MES-Staff

great ideas here

insightful post about the way schools are run - makes you wonder why

screencast on how to publish to audioboo from a web browser

reflective post about PLC (professional learning community)

interesting blog post on teaching

Great weblog for interactive whiteboards, inspire software and internet safety

national workshop presenter website

A source of information and conversation on law and education

Place for you to share sites you have found in common binders

Free class on using activexpressions

very cool interactive site for grades 1-8 - Definitely worth checking out

Awesome interactive site for grades 1-8. Word Sort, Complete the Sentence, Proofreading and Spelling Bee

Experience the sounds and songs of life

DreamBox offers engaging kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade math games that provide an in-depth math curriculum and completely individualized learning. Teachers sign up for free 30 day trial - great for use with projectors and iwb.

black history month - great resources

Our Shared History: African American Heritage tells about the Underground Railroad, African Americans in the Civil War, historic places of the civil rights movement, the Delta blues of the Lower Mississippi Valley and landmarks dedicated to Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr and Frederick Douglass. Also find classroom lesson plans and other resources to liven your discussions of the people, places and stories on the National Park Service's (NPS) site.

Hear Their Voices The Voices of Civil Rights Web site features a searchable online archive of selected stories submitted by people from every corner of the country and from all walks of life. There are also interactive features, essays, interviews and special reports. Voices of Civil Rights is a joint project of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and The Library of Congress.

Draw on Imagination Hear specialists in art history, art conservation and the sciences discuss the connections between art, science and technology in video clips. You'll also find lesson plans and student projects on this site created by The Art Institute of Chicago. The overarching goal of the site is to show science teachers that an art museum may be used as a visual library to augment and enrich established high school science curricula in chemistry, earth science or physics. With primary emphasis on the theme of light and color, the site reveals how the scientific method is applied to the making, conserving and exhibiting of art.

Excite Students to Writing 826 National is a nonprofit tutoring, writing and publishing organization with locations in seven cities across the country. The organization's goal is to assist students, aged 6-18, with their writing skills and to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. After the founding of 826 Valencia, the flagship center in San Francisco, educators around the U.S. joined in to pursue the same goals in their local communities. Now 826 Valencia also serves as the headquarters of 826 National, an umbrella organization that coordinates the adaptation of 826's tutoring and mentorship model in other cities. Already, 826 has sister centers in New York, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Seattle and Boston. Through volunteer support, each of the seven 826 chapters provides drop-in tutoring, class field trips, writing workshops and in-schools programs-all free of charge. 826 chapters are especially committed to supporting teachers, publishing student work and offering services for English language learners.

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