
Click for Full story Follow The Wonder... by Georgia Hedrick Kids used to  learn for the pure joy of it, for the experience of it, for the wonder of it...
Click for Full story Teaching Graph from the Grassroots... by P R Guruuprasad Once the children  were familiar with locating points in a fun way, I was able to introduce Graph as laid down in the syllabus...
Click for Full story Bully Advice For Kids... by Kathy Noll 
What to do about bullies:
Click for Full story Both Sides Now in Gifted Education... by Sylvia Burke I've never met a teacher who purposely went out of his/her way to bore students. Well, maybe one, and he was a genius at reverse psychology of a sort. But gifted kids are not easy to teach. Think about a few common characteristics of gifted kids... Click for Full story eIditarod 2002... by Arlington Science Focus School As classes prepare 
to follow the Iditarod Sled Dog Race this year, consider joining the eIditarod project...
Click for Full story School Bus Subsidies for Field Trip to 2002 Tour De Sol... by The Great American Green Transportation Festival School bus subsidies 
are available to teachers who want to take their students on a field trip to the Tour de Sol...
Click for Full story A Lesson Learned... by Meg McCarthy 
I am a paraprofessional (teacher's aide) to a third grade boy who is autistic. I follow him throughout the day in his program, which is pretty much full inclusion except for reading instruction...
Click for Full story A Different Perspective to the Holidays... by Nancy Salsman aka "nan" I very proudly serve 
as a Platoon Mom to 45 soldiers deployed to Bosnia...
Click for Full story Why Teachers Need Tenure... by Stewart E Brekke Tenure is really like seniority in other working environments. Tenure protects the teacher from unwarranted and wanton dismissal for doing unpopular things such as failing influential students... Click for Full story Planetary Society Protests Stop to Near-Earth Object Observations... by Susan Lendroth "Arecibo radar observations 
are crucial for determining the exact location, speed and direction of objects that approach Earth," said Louis Friedman, Executive Director of The Planetary Society...
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Imagine being part of a faculty where every teacher has succeeded in the classroom for the past six years. The only reason for leaving this school is either spousal relocation or to further your educational growth...
given to the positive, when the option of choice is recognized, and when reflection is employed, stress is reduced, life is conducted more successfully, and greater pleasure results...
insisting that their writing scores are still low even though they've had great gains in reading scores. What's wrong here?...Here are 8 questions to explore in an effort to improve your writing instruction and your writing scores...
what I am. What we learn is what we experience. I cannot say, "Now I am teaching; now I am not." Whatever I am doing or not doing is teaching; kids are experiencing me...
unit will generally be a lecture and assigned readings followed by learning activities (assignments) and discussions...
subject with the special education teacher in charge of your student's academic support program...
beautiful and we all had a great time meeting old friends and making some new ones. I thought you'd all like to see the pictures that were taken that day...
are not successful in the normal classroom they are being placed in alternative centers that are actually just alternative settings...
for educators that are easy to read, simple to use and worthwhile to know...
is to help you, the classroom teacher, begin to find new ways to help your struggling readers and writers improve their abilities...
as to what to do about their children's difficulties may be ignoring the one thing that can make the most significant changes in their children's behavior: diet...
interactive whiteboards so much? The following is a baker's dozen reasons for my enthusiasm...
in these wonderful kids is that most disadvantaged students are not as well prepared to benefit from progressive approaches as the teachers are trained to provide them...
to Keep the Principal Out of Your Room
I was visiting with a fellow teacher who related to me an incident concerning an injury her son had received...
common problems I have heard teachers tell me is that many sight impaired children do not want to use their adaptive aids in the classroom...
3 large marshmallows several very thin pretzels sticks...
