Classroom Toolkit Newsletter

"Out of Sight, Out of Mind" and NCLB

Subtitle: "How soon we forget"

The election is three weeks in the past and we have moved a sufficient cognitive distance away from caring. This enables us to forget about the election returns and move on to issues that are more important.

Creative Thinking: An Undervalued Teacher Resource?

Creative thinking is a top ability that teachers and their employers often overlook.

Teachers overlook their need to create and express novel ideas because they are busy, stressed and overworked.

Teacher Leadership: Business Models or Modern Alchemy?

Modern educational "theory" (which we advise that you sip in small doses) [See our article, Plan Simply -- Build a Simple Plan: Loose the Ideology] seems to stem more from psychology or business theory than from educational knowledge.

Gesture-Based Listening: Reality of Mixed Metaphor?

Active listening proponents usually focus upon asking open-ended questions that demonstrate to the speaker that we are seeing their point of view and comprehending what they are saying.

E-mail Management: An Overlooked Time Saver?

You can save time by managing your E-mail.

Tons of Free Professional (Trade) Publications: Print or E-mail -- Your Choice

Many teachers can use free technical publications, even if they receive only one copy.

Sometimes a printed copy is better, other times an electronic copy is more useful. What if you could receive free copies in one format, or the other, or both?

The Excellent 11

Author: Clark, Ron

ISBN: 1-4013-01410-X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004
Publisher: NY: Hyperion
Pages: 266
Cost: $19.95 (List)
Available: Amazon at as low as $6.99 (new) - $3.87 (new) at eBay(TM)

Subtitle: Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire and Educate Children

Site Strategy and Progress

Work on our second ISO downloadable CD, Teacher Time Savers, was completed

Project Gutenberg and eReader™: Free Electronic Books

Project Gutenberg and eReader™ are not exactly Open Source, but both offer access to free eBooks.

"Content is King" on the Internet, but content for teachers is often expensive...oftern obscenely so.