Keep children reading over the summer to prevent a loss of skills known as the "summer slide."  Encourage them to select their own books to see that reading is a pleasurable activity and to motivate them to become lifelong learners and readers.

The ALA, American Library Association has released suggested summer reading lists to help you get started.…

What is HAT-680 Exam?

The exam HAT-680 is the exam code for the popularly demanded Hitachi certification Data Systems Storage in the Storage Administration. This certification is directly associated with the skills of configuration and management of the data administration of the Hitachi technologies. Basically this certification is for the Hitachi data storage technology users and tests the…

The traditional belief of phonics experts is that you can teach virtually every child to read in the first or second grade. See video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JV0tPGn-Ws ;

If you don’t use the right methods, the kids will be dysfunctional in various ways (but it doesn’t mean there’s anything actually wrong with those kids). 

The underlying problem, according to many investigators,…

4 Steps to Becoming a Maker Teacher 

appeared on Getting Smart on May 19, 2014 and is written by Gayle Allen and Lisa Yokana

Read more at http://gettingsmart.com/2014/05/4-steps-becoming-maker-teacher/

The Maker Movement has become a global phenomenon. In 2013, nearly 100 …

50 End-of-School-Year, Self-Probing Questions for Educators

As posted on Getting Smart on May 21, 2014 BY John Hardison 

Visit …

25 Interesting STEM Experts Worth Following On Twitter

By Katie Lepi on May 26, 2014 on http://www.edudemic.com/stem-experts-twitter/

Whether you’re a science teacher or not, education and the …

http://wtkr.com/2014/05/21/video-seal-commander-delivers-10-life-lessons-in-ut-commencement-speech/

SEAL commander delivers 10 life lessons in UT commencement 

I don’t know if anyone saw this, worth watching.  

Inspiring…..

Improvement vs. Innovation appeared on Getting Smart

Read more at http://gettingsmart.com/2014/05/improvement-vs-innovation/

By: Tom Vander Ark is founder and CEO of Getting Smart. He is also a partner in Learn Capital and a director of iNACOL, Digital Learning Institute, Imagination Foundation, Charter Board Partners, Strive for College, and…

An editor I know is looking for an educator to comment on "number partners" or "graphing/ungraphing."  If you have expertise with either of those, and would like to be quoted in a national parenting magazine, please email bookgirlblogger(at)gmail(dot)com.



Happy reading and quoting,

Christine…

Lawyers Run the Legal Profession. Doctors Run the Medical Profession. Why Don’t Teachers Run Education?

May 2014 Volume XI Issue IV

The namesake for the school where I was a principal for sixteen years was the poet and…

Students need choice: ZIP codes shouldn’t predetermine students’ success

According to the media, the real story is that Rush is an idiot, no child would want to read anything by him, and the only reason he won the award is because Rush bought all the books himself.

 Some of the outrage is palpable. The mainstream media pay so little attention to anything except itself, a lot of these people didn't…