Classroom Toolkit Newsletter

Congress wants to Ban Junk Food in Schools

The obesity rate of students jumped four percent, from 14% to 18%, in four years, according to the Centers for Disease Control. (No need to document this, we all see for ourselves that this is true. But, here is the supporting link.)

http://tinyurl.com/hazdz

NCLB and High-stakes Tests: "We Spit on You"

(Please excuse the gross language)

News Item:

Spit Test Spots Child's Stress -- Could children's
saliva hold clues to their anxieties about relationships
with parents or teachers?

Fri Apr 28, 11:53 PM ET

FRIDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News)

The Stripes, Spots, and Yellow Streaks of School District Stakeholders

Project managers like to tout their skill in building buy-in among the stakeholders of a project.

Stakeholders are those people who have a stake in the project's success. These people could be anyone who touches (or is impacted by) the project in any way.

Teacher Wide and SchoolWide

Teacher Wide.Com

TeacherWide is a sales site for books for elementary students, to grade 6.

1:1 Computing Guide

Hewlett Packard (HP) offers a free eBook entitled, "1:1 Computing: Consider all the angles to get the best results"

Source: http://www,hp.com/go/guide

Food Tales

http://www.soupsong.com/ifoodta.html

The Little Book of Coaching: Motivating People to be Winners

Author: Blanchard, Ken and Shula, Don

ISBN: 0-06-662103-8

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 1996

Publisher: NY: Harper Business

Pages: 117

Cost: $17.95 (List)

Available: Amazon at as low as $11.67 (new) Used from $3.25 eBay(TM) no current bargains, but check first