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Tips for Getting Published
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Glenn Dietzel
There's a Book Inside of You Waiting To Come Out!
I intend to show educators how to become published authors using eBook technology. There are 10 steps in the eBook authoring process and in the coming months, each step will be presented...
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Cheryl M. Sigmon
My Poor Teacher Can't Spell!
All at once, I've been besieged by emails concerning spelling in the Writing Block at upper grades. Nancy, a fourth grade teacher in New York, who's enjoying her move to Four-Blocks wrote, "Cheryl, do you think it's important that we misspell words in our model writing daily?...
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Harry & Rosemary Wong
A First Day of School Script
Effective teachers have a plan for every day of the year and especially one for the first day of school to start everything correctly. There is nothing that will take students into orbit faster than to suspect that a teacher is not organized...
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Dr. Marvin
Marshall
Using a Discipline Approach to Promote Learning
Read how a simple discipline system is used to tap into internal motivation to promote learning...
a letter sent from a teacher to another teacher...
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Barbara
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Sue Gruber
March ~ The Perfect Time for a Fresh Start!
You started the school year with a tidy desk---now it looks like a paper drive! Having to search for things is so frustrating and time-consuming! Take time now to reorganize your desk so you can work smarter, not harder...
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Hal Portner
Need Something? Ask!
The most direct way to ask for something is, of course, face-to-face. But there are other ways teachers have found to ask for help...
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Esmé Codell
Testing, 1-2-3!
The school community in Testing Miss Malarkey by Judy Finchler, illustrated by Kevin O'Malley really knows how to prepare for an exam. With the The Instructional Performance Through Understanding (IPTU) test looming on the horizon...
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Beth Bruno
Stop Underage Drinking
One of the most common stories I hear among my kids' college friends, no matter what school they attend, is that alcohol is available everywhere, despite the fact that most students are not of legal drinking age...
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Rob Reilly Ed.D.
Saving Drowning Babies is Not Always the Best Policy!
The act of policy making is typically not an easy task. There are so many facets to anything that needs to be regulated by policy that creating a regulatory (or explanatory) mechanism is highly problematic...
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Ginny Hoover
Debates in the Classroom---
A List of Ten!
With the world situations being as they are, a strategy that is quite effective to explore controversial subjects---debate.
Classroom debates need not be formal, but they need to follow some basic rules before they occu...
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Marjan Glavac
Art Sites
Each month Marjan Glavac, professional speaker, teacher and author, presents five websites for educators...
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