Classroom Toolkit Newsletter

Why H 1 B Visas Matter for US Education

The Tuesday, 4-3-2007 Marketplace® broadcast noted that the applications for H 1 B Visas (not credit cards) had run out in two days. Last year, it took two months before the applications were gone. The H 1 B Visa is a permit that allows foreign (high tech) workers to accept employment in the US.

What does it Take to Replicate a Pilot or Model Program?

The idea is great. Build a program that works, then clone the program. Let someone else shoulder the burden of thrashing out, fleshing out, tweaking a program…then grab their working model and "run with it."

Don't' Send Kids to the Office: Save Minimal Administrative Support for When you Need it

Teachers fare far better by keeping discipline "in house."

It often proves counter-productive to send students "to the office."

The Most Precious Time of the Year (For Learning)

Now is the most precious time of the year for student learning.

InspireData™: A Must-have Tool for Integrating Math into Every Subject

Most database software is difficult for teachers to get their hearts and minds around. Ordinary database software is arcane, unfathomable, elusive, scary.

Teacher Tube: A Great Resource, If you Contribute

Online video is popular, and some videos become popular. Video sites such as YouTube™ are the current rage.

Getting Everything you Can out of All You've Got

Author: Abraham, Jay

ISBN: 0-312-20465-5
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000
Publisher: NY: Truman Talley Books/ St. Martin's Press
Pages: 376
Cost: $24.95 (List)
Available: Amazon at as low as $10.85 (new paperback) - $2.99 new, hardcover at eBay(TM)

Subtitle: 21 Ways you can Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition

Presentation/ Training Follow-Up Switchboard

We delivered two presentations at a regional Tech Fiesta Conference (April 24 and 45, 2007).

We used this double project to model the practices that we recommend, as well as to provide crucial content to teacher, trainers and instructional planners

Teachers to IT Departments: "You have Homework"

Every teacher, unless maybe a teacher who has been driven under a rock (or into deep depression) by the stress of high-stakes testing; knows that the integration of technology is important.