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Wish I could say I wrote this …… Can’t I Skip My 20 Mins.of Reading Tonight? Let’s figure it out — mathematically! Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week; Student B reads only 4 minutes a night…or not at all! Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week. Student [...]

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Came across a site called Techno Dys a little bit ago and wanted to take this opportunity to reccommend that you add it to your RSS feed.  They throw up a post a day with different site recommendations (amongst other things) and many of them are real winners worthy of your attention including: Brightstorm – [...]

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Swine Flu … The Stuffed Animal!

by Steve on 23, September, 2009

Swine flu, E. Coli, The Black Death now in the stuffed toy aisle!

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OT Plan – Great Site!

by Steve on 9, April, 2009

I just found this site online and think it’s a great site and phenomenal tool for schools, OT’s and especially parents.  You pick what skill you want to work and what tools you have available and it gives you skills games/drills/tips that you can do.  Very well laid out, clear and easy to follow and [...]

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Old School vs. New School

by Web on 5, March, 2009

The charter school that my son is at uses a Core Knowledge style structure.  This article highlights the debate of the value of teaching to “modern life skills” vs “core skills”.  In a modern world though shouldn’t computers, typing, etc. be considered “core”? Should Johnny Learn Core or Skills What do you think?

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