Table of Contents | October 2008
Up Front: The Angel in the Marble
High tech devices present limitless ways to find the inner masterpiece in every student.
Feedback: A Little Bird Told Me . . .
Twitter: A great tool for connecting and learning, not to mention for fun.
Dispatches: Broccoli Brain: Developing Enthusiastic Consumers of Nutritious Knowledge
Why force-feed students test prep when they could feast on creative teaching?
Sage Advice: The Election Offers a Host of Cross-Disciplinary Project Lessons
How will you integrate the upcoming election into your class?
Ask Ellen: Individualize Your Instruction
Use research and flexibility to reach every student in the classroom.
Pop Quiz: Suze Orman
The "one-woman financial-advice powerhouse" says job number one for educators is to inspire.
Features
Financial Literacy: Making Sense of Dollars and Cents
The economic crisis signals that schools need to get in the business of teaching money matters.
Virgil Rocks: Required Lessons and Pop Songs Make Beautiful Educational Music Together
In Sicily, a creative teacher finds a novel and hip way to make Latin stick.
Powerful Learning: Studies Show Deep Understanding Derives from Collaborative Methods
Cooperative learning and inquiry-based teaching yield big dividends in the classroom. And now we have the research to prove it.
Mapping Their Futures: Kids Foster School-Community Connections
Students at the Y-PLAN project create bonds through grassroots city planning.
Cool Schools
Diplomas for (Would-Be) Dropouts: Project Learning Serves the Most At-Risk Students
Urban students on the verge of quitting scale new heights -- and remain in school -- through an ambitious program.
How to Design Assessments for Project Learning
Creating high expectations and ensuring academic markers for at-risk students.
Design
Lessons from the Mall: A School with a Commercial Aesthetic
Turn your school into a marketplace of ideas.
Heart and Soul
The Eyes Have It: Potent Visuals Promote Academic Richness
Visual Thinking Strategies blazes a path from artistic inquiry to scholastic achievement.
Head of Class
Learn2luvcell: A Powerful Multipurpose Mechanism for Learning
Once the scourge of classrooms, cell phones are now part of the lesson plan.
By the Numbers: The Facebook Edge
Social networking offers a competitive advantage in the newest interactive-oriented job market.
Stay for a Spell: Wisdom Harvested from the Wicked Witch Trials of the East
Salem blends schmaltz and scholarship when dealing with its infamous witchcraft trials.
Opera Hits a High Note: Student-Outreach Efforts Tap Technology
A great musical form finds ways to create young fans.
Caveat Viewer: A Consumer's Guide to Drug Ads
Separating fact from artifice in Rx ads is a quick lesson in media literacy.
Hot Stuff: Media for Educators
Two sites for your politically media-savvy students, kid-friendly (and kid-proof) stereo headphones, and a new service and possible muse for your brilliant brainstorms.
Field Trips: Events for Educators
Lots of technology-in-education conferences, plus a problem-students workshop and a gifted-children convention.
