Archived Articles on Other Topics

These articles cover a wide range of topics.

• All Means All: Classrooms That Work for Advanced Learners - "Meeting the needs of all learners means all, including those who learn rapidly or are inherently curious about the world, eating up everything we offer - books, history, geometry proofs, science experiments."
• Education for Citizenship - This site has many ideas and examples of ways to develop capability for thoughtful and responsible participation in political, social, economic and cultural life, that is citizenship.
• Douglas Reeves’ Five Top Tips to Improve Student Engagement - tips to help answer the time old question: "How can I get my students more engaged? I know that they can do the work, but they often seem distracted, bored, and disinterested."
• Good Doubt and Bad Doubt By Jamie McKenzie - first chapter from Jamie McKenzie's forthcoming book, Leading Questions, available in October of 2007. © 2006 Jamie McKenzie, all rights reserved.
• The Effects of the New Mexico Pre-K Initiative on Young Children’s School Readiness -  the New Mexico pre-K initiative has statistically significant and meaningful impacts on children’s early language, literacy and mathematical development.
• What are Developmental Assets? - "a framework of 40 Developmental Assets, which are positive experiences and personal qualities that young people need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.”
• Effective Focussed Teaching - "Effective teaching requires a balance of whole class, group and individual teaching. To achieve 'focussed teaching' there is a need to establish in the classroom predicable routines and organisations to provide a safe environment for students to be able to take the necessary 'learning risks'."
• Uniting to Beat the Odds - staff raised standards for students and increased professional development for teachers, and saw scores climb.
• Learning From Mistakes With School-Based Technology - here's a painless way of learning from Matthew Ohlsen’s mistakes!
• Family Involvement in Middle and High School Students' Education
• What’s So Different about Gifted and Talented Students? Gifted and Talented Students and Psychosocial Adjustment. 520Kb PDF file.
• Jenny Eather's Website - an Australian site with many easy to use curriculum resources, especially writing resources.
• Engagement with School, Identity and Self-Esteem: Some characteristics of Gifted and Talented students in England, produced by the UK's National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth - Number 11 in the series (815Kb PDF file).
• Recognizing and Celebrating Student Achievement, Behavior - tips for leaders - link to further useful information.
• Key Elements of Quality Schools - the Metlife Survey, "conducted by Harris Interactive each year since 1984, explores teachers' opinions and brings them to the attention of the American public and policymakers."
• The I-Want(and Expect)-It-NOW Generation - by Regina Barreca - the author contends that schools may well have a new function.
• North Carolina in the World is a statewide collaborative effort to strengthen K-12 international education.
• What’s So Different about Gifted and Talented Students? - Gifted and Talented students and psychosocial adjustment.
• Dealing with Bullying Behavior by Marie E. Cecchini, MS - an article with practical ideas and lesson plans.
• Gender in Preschoolers: How to Make the Preschool Experience Better for Both Boys and Girls - By Jody Mace.
• School Support for Talented Young Athletes (U.K.) - advice for schools and teachers.
• Gifted 101 - A Guide for First Time Visitors - information on the education of Gifted and Talented children.
• National Coalition of Girls’ Schools - Priya Kvam of The Holton-Arms School and Rachel Bland of The Louise S. McGehee School represented NCGS at the 2007 Girls' Leadership Conference in Perth, Australia. Leadership Tips for girls and young women.
• Early Intervention - overview of the benefits of early intervention for staff, students and parents.
• Testing and Assessment - links to information about the pros and cons of testing Gifted and Talented children.
• John Curtin University offers two programs for year 5 to 7 students in WA primary schools are offered onsite at the JCPML.
• Promoting Tolerance and Peace in Children - tips for parents and schools from the National Association of School Psychologists in the U.S.A.
• The Country Areas Programme provides funding to the states and the N.T. to enhance the learning outcomes for students in geographically isolated areas so that match those of students in metropolitan areas.
• “Tackling the Crime of School Design” - the first of eight chapters of a book manuscript titled Raising a School.
• Communities and Schools Initiatives - schools and communities working together to build sustainable schools.
• School Climate Survey - example of a school climate survey.
• "Guess Who's Coming to Lunch" at School - how some schools use this as a great way for students to interact with leaders whose decisions directly impact their community.
• Future School - Alvin Toffler tells us what's wrong - and right - with public education. A look into the future of education.
• Day a Week School - Stretching Minds and Challenging Thinking - "The model recognises the ‘every lesson, every day, every school’ principle of Gifted and Talented provision."
• 15 More Ideas for Fund Raising - the methods used by schools to raise bucks to fund their needs.
• Westminster Education Forum - An interesting web page.
• Fund Raising Ideas - try some of these if you are running dry on ideas for raising funds for your school.
• Early Years Education, including care of the very young, ICT, key aspects of the curriculum and much more.
• Beyond the Food Fights: Helping Schools Get Healthy - ways to help schools work with students and parents to improve health.
• Health Promoting Schools - curriculum and planning ideas.
• Back to School Ideas - this page will have 5 new show-and-tell ideas for Principals each week of the year.
• Model School Wellness Policies - U.S. website.
• Exemplary Physical Education Curriculum: Setting the Standard by Meeting the Standards - how Michigan schools are using the program.
• Teachers Magazine - An online magazine that examines issues relevant to school today.
• Further evaluation of the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme, UK
• Analysis of Children and Young People’s Plans (CYPPs) 2006 - Research into child health in the UK.
• Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide - This teacher's guide from the National Center for Atmospheric Research includes lessons.
• National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth - U.K. website.
• Teacher Research.net - how teachers in schools can initiate and sustain educational research within their everyday work.
• Put "Punch" Into Your Parent Handbook - a look at ten handbooks and shares what each one does especially well.
• Staff Meeting Idea: Teachers "Stand" for Students - Try "I Stand For...," an activity that asks teachers to rise and name a student for whom they have made a difference.
• "Using Curricular Cultures to Engage Middle School Thinkers" - full coverage of each curricular objective has often supplanted teachers' desire to teach creatively and engagingly.