K-12 Learning with Projects & Service

Ingenuity in K-12 Classes

S Mann — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:21:00 GMT

Wondering how to get your math, social studies, reading, or science students to sit up and get engaged? Students are full of ideas. So wrap your content around this question …..Got an idea that could change the world, or at least help a lot of people?...(read more)

The United States of France?

S Mann — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:04:00 GMT

I know this is an education blob but when I read this article in Time it made so much sense. Read it for yourself by clicking here . One paragraph that caught my attention... "We've always dismissed the French as exquisitely fed wards of their welfare...(read more)

Got STEM in Your Lesson

S Mann — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:43:00 GMT

A Global Challenge A global project-based competition for high school students with a focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics of the complexities of global warming and the future of energy. Come learn from and interact with the Executive...(read more)

Okay to Bailout Wall Street but not K-12 Education - huh?

S Mann — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:42:00 GMT

The news about covering the gushing wounds of greed on Wall Street is common news around the globe. Just how much are the taxpayers – you and me – going to pay in the name of stabilizing the financial markets? "We're talking hundreds of billions of dollars...(read more)

Keep that Money Rolling' - K-12 Teacher Grant Resources

S Mann — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:07:00 GMT

Youth Service America is offering the annual State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning: grants for youth-led community improvement projects across the United States and Canada. The program offers one hundred grants of up to $1,000 each to teachers and...(read more)

K-12 Grant Resources

S Mann — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:12:00 GMT

Teacher as Researcher Grant This grant supports classroom teachers who undertake action research inquiries about literacy and instruction. Grants will be awarded up to US$5,000, although priority will be given to smaller grants (e.g., $1,000 to $2,000)...(read more)

Constructing Innovative Teaching

S Mann — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:35:00 GMT

Service Learning: Community Café The Community Café is a table-service soup kitchen that has served more than 15,000 meals to needy residents since December 2006. Kristen Allcorn founded the Café as part of a high school community service project. Project...(read more)

Moving Forward: Rewiring K-12 Lessons

S Mann — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:14:00 GMT

This video clip is worth a view for three reasons minimum .... 1. You will know exactly what the financial commitment of politicians is today for K-12 education. 2. You will gain some ideas in designing K-12 lessons 3. Your ideas of what education "is"...(read more)

Global Ed Village: International Perspectives on K-12 Education

S Mann — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:22:00 GMT

A different cut today at viewing K-12 education. Let’s take a look at what is in the international news: here and here .. After all, the world really is a global village. We need some earnest dialogues and efforts about sharing success of education with...(read more)

Do You Find Yourself Saying: "I Wish I Knew How My Students Are Thinking?"

S Mann — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:57:00 GMT

Student feedback is essential for teachers to grasp the class knowledge and to determine the correct strategy for teaching. Taking that feedback personally can shatter or inflate an ego. Instead, look at the news objectively …. as sign posts on the road...(read more)

Enriching Education By Connecting K-12 Teachers

S Mann — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:45:00 GMT

Okay, I've taken the leap and started a group on Facebook: Quality K-12 Education: Taking the Next Steps . Yes, I did "do" some serious thinking about it but in the end, social media is what more students are interested in. Don't believe me? Ask your...(read more)

Spotlighting Innovative Strategies and Teachers

S Mann — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:29:00 GMT

Technology, Cross Curriculum Learning Such is life in Whyville, a Web-based virtual world that provides inquiry-based education for middle school students. Created by University of Texas professor Jim Bower -- a former professor at the California Institute...(read more)

Startling Facts - Real News - On High School Graduation

S Mann — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:03:00 GMT

"If three out of every 10 students in the nation failing to graduate is reason for concern, then the fact that just half of those educated in America’s largest cities are finishing high school truly raises cause for alarm. And the much higher rates of...(read more)

A Secret to Building an Improved Learning Environment

S Mann — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:42:00 GMT

Students have stimulation form so many sources .... flashy billboards, television shows that carrying four plus character streams per episode, advertisements blitzing volumes of images in barely seconds, and so forth. They have so many choices, that's...(read more)

A Secret to Building an Improved Learning Environment

Education Reporting, Inc. — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:20:00 GMT