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Flexible Scheduling: Solving the Mystery
Elliot Y. Merenbloom and Barbara A. Kalina | 08/21/2013
An eighth grade teacher made an appointment with the school principal to express concern about student behavior in her last period class. She bemoaned the students’ inattentiveness, inability to follow any abstraction in the lesson, and attention-seeking behaviors. As they continued their discussion, the teacher wondered if the students’ behavior was similar during the rest of the day. She reported that when discussing the problem in team meetings, the other teachers did not encounter the same difficulty in the students’ earlier class periods. She mused whether her experience with these students would be better if she were able to see them ea... Read More...
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Bok Tower Gardens connects and engages learners
Wendy Wolford, | 09/24/2013
“Over the mountains and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go” is a saying that has been chanted by children for many years as they engage in imaginary play. Here on the Lake Wales Ridge, we say “Let us climb Iron Mountain, go through the trees, and get to the grotto at Pinewood.” At this magical place, one can see hundreds of tadpoles in various stages of their metamorphosis. This is a great opportunity to discuss life cycles, habitats, and food chains.
The educational mission at Bok Tower Gardens is to connect and engage learners of all ages in quality programming that creates appreciation, knowledge and awareness of the envir... Read More...
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Sea to Stars, History to STEM in Hampton
| 09/24/2013
Centered in Coastal Virginia and minutes from Williamsburg, Hampton offers students an experience that spans from the Sea to the Stars, with lots of unique material in between. At 400 years and counting, Hampton is rich in history and the city showcases its heritage through its multifaceted attractions and tour sites. Just launched, the 2013-2014 Education Program for the Virginia Air & Space Center and the Hampton History Museum is an effective guide for aligning your student tour with your lesson plans. Read More...
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Green Career Pathways
By Aaron Schreiber - Stainthorp | 08/21/2013
In 2007, Miles Ten Brinke and Morwenna Rowe joined a handful of other students at their high school. They were joining the PowerSave Schools program at their high school, an energy-saving effort to empower students to identify energy efficiency opportunities at their school to save money and protect the environment.
Today they are both working in the energyfield. Read More...
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FROM the EDITOR - Fall 2013
Charles Sosnik | 08/21/2013
Time seems to quicken as I age. Wasn’t it just yesterday our students were getting out for summer? End of Grade testing. Saying their goodbyes. Family vacations. But where did summer go ? Can they really be headed back to school already? Read More...
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Stop back-to-school classroom management problems before they start How to have a happier new school year
With Dr. Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. | 08/21/2013
The time to stop classroom management problems is day one, week one, hour one of your new school year. Before you start the 2013-2014 school year, let me introduce you to some powerful school skills training classroom management strategies that can stop behavior problems before they start. These strategies deliver big results for a small investment of time. In as little as 30-60 minutes per day, you can pro-actively train your K-12 class members to become prepared, motivated students with the specific skills and positive attitudes they need to succeed in school. Read More...
Relevant Tags: PROBLEM SOLVED, Ruth Herman Wells, Classroom Management, Back to School, Student Behavior, school, skills, classroom, lesson, management, problems, classroom management, skills training, management problems, new school
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More authentic recognition...from the beginning
With Larry Biddle | 08/21/2013
Academic coaches don’t know what athletic coaches don’t know they know — one of the most powerful recognition breakthroughs in our nation that was born on January 29, 1904! Historically it was about one year after the visionary Wright Brothers’ flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. The impact of these two events has provided us with essential principles that revolutionized the world as we know it. At the end of the football season on that late January day, University of Chicago coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg, presented blankets to his players who had earned them, custom blankets with a Big “C” for Chicago ... the beginning of The Athletic Letter Man’s Club w... Read More...
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