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Check OutTraining of Trainers in Hawaii
Don’t miss your opportunity to participate in a Training of District Trainers (TOT) event in 2010! Submit your application now and guarantee yourself a spot in the only Training of Trainers event remaining this year!
Final TOT Location this year:
Honolulu, Hawaii: September 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 2010
The registration deadline is September 1st!
The purpose of [...]
Educating Minds and Hearts
Social and emotional learning needs to be an integral part of children’s education in conjunction with linguistic, mathematical, aesthetic, kinesthetic, and ethical learning. In this innovative volume, leading national experts describe the range of programs and perspectives that teachers, counselors, and administrators can use to promote social-emotional education in today’s middle schools. This book will [...]
Disrupting Class
According to recent studies in neuroscience, the way we learn doesn’t always match up with the way we are taught. If we hope to stay competitive-academically, economically, and technologically-we need to rethink our understanding of intelligence, reevaluate our educational system, and reinvigorate our commitment to learning. In other words, we need “disruptive innovation.”
Now, in his [...]
Grant Opportunity!
APPLY FOR AN INVESTING IN INNOVATION (i3) GRANT
to implement, sustain or intensify the use of the Tribes process in your school, district, or region!
http://www2.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2010/03/03082010.html
DEADLINE is May 12, 2010.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund will support the development of path-breaking new ideas, the validation of approaches that have demonstrated promise, and [...]
Poster – Tribes Agreements
Are you looking for one poster containing all four Tribes Community Agreements? Then, look no further. This colorful poster will help remind your students of the Tribes agreements. Each poster is printed on high quality 80# paper with a satin aqueous coating.
High School TOT for Trainers
Tribes TLC 2-day High School TOT for Trainers
Engaging All by Creating High School Learning Communities
US AND CANADA LOCATIONS!
Houston, Texas
Dates: Fri-Sat, July 16-17
Registration Deadline: June 15, 2010
Location: South Shore Harbour Resort, League City, TX
(just after the Tribes Summer Institute)
Aurora, Ontario, Canada
Dates: Sat-Sun, August 14-15
Registration Deadline: July 14, 2010
Location: York Catholic District School Board, Aurora, Ontario
(just [...]
Building School-Based Teacher Learning Communities
Building on extensive evidence that school-based teacher learning communities improve student outcomes, this book lays out an agenda to develop and sustain collaborative professional cultures.
McLaughlin and Talbert-foremost scholars of school change and teaching contexts-provide an inside look at the processes, resources, and system strategies that are necessary to build vibrant school-based teacher learning communities.
Offering a [...]
Discovering Gifts in Middle School
Learning in a Caring Culture Called Tribes motivates and supports middle level schools to make adolescents’ developmental growth and learning needs – during this most critical stage of their lives – the over-riding focus of the whole school community.
The author and her colleagues present a lively synthesis of a wealth of research studies and effective [...]
Closing the Achievement Gap
This second edition delves deeper into the reasons and remedies for the gaps in achievement that exist among racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States. Going beyond the original edition’s focus on urban schools, the authors explore achievement gaps in a range of indicators–grades test scores, dropout rates, and more–in every kind of school [...]
The ABC’s of Wellness for Teachers
How can you keep your balance and stay healthy in the midst of all the demands of teaching? With its quick tips for making wellness a regular part of your day, this alphabetical guide will help you:
improve your habits,
maintain a positive outlook,
reduce your chances of getting sick,
take control over your own happiness,
protect your time,
rejuvenate your [...]
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Week 2: Appreciations and Apologies posted by dgibbs in Weekly Tribes for the 2010-2011 School Year on August 27, 2010 - 9:38 am
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“Weekly Tribes” is Back!
CLICK HERE to visit the “Weekly Tribes” forum group and look for the new “Weekly Tribes 2010-2011 School Year” forum.
There you will find two topic entries, for the first two weeks of school. These suggestions are not found in your Tribes book, but they support many inclusion strategies you are already doing to get the [...]Comments
- Steve Ross: I voted for Northern California Wine Country…. But if it does come to Hawaii, (or anything else...
- Danielle Murdock: Thanks for letting everyone put in their input!
- Christine Swain: Anyone have any ideas for a warm up activity with a grade 5/6 split. I am starting this week...
- Genevieve Adams: Are you aware of any grant opportunities in Australia?
- soreed: Any suggestions for good energizers to be used in a social studies class? We are doing urban and rural...
