Great Blogging Info from a Great Blog

Learning with Impact has posted great advice on teacher blogging, much more technical and in-depth than that posted here. Check it out.

http://learningwithimpact.blogspot.com/2009/04/techno-tuesday-starting-class-blog.html

Sample Classroom Blog Now Posted

http://studenthandoutssampleblog.blogspot.com/

We have posted a sample classroom blog to explain how you can take your classroom into the new millennium using this free and simple tool.

Giggles Post: Packer's Tar Soap

This ad from circa 1921 just cracks me up. Well, most old ads crack me up, to be honest.

School Security Funding

According to an article from CNN, funding for high-tech school security was cut by 1/3 during the Bush administration. Obama's education package, rather than replace the previously slashed security funding, is replacing it with funds to increase student-school involvement and to create an overall more close-knit school community that will deter violence.

What are your thoughts? Will close-knit school communities with increased counselors and violence prevention programs stop another "Columbine" from happening? Or is the threat of school violence so immediate and pressing that schools need officer patrols, metal detectors, and drug-sniffing dogs?

Obama on Education

If you've been following the news lately, you are aware that President Obama is planning massive federal spending on education. Fifty-three billion dollars will go toward state stabilization funds. Ten billion will go toward Title I programs.

What are your thoughts on Obama's education spending plan for 2009? Is it enough? Are the funds being placed into the right programs?


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Healthy Eating

Here is a great online article on what to eat to increase brain functioning:

http://www.teachingtips.com/blog/2008/09/05/eat-your-way-to-intelligence/

For me, looking at the culinary offerings at schools, this article was a bit depressing. Why aren't schools offering greater nutrition in school lunches and breakfasts? As someone who cooks breakfast every morning at home, I know from experience that eggs are less expensive than high-sugar cereals.

Your thoughts?

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Spring Break!

We hope that everyone has enjoyed Spring Break 2009 as much as we have. It nearly reached seventy degrees here. Very nice indeed!

As tempted as we have been to bask in the natural light, we have managed to put a few items up this week. We have also begun reorganizing things into more manageable, easy-to-skim tables/boxes. What are your thoughts?


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News: April, 2009

This month, our focus is on terms in the social studies. Many of our readers have requested handouts that do not require the assistance of textbooks or other reference materials (so that students need not carry these often heavy books home each day). On the World History pages, we are adding numerous history- and geography-themed word puzzles -- crosswords, word searches, and decoding games -- which can be completed by students anywhere without the aid of textbooks.

Here is a sample:

HANDOUT: Early Humans Crossword Puzzle with Word Bank Answer Key

Green Tip: Recycling Cardboard

CARDBOARD: Cardboard can be recycled, but remember to break down the boxes and remove any staples. Sides of a box free of ink can be used for gardening. Separate plant root systems with buried cardboard, knowing that it will degrade and disappear within a couple of years.

Visit the Go Green! section of the website for more information.