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by blythe alberg
Dec 8, 2006
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Hello! I am searching for a teacher by the MAIDEN name of
Karen Marie Clark. She was an elementary school teacher
back in the mid 70's and may have some information about my
birthmother! She is from the state of Oregon... if you have
any information, please email me at [email removed]
by Does YOUR state have a TEACHERS' RIGHTS BILL?
Dec 22, 2006
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Every teacher is entitled to a duty-free lunch and
planning and preparation time. Except for a few minor
changes made in the 1995 rewrite of the Texas Education
Code, the statutes have essentially remained the same.
Duty-free lunch – Texas Education Code, Sec. 21.405
By law, each classroom teacher ...See More/blockquote>
Every teacher is entitled to a duty-free lunch and
planning and preparation time. Except for a few minor
changes made in the 1995 rewrite of the Texas Education
Code, the statutes have essentially remained the same.
Duty-free lunch – Texas Education Code, Sec. 21.405
By law, each classroom teacher and full-time librarian
gets at least a 30-minute lunch period “free from all
duties and responsibilities connected with the instruction
and supervision of students.” According to a Texas
Attorney General opinion, the term “duty” would include a
directive that teachers remain on campus during lunch,
because it would relate to student instruction or
supervision. Districts cannot require teachers to stay on
campus during their 30-minute lunch even if the campus
is “closed” for students.
The law provides exceptions—personnel shortages, extreme
economic conditions or unavoidable/unforeseen
circumstances—which give districts the right to require
teachers to supervise lunches, but not more than one time
per week.
The rules adopted by the commissioner of education set the
bar very high before a district can assign a teacher to
lunch duty. Scheduling problems do not create unforeseen
circumstances. They exist when an epidemic, illness, or
natural or man-made disaster leaves no one available to do
the duty. An extreme economic condition exists when hiring
a person to supervise lunch would cause the district to
raise taxes to the extent that the district might face a
tax roll-back election. A personnel shortage exists only
after all available nonteaching personnel—superintendent
and business manager included—have been assigned to the
duty and the district has diligently recruited community
volunteers to help.
Planning and preparation time – Texas Education Code, Sec.
21.404
The law entitles every teacher to planning and preparation
time, during which the district can require the teacher to
engage in no activity other than parent-teacher
conferences, evaluating student work, and planning.
Teachers must have at least 450 minutes of planning time
every two weeks in increments of not less than 45 minutes
within the instructional day.
Examples:
A teacher could have five 90-minute conference periods
within a two-week period, instead of a 45-minute
conference period each day. A district can provide 50-
minute blocks of planning time daily, and exceed the
minimum requirement, but it could not provide 50 minutes
one day and 40 minutes the next.
A district cannot schedule a 7:45 a.m.-3:15 p.m.
instructional day, and then give teachers 3:15 p.m.-4:00
p.m. to plan after the students leave.
Conference period cases often involve requirements for
group planning or staff development during planning
periods. According to the commissioner of education, if a
district gives teachers no more than the statutory minimum
planning time, the district cannot ask teachers to engage
in group-planning during one of those planning periods.
Example:
A district that schedules 50-minute planning periods every
day could ask teachers to plan as a group one day every
two weeks, but the district could not take one planning
period for group planning and another for staff
development.
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Hi,
I used to save up all those fake credit cards that credit
card companies send in the junkmail for a teacher who used
them in the classroom. She distributed them to students
as part of a pretty cool hands-on project in finance,
budgeting, managing money & credit, etc. Anyway, she
retired, and I...See More/blockquote>
Hi,
I used to save up all those fake credit cards that credit
card companies send in the junkmail for a teacher who used
them in the classroom. She distributed them to students
as part of a pretty cool hands-on project in finance,
budgeting, managing money & credit, etc. Anyway, she
retired, and I have a stack of them now.... If any teacher
would like these, I can send them to you, since I have
them. Just so you know, these are the cards that don't
have any identifying info on them. I have about 40 of
them. If interested, e-mail me at [email removed]
by karen d-1
Jan 19, 2007
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I haven't contacted my district office yet, but do you
know if Oregon accepts Barbara Gruber (University of the
Pacific) credits for recertification?
Thanks,
karen
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What Language Arts programs are used in grades 1-3?
What city are you in?
Thanks
P.S. I have a lot of Language Arts links on my website
([link removed])
by FL Teacher
Mar 10, 2007
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I am seeking resources for the Six Traits of Reading. I
have been to the websites and have not found enough
resources there to implement this powerful tool. I have
also found out that they no longer offer this course. Any
information and/or resources that you can recommned would
be GREATLY appreciated.
by Crag Hill
Mar 14, 2007
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InLand Needs Your Writing
Call for Copy: Boys and Reading: How Do We Get Boys to
Wrestle with the Pages?
A generation ago educators identified an achievement gap
between boys and girls in math and science. Boys were
taking and excelling in more science and math classes than
girls. With dedi...See More/blockquote>
InLand Needs Your Writing
Call for Copy: Boys and Reading: How Do We Get Boys to
Wrestle with the Pages?
A generation ago educators identified an achievement gap
between boys and girls in math and science. Boys were
taking and excelling in more science and math classes than
girls. With dedication, commitments across districts and
states, careful revision of curriculum, the gap closed. Now
when you peek in a calculus class you are apt to see as
many girls as boys.
Today, schools have another achievement gap educators must
address, one that has undermined English classes for
decades: Boys lag behind girls as readers. In Idaho, they
score lower than girls in reading and language usage on the
ISAT starting in the third grade and they never catch up.
In addition to standardized test data, English teachers
have tons of anecdotal evidence of boys’ attitudes toward
the study of literature: Boys are less likely to enjoy
reading or identify themselves as committed English
students than girls, attitudes that often affect their
behavior in the classroom. How can we turn this around? How
can we get boys to wrestle, to tussle, to tumble, with
pages of novels and biographies and essays and poems?
Some possible topics include:
What are books that your boys, at home and/or in the
classroom, read voraciously? What are books that get
squirming boys to slow down in their chairs? What books do
boys recommend to other boys? Mini-reviews welcome!
What strategies have worked for you to get boys reading
more than they have before? Over the course of a semester,
how do you encourage boys not only to read their favorite
writers/genres, but get them to try new writers? How do you
gets boys talking about books with other boys?
If you were to write books for boys, what would your story
be? How would you approach writing a book geared toward
male readers?
Besides books, what else do your boys read? What topics do
your boys read and talk about?
Send essays, classroom strategies, stories of success and
struggle, poems, surveys of your male readers, interviews…
Send articles to Crag Hill at 1111 E. Fifth St., or by e-
mail at [email removed]
Deadline: March 30, 2007
InLand is a magazine that serves the interests of
approximately 350 K-College Language Arts educators in
Idaho and Eastern Washington. Readers love articles that
enlarge their understanding of a topic.
by Liz Campbell
Mar 16, 2007
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I'm a new teacher and I'm moving to Oregon from Alaska. I
have passed the PRAXIS for HS biology but I really want to
teach middle school science. Do I need to take the test for
middle school science or am I OK with the test score I have
already? Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Liz
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Hi,
If you still have all those credit cards, I would gladly take those off your hands. I
teach a class that sounds similar to the one you are talking about. Please let me
know if you still have those. Thanks so much.
On 1/08/07, Andrea wrote:
> Hi,
> I used to save up all those fake c...See More