- SEPTEMBER ARTICLES - Teachers.Net Teams with U.S. Coast Guard Operation Deep Freeze from The Editor, Kathleen Carpenter, Homework as an Issue in American Politics by Etta Kralovec & John Buell, Preparing for the One Year Anniversary by David J. Schonfeld, MD, The Anniversary of September 11th: Teachers' Guide for Talking to Your Students from the National Center For Children Exposed To Violence, Books About September 11, 2001 by Kathleen Carpenter, Editor, Privacy in a Technological Age by Dr. Rob Reilly, Relational Discipline by Bill Page, Teachers Are Individuals Too by Bill Page, Veteran Educators Share Tips for New Teachers Compiled by Jerry Taylor, Learning Centers - 3 Helpful Threads from the NEW Learning Centers Chatboard, "Bits and Pieces" - Various Small Articles by The Teachers.Net Community, For School Administrators and Teachers: A Book and Planting Activity for Beginning the School Year, Ideas for Open House, Breaking the Ice in 7th Grade, Book Recommendation, Favorite Kid Quotes, Uses for Old Business Cards, A Word Wall Story by Louise/2/Albuquerque, Teaching Gayle To Read (Part 7) by Grace Vyduna-Haskins, Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters by JoAnn Deak, Dear Old Golden Rule Days, Chapter 3 - Music by Janet Farquhar, Emphasis On Testing Leads To Sacrifices In Other Areas by Alfie Kohn, Pension Loophole Exploited by Allen Pusey - The Dallas Morning News, Focus on After-School Time for Violence Prevention from: ERIC Clearinghouse, Beyond Books: Making the Most of Today's Library Resources by Cindy Rogers, Master Teachers Have Healthy Self-Esteems by Glenn Dietzel, Distance Learning and Disabled Students by Jeff Redding

TEACHERS.NET GAZETTE

Volume 3 Number 9

COVER STORY
U.S.Coast Guard AVDET 157 welcomes the opportunity during deployment to the South Pole to communicate with classrooms across the United States. Throughout the voyage, aviation personnel will correspond with schools that are interested in Operation Deep Freeze...

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September Columns

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September Articles

REGULAR FEATURES

September Regular Features

FYI

September Informational Items

Gazette Home Delivery:

Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters
by JoAnn Deak, Ph.D., with Teresa Barker "Just because everybody's doing it doesn't make it right. There's so much that 'everybody's doing' that isn't right or healthy for girls. And how can I expect my twelve-year-old to make sense of things if I can't do it myself?"...

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Master Teachers Have Healthy Self-Esteems
by Glenn F. Dietzel Students pick up very quickly the confidence level of their teachers. Master teachers have a high self-esteem. They convey to their students that they are ready for action...

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Beyond Books:
Making the Most of Today's Library Resources
by Cindy Rogers

It's not the same library you visited in back in Junior High... At least, it shouldn't be! You will still find books in the library, but there now is so much more. Technology is a vital part of your school library...

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A Word Wall Story
by Louise/2/Albuquerque
from the 4blocks Mailring
teachers.net/mailrings

I want to share something that happened in my class with the word wall this year. It was Monday, and I was introducing the five new words for the week...

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What Makes a Truly Great Principal?
A chatboard survey initiated by "TLC"

A good principal takes care of his business. Among these duties includes taking as good of care with his faculty's needs as the students' needs...

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Pension Loophole
Exploited
by Allen Pusey - The Dallas Morning News

A fast-growing technique used by Texas teachers to circumvent federal pension limitations could drain more than $450 million in unintended benefits from the Social Security system, says a report issued Wednesday by congressional auditors...

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Emphasis On Testing
Leads To Sacrifices
In Other Areas
by Alfie Kohn

Despite the nearly unanimous view of experts that play is critical to development, recess has been cut back as a result of testing pressures. In Atlanta, where recess was simply eliminated, at least one new school was built without a playground...

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U. S. Coast Guard Polar Operations: Teachers.Net Teams with U.S. Coast Guard Operation Deep Freeze

Individual classrooms throughout the United States have the opportunity to receive weekly messages and photos from aviators assigned to the operation...

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September 11 Resources

Etta Kralovec & John Buell: Homework as an Issue in American Politics We remain convinced that homework as currently constituted is a largely ineffective and overly burdensome practice...	Dr. Rob Reilly: Privacy in a Technological Age I wonder if we'd even be aware of a privacy violation if it bite us in the touhus! It seems that no one really has a sound understanding of privacy as it now relates to the Internet and the Web...
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Bill Page:

Relational Discipline

For many classroom teachers, discipline means managing behavior problems or classroom control. It is equated with obedience (or disobedience) or "minding" the teacher, and it is used to deal with "how to get kids to shut up, sit down, pay attention, follow directions, and at least act interested."...

Bill Page:
Teachers Are Individuals Too

One day, as I visited Trish and the 30 kids in her program, she questioned, "Well, what would you do with that kid?" That kid being, Tyrone, a six foot tall, lanky but muscular, seventh grader who was two years older and two feet taller than most of the other kids and who had served two hitches at Jardonia, Juvenile Facility...

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compiled by Jerry Taylor: Veteran Educators Share Tips for New Teachers Be flexible. If a lesson isn't working...abandon. If a lesson needs more time...extend. If a lesson has been learned...leave it for new territories...	From the NEW Learning Centers Chatboard: Learning Centers - 3 Helpful Threads Learning Centers - Questions to Ask Yourself, "Take It to Your Seat Language Arts Centers: Grades 4-6" review, Early Childhood Centers in Tubs/Containers...
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Janet Farquhar:

Dear Old Golden Rule Days - Chapter 3 - Music

Eric's father talking about warming his son's behind reminded me of Hilda's insistence that thrashing was the only way to deal with my bad boy, Sam...

Grace Vyduna-Haskins:
Teaching Gayle To Read (Part 7)

It's been two months since I last reported on Gayle's progress in reading. Gayle has now completed first grade and is a far more confident competent child that the floundering non-reader I first met at the end of October, 2001...

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Also in this issue:

Focus on After-School Time for Violence Prevention
by Peggy Patten & Anne S. Robertson - ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education

An estimated eight million school-age children are home alone after school (U.S. Department of Education, 2001). These are the hours when violent juvenile crime peaks and when youth are most likely to experiment with alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and sex... Then the kids come...

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"Bits and Pieces" - Various Small Articles by The Teachers.Net Community

Distance Learning and Disabled Students by Jeff Redding



COLUMNS
	*Dispensing Materials in Fifteen Seconds* Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong
	The Power Of Hierarchies Promoting Learning by Marv Marshall
	*10 Tips for A+ Parent Communication* Instant Ideas for Busy Teachers by Barbara Gruber and Sue Gruber
	*I've designed the questions - Now what?* Online Classrooms by Leslie Bowman & George París Conway
	*Blotch on the Landscape* Ask the School Psychologist by Beth Bruno
	*Stop-Start Times* The Eclectic Teacher by Ginny Hoover
	*Primary Sites Grades Pre-K to 3* The Busy Educator's Monthly Five (5 Sites for Busy Educators) by Marjan Glavac
	*Active Classroom Support: Early in the Year* 4 Blocks by Cheryl Sigmon



REGULAR FEATURES
	*Apple Seeds: Inspirational quotes* by Barb Erickson
	*Special Days This Month* by Ron Victoria
	*Featured Schools*
	One (9/11 poem) and September poem
	*The Lighter Side of Teaching* *YENDOR'S Top Ten* by RandyAk *Goose Holler* by Goose *Schoolies* *Woodhead*
	*Handy Teacher Recipes*
	*Classroom Crafts*
	*Help Wanted - Teaching Jobs*
	*Rhyming With Pancakes* from the Lesson Bank by Paul Many
	*Upcoming Ed Conferences*
	*Letters to the Editor*
	Teachers.Net Survey *Chatboard Poll: What Makes a Truly Great Principal?*


TEACHER INSPIRATION
	*The Light In Our Lives* by Pamela Owen


ON-SITE INSIGHTS
	*A Project for Exchanging Creative Lessons & Ideas* by Sandy Andrews



FYI
	*The White House National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign* from: National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
	*The Sun Times - Global Sun Temperature Project* from: Joshua Koen, Project Leader


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