Archive for November 5th, 2008

Making social studies more relevant for rural students

Third grade social studies teacher, Sun Huiguo, recently taught a great lesson on map-making and directions, with little help from the curriculum or textbook.  In a unit on “My Family”, one lesson is devoted to the geographic location of students’ homes and directions for getting there.  The textbook asks students to draw and describe the [...]

Today is a Day for Change

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today marks a great change. A change that we have been waiting for for a long, long time. A change that will alter the very way we perceive things.
Today is a day for inclusiveness. Today is a day to bring people together so that they may reading off the same page. Because today [...]