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• Santa Visits Cole: Christmas Comes to Inspiring Denver Innovation School

  
  Ed is Watching — Authority: 522
  Today’s Denver Post has an excellent story about a generous Christmas deed performed at a truly inspirational school: Millionaire businessman Tom Gamel stood before a classroom of sixth-graders at Cole Arts & Science Academy on Wednesday, about to blow their minds with a nifty gift, but first, he wanted ...
  8 hours ago

• Reflecting

  
  bakers and astronauts — Authority: 120
  As I write this, the first snowflakes of the season are coming down on Brussels, and I am preparing to leave for Italy in 24 hours.  Many of the children have already left on holiday, leaving my assistant teacher and I with eight students today and tomorrow; everything seems to be going just right. Last night, my ...
  13 hours ago

• Your Past Explained With Regression Therapy

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 143
  Do you feel unwanted? Are you suffering from addiction of any sort? Are you always being bullied or victimized for a reason you doesn’t even know? Do you have anger issues? How about your relationships, are they good? Do you seem to lack something even though you almost have everything? You have probably not even ...
  17 hours ago

• StarTribune: Buying Literature From the Source

  
  Bur Bur & Friends: Community Blog — Authority: 111
  Award winning authors JoAnne Pastel and Kakie Fitzsimmons get mention in a Minneapolis Star Tribune Article. Pastel and Fitzsimmons are co-creators of Bur Bur and Friends, a cast of characters who help kids cultivate their self-esteem by educating them about sports, outdoor exploration and active play. Bur Bur and ...
  1 day ago

• The Decades 10 Big Ideas in Education

  
  On Our Minds @ Scholastic — Authority: 419
  As 2009 draws to a close and lists of the Decades Big Ideas abound, it only seems fitting that education get its 15 minutes of fame. The education brains here at Scholastic have named 10 Big Ideas in Education from the first decade of the 21st Century--10 groundbreaking ideas that changed the landscape of American ...
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• Congressional Christmas List: Stop Child Abuse at School

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 120
  Congress isn’t always the enemy and bipartisan help for people in need isn’t always a cruel joke:Across America, children are restrained, confined in seclusion rooms, and subject to aversive interventions. Roughly half of all states have little or no legal protections against restraint and seclusion in school. In ...
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• BPA-Free Kids Act Would Label Products as “Banned Hazardous Substances”

  
  Eco Child's Play — Authority: 126
  Photo by Steve & Jemma Copley BPA-Free Kids Act would ban the hormone disrupter from kids products. Could the BPA era of chemically altering our children finally be over?  Oh, how we have ranted over the years!  From autism to erectile dysfunction , BPA has been linked to many harmful health effects. ...
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• Kindergarten: Play or Preparation?

  
  bakers and astronauts — Authority: 120
  This poll over at edutopia has me thinking this morning. What are public schools emphasising? Havent we already pushed first grade standards down into Kindergarten? When will public PreK classes start having "literacy block" and "math block" instead of play? What do you think?
  2 days ago

• Front Page St. Paul Pioneer Press: Bur Bur and Friend’s Authors and Their Friends

  
  Bur Bur & Friends: Community Blog — Authority: 111
  Recently, we have collaborated with some of our Minnesota author friends to open a retail store over the holiday season that featured our products. The store was the brain child of our friend, Kelly Lucente, author of “Bye Bye Monster.” We are honored and humbled that Kelly calls us her friends and mentors. The ...
  2 days ago

• Media Release: Leading charities provide a new start for ABC Learning

  
  Mission Australia — Authority: 121
  A new chapter for Australian childcare begins today with the announcement that four highly-respected non-profit organisations have formed a new company to purchase ABC Learning. Subject to finalisation of contracts, 678 ABC Learning centres will be purchased from receivers McGrathNicol by GoodStart, a non-profit ...
  1 week ago

• Duncan: Preschool Will Help Country Get Out of the Catch-Up Business

  
  Curriculum Matters — Authority: 587
  In a speech to early-childhood education researchers meeting at Georgetown University today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan expressed his belief that high-quality preschool programs can create a level playing field for all children at the start of school. "Were trying to get out of the catch-up business," he ...
  1 week ago

• VoiceThread

  
  bakers and astronauts — Authority: 120
  VoiceThread is a tool that I am a big fan of. We have used it to retell two stories so far this year, but I have a little list of ideas for how we will use it in the second half of the year. Childrens stories, documentation, video... Here is the first VoiceThread that I created with the children - a retelling of ...
  1 week ago

• Oh, Canada

  
  NSBA BoardBuzz — Authority: 123
  Nope, not that Canada, this time we’re referring to Geoffrey Canada, the mastermind behind the Harlem Children’s Zone .  Mr. Canada’s ideas have been credited with accomplishing amazing things for urban students in New York’s Harlem neighborhood, but he goes beyond school.  Beginning with “baby college” ...
  1 week ago

• Recycled Construction

  
  bakers and astronauts — Authority: 120
  There was no glue or tape today - just boxes of materials. Everyone participated. And Im beginning to see the incredible value of temporary constructions. Il ny avait pas de la colle ni du scotch aujourdhui - juste des boîtes de choses. Tout le monde a participé. Et maintenant, je comprend la valeur des ...
  1 week ago

• the tactile workshops

  
  bakers and astronauts — Authority: 120
  I am grateful for like-minded people. I was given this little book by our incredible school librarian, and I devoured it in one short tram ride. It is packed with photos of children interacting with planned sensory experiences, with very little text. What is said, though, truly makes you stop. Je suis ...
  1 week ago

• All I Want for Christmas (OK, sort of) is an Edublog Award Nomination

  
  Ed is Watching — Authority: 522
  You’ve all heard that little girl singing about all she wants for Christmas is her two front teeth. Well, forget her. All I want for Christmas (and I really, really mean it … no Legos, no Nintendo games, nothing else would matter) is to be nominated for the 2009 Edublog Awards — Best Individual Blog ...
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• paper, tape, black pen

  
  bakers and astronauts — Authority: 120
  I watched this happen from start to finish - I was initially drawn to it because she was arranging and preparing her materials. It wasnt until the very end that she announced what it was: "An alien!" Her actions had so much intent - as if this was the vision she had in her head when she took the first piece of paper ...
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• Overcoming shooting limitations

  
  PICTURES — Authority: 132
  Today photographing students during the school day often means photographing with limited access to your subjects.  For understandable reasons, more parents prefer not to sign a media release granting permission for their child to be identified in the media. The…
  2 weeks ago

• Santa Visits Kaden At The ELCC!

  
  Blue Ridge, Blairsville Real Estate, Homes For Sale, Georgia Mountains — Authority: 119
  Well the old saying that a picture speaks a thousand words holds true in this case. Santa came to visit Kaden and all of her friends at school yesterday, and I will let you be the judge on how things went. Kaden is participating in a new program that started this year at the Union County High School . Rhonda ...
  2 weeks ago

• Turtlewings Common

  
  bakers and astronauts — Authority: 120
  Im looking forward to another Turtlewings Common Evening tonight. If you are in Brussels, I would love to see you there. Tonight, the topic is "Encountering Reggio". Ill be sharing about my experiences in Reggio Emilia this past October, and bringing a big pile of resources for people to look at and talk about. ...
  2 weeks ago

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