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Father: I heard you skipped school to play football.
Daryl: No, I didn't. I have the fish to prove it!



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."



Now Showing!
This Week's "Teacher Feature"...

Starring Geeti Ghose and Joanne Lindevald
Celebrations help students with special needs understand different cultures.


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.



Protect Your Worksheet Masters
Have you made the mistake of writing on, or handing out, the master copy of a student work sheet you want to use again next year? Avoid the problem next time by using a yellow highlighter to write the word "MASTER" on your master copy of each work sheet. The word MASTER will remind you not to write on the work sheet or hand it out; and the transparent highlighter will not show up on photocopies.


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"The sleeping fox catches no poultry."    --- Benjamin Franklin