Classroom Toolkit Newsletter

Our States are Falling Behind in Employing High-Quality Teachers!

Subtitle: The Sky is Falling

Everyone knows that our nation has high quality, highly motivated, industrious and over-working teachers who over-deliver student achievement results. Teachers who work under low compensation and even lower appreciation, teachers who work for bureaucracies that under-fund and and under-support instruction...while these same bureaucracies clamor for test score improvements.

For Students of the Television Generation: Pitch your Content Area "Production"

Knowledge for its own sake?

For your students, the "joy-of-learning-just-to-learn" concept went out with Welfare, the Social Safety Net, and universal health care.

Hassle-Free Assessment: Pipe Dream or Reality?

The goal of assessment is to keep the teacher on track, to ensure that the instructional presentation is clear and effective...to ramp up, revamp, tune up, and fine tune instruction.

Prepared for the Weekend?

Monday morning needs to find teachers vitalized, refreshed, energized, vibrant, dynamic and recharged as they return to school.

Classroom Layout and Design: It's not too Late

School has started. Is it too late to make changes to your classroom's layout and design?

Free E-mail for your School (Or your Classroom)

Do you want to put up with some advertising so you can have a safe, kid-friendly E-mail system for your entire classroom?

Mapping Inner Space

Author: Margulies, Nancy
with Maal, Nusa
ISBN: 1-56976-138-8
Format: Softcover
Pub. Date: 2002
Publisher: Chicago: Zephyr Press
Pages: 159
Cost: $32.95 (List)
Available: Amazon at as low as $20.76 (new) - No used copies at eBay™

Subtitle: Learning and Teaching Visual Mapping

Free Graphic Organizer CD Available Online

Download your No-Cost Copy and Share the CD with your Colleagues

Visual Thought™ - A Free Mapping and Diagramming Tool

Visual Thought™ is actually "Freeware" rather than an Open Source program. (The difference is in the wording of the license).