Happy Thanksgiving!
Here’s a little bit of Thanksgiving humor to help you get into the holiday spirit—or in some cases, to get you through the holiday.
Stories compiled from gather.com.
A Mom’s Prank Backfires
One year at Thanksgiving, my mom went to my sister’s house for the traditional feast. Knowing how gullible my sister is, my mom decided to [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted in General, tagged holiday, thanksgiving on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NSSEA Show Reflections
Posted in School Equipment, tagged Baltimore, SES, tradeshow on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff Pett, VP Sales & Marketing
Fleetwood Group, Inc.
It’s the day after a fairly long week of travel to two significant shows in our world. We had our whole sales team along with our CEO in Baltimore for the NSSEA show last week, then we went straight to Las Vegas (do not pass “Go”, do not [...]
Enforce Safety on the Bus
Posted in General, tagged safety, school bus, utah on November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Teachers, childcare providers and other professionals with close interaction with children generally undergo background checks and fulfill other strict requirements to ensure children are in a safe environment. Sometimes, though, rules are bent or ignored, and requirements are lightened just enough for the wrong person to have easy access to children.
A state audit uncovered that [...]
Healthy Learning Makes Healthy Eating
Posted in Health, tagged Education, Health, students, vegetable garden on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Louisa May Alcott, a Chicago elementary school, lets students get in on the action by helping to tend a large vegetable garden outside the school’s cafeteria. The goal is to introduce students to healthy foods and give them the opportunity to appreciate good nutrition by handing them the reigns to give them a prominent role [...]
Online Marketing for the School Market
Posted in Technology, tagged online marketing, school supplies on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rebecca Haden
A Plus Educational, Harrison, Arkansas
When your main customers are schools, you can be sure of one thing: they’re plugged in. They go online, they use the internet, they are comfortable with their computers, and they shop online.
Are they shopping with you?
Only if they can find you. Many of the things we sell are commodities: [...]
Embracing Differences
Posted in General, tagged gender, race, religion on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Philadelphia school students are doing more than talking the talk. In an effort to engage students from different walks of life, a nonprofit group called the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia, created the Walking the Walk program.
The program is a medley of religion, race, gender, and also brings together students from various economic backgrounds. [...]
Teacher Absences
Posted in Teaching Standards, tagged absences, Education, Teachers on November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A report that studied teacher absences found evidence that, not only are teacher absences expensive, but they negatively impact student achievement. The Center for American Progress report found that “Public school teachers in the United States are absent between nine and 10 days per year, on average. In other words, between kindergarten and 12th grade, [...]
New To-Do List
Posted in General, tagged book, publishing on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Emily Raij
Maupin House
We recently had a meeting at Maupin House to brainstorm title ideas for a new book. For some reason, the creativity floodgates just would not open. We tried looking on Amazon for similar books. We tried looking at our own related titles. We tried looking at all of the ways we usually [...]
Vision Problems’ Effect on Grades
Posted in Health, tagged docto, Education, school, vision screening on November 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Undetected vision problems in school age students could significantly impact their grades, according to the Vision Council’s Making the Grade? report. While many states require vision screening before admission to school, they do not typically take the measure any further to require professional eye exams for students who fail the screening. Children with vision problems [...]
Modernizing School Electives
Posted in Teaching Methods, tagged electives, gym, high school, phys-ed, skateboarding on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While most schools offer conventional gym classes like volleyball, basketball and track, a Manhattan high school has ventured past the norm to offer electives such as skateboarding and martial arts for class credit.
East Side Community High School turned a skateboarding after-school program into a credited gym class, feeding into students’ desire to explore new forms [...]
