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The Alice Fong Yu Alternative School
The Alice Fong Yu Alternative School, one San Francisco School, is the first Chinese immersion school in the United States. The school is designed as a two-way Chinese/English instructional environment. The school provides an outstanding educational experience for children of all backgrounds. All students at Alice Fong Yu develop competency in the Cantonese and English languages and use the two languages actively in the content curriculum. The school...
Sachem School District teachers completed another professional development activity thanks to the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. The program is called the Strategic Instructional Model (SIM) and looks at how teachers can improve literacy in low performing adolescents
The Strategic Instructional Model
Developed over 25 years of research, SIM works to help teachers recognize what lessons are of greatest importance and target those lessons towards a diverse group of...
In the first two parts, representing, adding, and subtracting numbers using base ten blocks were explained. The use of base ten blocks gives students an effective tool that they can touch and manipulate to solve math questions. Not only are base ten blocks effective at solving math questions, they teach students important steps and skills that translate directly into paper and pencil methods of solving math questions. Students who first use base ten blocks develop a stronger conceptual...
Base ten blocks are an excellent tool for teaching children the concept of addition because they allow children to touch and manipulate something real while learning important skills that translate well into paper and pencil addition. In this article, I will describe base ten blocks and how to use them to represent and add numbers.
The numbering system that children learn and the one most of us are familiar with is the base ten system. This essentially means that you can only use ten unique...
George Washington was the first president of the United States and considered one of the best.
George Washington is a much-admired person in many respects. As the first president of the United States, he set the course upon which the current three-branch system of federal government is based. George Washington is perhaps the one person who can most claim the title of Founding Father.
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Virginia. He was the son of well off plantation owner...
So its 1:30 am and there you are at the computer trying to refresh the email inbox page. The big test is tomorrow and your Professor still hasn't replied back, but why? Contrary to popular belief, that your Professor wants you to fail, the problem could stem from the fact that your email never reached him/her. Hence, the purpose of this guide is to show students how to write an effective email to their Professors.
The From Field
Always use your University or College email address when...
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As we continue the "Why Study Math" series of articles, here we
look at the conic section called the parabola. The parabola is
obtained by slicing a nap of the cone (see the other articles in
this series on this point) with a plane parallel to one of the
generators of the cone. In plain English, this means the
following: take a cone made out of styrofoam; draw a line from
the apex, or point, straight down to the base; on the opposite
side of this line, slice the cone with a knife, starting...
Getting into law school can be a very arduous task for aspiring
students. You need to start as early as your freshman year in
high school if you decide that being a lawyer is what you really
want to do for the rest of your life.
Do not be misled by the rosy portrayal of a lawyer’s life in
TV or in the movies. In real life, lawyers would have 12 to 18
working hours, especially for those who are aspiring to be
partners in their respective law firms.
In order to achieve your goal, first,...
Copyright 2006 Jason Bibb
The increasing popularity of replica watches is perfectly
explainable - we all want to purchase high quality merchandise,
prestigious items that define our style, but we do not want to
spend a fortune on them. This is why replica watches sell so
well - they deliver all the positive aspects of a premium watch,
but they often cost ten or fifteen times less than the original
model. The luxury watch market is in a fierce competition, and
so is the replica reseller...
One of the best things about modern times is that it has
presented people with plenty of options. Take, for example, the
case of education. Earlier if you wanted to obtain a degree then
it was expected that you would enroll yourself with a
university, attend the classes, give the exams and if you get
through them then you were awarded with a degree. This system
has its own defects. First and foremost, if someone is employed
and does not have time to attend classes then it is very
difficult...
If you are pretty talented at art you might not even consider
going to Art College. Why should you, anyway? You can draw like
the masters: Boticelli, Michaelangeo, Da Vinci. There wasn't a
landscape scene your brushes didn't like, and there wasn't any
portrait you couldn't draw. You can sketch anything that exists!
But as with any talent, you must have realized that this is one
big world we live in. There is always room for improvement, and
although your work might speak for itself, a...
In this article we're going to go over some birthdays that we
celebrate even though they're not ours or even somebody we know.
Birthdays. Some of us, especially if we're young, look forward
to them. Others, especially if we're not so young, look at
birthdays as a day of doom. But most people can probably agree
that celebrating somebody else's birthday is always fun because
you get to have your cake and eat it too, without aging that
horrible year. And the best other person's birthdays...
In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy, our nation's leaders began to
realize the full extent of potential threats to our national
security that exist both internally and abroad. This newfound
realization has resulted in the prioritization of security
measures that are designed to circumvent catastrophic events of
this magnitude. In order to avoid future lapses of national
security and combine the resources and communication protocols
of various agencies, the Department of Homeland Security was
created.
The...
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