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In the winter of 2010, inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 rules of writing published in The New York Times nearly a decade earlier, The Guardian reached out to some of today's most celebrated authors and asked them to each offer his or her commandments.

Colorado's RSL Research Group recently discovered that having a fully-staffed school library dramatically improved test scores in Pennsylvania schools

The end of the school year can be a nervous time for students, especially those that will be making the jump into elementary school, middle school, high school or college next fall. These transitioning students are left with a variety of questions -- from curiosities about academic rigor to managing a social life and coursework, to worries about using a combination lock. (It took me more than a couple tries.) Fortunately, there are plenty of resources on the Web that offer useful information for all stakeholders -- parents, students, educators and administrators -- that will help ensure successful transition. Here are a few for each major stepping stone in the K-12 pipeline.

worth spending some time working down this list of Google Docs related resources gathered by Susan Oxnevad.

Two New Free Games! Just in time for the Holiday Season - two brand new games! Test-N-Teach (TNT) is our new spelling game and Read-A-Word is our first-ever reading game. Both games are available to everyone!

Petition to the Obama administration.

next time you ponder what to do with technology, consider the following essential questions: What information can my students communicate with technology?  What information can I embed into this project?   Can my students access information to synthesize, critically?  Are my students information literate as well as tech-savvy?  Am I asking my students to JUST find information? Or, have I asked them to do anything with that information?  Synthesize?  Create? Debate? Transform that information into a position, problem solve,  etc,?  

This is my all time favorite book award/list. 

"Failure has been a trending topic on Education Unbound recently, particularly in regards to the disconnect between educational objectives and game-based learning (GBL). The basic problem is that games depend on players failing multiple times as the primary means of learning how to overcome obstacles. Education, in contrast, is predicated on the notion that failure is bad - for the student, the teacher, and the system as a whole."

The adorable books from 'Lost My Name' have been one of our go-to birthday gifts for some time, so we were very excited to hear about the new edition to their collection:

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"A list of some of the best children's chapter books, suitable for a wide range of ages. They are the ones that continue to be loved for ages upon ages because they are, simply put, quite wonderful."

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