Classroom Toolkit Newsletter

Say it isn't So! 50,000 Texas Students Caught Cheating on the State High-Stakes Test?

The No Child Left Behind Act is not the only culprit in creating undue stress and providing warped and convoluted motivation for students and teachers.

Poverty Consciousness: Why School Districts do the Opposite of what they Should during Economic Slowdowns

How many times have we heard the phrase, "budget concerns," muttered in the same breath as "education," "school district" or "teaching?"

Plan into Action: Vision into Reality

Getting things done. That is the single most important key to success. Everyone agrees on this, but few people know how to "get it done."

Summertime Relaxation: Recharge your Energy (and your Databanks)

Relaxation and Stress-Release

Summer is the time to recharge your energy. You can recharge even if you teach summer school, enroll in graduate courses, or work at other full (or part time) jobs to make ends meet.

Classroom 2.0: A Safe, Social Network for Educators

I have been exploring a safe, social network for educators. This is Classroom 2.0.

Learning Sites™ A Resource (Even if you don't Teach Archeology)

Learning Sites.Com offers some unique resources for teachers, even those teachers who don't teach archeology.

The Science of Getting Rich

Author: Wattles, Wallace D.

ISBN: N/A for this edition
Format: Online, Free eBook
Pub. Date: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Publisher: : The Science of Getting Rich Network
Pages: 64
Cost: $0.00 for the eBook
Available: Amazon at as low as $6.95 (new) - $0.84 at eBay™, but don't buy this book at all. Just download an electronic copy

Technology Integration and Open Source Marketing

We have produced a "switchboard page" (like a Table of Contents) to consolidate the materials that we wrote for the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) "Birds of a Feather" Wiki.

Teachers to IT Departments: You have Professional Development Homework

One of the reasons that the Technology Integration movement failed to provide a Return on Investment(ROI) commensurate with the huge amounts of money that was spent is that adequate professional development of the right kind was seldom funded or delivered.