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Diving into problems in education and how we as a country can change our model to improve this.

Diving into problems in education and how we as a country can change our model to improve this.

Diving into problems in education and how we as a country can change our model to improve this.

I personally think that reading is a huge part of improving English proficiency. Reading logs helps children keep track of their own improvement and also work towards a reward. When I was a kid we got a free personal pan pizza from pizza hut.

I personally think that reading is a huge part of improving English proficiency. Reading logs helps children keep track of their own improvement and also work towards a reward. When I was a kid we got a free personal pan pizza from pizza hut.

Physical activity is being over shone by the heavy emphasis on standardized testing. A great way to keep children active is to incorporate movement into your academic lesson plans. This is a great website that lets you filter-search your lesson plans and best of all, it's free!

This activity is a word scramble that improves children's spelling and helps them brush up on their history. If they finish early you could have them color the picture.

This activity is a word scramble that improves children's spelling and helps them brush up on their history. If they finish early you could have them color the picture.

This website provides many differnt ways that professional development can be accomplished, and gives some statistics of what common strategies are used for professional development by teachers. It also gives some tips for how to improve your professional development.

Meeting the demands of the Common Core means teaching teachers new approaches to instruction; in other words, reform demands effective professional development.

Offers a great amount of resources for professional development. You can improve your teaching skills with articles, lesson plans, and resources. This site also offers free printables.

This article is a bit differnent from the others I have discovered, because this article talks about many professional development opportunitiies that teachers view as useless. It gives examples of good professional development versus bad professional development, and gives reasons for these examples.

It's summer here. I should be relaxing by a pool somewhere...instead I'm working ESY and already planning stuff for next year. But I enjoy it so I can't really complain. I have been thinking about what worked this year and what I need to improve on for next year.