News & Events

2009 NAIS Annual Conference

February 25 – February 28, 2009
McCormick Convention Center
Chicago, IL, USA
Schools of the Future: Sailing the Winds of Change

NMSA:

Innovative Practices Across the Curriculum
Lakeville, Minnesota
June 24, 2008

Putting the World into World-Class Education
Washington, DC
July 10-12, 2008

Institute for Middle Level Leadership
Colorado Springs,
Colorado
July 13-16, 2008
Charleston,
South Carolina
July 20-23, 2008

Best Practices for Student Success
Baltimore, Maryland
July 28, 2008
Fargo, North Dakota
August 6, 2008

NMSA Annual Conference:
Denver, CO
October 30, 2008 – November 1, 2008
Conference Blog —- Registration Information

National Teacher of the Year
Michael Geisen of Oregon

State winners:

Alaska Raymond VoleyColorado Seth Berg Hawaii Pascale Pinner Illinois Ruth Meissen Kentucky Chandra Emerson Maryland April Todd Michigan June Teisan Missouri Eric Langhorst New Jersey John Kline, Jr. North Carolina James Bell, Jr. Ohio George Edge Oregon Michael Geisen Pennsylvania David Woten, Jr. Wisconsin Beth Oswald

Reading First is rated as Ineffective:

An Initiative on Reading Is Rated Ineffective

By SAM DILLON

Published: May 2, 2008

President Bush’s $1 billion a year initiative to teach reading to low-income children has not helped improve their reading comprehension, according to a Department of Education report released on Thursday.

More from RESA’s 23 Things:

Blogging
2. Learn about blogs and create your own – you will use your blog throughout this project.
3. Explore how educators are using blogs to support teaching and learning.

RSS
4. Learn about RSS and create your own Bloglines account.
5. Subscribe to blogs in order to keep up with new posts.

Photos and Images
6. Learn about online photo sharing and explore Flickr.
7. Share photos of your own on Flickr.
8. Have some Flickr fun with mash-ups.
9. Use an online image generator to create classroom resources.

Comic Life

A great little program that does a lot with pictures, graphics and words.