Technology in the Classroom: Product Guide
Forest Lake Elementary takes advantage of technology to personalize the learning process. Find out what tools educators and students use in these 21-century classrooms.
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Five Ways to Empower Students
Teacher, student and blogger Adora Svitak explains how teachers can give students a more empowering role in their own education.
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MacArthur Awards $5.5 Million to Support Conservation Policy Research and Analysis
February 8, 2012
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Ten Websites for Science Teachers
Blogger Eric Brunsell takes us on a tour of his favorite online resources for science teachers.
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New Teacher Academy: How to Work with Parents
In week four of Lisa Dabbs' New Teacher Academy series, guest blogger Shelly Sanchez Terrell talks about the benefits of working with the parents of students.
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Writing
Students' reading skills benefit from instruction in writing, according to a research review in the winter issue of the Harvard Education Review.
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Many States Receive 'D' or 'F' in Review of Science Standards
A new report offers a "bleak picture" of the state of state science standards across the nation.
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Small, Rural Districts Test Four-Day Week
The Montgomery County school system about 80 miles west of St. Louis is among a growing number of rural Missouri districts that have eliminated one day from the school week.
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Threat to Transitional Kindergarten Roils Calif.
Educators and preschool advocates urge state lawmakers to reject eliminating the new program as a budget move.
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Ed. Experts Critique 'Digital Learning Day'
Advocates and critics offer their assessments of the inaugural event, which featured the release of a new federal resource advising educators about digital-textbook adoption.
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N.H. Schools Embrace Competency-Based Learning
Newfound Regional High School is part of an aggressive statewide effort to make learning more about mastery and less about seat time.
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Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
Motivational psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson presents the simple yet game-changing tool of "if-then" planning.
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Do You Write with Your Students?
Blogger Rebecca Alber shares how writing and reading with your students can make a difference.
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Head in the Clouds: The Benefits of Celestial Storage
Blogger Nick Provenzano presents five ways that cloud computing helps him as a teacher.
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Fallen in Love
Every Friday we give a new book away. To get the book, it's simple: just be the first to fill out the form at the bottom of the page. (Note: you must be a Fresno County resident to be eligible for Free Fridays.)
Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate
(a companion to the Fallen books)
What makes your heart race a little faster? Just in time for Valentine's Day, it's Fallen in Love, four wholly original new stories collected in a new novel set in the Middle Ages by Lauren Kate.
Fallen in Love gives fans the much-talked about but never-revealed stories of Fallen characters as they intertwine with the epic love story of Luce and Daniel. The stories include: Love Where You Least Expect It: The Valentine of Shelby and Miles , Love Lessons: The Valentine of Roland; Burning Love: The Valentine of Arriane; and Endless Love: The Valentine of Daniel and Lucinda.
Also includes a preview of her next book, Rapture!
Congrats to Juanita! Your book is on its way.
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The Hole in the Wall Project and the Power of Self-Organized Learning
Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall project showed that children could teach themselves, and each other, how to use technology.
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Five-Year-Olds Pilot Their Own Project-Based Learning
[VIDEO] Student-driven projects, enhanced by technology, launch kindergartners on a journey of lifelong learning.
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Shop is Not a Four-Letter Word
Blogger Jim Berman opens our eyes to the increasing value of offering career and technical education at the high school level.
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How College-Bound Students of Color Should Prepare for Life in a Predominantly White Campus
Blogger Danielle Moss Lee discusses the cultural assumptions that students of color might face on a predominantly white college campus.
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