Art Exhibition

HOWEEDUZZIT GALLERY
Presents
“The Chair”
A Seat in the Imagination

September 14- October 5, 2008
Opening reception Sunday September 14 2:00 – 7:00 PM

by teacher and artist, Leigh Adams

- A moveable seat, with a back, for a single person
- Chair – derived from the Latin cathedra, designation of a church that was the seat of a bishop
- An emblem of authority
- An ordinary object to park our behind
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Author Day

Have a “real live” author come to your school. Schedule your AUTHOR DAY for this fall… starting in September.

Isabel Apodaca will come to your school on your ‘Author Day’ and read her recently published book, Mr. Worm, Señor Gusano to the student body. Her book is about a curious little apple worm that discovers he has been eating ‘magic’ apples from a special little apple tree. He goes through a miraculous transformation from worm to butterfly and Read more

Meet Isabel

The Mother of Empowerment - Isabel Apodaca was born in Grant County, New Mexico. She came to California at a very young age and lived most of her life in Los Angeles. She attended Santa Teresita Read more

Greetings

My name is Isabel Apodaca. I am a writer, speaker, storyteller, and a retired elementary school teacher. During my retirement, I want to contribute something to teachers that can be useful in the classroom. It gives me great pleasure to present to you the TEACHER NEWSLETTER. This newsletter is a network for teachers of all grade levels. You will receive interesting articles on Read more

Name Bingo

Teachers, welcome back. I hope you had a wonderful summer. Here is a lesson plan that works great for the first days of school. It can be used for any grade level.

Objectives:
Students will get to know their classmates.
Students will begin the year with a positive experience.

Materials:
Copies of the “Name Bingo” Game for each student
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Lesson Plan on Self Esteem

Grade Level: 4 – 6
Objective:
Students will:

• Open up and share about themselves
• Learn Positive Self-Talk
• Learn new “feeling” words
• Increase their level of self esteem
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Research on the Teaching Profession

Research has shown that teaching has an important and substantial impact on student achievement. A study using Texas data matching student gain scores to teachers demonstrated that individual teachers have a much stronger influence on student achievement than previously suspected (Hanushek, 1998)

Unfortunately, many teachers do not make it to retirement. Thirteen percent of new teachers leave public schools by the end of their second year and 22 percent leave by the end of their fourth year.
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Literacy Statistics

Over one million children drop out of school each year, costing the nation over $240 billion in lost earnings, forgone tax revenues, and expenditures for social services.

More than three out of four of those on welfare, 85% of unwed mothers and 68% of those arrested are illiterate. About three in five of America’s prison inmates are illiterate.
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Readers Theater

The simplest way to perform Reader’s Theater is for the teacher to assign parts and have the students stand in a straight line at the front of the room, facing the audience, parts in hand to read when it is their time.”

Use 4″ x 12″ tagboard name tags for each character and have the students hang them around their necks using strings and alligator clips.
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