Written by George Couros

Retrieved July 27, 2013

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http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/4010

Want to be Successful? Be a Sponge.

by George Couros 

I have worked with some brilliant leaders and…

By Brad Szollose

Retrieved July 27, 2013

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http://www.liquidleadership.com

The Surprising Truth…

By Brad Currie

Retrieved July 27, 2013

Read this and more of Brad's posts at:

http://www.bradcurrie.net/2/post/2013/07/ten-reasons-why-i-should-hire-you.html…

By Matt Gomez

Retrieved July 27, 2013

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http://mattbgomez.com/dear-parents-the-message-i-send-home-prior-to-the-first-day/

Dear Parents… The Message I Send Home Prior To the First Day

I sent the following information to the parents in my…

http://www.teacherstechworkshop.com/2013/07/common-barriers-to-crticak-thinking.html

I just finished Write This Book, by Pseudonymous Bosch, author of the Secret Series.  While this was a fun book to read and write with my own kids, I don't know if it would be as much fun it you hadn't already read the Secret Series.   As I was reading it though, I kept thinking it would also make a great classroom tool.  So great in fact, that I am going to use…

http://www.teacherstechworkshop.com/2013/07/crtical-thinkers-vs-uncritical-thinkers.html

Yesterday, I posted this about a publisher launching an imprint aimed at boys ages 9-14.  I also shared this info on an  educational website, School Leadership 2.0, where I received an interesting comment and follow-up email.  Both of which got me thinking about the kinds of books I recommend to reluctant readers who are boys, or to my girlfriends for their sons to read.

Starting with the most…

http://www.teacherstechworkshop.com/2013/07/infographic9-types-of-collaborators.html

The new site -- Bouncingball.weebly.com -- has five videos to show the concept in action.  There is Mother Goose, Edgar Allan Poe, Dr. Seuss, and the Wizard of Oz. A total of about 25 minutes. Easy to check out and to reflect on the possibilities.

The bouncing ball forces children to read in the proper direction, and to take notice of syllables. (This…

Stress Test by Arnold Dodge 

Retrieved on 7/22/13 from Huffington Post

Click HERE to view article on Huffington Post site. 

As the school year came to a close in my county, a front page story in our regional newspaper blasted a local school district for routinely boosting the scores of secondary students on state tests by one or two points to make the passing…

http://www.teacherstechworkshop.com/2013/07/enigma-aweome-brain-teazer.html

July 21, 2013

September 1, Enslow Publishing will launch a new imprint aimed at boys ages 9-14.  Read all about it here.

Happy reading,

Christine

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         In this paper, Lori Nathanson, Meghan McCormick, and James Kemple of the NYU Research Alliance for New York City Schools analyze the district’s annual school climate survey. Given every spring since 2007 to all teachers, parents, and grade 6-12 students, the survey invites respondents to evaluate their school’s academic expectations, communication, engagement, and safety/respect. Data from the questionnaires make up 10-15 percent of each school’s A, B, C, D, F Progress Report grade…

      In this intriguing Elementary School Journal article, Haytske Zijlstra and Helma Koomen (University of Amsterdam) and Theo Wubbels and Mieke Brekelmans (Utrecht University) report on their study of teachers’ interpersonal behavior and their students’ mathematics achievement. Rather than relying on classroom observations, which they say are “time consuming and therefore remain generally limited to a relatively small sample of interactions,” the researchers asked the children…

           In this Middle School Journal article, Rebecca Shore, Jenna Ray, and Paula Goolkasian (University of North Carolina/Charlotte) report the results of an experiment on science vocabulary learning with three 7^th-grade teachers in a large urban school. The researchers worked with teachers to systematically compare three memory strategies for learning these words: pathogen, vaccine, antibody, immunity, antibiotic, immune system, and antigen:

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July 20th is Moon Day in honor of the Apollo 11 mission that landed man on the moon.  Nearly everyone has some connection to that story.  Perhaps you have a relative  who worked on the lunar landing module, or perhaps you or a relative know exactly where you were at the time of the landing. 

A few summers ago, my kids and I were visiting a friend's summer rental on Fire Island, and a neighbor told us that when he was a kid he watched the landing in the very house my friend was…