|
Advertisement
The secrets of a principal who makes things work
The New York Times
Share
   
A good principal has been a teacher. While Ivy Leaguers in their 20s can now become principals, Jacqui Getz, 51, the new principal of Public School 126, a high-poverty school in Chinatown, N.Y., came up the old way. This is her third principal position, but before that, she was a teacher for nine years and an assistant principal for four. It's hard for principals to win
over teachers if they haven't been one. "You're the principal," Getz said, "but you have to know how a teacher feels and how a teacher thinks."
More
Advertisement
The end is near for No Child Left Behind
U.S.News & World Report
Share
The nation's embattled key education policy may soon meet its administrative death. The White House is detailing requirements for states that want to apply for waivers from essential components of No Child Left Behind, a law all sides call out-of-date and impossible. Its central provision requires every student to test at grade level in math and reading by 2014. But now, the Obama administration is providing a way to let states off
the hook and hoping all states will take advantage. "This is not a competition where some states win and others are left behind," a senior administration official said. "We'll encourage all states to apply, and everyone should have a chance to succeed." Several states have already indicated they plan to apply.
More
Virginia
school districts to have option of adding gun safety education to elementary teaching
The Huffington Post
Share
Virginia's Board of Education is expected to hand off legislation to local school districts allowing them to add gun safety to elementary school curriculum. The state's General Assembly approved a measure last April that required the Board of Education to design course materials in line with the National Rifle Association's Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program guidelines to teach elementary students about gun safety.
More
Advertisement
|
 |
|
|
Sponsored
by: VIRCO
Advertisement
|
|
|
|
|
Sponsored by Brainchild
Advertisement
|
|
|
|
Hoarse teachers find talking is an occupational hazard
msnbc.com
Share
By the end of her first day of school this month, Theresa Simon's voice was already starting to go. "You can hear a little bit of rasp," said the 48-year-old teacher at Cecelia Snyder Middle School in
Bensalem, Pa. But the frog in her throat now is nothing compared to what Simon used to suffer every fall when she was among scores of teachers who find themselves going hoarse after heading back to the classroom.
More
Advertisement
 |
|
|
75% of kindergartners in Des Plaines, IL elementary school had no letter recognition. Lexia Reading software helped bring 88% up to speed by end of 1st grade. MORE |
|
|
Tips to improve online accessibility
THE Journal
Share
Few districts these days have the kinds of budgets that enable them to employ Web experts to help schools design and update their sites. Fewer still have Web staffers who understand the basics of making websites accessible to people with disabilities. But to vision- or hearing-impaired students or parents, your website may appear cluttered, confusing or completely unnavigable. Fortunately, following a few basic principles of Web
design can transform a site into an inviting space for different user needs, devices and situations, without breaking the bank.
More
Advertisement
|
|
|
13,000 of your fellow service
members have already chosen to continue serving their county by becoming a teacher in the nation’s public schools go to www.proudtoserveagain.com |
|
|
|
Experts: Less play time equals more troubled kids
HealthDay News via U.S.News & World Report
Share
From hide-and-seek to tearing around the neighborhood with friends, playing is one of the hallmarks of childhood. But in this era of hyper-vigilant parenting, researchers find that children in the
United States have far less time to play than kids of 50 years ago, a trend that may have serious consequences for their development and mental health. "Into the 1950s, children were free to play a good part of their childhood. If you stayed in your house around your mom, she'd say 'go out and play. The natural place for a kid was outside," said Peter Gray, a research professor of psychology at Boston College.
More
Advertisement
Study: Single-sex
schools have negative impact on kids
ABC News
Share
Boys and girls may be opposites, but new research shows that in the classroom, separating the two sexes may
not be the best way for either gender to learn and grow. A new study from Penn State researchers states that students who attend single-sex schools are no better educated than those who attend co-ed schools. Plus, children are more likely to accept gender stereotypes when they go to an all-boys or all-girls school.
More
Very preterm kindergartners face learning trouble
Reuters
Share
Kindergartners who were born extremely prematurely are much more likely to have learning problems than their peers who were born at term, even if they do not have overall intellectual impairment, new
research shows. Yet more than a third of children in the study with learning problems were not enrolled in special education programs, Dr. H. Gerry Taylor of the University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland and his colleagues found.
More
Advertisement
|
|
|
What if you could save your teachers time and give every student the right resources—for less? Start your free 7-day trial at LearningA-Z.com. |
|
|
|
New initiatives signal shift in US
education-technology leadership
Education Week
Share
In what appear to be the latest moves in a shift of emphasis from financing to facilitating education
technology, the U.S. Department of Education and the Federal Communications Commission this month both have helped launch initiatives that were billed as major breakthroughs but involved the two organizations as agents of collaboration, not primary funders. Recently, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski attended as Philadelphia-based Comcast Corp. officially announced its Internet Essentials program, which will give families of students who receive free school lunches access to broadband Internet
service for $9.95 a month, before taxes.
More
Advertisement
|
|
|
Looking to improve academic scores for your Title I students? One evidence-based
program is proven to increase math and reading scores simultaneously.
Positive Action |
|
|
|
USDA could ban potatoes from school breakfasts, reduce from lunches
The Associated Press via The Huffington Post
Share
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who hails from Maine's potato country and picked potatoes as a girl, is working to restore some respect for the humble spud, which is on the verge of being virtually
banished from the nation's school lunch programs. New guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture would eliminate potatoes altogether from school breakfasts and drastically reduce the amount of potatoes served in lunches. Collins said the unassuming white potato has its place alongside more highfalutin vegetables in school cafeterias. She believes potatoes are healthy, as long as they're not fried.
More
Advertisement
White House targets innovative education
technologies
InformationWeek
Share
The White House has formed a nonprofit organization aimed at creating innovative learning technologies to
transform education in the United States. The National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies, aka Digital Promise, will engage exclusively in research and development to use the most advanced technology to improve learning at all educational levels, according to the organization's website.
More
Advertisement
|
|
|
PD 360 gives you 1,500+ on-demand PD videos, 120 experts, 97 topics, and an educators-only, online PLC of 700,000. Try it free for 30 days!
www.schoolimprovement.com
|
|
|
|
Education Department gives states more time for stimulus reporting
Education Week
Share
On the same day President Barack Obama announced the long-awaited details of the administration's No Child Left Behind Act waiver package, his Education
Department quietly extended the deadline for collecting and reporting data on the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, a central part of the federal economic-stimulus program. The SFSF provided about $40 billion in education aid to states to help them prop up their budgets in the aftermath of the Great Recession. It came with significant strings, including a slew of new data points states had to report, such as the number of teachers rated at each performance level in their evaluation system and
the number of charter schools that have made progress on state math and reading tests.
More
Advertisement
|
Educational Seminars, fully funded by the U.S. Department of State, are short-term international exchanges for U.S. teachers and administrators that focus on sharing best practices and professional development.
Look for program applications for teachers and administrators in late summer/fall 2011. Email edseminars
@americancouncils.org
to be added to our notification list. more
|
Will Arne Duncan's education reforms get left behind?
The Huffington Post
Share
On a recent afternoon in the auditorium of Eastern Technical High School, where 1,000 people had come to hear him speak, Arne Duncan was stumped. "What will the plan be in three years when the Race to the Top funding runs out?" Deontae Gresham, a high school senior, asked the usually well-prepared United States Secretary of Education. After a brief pause, Duncan responded, "That's a good question."
More
In Arizona, complaints that an accent can hinder a teacher's career
The New York Times
Share
When Guadalupe V. Aguayo puts her hand to her heart, faces the American flag in the corner of her classroom and leads her second-graders in the Pledge of Allegiance, she says some of the words — like allegiance, republic and indivisible — with a noticeable accent. When she tells her mostly Latino students to finish their breakfasts, quiet down, pull out their
homework or capitalize the first letter in a sentence, the same accent can be heard.
More
Missouri lawmakers vote to
repeal teacher-Facebook law
The Associated Press via Houston Chronicle
Share
Missouri lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to repeal part of a contentious new law that had prohibited teachers from chatting privately with students over Internet sites such as Facebook. If the repeal is signed by Gov. Jay Nixon, school districts instead would have to develop their own policies on the use of electronic media between employees and students.
More
Advertisement
Tune in Sept. 27 for 'The Balancing Act'
NAESP
Share
If you missed NAESP President Rob Monson's first appearance on Lifetime Network's morning show "The Balancing Act," be sure to tune in on Sept. 27 at 7 a.m. EDT for his discussion on online learning resources.
More
|
As one of America's largest schools of education, NSU's Fischler School of Education and Human Services provides customized education and will inspire you to cause an effect.
The Fischler School offers education degrees at the master's, doctoral and educational specialist levels.
Classes are available online, on-site or on-campus.
Classes are available online, on-site or
on-campus.
Click here to learn more.
|
Join the MOVEment — tools from Let's Move in School
NAESP
Share
Shake things up in your school this fall with resources from Let's Move in School. Check out videos, monthly webinars, evaluation tools for principals and
online toolkits to help boost physical activity in your school community.
More |
|
|
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
It’s never too early to learn healthy behaviors. Visit www.hlconline.org for skills-based, comprehensive PK-8 Program.
|
Advertisement
• Document walkthroughs
• Immediate feedback
• Customizable
• Analyze data
• Improve your school
• No annual fees!
MORE...
|
Write the Name of the Car Rider and display from the passenger Car Visor when picking up your child at school dismissal.
Signs & Tags, LLC
|
Advertisement
Completely re-engineered from the inside out! Now a double-sided “Goof-Proof” Dry Erase Surface! www.dryerase.com |
Improve school climate with free, evaluated tools for professional development, family engagement and lesson plans:
welcomingschools.org
|
|
Mobile version
