There are a plethora of reasons for why volunteering is valuable to each person’s life. I’m going to talk to you know about why you should volunteer, what you can do, and how to get started. Plus with the beginning of the holiday season, as well as the blustery winter season – now is definitely […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are six easy steps you can take to becoming more ‘green’, or earth friendly. These steps are so simple, that there really isn’t any excuse for not doing them. Besides, it’s cool to be green. And if that doesn’t motivate you – how about knowing you are helping to save the planet for future […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is another article about, what I am calling, ‘recession schools’. The term recession schools is to show the affects of what this current economic recession is doing to our public education system. As I include this new article from the New York Times; I am also discovering new information about how schools in Portland, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week and next high school students are preparing for their end of the year finals. One of the tools that I have students, of all ages, use to prepare themselves is a spreadsheet formatted study guide. When I first introduced this study tool for students it was meant to be used in Language Art […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the economy stays longer in this new recession, everyone and every company is feeling the pinch. Recently I’ve written articles about ‘recession schools’; schools and districts that are going through serious struggles, just to make it to the end of the school year. I honestly don’t want to think about what each state and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recently, I was tutoring a student who failed to bring any of his materials to our session. Luckily, we were at the library and I knew that we wouldn’t be spending the next hour staring at the ceiling. Instead, we used the Internet, the resource books, and free homework supplies from the library and created […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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