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Jesse C. Carson High School      

290 Kress Venture Drive

China Grove, NC 28023 

Gerrie W. Blackwelder, NBCT

 "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

Henry David Thoreau




Marzano's Questioning Fact Sheet
http://pages.cms.k12.nc.us/gems/erinlyons/marzano.pdf

Marzano's Thinking Skills -Knowing/Organizing/Applying
file:///private/Network/Servers/chs.rss.k12.nc.us/Volumes/
DataHD/NetHomes/Teachers/blackweldergw/Desktop/
Marzano%20Thinking%20Skills%20Fact%
20Sheet.pdf(86KB).webloc

Marzano's High Yield Teaching Strategies


Bill Dagget Website - Very Helpful (Note Gold Stamp Lessons)
http://www.leadered.com/vycu.shtml

Rigor & Relevance Framework

http://www.leadered.com/rigor.shtml

Tiered Curriculum Project

Learning Styles

  1. Find your strengths - determine which intelligences are strongest for you
  2. Learning Styles Inventory Test - a quick questionnaire designed to determine your personal learning style
  3. Learning Styles Test - more detailed questionnaire with explanations and help to address the weakness and strengths, results shown on a continuum
  4. Learning Styles - for younger children; This chart helps you determine your learning style.
  5. Multiple Intelligence - Take this survey online to see your learning style
  6. Multiple Intelligences Inventory - a snapshot in time of an individual's perceived MI preferences
  7. Multiple Intellegent Snowflake - Interactive activity designed to show that everyone has all of the Intellegents in various degrees.


National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Build Rubrics atRubristar

Horace Article on Essential Questions 

http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/view/ces_res/137


Writing Essential Questions

http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/view/ces_res/137


Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

An Overview of Marzano’s High Yield Strategies Modules

Shift Happens homepage http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com

EOC Review Examples

Senior Project News
"Students Seeking Mentors" and Mentors Seeking Students" 
To learn more, visit:  http://www.eenorthcarolina.org/gradproject.html  or  http://my.hrw.com.

College Foundation of North Carolina 

Classroom Settings that Create a Learning Climate

..Bulletin boards can be utilized for best practices
...Classroom walls can be another "teacher" in the room.
..."Word Walls" provide opportunities for students to interact with specific words daily through games and activities.  Once students are using words seamlessly, they can gradually be replaced with new words.
...Robert Marzano "indicates it is important to have writing samples on a bulletin board that represent each of the levels of quality writing."
...A successful math strategy is assigning a section of the board where students create math problems that equal a given answer.

The Arts

The MARK OF EXCELLENCE PROJECT
http://www.choicemusicevents.org/Events/MarkOfExcellence

SHOWCASE YOUR STUDENT ART
Teachers, especially art teachers, are invited to feature their
students' work in the dining room on NCCAT's Cullowhee campus.
Rotating exhibits of media by art classes (kindergarten through twelfth
grade) from all over the state are displayed in the dining room alcove.
Interested teachers should contact Tara Melton-Miller at 828-293-5202 x
1106 or melton-millert@nccat.org

NCCAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHERS
http://www.nccat.org

2009

SAVE THE DATE!  NC THE STATE OF THE ARTS:  A STATEWIDE CONFERENCE
ADDRESSING THE ARTS IN 21ST CENTURY LEARNING.  
March 5-7, 2009, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC


5) FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

GRAMMY FOUNDATION GRANTS PROGRAM ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH AND PRESERVATION PROJECTS
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=217500014
Grants of up to $40,000 will be awarded to organizations and
individuals researching the impact of music on the human condition as
well as those working to archive and preserve the music and recorded
sound heritage of the Americas. Deadline: 10/01/08

GRANTS FOR NONPROFIT MUSIC PROGRAMS
http://www.guitarcentermusicfoundation.org/grants/index.cfm?sec=info 

CVS COMMUNITY GRANTS
http://www.cvs.com/corpInfo/community/community_grants.html

DONORSCHOOSE  - 
http://www.donorschoose.org

ONLINE CHARITIES FILL CLASSROOMS WITH NEEDED SUPPLIES
DonorsChoose.org and two other similar online organizations,
iLoveSchools.com and AdoptaClassroom.org, allow private donors to peruse
educators' proposals for needed equipment and make donations.

For a detailed listing of EXISTING GRANT OPPORTUNITIES (updated each
week), visit: 
http://www.publiceducation.org/newsblast_grants.asp



6) WEBSITES AND OTHER RESOURCES (If any of these links do not work,
copy and paste the address to your web browser.)

ADVOCACY RESOURCE: "WHY MUSIC?" RADIO PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS New
PSAs featuring various celebrities talking about the importance of mus
ic
education are available online now. You can help encourage your local
radio station to play the PSAs during the "Back to School" season!
Contact MichelleM@menc.org for information.

AEP RELEASES NEW 2007-08 ARTS EDUCATION STATE POLICY DATABASE
Located on the AEP Website at www.aep-arts.org, this searchable
database contains the latest information on arts education state
policies and practices.

MAKING THE GRADE: ART EDUCATION
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/parents/resources/makingthegrade

NCVPS SUMMER AND FALL COURSES ON THE WEB
http://www.ncvps.org.

ROUTE 21 - 
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21

INNOVATOR: A REPORT ON NC 21ST CENTURY HIGH SCHOOLS
http://www.newschoolsproject.org/resource.html

ARTS EDUCATION = MORE THAN YOU THINK - 
http://www.artsednc.org

ARTS EDUCATION PODCASTS AND BLOG: 
http://web.mac.com/tommoncrief/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html


NCDPI ARTS EDUCATION WEBSITE
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum

ARTS EDUCATION AT LEARNNC:  
http://community.learnnc.org/dpi/

THE NORTH CAROLINA GRADUATION PROJECT (NCGP) WEBSITE
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/graduationproject.


Science Information

Math Information 

Coolmath.com


www.classscape.com


www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/testing/eog/math/
http://math.com
Geometry Website for textbooks and activities online: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/geometry/geo/geo_04/index.php/nc
and 
http://ipwsupport.com/suspended.page/


English Information

Welcome to Poetry Out Loud, www.ncarts.org/poetryoutloud 



Great Books Program
http://www.greatbooks.org/

The Big 6
http://www.thebig6.com

ERIC Research
http://www.eric.ed.gov


South Caldwell EOC/VOCATS Test Review




North Carolina English Teachers Association at: http://education.uncc.edu/nceta .

Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future is an online writing and
publishing project that invites young people to write about the issues and
concerns they would want the next president to address and, with the support
of their teachers, to publish their writing for a national audience."

http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/nwpsites/
writing_our_future.csp

Gerry Solomon, School Library Media Consultant
Instructional Technology Section
K-12 Curriculum, Instruction and Technology Division
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
6364 MAIL SERVICE CENTER
Raleigh, NC  27699-6364
(v) 919/807-3286
(fax) 919/807-3290
http://www.ncwiseowl.org/Impact/div_it/


Grammar Practice 
http://www.grammar-monster.com


Flash cards for Vocabulary Word Skills Unit 1 Lessons 1-5

How to correctly write research papers: 

Senior Project News
"Students Seeking Mentors" and Mentors Seeking Students" 
To learn more, visit:  http://www.eenorthcarolina.org/gradproject.html 

Social Studies Information 
The Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/

The White House
www.whitehouse.gov

The Democratic National Headquarters
www.democrats.org

BarackObama.com

The Republican Party
www.50states.com

JohnMcCain.com

Presidents of The United States
www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/



American History / Independence Hall Association
www.ushistory.org

Practie Online for The EOC 













The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught,  as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock






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