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Teaching all Students to Learn & Love Vocabulary – Word Nerds
Teaching All Students to Learn and Love Vocabulary Brenda J. Overturf, Leslie H. Montgomery, Margot Holmes Smith Word Nerds takes you inside classrooms at a high-poverty urban school and shows how two teachers implement creative, flexible vocabulary instruction that improves their students’ word knowledge and confidence, enhances classroom community, and increases achievement. Leslie Montgomery and [...]
Should you Interview or Challenge Prospective Employees? Do it like the airlines!
We have all had jobs in the past where we would sit and stare at a co-worker and quietly think (or silently seethe) how the heck did they get this job and how on earth are they keeping it? The answer to the first question is – “They must interview well”. The answer to the [...]
Five Steps For Delivering A Stand-Out Customer Experience
By Jason Robbins, CEO of ePromos Promotional Products When customers are deciding on a tutoring company, you may think it comes down to factors such as price, tutors, educational testing or special offers. These matter, but the real reason customers choose one company over another is customer experience. Providing a topnotch experience every time is [...]
Mimio iPad Collaboration App
Try the MimioMobile iPad app FREE for 30 Days! Make the Most of Your iPads. With the new MimioMobile™ application for iPads, your class can use iPads for student collaboration and assessment. The MimioMobile app lets multiple students contribute to the learning environment simultaneously, while you stay in control. Why MimioMobile? • Supports features for [...]
NCLB Re-authorization Proposals
Both the Democrats and Republicans have revealed Bills this week to attempt to re-authorize the No Child Left Behind bill, which has been up for re-authorization since 2007. Great articles and analysis available from Huffington Post and EdWeek through the following links. It remains to be seen if both sides can reach a compromise to [...]
Was Gov. Phil Bryant that far off the mark?
So everyone is talking about the recent comment by Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant: Gov. Phil Bryant’s comments Tuesday about working mothers at a Washington Post forum on education drew national media attention, and more brickbats than bouquets back home in Mississippi on Tuesday. A Washington Post moderator asked Bryant, How did America get so mediocre [...]
Opening Minds – A book for all Educators
Opening Minds, Using Language to Change Lives Peter H. Johnston “Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, ‘Let’s see how many words you know,’ is different from saying, ‘Let’s see how many words you know already.’ It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead [...]
How to Strengthen Your Financial Management
Free Financial Planning Tools for Non Profits Whilst at the recent National AfterSchool Association annual convention in Indianapolis the oases online booth was adjacent to The Wallace Foundation presentation on financial management. I heard the presentation several times throughout the show and absorbed much of what they were teaching. I’m not a financial expert but [...]
CORE districts re-submit ‘stronger’ NCLB Waiver Application
First published on EdSource May 28th 2013. Nine California districts resubmitted their application Tuesday for a waiver from key provisions and sanctions of the No Child Left Behind law after spending weeks revising the application in response to dozens of questions by a panel of reviewers from the U.S. Department of Education. If approved, the [...]
Free Online Activity Guide for Summer Science Learning
Free Online Activity Guide for Summer Science Learning Created by the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, ” Summer Brain Games” offers eight weeks of free and fun at-home science experiments designed to combat the “summer brain drain,” when kids lose months of critical learning. The free online activity guide features weekly experiments exploring summer [...]
Students climb Mount Everest virtually
By Alison DeNisco First Published on District Administration 5.22.2013. Adventure filmmaker Elia Saikaly was approaching the top of Mount Everest Friday when he took some time out of the climb to speak to a high school classroom in Canada about his journey. Students talked via Skype to Saikaly at his base at the mountain’s Camp [...]
How To Give Your Company A Personality
By Jason Robbins, CEO of ePromos Promotional Products. People seek out brands they know, like and trust. That’s why building a personality for your tutoring company is so critical. A brand’s personality is defined as “a set of human characteristics associated with the name of a product, service or company.” Campbell’s is comforting. Louis Vuitton [...]
