May 18th, 2009
“No Tray Left Behind”: Styrofoam (Used) Tray Project
Students from my 3D Studio, Body in Time class constructed a sculpture made from about one thousand used Styrofoam* (polystyrene) trays. The dirty compartmentalized trays were collected (and washed) from NYC Department of Education schools, including PS 41, in the West Village, NEST+m on the Lower East Side and PS 163 in the Bronx.
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Celebremos! How Maya and Miguel celebrate El Día de los Niños
The annual celebration of El Día de los Niños originated from the Latino community and is now a special day for all children. On April 30th every year many nations throughout the world celebrate Día de los Niños to honor and celebrate the children who represent the future of each and every society.
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Martha — Now Speaking @ The Library!
Learning to read is seldom a wholly intellectual issue -- the context in which a child learns to read is as important as the child's capacity. Numerous studies and our experiential knowledge inform us that struggling readers often feel nervous or stressed, both emotionally and physically, when asked to read in class.
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An Insider’s Look at Celebration of Teaching & Learning 2009
Creativity and innovation in education were the resounding themes of this year's Celebration of Teaching and Learning Conference. Hosts Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21 organized the event into content strands that reflect contemporary educational challenges: Technology, English Language Learners, Literacy, Math, Science, Global Awareness, and Autism.
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Bringing Adventure into the Classroom
By Jon Bowermaster. -- It wasn't too many years ago that a children's book publisher, who shall rename nameless in order to protect her and her company, said to me in her office "kids today just aren't into adventure." To which I, having written a book for her for young adults about a very amazing adventure, took umbrage.
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The Intensive Kindergarten: Responding to a Need
By Shirley Cohen. -- A few weeks ago Dorothy Siegel, who is a member of the panel on Autism Intervention for the Celebration of Teaching and Learning conference, as am I, described the ASD Nest program on this blog site. That program was developed in response to a need for a better option within the public school system for higher functioning children on the autism spectrum.
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Thoughts on Literacy
By Tony Abbott. -- While I write fiction for young readers from age 7 up through middle school, the bulk of my books are read by second and third graders at level, and older readers who, for any number of reasons, might be a bit slower to come to books.
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What Is Algebra Anyway?
By Keith Devlin. --We hear a lot about algebra teaching and the importance that all children master high school algebra. But what exactly is algebra, and is it really as important as everyone claims? And why do so many people find it hard to learn?
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Was Lincoln a Racist?
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. --In the collective popular imagination, Abraham Lincoln -- Father Abraham, the Great Emancipator -- is often represented as an island of pure reason in a sea of mid-19th-century racist madness, a beacon of tolerance blessed with a cosmopolitan sensibility above or beyond race, a man whose attitudes about race and slavery transcended his time and place. These contemporary views of Lincoln, however, are largely naive and have almost always been ahistorical.
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The Role of Evaluation in Autism Spectrum Intervention
By Caroline I. Magyar. --Student assessment and program evaluation are essential to identifying, selecting and evaluating effective interventions and educational programs for students with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). As the number of children classified as autistic increases, school personnel can benefit from increasing their understanding of the role that evaluation plays in determining student instructional needs and designing and evaluating effective programs and interventions.
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