Nashville Schools Board of Education Reviews Adequate Yearly Progress Results
Every year, every school district in Tennessee must examine its performance from the pervious school year. This summer Nashville Schools had to do this as well. The Nashville Schools’ Board of Education, which included both the outgoing members from 2005-2006 and the incoming members from 2006-2007, reviewed the results from the Tennessee Adequate Yearly Progress. Read full article »
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Teachers have a great responsibility. They are not only teaching young minds, but they are shaping the future. Who knows if just one student in their class might become the next senator or a George Gershwin who was the king of jazz, men who made life a little better for all of us? Read full article »
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Indianapolis Schools Center for Inquiry Teacher Gets Governor’s Award for Tomorrow’s Leaders
An Indianapolis Schools Center for Inquiry teacher, Maysee Herr, was among twelve young leaders from throughout Indiana to be awarded the Governor’s Award for Tomorrow’s Leaders. Read full article »
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Schulze Elementary, representing the Detroit Schools, has won several awards, in this year’s Academic Games Leagues of America Competition. The elementary school had several teams competing in the Academic Games Leagues of America Competition. Both team and individual awards were given for performance. Read full article »
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At my school, students are God’s gifts to me. They are already wrapped, some beautifully and others less attractively. Some have been mishandled in the mail; others come ‘Special Delivery.’ Some are loosely wrapped, and others are tightly enclosed.
But the wrapping is not the gift, and this is important. It is so easy to make a mistake in this regard, to judge the contents of the gift by the wrapping paper.
Sometimes the gift (the student) is opened very easily; sometimes the help of others is needed. Read full article »
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If you’re an eternal optimist like I am, then you too probably believe that students are gifts to us, and we are gifts to them. But if this is true, then why are so many gifts being returned and exchanged for less valuable ones? Allow me to explain.
In my state (of Florida) alone, it’s been projected that we will need to hire more than 168,000 teachers over the next 10 years. Why? Because more than 48% of the new teachers hired will quit the profession (i.e., return their gifts for a refund) within the first three years. Read full article »
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Have you considered hiring a personal coach? Jack Canfield, in The Success Principles says hiring a “personal coach is one of the best-kept secrets of the successful.”
1. A coach can help you clarify your vision and goals. If you have a sense that what you are doing isn’t the thing you really want for your life but you don’t have a clear vision of what you do want, then a coach can help you get clear.. Read full article »
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Six Pittsburgh Schools’ Teachers Honored for Excellence.
Each year teachers across the state of Pennsylvania have the chance to win educational grants. Only teachers of excellence are considered then the best are chosen to receive the grants. The two thousand five hundred dollar grants are awarded by the Teacher Excellence Center. Read full article »
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