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Who Owns Your Lesson Plans?Page one of Sunday's New York Times featured an article about how teachers are making money by selling their lesson plans. The suggestion is that since the lesson plans were written while employed by a school, the school owns the lesson plans. In the interest of full disclosure, About.com ... |
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Is Thanksgiving a Religious or Civic Holiday?Working in public schools, you quickly become aware of the fact that the separation of church and state has created problems with how we talk about and celebrate some holidays, especially Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter. We are clearly aware that Christmas and Easter are Christian Holida... |
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Got Choices?Some of the kids in the residential school where I teach have incredible behaviors. They will kick, scream, throw themselves on the floor, bang their heads into the wall or the floor, and rip their clothing off. Why? Anger and frustration. I really believe some of them feel p... |
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Good Grief!What do you do when a student dies? I thought that question was moot, until I got a call at 5 a.m. telling me one of my kids died in an accident. I just saw him the day before, happy and whole. My first considerations were my own grief, and the grieving of my staff. Then it stuc... |
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Food FightPulling the Food out From Under Disabled Children First Lady Michelle Obama is talking up nutrition as part of an effort to deal with the obesity epidemic hitting our children. Certainly prevention is important for dealing with the ballooning cost of medical care. There is growi... |
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Is It an Autism Epidemic?Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sibelius revealed to the autism community that a pending report from the Centers from Disease Control sets the new prevalence of Autism at one in 100. Another report reviewed by the journal Pediatrics based on telephone interviews places the preval... |
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