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Each student enters school healthy and learns about and practices a healthy lifestyle. Each student learns in an environment that is physically and emotionally safe for students and adults. Each student is actively engaged in learning and is connected to the school and broader community. Each student has access to personalized learning and is supported by qualified, caring adults. Each student is challenged academically and prepared for success in college or further study and for employment and participation in a global environment.

Comics provide narrative experiences for students just beginning to read and for students acquiring a new language. Students follow story beginnings and endings, plot, characters, time and setting, sequencing without needing sophisticated word decoding skills. Images support the text and give students significant contextual clues to word meaning. Comics act as a scaffold to student understanding. 

twiducate.com is a free resource for educators. Developed in 2009, our goal is to create a medium for teachers and students to continue their learning outside the classroom. We attempt to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners in a social networking environment.

Our service proudly differs in that only teachers and students may view classroom posts, thus creating a private network for you and your students and a safer online learning environment.

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Before a lesson: Questions are a way to motivate, set goals, stimulate thinking, convey purpose, and create a positive learning environment. During a lesson: Questions inspire thinking and reflection, allow students to review what they're learning, involve students in evaluating their understanding of implicit and explicit learning, and encourage students to think ahead – to predict, anticipate, problem solve, and identify trends and patterns. After a lesson: Questions prompt students to summarize what they learned, make analogies, reflect, draw conclusions, incorporate new learning with prior learning, and extend learning.

the etymology and history of first names

help students learn to detect bias and plain falsehoods on various websites

exploring accessible tools that students could use to gain a similar understanding of more mainstream media.

There’s a really cool site called SendGM that lets you send out group messages to cell phones and email all at once.

There is simply no excuse for today’s educator to not have a web cam and a free Skype account

Most of your students study with music. It helps them focus and can help calm test anxiety. Allowing students to listen to I-Pods during tests or using them for audio books or podcasts can be effective strategies to meet your goals.

We live in a global, knowledge-based economy. Students must master vital 21st century skills to survive in the world beyond the classroom. They must be able to • research using the Internet, • assess information, • work collaboratively, • communicate effectively, • think critically and creatively. I have organized the Web 2.0 sites using some of these 21st century skills. Many of the Web 2.0 applications incorporate more than one skill. These tools can help us realize the different ways critical 21st century skills can be developed in the classroom.

how to use cell phones within the classroom. Considering that some school districts still ban students from bringing cell phones to school,

of students using the Web to communicate with each other, the presenters at this event were encouraging it