No More Senior Year?
Utah, like Kansas and most states, has a budget problem. Some people have come up with an unusual approach to help keep the budget in check: Drop 12th grade, or at least let students who prove they are competent leave early. That's the idea of Sen. Chris Buttars.
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FREE Online Opportunity!
 Ruby Payne's Framework for Understanding Poverty
June 3rd & 4th 2010
Join Jodi and Jane as the work of Ruby Payne's Framework for Understanding Poverty unfolds. Participants will explore 12 Key Points, "Hidden Rules," poverty-related behaviors and resources to provide interventions
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 Editorial from Kansas.com:
No good options for school cuts
Some legislative leaders are recognizing the need to raise taxes to avoid devastating budget cuts to schools and social services, with Senate President Steve Morris, R-Hugoton, having announced Friday that he would push a $300 million tax plan. But given that many other lawmakers are still stubbornly opposed to any tax increase, school districts are wise to prepare for the worst.
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Final Fridays
Final Fridays is an opportunity for superintendents to gather and participate in professional learning and discussions centered around hot topics in Education. The sessions are focused on the variety of solutions and ideas oriented toward solving the budget problems.
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 Glenn Wiebe's History Tech:
KansasMemory.org sweetness
Modeled after the American Memory site and maintained by the Kansas State Historical Society, Kansas Memory
does a great job of sharing and highlighting some fantastic primary
sources. And even though the site focuses on a fairly specific sub-set
of Kansas-related stuff, anyone who is teaching American History should
also be using the site.
Learn more about KansasMemory.org
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Schools' New Math: the Four-Day Week
A small but growing number of school districts across the country are moving to a four-day week, in a shift they hope will help close gaping budget holes and stave off teacher layoffs, but that critics fear could hurt students' education. |
MACE: My favorite nerds
Last week was a hectic week but it ended on a positive note. I got to
attend MACE, that stands for Mid America Computers in Education, in
Manhattan Kansas. MACE is always one of my favorite conferences to
attend, not so much for the presentations but for the people. You see,
MACE attract some of the most innovative, and creating, nerd wannabes
around the state. For the most part they're classroom teachers who are
figuring out new and unique ways to use technology in their classrooms.
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In this episode of Mantz's Mission I have the honor of interviewing the
founders Tina and Barbara of LiveBinders.com. Both ladies provide
insight to their vision in creating such a Web 2.0 tool as well as
methods to successfully use this excellent education resource.
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