Library resources for schools and the law
A to Z Teacherstuff provides a list of short 1st day of school activities.
Children should gradually start adjusting their sleep schedules about two weeks prior to the start of the new school year, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Children need adequate sleep in order to be alert and energized and able to perform their best at school.
With some students already in school, and some preparing to enter yet another journey into a new semester, let DLS make your studies that much more organized with a few free desktop and web applications that will make your school life that much more enjoyable.
* Glubble Trusted Surfing for children under 12 years of age enables families to be sure they only see the best of the web they choose to allow.
* Glubble Altered Search makes Google and Yahoo show results from childrens trusted Glubbleworld instead of the world wide web.
* Child friendly look and feel with interfaces for pre-reading and reading age young children.
Here, Michael Tiede, L.P., a licensed psychotherapist for children and adolescents at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., explores how parents and other adults can talk to children of different ages about school violence, as well as what signs may indicate a child is at risk of committing violent acts.
InnerLink Institute offers a free course to help Parents and Teachers talk to kids about school violence. InnerLink provides downloadable posters dealing with the recognition of emotional trauma. School administrators, click here for information on how to make certain you have the tools needed to prevent, prepare, respond and recover from emergencies.
(Bounty News: March 17, 2007) - a British national curriculum for early childhood education could see babies being monitored for signs of educational development.
Written by Steve O'Hear and edited by Richard MacManus. This is a two-part series in which Steve will explore how Web technologies are being used in education.
The British are coming, the British are coming — to a new school in Manhattan. About 50 grade-school students arrived this week for classes at the British International School of New York, the city's only school centered on Britain's national curriculum.