Flattening the School Walls

Project Based Learning is Transforming this School!
Flattening the School Walls

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Deepening Learning

Check out this great article to help you plan how you use "time" in your classroom! 
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Deepening Learning

Realityworks, Inc. Announces 2012 RealCare Video Contest

Realityworks, Inc. is now accepting applications for the 2012 RealCare Video Contest. RealCare Program users have the opportunity to apply and submit a video for a chance to one of three prizes of up to a $1,000 donation to their organization or school. 

Contestants must create a video showing how the RealCare Program has made a difference in their organization or school. To be eligible, the school/organization must have a RealCare Program and both participants and instructor(s) must appear in the video.

Entries must include the following throughout the video:

• Which school/organization and classes use the RealCare Program
• How the RealCare Program has changed lives
• Experiences and attitudes about teen pregnancy, parenting, and child care, etc.

All submissions are due April 16, 2012. Entries will be initially judged by number of views and the number of stars (ranking) per video. The top five most-viewed and highest-ranked videos will be the finalists for the contest. These five finalists will then be judged by a Selection Committee that will choose the first, second, and third place winners. The first place winner’s school or organization will receive a $1,000 donation; second place will receive a $500 donation; and third place will receive a $250 donation.

For more information on the RealCare Video Contest, visit www.realityworks.com/realcare/videocontest.asp or call Realityworks at 800-830-1416.

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Thompson Discusses CTE, FY2013 Budget Priorities

Colorado Schools See Potent Influence From Nearby Medical Marijuana Sites

Have you discussed medical marijuana in your Health/Teen Choices courses? This article might be an interesting one to discuss with your students.

Colorado Schools See Potent Influence From Nearby Medical Marijuana Sites

Big Study: Vaccinated Kids 2-5 More Diseases Than Unvaccinated

Do you cover the topic of vaccinations in your Child Development class? Add this article to your collection and have your students take a "position" in regards to vaccinations or no vaccinations-- you might be surprised at what they discover!

Big Study: Vaccinated Kids 2-5 More Diseases Than Unvaccinated

How Do You Make Your Resume Stand Out?

Your new job is just around the corner! Hit the road running by checking out this quick blog on making your resume stand out!

How Do You Make Your Resume Stand Out?

Nutrition educators invited to join ‘knowledge sharing’ ENC-Teacher Exchange

Park Ridge, IL, January 11, 2011—Nutrition educators and other family and consumer sciences teachers throughout the U.S. interested in sharing, using or helping to develop effective nutrition teaching tools for students in grades 1 thru 12 are invited to go online to join a free knowledge-sharing program called “ENC-Teacher Exchange,” introduced this month by Egg Nutrition Center (ENC), science division of The American Egg Board headquartered in Park Ridge, Illinois.

As the ENC-Teacher Exchange program grows from infancy through fruition in 2012, it will feature specific types of nutrition education programs that, in the opinion of nutrition educators, resonate with their students. Teachers who join ENC-Teacher Exchange will be encouraged to share their best nutrition tools, which ENC will package with downloadable assets and make available for free at www.encteacher.org. As ENC-Teacher Exchange gains momentum, a half dozen “3-teacher creative teams” will be culled from the membership in 2012 to develop new nutrition tools, or to refresh existing ones, that will be augmented by university-based nutrition researchers provided by ENC.

Charter members of the ENC-Teacher Exchange program are expected to come from the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (www.aafcs.org), the widely recognized Washington D.C. Metro-based national non-profit representing family and consumer sciences professionals. AAFCS brings together FCS teachers, university educators, business and government professionals and others to achieve their mission of improving the quality of life for individuals, families and communities. AAFCS endorses the concept of ENC-Teacher Exchange, and has agreed to work with Egg Nutrition Center to help gain acceptance among FCS teachers.

ENC Executive Director Mitchell Kanter, PhD, conceived the ENC-Teacher Exchange primarily to create two-way dialog with teachers in response to America’s obesity epidemic, which he describes as “the number one nutrition-related issue of our time.” While “obesity” will be the primary theme of the program in 2012, ENC-Teacher Exchange may be expanded in 2013.

ENC’s egg-related research in universities over the years (www.eggnutritioncenter.org), which includes studies illustrating that nutrient-dense eggs have only 70 calories and fit well into healthy lifestyles, led Dr. Kanter to conclude that ENC, working more closely with teachers, could provide viable education solutions. ENC decided a nutrition-education web site populated by nutrition tools developed “by teachers for teachers” could better advance nutrition education and serve as an ally in the fight against obesity.

Family and consumer sciences teachers and other nutrition educators are encouraged to join the ENC-Teacher Exchange—online application takes only a few minutes—at www.ENCteacher.org. Members will be encouraged to participate in online forums to submit their ideas—which ENC will monitor—that will also serve to help ENC identify willing participants for “3-teacher creative teams” to develop new types of nutrition tools.

Social Networking Goes to School

Do you use Social Networking in your classroom? Are you using Facebook, Ning and other sites in k12 life? Check out the link below to for examples and more topics to explore!

Social Networking Goes to School

Cool Tools for Schools

Have you been searching for the a "cool tool" to use in your classroom?  Check out the resources available on Cool Tools for Schools-- presentations, collaborative work, research, videos, sideshows and much more!