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Makes you think about how we teach.

I've seen a lot of hubbub lately touting the teaching of reading at an increasingly early age. First, there was a commercial for a program claiming it could teach your baby to read. Then, I saw an ad for a school whose biggest selling point (according to the ad) was that their school can have your child reading before kindergarten.

Great bio on a high school band director

common core opinion

Is this a good idea, or are we setting up students for failure?

The presence of books in the home has a greater influence on a childs level of education than does the parents income, nationality, or level of education. A 20-year study shows how investing in books can make a big difference. Included: Highlights of the study. I thought this was pretty interesting. How many of our students have never had a book read to them at home?

The presence of books in the home has a greater influence on a childs level of education than does the parents income, nationality, or level of education. A 20-year study shows how investing in books can make a big difference. Included: Highlights of the study.

Interesting research about success in school

Bullies to Buddies- An appoach for students to learn not to be victims. ITs an interveiw with the school psychologist about how this helps students deal with bullying

bullying and liability what shcools should know

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. 

Technology activities to start the school year.

Reminders for Technology implementation

Article to create a successful open house. In my school parent invovlement is a target area as a part of school improvement - so this was good for me and to share with staff to increase parent involvement

I like this site because it has a nice collection of poetry sites.  Some of the links do not work, but www.poetry180 is a decent collection of poems geared for high school readers.

I like that these are organized by months and phonics.   Appropriate for grade school mostly or students that still struggle with some phonetic awareness.

graphing activity using Excel for Elementary or Middle School Students