If this doesn’t engage those students who are disenchanted with the status quo – will anything?? It has everything a reluctant reader could wish for – interactivity, amazing graphics, the all important cool factor and even words! Learning is supposed to be a discovery, an exciting journey. It won’t be long before the students will be creating books like that on their own.
Category: education
Apps in Education
An entire web site devoted to finding apps for educational use on the iPad!
Educational Summit
Building Blocks for Education: Whole System Reform
Educational summit will feature speakers and participants from six countries who will share ideas and look at new ways to help solve the challenges facing students from Ontario and around the world.
September 13-14, 2010 • Toronto
More information Link is HERE
Em has graciously offered to send 3 teachers: “If anyone is interested in going please let me know as I would like to register for the early bird special of $495 per person by June 29th, 2010.
Essentially, I am looking to send 3 teachers and 1 admin to the summit. I can, sadly, cover for the registration but not for accommodations.
If you are interested, please send me a one page letter of interest that aligns your interest to your ALP, the Board’s Strategic Directions, and our SIP. The goal is just to share this opportunity with those interested individuals who are interested in shaping our future in education and Westdale.
Please let me know by Firday June 25, 2010 at 2 pm. I apologize for the urgency during ONE of the most busiest of times…Please forgive me…but in the spirit of being open and transparent, invitational and responsible, I am looking to see who is the perfect fit for this Summit with the promise of opening other opportunities as soon as I am made aware of it.”
A Remarkable Transformation: Union City Public Schools | Edutopia
A Remarkable Transformation: Union City Public Schools | Edutopia.
In one seven-year period, passing eighth-grade test scores jumped from 33 to 83 percent in reading, from 42 to 65 percent in writing, and from 50 to 84 percent in mathematics. College-going rates have increased, and the number of Union City graduates accepted at top institutions like Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology jumped from eight in 1997 to 73 in 2001. Read about the transformation.
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