Looking to the Future

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Edutopia: What Works in Public Education
February 3, 2010
This Week's Features: Looking to the Future
Edutopia The Next Chapter for Edutopia
We've got big news and exciting changes we'd like to share with you.

Linda Darling-Hammond Becoming Internationally Competitive
Linda Darling-Hammond shares strategies from high-achieving countries on teaching, learning, and assessment.

Kids looking at a globe Going Global
How do you bring global cultures and foreign languages into your classroom?

Inside: Super Bowl Sunday is February 7th
This week consider the importance of sports and physical fitness programs in schools:
Schools That Work: Schools That Work
Strategies for Social and Emotional Learning

Social and emotional learning has become the gateway to education reform in the Jefferson County School District, in Louisville, Kentucky. See how they did it, and how you can get started, too.

Please visit us at the upcoming TCEA show
in booth #2558, the Austin Convention Center, Texas, Feb. 10-12, 2010. Free magazines and special gifts provided!
Poll question
Speak Up
"With a huge iPhone app support already on board the iPad, I imagine the new apps and teacher uses for this device in and out of the classroom will be simply amazing within the next few years. "
-- Serge Puchinsky,
Music Teacher & Band Director,
Bayonne High School,
Bayonne, NJ
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"Why School Leaders Need to Stay Put"

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