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The Summer Enrichment Program at WPS is an extension of the WPS philosophy, principles and model that takes place during the summer months. It provides students with the unique opportunity to participate in an individually designed program aimed to enhance academic skills and foster independence.

From 2:00pm to 3:30pm, we offer optional 45-minute classes and activities. Students are given the opportunity to enroll in the July Focus Program - one-on-one instructional classes - or to engage in after-school activities, or to participate in both.

Indian School of Business Essay: Applicants are required to respond to the following essays. Re-applicants need to fill an additional essay, which is the essay number 4.

Stanford Business School: Stanford Essay Length & Format: You have your own story to tell, so please allocate the 1,800 words among all of the essays in the way that is most effective for you. We provide some guidelines below as a starting point, but you should feel comfortable to write as much or as little as you like on any essay question, as long as you do not exceed 1,800 words total. Essay 1: 750 words, Essay 2: 450 words, Essay 3: 300 words each.

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@21stcentralprincipal of Twitter provided link to his blog post. Provides insight to stretching your technology budgets further with 6 possible steps.

Impressive site to connect people in a collaborative work/social setting.  It essentially lets you setup a private network of users in an interface inspired by facebook, youtube, and yahoo answers. I'm curious to know if any schools or classrooms have tried it out-

Mr. Jones insults teachers heavily here. He writes like many who profit from and push technology. Note his misogynistic use of "handmaiden" in his fitting conclusion. The NETP working group does the same: "many of our existing educators do not have the same understanding of and ease with using technology that is part of the daily lives of professionals in other sectors. The same can be said of...higher education institutions that prepare new educators"

OMG. This insults teachers, as if they use folk ( aka myth ) to teach. And what's the motive of Jeff to quote him? Rebuttal to this bad joke: Perhaps we would have folk in the operating room if we paid doctors like teachers, not to mention giving them 35 surgeries in a 45 bell period.

The projects profiled here are full-figured creations by teams of teachers at schools whose cultures and schedules support grand ideas. Take a deep breath -- it didn't happen in one big swoop. Article on how to plan the PBL process in a classroom/school/district. I think this article is useful for any educator hesitant about the project-based learning approach. It's a lot of time and work, and then a struggle with how it is assessed. In my personal experience, project-based learning makes for an amazing classroom, but there is a lot of work done on the front-end to get students to buy-in to this model, and then to work within this model.

Tech leadership article on how to create digital friendly schools, highlighting the roles of all stakeholders.