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Start Your New Year off Right with a Visit to the ‘Penniless Teacher’
posted by: Cindy Omlin | January 03, 2012, 04:14 pm   

Let's face it, budgets are tight and after an expensive holiday season, there are no shortages of "penniless teachers" across the country. In examining the resolutions of countless teachers this new year, saving money seems to top many lists. While most educators often foot the bill for classroom projects and supplies, a new blog called Penniless Teacher, provides a one-stop-shop for classroom teachers seeking easy funding opportunities via current listings of teacher scholarships and grants, teacher contests, and teacher giveaways.
 
Blended Learning: Not Just for Your Students
posted by: Cindy Omlin | December 29, 2011, 02:57 pm   
As a 21st century educator, chances are you are incorporating blended learning into your classroom. Whether it's through your own classroom website, other multimedia and virtual internet resources, a learning management system, a blog, or Google+, Yahoo, or Facebook groups, teachers today are creatively using technology like never before to enhance the classroom experience of their students. In a blended learning model, the face-to-face interaction between students and teachers is not replaced but is instead supplemented by some degree of online delivery of instruction. This relatively new style of teaching is growing in middle and high schools across the United States, and it isn't just for your students. Teachers, too, can take advantage of blended learning in professional development opportunities.
 
21st Century Leaders Use 21st Century Methods to Communicate with Parents
posted by: Cindy Omlin | December 29, 2011, 02:10 pm   
Keeping parents informed has become rather easy in the 21st century. There are all kinds of tools for educators can use. I've personally tried blogs, wikis, and specifically designed web pages, but the bottom line is you just have to find what works best for your parents. My parents are email users. I have told them that the best way to contact me is through email, so they often use that first. It also means it is the quickest way I can get information out to them. My parent communications have become entirely paperless, so the forests can rest at ease. Central to my 21st century parent communication plan are the following:
 
Teacher Gifts this Holiday Season
posted by: Cindy Omlin | December 15, 2011, 03:21 pm   

As young students, everyone remembers bringing their teacher a gift during the holiday season. Everything from tins of holiday cookies to homemade paper weights are given every year from students across the country without fail. This year, however, a law in Alabama is making waves for its harsh penalties for teachers who accept gifts from students over a mere $25, raising questions nationwide about holiday giving and whether accepting gifts as an educator is appropriate.
 
New Report: Status of Charter School Unionization
posted by: Cindy Omlin | December 12, 2011, 09:24 pm   

A new report by the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington sheds light on the status of charter school unionization nationwide. In a climate where charter schools laws are changing dramatically and teacher union membership is declining, the prospect of charter schools unionizing has become a very real threat to the flexible, innovative environments these schools were meant to cultivate. This report attempts to analyze the status of unionization by examining why teachers unionize and the diverse collective bargaining agreements of unionized charters, however it misses the mark in addressing the disconnect between the charter movement and bargaining agreements in general.
 
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