Teacher: You missed school yesterday, didn't you?
Max: Not very much!

Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
For a book from one of the major education associations -- the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) -- this is a relatively compact book of under 200 pages that offers nine categories of instructional strategies, along with the research and statistics to back up their efficacy. Among the nine are Summarizing and Note Taking; Homework and Practice; Nonlinguistic Representation; and Cooperative Learning. The emphasis in the book is on elementary instruction.
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Today's Column
Bernie Poole: Kindness Counts
"Life is constantly thrusting at us random realities that we can either accept or deny. One day, about two months ago -- every day seems like an age here in India where my experiences are so frequently fresh and new, like those of a new born baby -- there was a knock at my guest house door."

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Lesson Planning Theme of the Week
Geography
Geography lessons can make a "world" of difference in students' knowledge of the world -- and in their test scores. That's because geography is multidisciplinary by nature. These lessons teach geography -- and math, language, and cultural literacy. Included: Dozens of ideas for teaching about the world of geography. Plus playground maps, activities for teaching geography's five themes, more.

Popping Good
Gather a large glass jar and an even larger plastic tub of popcorn kernels. Use colored tape or paint to create a fill line on the jar. When all students in the class demonstrate good behavior for the day, have a student measure out a cup of popcorn kernels and pour them into the jar. When the kernels reach the fill line, students earn a popcorn-and-video party or another reward. If you teach students who are learning about fractions or measurement, and if you don't want to penalize the entire class for minor infractions by a student or two, you might use a system in which students earn ½ cup of kernels if one student had a minor behavior infraction that day and ¼ cup if two students earned infractions. That way, students learn about measurement as they achieve behavior goals.

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