by Lisa Dabbs | Apr 1, 2013 | Posts
Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22. It’s an annual event held worldwide to demonstrate support for ecological awareness. The April 22 date was designated as International Mother Earth Day by a consensus resolution adopted by the United Nations in...
by Lisa Dabbs | Mar 25, 2013 | Posts
Last October we brought Susan Fulginiti of the Georgia-Pacific team to join our weekly New Teacher Chat #ntchat to talk about how Georgia-Pacific enables teachers to bring conservation to the classroom. GP has practiced conservation throughout their history. As...
by Lisa Dabbs | Mar 4, 2013 | Posts
“Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought or an event.” — Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Educational Consultant, Curriculum Designers, Inc. Web 2.0 tools are online software...
by Lisa Dabbs | Feb 15, 2013 | Kindness, Posts
Βethan via Compfight This week through the celebration of Random Acts of Kindness Week, we’ve visited the need to reinforce the power of being kind in our everyday lives. And…there’s still 3 more days to go! As one who has not always been on the...
by Lisa Dabbs | Feb 14, 2013 | Posts
Today is my grandmother’s birthday. She was born on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1914. Her name was Carmen. At 16. Carmen, is a beautiful, confident young woman. She immigrated from Mexico to the United States. She had a brilliant mind. This is a photo of...