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Feb23

Creating Accommodations for Special Needs Students

by Meghan on February 23rd, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Education

As a Special Education teacher, I struggle every day with how to best accommodate students with learning disabilities in the regular education setting. With more and more districts pushing for full inclusion, teachers everywhere are being faced with students with reading and/or math skills that are often several grade levels behind their regular education peers. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Feb22

What I’m Reading – February 22nd

by admin on February 22nd, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Posted In: Education

Obama Administration’s Educational Reform http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_06/b4214027714785.htm?chan=magazine+channel_news+-+politics+%2B+policy Ahh educational reform. A friend and I were talking about how education just continues to get worse; and teachers are probably the most unappreciated workers out there. Yet, education is still a hot button issue for politicians. President Obama is calling for more money to be given to public schools; […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Feb17

What I’m Reading – February 17th

by admin on February 17th, 2011 at 11:16 am
Posted In: Business, Education

Newsweek’s Creativity in America http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html Yes, I know that this article is from July — but, in all fairness, I just found it at my local Stumptown coffee shop on Saturday. My favorite part of the article was when the topic of education was brought up: “When faculty of a major Chinese university asked Plucker […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Feb09

The Productivity of Your Classroom: How Business Has Infiltrated the Classroom

by Rosshalde on February 9th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Posted In: Business, Education

I believe that the debate over quality education and learning is a bunch of smaller debates that really consist of people going round and round in circles. In October, I wrote about the need for educational reform. One of the points that I touched on was the lack of teacher involvement in that discussion. In […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Feb07

What I’m Reading – February 7th

by Rosshalde on February 7th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Posted In: Business, Education

Two week ago, I wrote about the lunch programs at public schools. Since then I found three additional resources that I felt needed to be shared. Cooking with Kids http://www.maketimeforchange.com/index.html Although this may not deal specifically with school lunches, it does deal with the food that children eat. By getting families and their children more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Feb05

Reaching Out to Educational Writers

by Rosshalde on February 5th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Posted In: Education

This is another article from the new blog I am contributing to, Tchr2Tchr. Reaching out, it’s what a teacher does every day. It doesn’t matter what you teach or who your students are, educators are always looking for ways to make that connection. Which is probably why there are over 300,000 users on Teachers Pay […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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