Catherine and Count Basie Middle School 72 is offering a financial training series for all parents! Learn how to become your own financial planner, the different types of investments as well as improving your credit! Come join the following companies and experts while they give financial advice for the future.
ING Direct and ING Sharebuilders
Registration is required.
Please Click Here to review the flyer and learn more about these empowering events sponsored by MS 72 in Queens, NY!
Make time today for two informative webinars about SEL and School Climate:
And if you haven't heard it yet, take a minute to check out ASCD Whole Child's most recent podcast: School Climate: Developing the Quality and Character of School Life. Listen to Dr. Jonathan Cohen, President of CSEE and co-chair of the National School Climate Council, and Marvin Kreps, director of Curriculum and Instruction for Rhinebeck (N.Y.) Central School District, discuss how school climate standards can help educators and communities improve the quality and character of school life.
Last but not least, our friends over at WINGS for Kids have recently launched a Listen Lab, where they'll be sharing live and archived podcasts about their SEL initiatives and after school programming.
Stay tuned to the blog for news and updates about forthcoming podcasts.
Today at 2pm EST, Education Week is having an online discussion about "21st-century skills". Patte Barth, Director of the Center for Public Education at the NSBA, and Craig D. Jerald, President of Breaking the Curve Consulting, will be discussing whether and how collaboration, technological literacy, and critical thinking can be best fostered within core academic-content areas.
Education Week staff writer Stephen Sawchuk will be moderating the chat, and asking Patte and Craig your questions. Click here to read more about the chat and to get an email reminder for today's event.
Edutopia is giving away a new resource to help educators integrate new technology into the classroom: 10 Top Tips for Teaching with New Media. It's full of suggested activities to give your students varied opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in ways that are creative, fun and challenging.
For example, Tip #4 (Think Globally) mentions epals.com, an easy-to-manage, classroom-matching penpal service with an online language translator. We've worked with schools who have used penpal activities to build empathy and respect for diversity — how cool would it be to incorporate this activity into a foreign language class, and manage it all online?
Tip #3 (Get Off to a Good Start) touches on the benefits of helping your students manage their work online through an intranet or school-based website. An online classroom hub is great for keeping you and your kids organized as you can post calendars, extra resources and assignments, and keep connected with parents. (An example of this outside the toolkit is Doug Hart's Teen Connections, an online community empowering students to continue conversations outside the classroom. Check it out in addition to Edutopia's featured examples.)
To download the kit, click here:
If you're at the computer next Tuesday at 2pm EST, tune in to Ed Week's webinar about the rising tide of high school dropouts. You'll hear from teachers, principals, superintendents and school board members and have an opportunity to share your thoughts about all the stats, controversy and steps for change.
The Nation’s Dropout Crisis: The Educators’ Perspectives
When: Tuesday, July 7, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern time
Click here to register
On a related note, if you'll be in New York next week, we'd love to see you at our annual Summer Institute at Fordham University. There's still some space left, so click the link below to learn more and register for the 3-day event of workshops, expert keynotes and networking sessions: