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Fairview School is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We are a full inclusion school of 630 students from K4 through 8th Grade. The students here at Fairview receive Physical Education once a week for 45 minutes. They receive 35 Physical Education lessons a year. Please check out what your child's learning in his/her Physical Education class. If you have any questions or concerns about your child don't hesitate to call or email. Phone #:546-7700 Email: beringmx@mail.milwaukee.k12.wi.us

It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school's principal, decided to try something extreme-by Finnish standards. One of his sixth-grade students, a Kosovo-Albanian boy, had drifted far off the learning grid, resisting his teacher's best efforts. The school's team of special educators-including a social worker, a nurse and a psychologist-convinced Louhivuori that laziness was not to blame. So he decided to hold the boy back a year, a measure so rare in Finland it's practically obsolete.

This year as part of my assistant principal duties I have the privilege of overseeing ENL instruction and learning in my school.  This week at my district AP meeting our ENL coordinator shared a great tip that administrators who have ENL/ESL students can share with their teachers.  

That's right...you heard me! And it's one of my favorite activities all year long. Paper Blogs. I use them to introduce my seventh graders to the idea of blogging and, more importantly, commenting.

Games for all subject areas in the elementary grades

ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.

As electronic books and other digital media become more popular, libraries are going through an identity crisis. Their role as repositories of bound books is uncertain in the long-term future, and nobody knows what the next iteration looks like. YOUmedia, a two-year-old teen learning experiment that incorporates digital media into a wider educational experience, could be a model for what neighborhood libraries across the country might become.

Basic ipad skills to get your started with an ipad

"Teacher reading" Posts from Principals around the world

"If we as educators recognize the position blogging now has and will continue to have in our society, we need to take responsibility for teaching proper use in whatever our academic field of choice"

Student Help Desk- its a course offered to students

In a packed session this afternoon at ISTE 2012 here in San Diego, a panel of nine educators, as well as two moderators presented their ideas and experiences with "flipping" their classrooms. The session was led by Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann, two chemistry teachers who pioneered the flipped learning model back in 2006.