TEACHERS.NET ANNOUNCES E-COMMERCE PARTNERSHIP WITH K-12 ON-LINE SUPPLIER EDUCATORSMARKET.COM - Classroom management guru and author of a million-selling manual for teachers, Harry Wong acknowledges good news about the effectiveness of teachers in the January issue of the Teachers.Net Gazette, published online at http://teachers.net/gazette. With his wife, co-author and educator Rosemary, Wong writes: "We don't know the last time someone thanked you for choosing teaching as a profession. So just in case no has told you lately, 'Thank you.' We know that there are many shortcomings and challenges facing educators, but... let's look at some data as to why teachers are to be respected, valued, and thanked...."

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 11, 2000
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EFFECTIVE TEACHING GURU HARRY WONG
SIGNS ON WITH TEACHERS.NET FOR INTERNET COLUMN

San Diego, CA ---Million selling author, speaker, and classroom management guru Harry Wong has signed on as a columnist for the Teachers.Net Gazette http://teachers.net/gazette. The monthly column, Effective Teaching. debuted in the June issue with Your First Day. It chronicles a new teachers' strategies for using the first day of school to put in place the management map for the entire school year. Wong uses the teacher's "script" to illustrate the effectiveness of his motto, "If you do not plan, the students will plan for you. The effective teacher organizes and structures the classroom for his/her success, but most importantly, for the success of the students."

Known internationally as the author of The First Days of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0962936022/teachersnet, Harry Wong is a former teacher and now one of the most in-demand speakers on the K-12 education circuit. His speaking schedule is fully booked two years in advance. Mr. Wong and his wife Rosemary, an award winning teacher, have formed their own publishing company, "dedicated to bringing quality and dignity to the materials we produce for teachers."

When asked why, considering his busy schedule, he accepted the Teachers.Net invitation to write his first ever Internet column, Wong replied,
"So that more people can hear our message. We want our legacy to be that we've made a difference in the lives of teachers and students." Harry Wong's book has been supplemented by a video series, The Effective Teacher, which won the Telly Award as the best educational staff development video of the past twenty years.

Information about Wongs' professional development materials can be found at http://www.effectiveteaching.com or http://www.harrywong.com.

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