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Catalyst Notebook :: In the News: School-based health centers on rise nationally, locally

Catalyst Notebook :: In the News: School-based health centers on rise nationally, locally
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Catalyst writers and editors share their perspectives, analyses and the news behind the news on improving Chicago area public schools. Our on-the-ground reports will tell you what’s happening in schools and education circles here and elsewhere. Our views will tell you what to make of it.

In the News: School-based health centers on rise nationally, locallyThe Tribune reports that the number of school-based health centers is rising nationwide, with nine opening in Illinois during the 2009-10 academic year. Illinois has about 60 centers, half of which are in Chicago, according to the Illinois Coalition for School Health Centers, an advocacy group that is part the Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition. Located primarily in low-income areas with significant uninsured populations, school-based health centers provide relief for the nation's health care systems, help to reduce student absenteeism and improve health literacy in families, advocates say.

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In the News: Renaissance Schools Funds looks to raise $40 millionThe Renaissance Schools Fund hopes to raise at least $40 million for the next crop of new schools over the next five years, fund President Phyllis Lockett told the Sun-Times. The fund will focus on “expanding high quality charter school models” as well as finding “great emerging models,” Lockett said. The fund helped bankroll 68 of Renaissance 2010’s 103 schools.

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Schools south of Boston implementing social networking policies - The Boston Globe

Schools south of Boston implementing social networking policies - The Boston Globe

Schools examine Facebook policies

Schools aim to clarify social rules

By Johanna Seltz
Globe Correspondent / December 26, 2010

Teachers in Weymouth, Foxborough, and Norton can’t be “friends’’ with students on Facebook or other social networking sites, and a number of other school districts south of Boston are considering a similar ban.

“I don’t want my kids to know what their teachers do after school or on the weekends,’’ said Sean Guilfoyle, chairman of the Weymouth School Committee. “This not only protects the students, but it also protects the staff. It allows them to have a personal life and not worry about what’s being posted when they’re talking to their families or friends.’’

Cohasset, Hingham, Milton, and Randolph are among the communities working on Facebook policies for school staff, inspired in part by “model’’ rules on the

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“Experts Begin to Identify Nonacademic Skills Key to Success” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

“Experts Begin to Identify Nonacademic Skills Key to Success” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
“Experts Begin to Identify Nonacademic Skills Key to Success” Experts Begin to Identify Nonacademic Skills Key to Success is the headline of a recent story in Ed Week. It discusses research that is finding non-academic skills are important keys to student success in college and in their careers. Here’s an ...
December’s Best Tweets — Part Two Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. Now and then, in order to make it a bit easier for me, I may try ...
“The New Year around the world” The New Year around the world is another excellent online exercise for English Language Learners created by Renée Maufroid. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About New Year Celebrations. Thanks to Michelle Henry for the tip.
“Escape from Santa’s Room” Escape from Santa’s Room is a fun online video game that can be used as a language-learning activity (you can read how I use these kinds of games in this article). Here is its Walkthrough. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Learn About Christmas, ...
Email Newsletter Sent-Out As regular readers know, I send-out a free monthly email newsletter. The January edition has just been sent. You can easily subscribe to it here.
Part Fifty-Seven Of The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly The first part of this post is my usual introduction to this series. If you’re familiar with it already, just skip down to the listing of new sites… Here’s the latest installment in my series on The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & ...
“20 Weirdest Apartments of the World” 20 Weirdest Apartments of the World is a series of photos of…strange-looking apartment buildings. I’m adding the link to The Best Images Of Weird, Cool & Neat-Looking Buildings (& Ways To Design Your Own).
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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: DOES THE LAUSD REALLY RESPECT GENUINE PARENT INVOLVEMENT? – The District, it turns out, demands parental involvement only when it suits the district

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: DOES THE LAUSD REALLY RESPECT GENUINE PARENT INVOLVEMENT? – The District, it turns out, demands parental involvement only when it suits the district

DOES THE LAUSD REALLY RESPECT GENUINE PARENT INVOLVEMENT? – The District, it turns out, demands parental involvement only when it suits the district

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By Jenny Heitz | Daily News Op-Ed | http://bit.ly/fl2bUD 12/19/2010 01:00:00 AM PST - THERE has been tons of finger-pointing lately as to whom, exactly, is to blame for failing schools: the unions, or the lousy teachers, or the lack of funds. Sometimes, the parents get placed in those cross hairs for too little participation, the idea being that, if parents could just volunteer and help kids
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Three N.J. districts struggle to regain control of schools from state despite problematic statute | NJ.com

Three N.J. districts struggle to regain control of schools from state despite problematic statute | NJ.com

Three N.J. districts struggle to regain control of schools from state despite problematic statute

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By Star-Ledger Staff

December 26, 2010, 6:20AM
State took over Paterson, Jersey City and Newark school districts but progress has been slow to gain back local control Full story »

New Wallkill Valley High School principal, superintendent to be paid $38K less than predecessor

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By The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk

December 23, 2010, 6:38AM
HARDYSTON — The new principal and superintendent of Wallkill Valley High School will be paid nearly $40,000 per year less than his predecessor, according to a report on NJHerald.com. Edward Bolcar Jr., a former Boonton mayor and Hasbrouck Heights Middle School principal, received a three-and-a-half year contract that will pay him $137,500 to start. He'll get a two-percent raise... Full story »

Newark Mayor Cory Booker aide goes to D.C. to serve as deputy mayor for education

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By David Giambusso/The Star-Ledger

December 22, 2010, 4:35PM
De'Shawn Wright, 35, will consult on educational policy for D.C. Mayor Gray after serving as a policy adviser to Booker since 2006 Full story »
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Watch Again: Helping Teachers Improve Via Video : NPR

Watch Again: Helping Teachers Improve Via Video : NPR

Watch Again: Helping Teachers Improve Via Video

by LARRY ABRAMSON

The Gates Foundation is spending millions of dollars to answer a very difficult question: What makes a great teacher great? The Measures of Effective Teaching, or MET, project comes at a time when education reform efforts are focused on teacher effectiveness as the best way to reach students.

The program relies in part on in-class video, and that's raised concerns about other ways those recordings could be used.

Watching a good teacher manage a classroom is like being at mission control during a rocket launch — there's a lot going on at once. Mahalia Davis, in her fourth year as a teacher at Ridgeway Middle School in Memphis, Tenn., changed careers midlife to become a teacher. But she looks like she's been doing this forever.

The first video I ever really watched and tried to tear it apart as far as what I felt I was doing — what I could have done better — made me not want to submit it. And so now I just do the taping, and I leave it alone, and I move on.

- Teacher Melony Smith Wellington

To teach her sixth-graders how to construct a five-sentence paragraph, Davis lines up five kids and gives each a role. She has a wide range of tools to get students excited — and to calm them down, including having them breathe deeply.

'It's My Goal To Be The Best'

Test scores show that Davis' students are advancing. But how does she do it? The Gates Foundation is

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Grateful kids? They're teachers' favorite gifts

Grateful kids? They're teachers' favorite gifts

Grateful kids? They're teachers' favorite gifts

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Sunday, December 26th 2010, 4:00 AM

The kids at PS 119 thanked their favorite teachers for all that they were taught - which was much more than just reading, writing and arithmetic.
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The kids at PS 119 thanked their favorite teachers for all that they were taught - which was much more than just reading, writing and arithmetic.

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ANY KID lucky enough to have money can shop in a store for a Christmas gift for a favorite teacher.

The kids at Public School 119 in Brooklyn went shopping in their hearts and came up with a gift any teacher was sure to cherish above all others.

The gift was appreciation, which is often accorded to firefighters and cops but too seldom to teachers. It was expressed to each student's favorite teacher in the form of a letter with the best spelling, grammar and penmanship the writer could summon.

Fourth-grader Kendall Hunte decided to write his letter to Iris Ofsie, the teacher he had in first grade, before he transferred from Public School 272. That was a third of his life ago, and initially he had some difficulty describing the enormous impact she had on him.

"It came out kind of tough at first," the 9-year-old told me.

He kept at it, just as Ofsie and any other



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/12/26/2010-12-26_grateful_kids_theyre_teachers_favorite_gifts.html#ixzz19EIlPggc
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Boys aren’t learning to read — Joanne Jacobs

Boys aren’t learning to read — Joanne Jacobs

Boys aren’t learning to read

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Boys aren’t learning to read — and it’s a global problem, write William Brozo and Richard Whitmire in a New York Daily News op-ed.

According to a Center for Education Policy report that looked at 40 states, boys “lag well behind girls in literacy skills – while only tying them in math.” And it’s not just an issue in the U.S.

Earlier this month, results of 65-country comparison called the Program for International Student Assessment revealed that girls tie boys in math while soaring ahead of them by an astounding 39

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