Do You Know What Your Child Is Reading?

May 14, 2008 – 7:27 pm
By Tiffany Bradley That time of year is approaching when schools send home a list of recommended or required books for summer reading. Trusting parents often take these lists as blanket approval of a book’s quality and content and dutifully take their children to the local library or bookstore to start their summer reading. In our electronic world, adults are often so thrilled when children pick up a book to read that they don’t consider the content as they would another activity. Plus, today’s busy parents rarely have the time it takes to oversee or preview all the books their children read! Parenting a child who reads “above grade level” is wonderful until you realize books that are challenging in vocabulary and comprehension usually include situations which simply are not age appropriate. So what is your child reading and how do you know what the book is about? Several years ...

Peters says teamwork, integrity are key to professional success

May 12, 2008 – 6:50 pm
04/25/2006 Eufaula Tribune - State school board member Betty Peters on Thursday praised Wallace Community College students from the Sparks Campus for their individual achievements. Yet she told the students the key to success in the real world will be their ability to work as a team with others. Peters was the featured speaker at Wallace's Honors Day at First United Methodist Church in Eufaula. "As you bask in the glow of today, I would like to direct your thinking on what is ahead for you and what you will do with your life," Peters said. "As you grow older and progress in your profession, you will see that you are never alone. "We are all part of a team, and what we do impacts the rest of them." Peters also stressed the importance of integrity in life and in the workplace. "The character of our country is the sum of the character of ...

Faith guides artist down new path

May 11, 2008 – 6:36 am
May 11, 2008 Dothan Eagle There are a lot of things Joan Weems shouldn’t be able to do. She shouldn’t be able to move her arms let alone use her hands, but she does. One hand is better than the other, but she’s adapted to life with a dominate left hand. She shouldn’t be able to move her feet or feel sensation in her legs. She’s not even supposed to feel her butt cheeks. Yet, she can. And she definitely shouldn’t be able to paint. But she does. “I love art so much,” Weems said. “Every material is just excitement to me. There’s not a medium I don’t love or relate to.” Before June 1, 2005, Joan Weems had a good life. Happily married. A teaching career at Northview High School. Her own art. And a second career of sorts providing art therapy at Living Waters Counseling Center, a Christian-based counseling center in Headland. She felt she was ...

Sea change in our educational culture

July 24, 2006 – 8:09 pm
July 24, 2006 Please access the article at its source since there are so many cross links involved. Moving at the Speed of Creativity

The Flickering Mind

January 26, 2004 – 6:03 am
January 26, 2004 NPR This audio segment is based on Todd Oppenheimer's book: "The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved". The Flickering Mind