Teacher Grants up to $30,000

Pacific Coast Teacher Innovation (PacTIN) is awarding grants of up to $30,000 each to 24 teams of K-12 teachers. The grants will allow teachers to design their own professional development and to translate that experience into a classroom or school project.

Apply online at http://teachergrants.ucdavis.edu/

Projects are unspecified as to grade level. Projects may be discipline/content specific or cross-disciplinary in nature; they may also focus on specific student populations or on practice and pedagogy. Projects that engage parents and families, business and industry, and the use of technology are encouraged, as are projects focused on providing youth with a voice in their own education.

Anxious female math teachers???

I saw this on Deb Russell's Math blog on about.com . . . According to a research study at the Univesrity of Chicago, female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math may undermine girls' confidence and unwittingly encourage them to believe that boys are better at math than girls.

We need to work more diligently to hook our girls on math and help them understand that those positive attitudes go a long way to seeing success in math!

If you learned it, then you should have got a A on it . . .

I couldn't resist. This video was too cute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zGFqSji420

Math and Science Teachers! Need some classroom supplies???

I just got an email from the intern for the West Region of DonorsChoose.org letting me know about a funding opportunity specifically for teachers in Oakland Unified School District for Math and Science related projects.

DonorsChoose.org is an online nonprofit that connects public school teachers who need supplies for their classroom with donors who want to help. They are partnering with Chevron to 50% fund classroom projects that are posted by Oakland teachers on their website.

Projects should explain how the requested resources will help students with Math or Science. Visit www.donorschoose.org/teacher to post a project!

See below for her contact information if you have additional questions:

________________________________

Isabel Guenette

West Region Intern, DonorsChoose.org

323 Geary Street, Suite 419 | San Francisco, CA 94102

415.391.1192 | westintern@donorschoose.org

For Spanish Teachers

Keep up with Latin American politics (there is a lot of it!), art, music, print movie posters in Spanish (impress middle schoolers with the "nueva luna" poster from the twilight series . . . even a Sponge Bob crossword puzzle . . . It's all right here at Sr. Jones' blog Actualidades

Even if you don't teach Spanish, you will impress your friends and learn something from this cool blog.

Summer Classroom Management PD

Check out pics from our Summer Classroom Management Workshops created by Margaret Dunlap, director of Oakland Unified's Classroom Management Program.

Math Tricks

A kindergarten teacher sent this to me. I wish I knew these tricks in 5th grade! Check out some Math Tricks!
http://minionlinecourses.com/designslinks/math.htm