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Subject: Weekly Newsletter: Secret to Better Student Study Skills, Volume 9, Issue 32
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August 10, 2011
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Top 5 Tips for Improving Student Study Skills
Eileen Tracy, an Oxford-educated expert in study skills, offers students a new twist on traditional techniques, just in time for back to school.
Debt Crisis Provides Economic "Teachable Moment"
Planning for those first days of social studies, history or current events class? Why not tackle the interrelated economic issues of national debt, credit ratings and the stock market?
Site Review: The Big 6
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Case Studies Let Students Tackle Healthcare Challenges
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Play Battleship on Graph Paper
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Our Revised 'Little Bo Peep'
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Handling Difficult Situations: The School Assembly
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Site Review: RAND Education
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An Insider’s Look at Students’ Lives
School counselor Barbara J. Kiernan wrote a book to let kids know they are not alone and to give insight to teachers about students’ lives.
Saving Kids From Stress
Facing fierce competition to get into top colleges, many students are compromising their health and values to get ahead. Learn about one school’s efforts to reduce student stress.
Brain-Friendly Teaching
Discover how to put brain-friendly strategies to work in the classroom and how you as an educator can avoid your own “senior moments.”
Principal Unites School Around Student Strengths
When changes hit Khowhemun Elementary School in British Columbia, Principal Charlie Coleman helped give the school focus and unify staff.
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Dr. Fred Jones: Tools for Teaching Tips for Substitutes
Consider two different perspectives when applying Tools for Teaching to the job of substitute teaching. The first is when you are about to have a substitute. The second is when you are about to be a substitute.
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Science Topics: biology, insects, nature, photography (Grades K-12)
The Math Machine: Math Frozen Bubble
Math Skills: matching patterns; addition; odd and even; multiples (Grades K-12)
The Reading Machine: Tina's World - Real or Make Believe?
Reading Skills: real and make believe (Grades K-1)
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iPad App Review: Grammar Up
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Back-to-School Apps Offer Big Bang for Buck
While getting ready to head back to school, these free apps might make the return a little easier on everyone.
Does Digital Overload Harm Students' Vision?
With teachers increasingly incorporating 3D imaging into their daily curricula, the importance of proper eye and vision care is greater than ever.
EdTech Tips of the Week: Volume 39
Need to add a word to your dictionary or find a synonym? Discover great reference resources.
Who's Talking Online?
Are social networking sites appropriate for school use? Should schools ban the use of such sites -- or incorporate them into the curriculum and teach students to use them safely?
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Sandra Harris: BRAVO Principals Care About People
How do principals show teachers and students that they care? Sandra Harris shares ten ways in which principals make teachers and students feel important, respected, recognized, heard and included.
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Site Review: ADTBusiness.com
Once users get past the sales pitch, there are some useful nuggets of info that administrators can use when assessing their school’s security status.
NASA Shares STEM Resources With Teachers
Some future teachers took a class this summer to learn how to use NASA's huge warehouse of educational resources.
Low-Income Kids Need School Finance Reform
A new report examines the problem of intrastate fiscal inequity and shows that many states are not fairly funding lower-income districts.
National Teacher Town Hall Returning to NBC
Following the success of last year’s event, NBC News is bringing back the National Teacher Town Hall to the 2011 Education Nation Summit.
School Funding Formulas: Lessons from Rhode Island
Education reform has become increasingly polarized, yet Rhode Island's legislative success suggests that highly politicized issues can be addressed with well-designed public policy.
Microsoft Names Top Educators
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Safety of Homemade School Lunches Questioned
A study showing as many as 90 percent of the school lunches brought from home might be unsafe because they aren't stored at the right temperature has local food safety advocates suggesting parents place ice packs around cut-open or prepared food -- to at least help maintain safe temperatures.
5 Nifty Back-To-School Tech Purchases
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US Offers Deal on School Reform
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How Are Schools Doing? Ask Students
The cheating scandal in Atlanta's public schools - and suggestions of others in Philadelphia and elsewhere - illustrate the peril of focusing on a single performance measure. School leaders and policymakers should see the need for a broader set of indicators of school quality.
Teachers Flee Michigan for Jobs in Other States
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Check Up: School Lunches Linked to Disease Dangers
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After School Bans 'Slaughterhouse-Five,' Vonnegut Library Gives Copies for Free
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Overriding a Key Education Law
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