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Making Collaboration Work in Your Building Many studies tout the benefits bestowed upon schools that encourage and facilitate teacher collaboration. However, it's not always the easiest practice to put into place. It can require both time and energy that many educators feel they just don't have to spare.

This is a unique site for a nontraditional home construction. Great for research on different building techniques in different countries for an architecture class.

EducationWorld is pleased to present this professional development resource shared by Dr. Jane Bluestein, an expert in relationship-building, positive school climate and effective instruction. Like boundaries, choices are motivational tools that encourage young people's cooperation through empowerment. Choices build responsibility and commitment, communicate the teacher's respect for students' needs and preferences and can encourage students to perform a particular behavior.

Worksheet with horizontal addition Would be good to discuss strategies to fluently add quickly (doubles neighbors strategy, build to 10 strategy)

Peer Mediation is an important and worth while strategy to use in the schools to reduce bullying. Some students do better in dealing with peer mediators. It also is a good way to build leadership skills in the students who are mediators. 

I have never presented a webquest. This one looks interesting. Frustrating - not all links work.

New York Life worked with four high schools throughout the country of which one of them was in Minnesota. They created media centers that helped build true centers for teaching and learning. They also provided a toolkit to help you develop your own media center for learning.

Learn the story about Remind101 and about the team that builds the service.

Considers students as consumers. Usies their decriptions of a great teacher.

Viewing students as consumers -- and consumers with strong ideas about how their instructors should treat them as learners and individuals -- can help good teachers become great teachers in the eyes of the people who matter most, according to a new book. Included: Tips for building relationships with students.

Visit this page every day to learn new Spanish words and phrases. Build your Spanish vocabulary each day with a new bite-size language lesson - Spanish word, romanization, translation, sample phrases and sentence, audio by native Spanish speakers, images and grammar points like part-of-speech.

Order our Launching Young Readers PBS series Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.