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Great article with 8 major points for administrators in making in-service activities more engaging for adult learners.

How are things going in another middle school?

Points out how unlikely it is for a significant reduction in greenhouse gases.

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 to share with teachers as a starting point to trouble shoot with their boards.

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.

Brief Description Students analyze photographs of high plains sod homes and read accompanying narratives. They then choose one photograph and, using the copy and paste features and simple drawing tools available in Microsoft Word, students identify characteristics, points, differences, and questions they find in that photograph. -Stephanie Jones

I will use this for my students when we are working on power points. It seems like there is always some picture we can't find. There are some very good sites linked on this page.

Clip Art including music clip art.

The Clip Art Gallery offers educational clipart for students, parents and teachers.

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using whiteboards in your classroom