Entries by Classroom Toolkit Newsletter

Recess: Academic Time-Waster, NOT!

Recess may become a casualty of "teach to the test" initiatives in some schools, and a casualty of buget-cramped four-day school weeks in other districts.

C-SPAN Classroom

Election season brings interest in all things political.

But finding (and trusting) unbiased, un-slanted, un-spun reporting from modern mass media outlets? You be the judge.

Online Newspaper Services for Kids

The election presents a chance for students to learn from newspapers and primary sources.

Rapport Building: How Personal can your Professional Persona Be?

Rapport is the degree that you are in harmony with the people around you. For teachers, building rapport with students is crucial.

Manage your Principal for a Positive and Productive Campus

Teachers are subjected to the "Chain of Command" and evaluated as effective teachers when they follow orders…especially the orders of the campus principal that supervises them.

The Twelve Worst Planning Practices

Planning is the most important "non-outcome, non-output, non-urgent, non-teaching" task that you can perform.

The Art of Teaching is about Art

Art and creative expression are central to competent, resourceful and enlightened teaching.

Advocacy: Why Advocated Change Never Happens

Evolution and disintegration, growth and decay, building and demolishing…these are the natural order of the Universe.

Total Physical Response - Story: Integrating Storytelling into Instruction

The Total Physical Response - Story (TPR-S) strategy provides teachers with extraordinary tools for integrating storytelling into all aspects of instruction.

Scholastic™ Opens a New "Newbie Teacher" Service

Scholastic™ launched a new service aimed at capturing new teachers and bringing them into the Scholastic™ sphere of influence.

The new Help for New Teachers site is called, "First Class."