Classroom Toolkit Newsletter

Media: "One in Ten US High Schools is a 'Dropout Factory'": It Must be a Slow News Day

Surprise! One in ten US high schools fails to graduate a huge chunk of its students. Even more amazing, most of these students are culled (pun intended) from minority populations.

Putting Students Ahead of the High-Stakes Test: Intra Classroom Public Relations Ploy?

Your students perform to their potential when they (think, feel, believe, know) that you care about them as (individuals, people, an important part of your life).

Planning Backwards: The Quickest Way to "Full Steam Ahead"

Planning is paradoxical.

So, is classroom planning.

Google™: A Wealth of Instructional Resources

You use Google™ to search for Websites, but, Google™ offers an assortment of other no-cost options.

Roboform: A "You Can't do Without it" Login and Account Password System

Teachers do you…?

• Work online from home and school


• Access E-mail for a variety of accounts


• Maintain logins for online grade reporting, membership sites, Blogs, Forums


• Need to keep your logins secure at school, i.e., password protect them in case you walk away from your computer


• Need to Fill out online forms with the same information, over and over again

Thanksgiving Cornucopia: Real (Primary) Source Resources

Thanksgiving (like Christmas, Easter and Columbus Day) have undergone revision, transition and change as they transformed from fact to myth.

Home Schooling

Author: Clement, Andrea D.

ISBN: 1-57886-128-4
Format: Softcover
Pub. Date: 2004
Publisher: Scarecrow Education
Pages: 87
Cost: $$17.95
Available: Amazon™ at $17.95 + $2.00 sourcing fee, but as low as $1.01 (new) through other vendors - not found on eBay™

Subtitle: A Research-Based How-To Manual

Are you Automating Everything you Can?

Do you know any teacher that was hired to do less this school year than last school year? Do you know any school where there is a directive for teachers to slow down, back off the stress level, and only do what is reasonable?

Rote Memory: Drill and Practice Road Kill

A bird's eye view over an educational timeline, no matter what parameter we examine, would appear to be like the swing of a pendulum.

Open Source Solutions: Real Technology Integration, But Can you Use it in your Classroom?

Open Source for teachers is a lot more than downloadable, installable-on-the-desktop programs.