Classroom Toolkit Newsletter

Student Honest and Ethical Behavior: The Road to Politics (Perdition) or Spin City?

A recent survey raises the possibility that our nation's young people lie and cheat and steal in greater numbers, now, more than ever before.

Parents: Political Allies or a Subversive, Detrimental Force in Education?

You choose!

Almost all parents send their children to school.

Most parents cart or ship their kids off to school each morning because lots of positive benefits accrue to their children throughout their children's lives, and throughout their children's world-of-work careers.

Zen and the Art of Classroom Management

Classroom management can be balanced, insightful, mindful and effective...leading to harmony, happiness and peace of mind.

Mnemonics: A Lost Art in Classroom Presentations

All teachers know about mnemonics (even if they have to refer to a dictionary to spell the word correctly.

How to do More in Less Time: Why do More when Doing Less gets Better Results?

Each day you are faced with "loud, noisy, squeaking-wheel, endless" urgent tasks, and you have a few "quiet, uncomplaining, whispering" priorities that you set aside.

Give Kids Good Schools: A Site for this Election Season

"Give Kids Good Schools" is a political and "Advocative" (A Classroom Toolkit Coined Word: Meaning: Advocate and Provocative) resource.

Habits of Mind

Author: Fine, Melinda

ISBN: 0-7879-0061-3
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995
Publisher: San Francisco: Jossey Bass
Pages: 225
Cost: $40.00 (List)
Available: Amazon™ at as low as $40 (new) - $0.29 (Used) at eBay™ $30 (new) and $5 (used)

Subtitle: Struggling Over Values in America's Classrooms

Site Strategy and Progress

Work on our second ISO downloadable CD was set aside in favor of a competing project. Look for links to the second ISO CD next month in this "Site Strategy" category.

Donation Coder: Not Exactly Open Source...
But a Great Deal for Teachers

Teachers like "Free". In fact, no cost is the only reasonable strategy that teachers have before dipping into their own pockets for necessities for their classrooms.