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  • Interesting sites for academics
    Posted February 6, 2009 by Rachel Wadham

    Here are two new interesting sites for academics:

    Academia.edu is a “tree of academics around the world” that helps
    academics keep track of new people and papers in their field: http://
    www.academia.edu/

    Citeulike is is a free service to help you to store, organise and
    share the scholarly papers you are reading. When you see a [...]

  • Clearninghouse Guide To Reducing Behavior Problems
    Posted January 7, 2009 by Rachel Wadham

    The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) invites you to look at our newest practice guide, Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom.
    This guide provides five concrete recommendations for promoting positive student behavior in elementary schools.
    Designed for elementary school educators and school- and district-level administrators, the guide offers prevention, implementation, and schoolwide strategies [...]

  • United Nations Cyberschoolbus
    Posted December 12, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    United Nations Cyberschoolbus

    www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/index.shtml

    The Cyberschoolbus will teach kids about why the United Nations was formed and how it is organized. To find out about individual countries in the UN, click on the “Country at a Glance” section, then compare country data by experimenting with the “Infonation” database—a great source for statistics and homework assignments. “Infonation” is also a wonderful library [...]

  • Research Points: Essential Information on Education Research
    Posted October 20, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    The American Educational Research Association’s quarterly series Research Points offers essential information on timely education topics.  PDF files of volumes from Spring 2003- Winter 2007 can be accessed at the following website:
    AERA Research Points

  • Ready Set Leap: A Preschool Curriculum
    Posted October 7, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    The latest intervention report from the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) looks at Ready, Set, Leap!®, a preschool curriculum that uses multisensory technology incorporating touch, sight, and sound to teach early reading skills. This previously released report has now been updated to include reviews of two studies that have been released since 2005.Ready, Set, Leap!® can [...]

  • National Mathematics Advisory Panel Releases Final Report
    Posted March 31, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    On March 13, 2008, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel presented its Final Report to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Education. Copies of these ground-breaking reports, rich with information for parents, teachers, policy makers, the research community, and others, are availalbe at this link.

  • Themed Lesson Plan Collections
    Posted February 19, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    Looking for some great lesson plan ideas?  Try the themed lesson plan collections at Thinkfinity.  Warm up activities for different grade levels start out the suggestions are followed by featured lesson plans.   Also included are links to partner-reviewed websites that include resources that are designed to increase comprehension about the topic.  A great web-resource for all grade levels [...]

  • Teacher Rules, Roles and Rights
    Posted January 22, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    http://www.nctq.org/cb/

    The National Council on Teacher Quality has developed a database called Teacher Rules, Roles and Rights that provides a glimpse into the collective bargaining agreements, board policies, and teacher handbooks for the 50 largest school systems in the United States. It allows users to sort data from teacher contracts in hundreds of ways. NCTQ’s goal [...]

  • The Internet TESL Journal’s Things for ESL Teachers and Activities for ESL Students Website
    Posted January 15, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    The Internet TESL Journal publishes a wide range of things from articles to activities. This website is has lots of things for teachers including lots of great games and activities that can be used in regular as well as ESL classrooms. The interactive grammar quizzes, the crossword puzzles, and other games are graded from easy [...]

  • IES Newsflash
    Posted November 5, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    “Nearly 50 million students are enrolled in approximately 97,000 public elementary and secondary schools, and before the school year is out, an estimated $489 billion will be spent related to their education. These are just a few of the statistics contained in Back to School Stats, compiled by the Institute of Education Sciences’ research and [...]