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Facebook Safety For Your Family & Children

I get allot of emails and questions on my profile about the real safety issues with social media and their families. I see a trend of parents already allowing supervised use of social media sites so that they can communicate with their extended family like grandparents, aunts and uncles. Though it my seem to be harmless, this practice of letting kids under 12 is going to open up a can of worms unless privacy settings within the social media site are set correctly.

Each social media site has great privacy settings that most people don’t know exist like blocking friendship requests, hiding important information to the public like e-mail address and personal locations like city, town, schools etc..

Parents that do allow their kids to participate should also be vigilant with the profile because even though you might allow them to communicate with a chosen few, it’s not the content that “they” would post, but that their friends might post. What?

If you know that the circles of friends that you have selected as people that your kids can participate with are aware of the kids being present, they will watch what they post. But the friends of those friends might not know and therefore when they post comments and they are not knowledgeable about who’s watching and that’s when the issues start to come up. Read the remainder of this entry »

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High school is a time to make friends, get good grades, participate in activities and prepare for the future. Unfortunately, due to budget cuts, some schools have opted out of high school sports, believing that money would be better spent on academics. I understand that academics come first, but sacrificing high school sports lessens every child’s high school experience, their ability to perform at optimum academic levels and develop into a well-rounded adult.

The Importance of High School Sports Can Be Found in Elementary School

During a child’s elementary school years, children typically lose their recess privileges as a consequence to poor behavior.

High School Sports Promote Bonding and Encouragement

When youth participate in high school sports they release endorphins which helps decrease depression and increases energy. High school sports increase bonding between children and their parents when parents help with skills and come to games to cheer their child on. Read the remainder of this entry »

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How to Help Fading (and Failing) Students End the Year

How to Help Fading

How to Help Fading

Every human being loves the end of the school year, especially the teachers and students. The parents, maybe not so much.

The reason I like the end of the year so much is because it is such a clean break. At no point during the regular school year do I feel anything but an impending sense of doom every day when I get home from work. I am always behind and playing a game of catch-up. Unfortunately, the game only comes to an end one day a year-sometime in June. Aside from summer break, the rest of my life is spent wishing I had more time to grade papers, prepare effective lessons, and work on curriculum.

Of course I never get to do any of these things with summer comes the promise of TIME. I’ll have time to finally read those books. I always say I’m going to. I’ll have enough space to kick my heels up and think about improving my Fahrenheit 451 Unit. I won’t have deadlines to meet with my coordinator positions and I won’t have to worry about planning any field trips. And the most important, there aren’t any papers to grade.

The end of the year isn’t here yet, and there are a lot of students out there crawling their way to the finish. So what do we do about the senior who has already signed their letter of intent but now has a D in your class? What do we do about the Sophomore who had an A all year but is now chilling with a C, and therefore won’t get into Honors? And what do we do about the childs who have had Fs all year, are going to get an F for sure, and Every human being knows it?

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