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The Harrold, Texas school district calls for teachers to carry guns to prevent a future Columbine school incident. Harry Smith talks to the superintendent and a teacher's federation representative

Tags: Texas, school, district, teachers, guns on 2008-08-24 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Just two decades ago, many schools had only a few computers and taught lessons about typing. But Monday marked a drastic change for Arizona schools as one of the first K-5 technology academies opened its doors to students.

Scales Technology Academy in Tempe boasts a 1-1 ratio of students to laptop computers. The school''s principal, David Diokno, said it is the first Arizona elementary school to do so. The Arizona Department of Education does not track such information.

Tags: curriculum, educators, technology, Arizona, elementary, school on 2008-08-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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School districts create acceptable-use policies (AUPs) to define what is--and is not--acceptable behavior when using their computer resources. But at a time when computers and internet access are seen as increasingly important tools for instruction, many school leaders are struggling with how best to enforce these policies in the event that students transgress them.

Tags: aup, acceptable-use, policy, enforcement, school, leaders on 2008-08-07 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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An attorney for a high school student who brought a free speech lawsuit against her school district last year said he now plans to file a libel lawsuit against the principal.

Tags: libel, high, school, student, highschool, high_school, lawsuit, blogger, free_speech, freespeech on 2008-07-30 -All Annotations (0) -About

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First Things First, a framework for school reform, has one goal: to help students at all academic levels gain the skills to succeed in post-secondary education and good jobs. In the process, FTF helps districts and schools meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind.

FTF districts and schools commit to:

• Strengthening relationships among students and adults.
• Improving engagement, alignment and rigor of teaching and learning in every classroom, every day.
• Allocating all resources - budget, staff, time and space - to achieve the first two goals.

Our partners achieve these changes using three strategies:

• Small learning communities.
• The Family Advocate System.
• Instructional improvement.

Tags: First_Things_First, framework, school, reform, NCLB, success, resources on 2008-07-29 -All Annotations (0) -About

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When - Thursday, August 21, 2008 2pm, ET

Description - School administrators across the country are working hard to offer healthy and attractive choices in their competitive food and beverage offerings. Still, concerns persist about inconsistent information, community support, student acceptance and revenue implications.

Tags: school, administrators, healthy, choices, sensible, snacking, nutrition, program on 2008-07-29 -All Annotations (0) -About

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We need leaders who see themselves as learners.

How can we help school leaders to reconnect with their inner leader?

How can we take risks within the parameters of the school environment?

Tags: school, leaders, leadership, learning, learners on 2008-07-25 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: school, leaders, leadership, wikispaces on 2008-07-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Teachers and students in Lamar County can''t be Internet friends this year after the School Board revamped rules prohibiting them from being friends through online social networks. The Lamar County School Board approved the staff policy against online communication and text messaging between teachers and students at its July 7 meeting.

Tags: school, district, restricts, online, social, networking, teachers, students, Facebook, MySpace on 2008-07-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: assessment, technology, edtech, planning, school, survey, tools, techplanning, tech_planning on 2008-07-19 and saved by19 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Develop a basic knowledge of shared leadership and gain insight into how it can help your school become a learning community. This four-week course introduces
- definitions of shared leadership, school culture, and professional learning community and describes what these look like when they're present in a school
- tools participants use to measure individual and school characteristics related to shared leadership
- research on shared leadership and leadership practices identified as having a statistically significant relationship to student achievement
- six functions of a school leader who effectively shares leadership: inspire, model, organize, monitor, support, reflect

Tags: shared, leadership, shared_leadership, research, school, culture, school_culture, professional, learning, community, PLC, professional_learning_community on 2008-07-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Thanks to an amazing list of “The Best Web 2.0 Applications for Education-2007” from Larry Ferlazzo’s Website, I decided to create my own list of the applications that have been the most useful or promising in the Elementary School scene.
Maybe I even make a meme out of it to encourage other elementary school techies to create their own lists and publish them on their blog. The list does not have to be in any particular order. Great if you write a short sentence about what the tool does.

Tags: langwitches, web2.0, web_2.0, education, tools, school, elementary, Ferlazzo on 2008-07-17 and saved by9 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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With the start of the new school year, many teachers and students are seeking new products and technologies to help them through their upcoming academics. With the increase of teachers using blogs and wikis, and students networking and utilizing online tools, the demand for easier and more efficient ways of learning is on the rise. To me, the growing interest for web-based learning is amazing, which brought me to thinking; what if I were to consolodate some of the helpful online products and services that can help students, teachers and administrators alike? Well, I convinced myself. The following is a compilation of Web 2.0 products that I’ve personally researched and tested. These services are grouped into two main categories: “Tools”; and “Office ApplicationsR21;. Some more specific services include: organizers, gradebooks, research tools, document managers, diagrams, and more

Tags: web2.0, education, tools, school, web, technology, blog, wiki, online, web-based_learning on 2008-07-17 and saved by231 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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This wiki was created for school library media specialists by Dr. Donna Baumbach and Dr. Judy Lee, University of Central Florida. The purpose is to provide information about some of the new web-based tools (Web 2.0) and how they can be used and are being used by school library media specialists and their students and teachers. Much of the information--including identifying a need for this kind of information--is the result of a survey conducted in 2008 of over 600 school library media specialists about their knowledge and use of web-based tools in library media programs.

Tags: teacherlibrarians, teachers, librarians, Web2.0, Web_2.0, school, education, information on 2008-07-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: citation, research, reference, tools, writing, bibliography, school on 2008-05-16 and saved by242 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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"73 percent of the teens surveyed said their electronic communications have no impact on on their formal (school) writing, and 63 percent said that "using computers to write makes no difference in the quality of the writing they produce" outside of school assignments. A full 93 percent of students do engage in some form of writing outside school, whether electronic or otherwise."

Tags: writing, disconnect, English, teens, school, electronic, IM, chat, text on 2008-04-30 and saved by15 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: blog, leadership, education, technology, leadertalk, teaching, web2.0, school on 2008-04-27 and saved by34 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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