Heather Neal - Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 10:18am
America is facing a crisis of childhood obesity. This generation of children is not expected to live as long as their parents and will face even higher costs for healthcare if we can’t help them...
Heather Neal - Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 8:17am
We received an email last week asking for ways to use technology in the Physical Education classroom. We’re answering it this week with a list of apps to use in PE. If you know of others to...
Heather Neal - Tuesday, September 4, 2012 - 9:26am
The Paralympics launched last week and continues through September 9. You can watch and share the events with your students on YouTube online and follow WGBH’s programming Medal Quest.
The...
We often talk about what teachers want from students and parents. But we don’t often turn that question over to students. What DO students want? I stumbled upon a few posts on Twitter on that topic...
Many teachers are either teaching video production classes or including video creation as part of class assignments. Cellphone cameras make capturing the video easier. But how to edit it is another...
Do you know a student who has a passion for learning and an interest in government? That student may just be the type that Superintendent Barge is after.
Barge wants students to have a say in the...
Last week we gave a webinar in conjunction with the Georgia Department of Education on how to integrate and find digital resources to complement the Common Core. In case you missed it or would like...
I realize the phrase “teachable moment” is overused. But I must whip it out in connection with the Republican National Convention in Tampa and the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte next...
In 1921, an aristocratic up-and-coming young New York politician, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, contracted polio. Fearing his political future over, and desperate for a cure, FDR journeyed to Warm...