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End your school year by recognizing your students' accomplishments, reflecting on your own growth, and setting goals for next year.

For the past several years, I've used Teacher Appreciation Week to pay tribute to this wonderful community of teachers, to colleagues, to the teachers who have made those indelible marks on me, and even to my own mother. Yet, this year, there are three young people who have lived teacher appreciation, but may not really understand what it means.

Molly is a high-performing 16-year-old teen girl in her junior year of high school. She has a nice group of friends, works hard in school and gets excellent grades. Molly also has multiple activities she admits she doesn't really enjoy anymore but feels are necessary to "get into a good college."

New Tech Network, which was founded 15 years ago, is taking its school-wide project-based model to national scale. The organization, which offers a paid program

The autism rates have increased dramatically over the past 20 years. If not vaccines, then what is the cause of autism?

A retired teacher, Bob Greenberg, has been going around the country over the last year interviewing some of the important thought leaders, as well as local teachers and students, about education topics.

By Anya Kamenetz, NPR Little children are big news this week, as the White House holds a summit on early childhood education December 10. The President wants every four year old to go to preschool, but the new Congress is unlikely to foot that bill.

You have one opportunity to start your school year on the right classroom management foot, one shot to propel your first day of school into the best learning experience your students have ever had. You can't afford to leave it to chance. You can't afford to be unprepared, uninspired, or unfocused.

Students will have their "Touching Safety" lesson this week, but do they really understand? It's situations such as this one that puts kids to the test.

Carol, Sad to watch in some ways, but certainly the point is well taken. Must have been difficult for those moms to watch :( Unfortunately it has also created a generation of kids with social skills that are different from 20-30-40 years ago. Very interesting.

Title - Tissue Paper Flowers By - Paula Hrbacek Primary Subject - Art Grade Level - 1-3 Day Camp in Hawaii Theme Tie-in: Hawaiian women wear flowers behind their ears. Which ear they wear it behind tells gentlemen if they are married or single. Unmarried women wear their flower behind their left ear.

During my first year of teaching, I naively thought that field trips would be easier and more fun than a typical day in the classroom. Then, I got my first taste of field trip reality - my student Andrew got stung on the tongue by a wasp first thing in the morning.** Just a few reminders

My students have been using Spelling City for 3 years. I highly recommend an account to help them study on their own.

It's called "the summer brain drain" because during those long, hot months away from school, kids supposedly forget a lot of what they had learned in class. Research, however, tells a more nuanced story: Some learning is lost among some groups, and others gain. What do you guys think?? Does "Summer Brain Drain" truly exist or is it just a myth??

This promotes a book, but it is a nice little article. It serves as a nice little reminder that we constantly have to adapt and make changes, and that that's okay. The book seems like a good summer read too! 

What does a summer vacation with required reading look like? For 16-year-old Heather Smith, every Friday last summer meant making sure her reading assignment was done. A junior at Golden West High School in Visalia, CA, Smith had to read Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and write weekly journal entries.* Make those choices student friendly.. Super advice

Millie Libman, who is 93 years young and a resident of the Seasons at Glenview Place in Northbrook, Illinois, always shared a special bond with her mother as the youngest of nine children. In 1902, well before Millie's birth, her mother left Russia with two young children to reunite with her husband and embark on a new life in Detroit. Grade 5 is taking a field trip to Ellis Island in May. Great research and history info.