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Dear STEP Parents,
Have you talked to your children about the races for party presidential nominations? If you have, what do they say? What do you have to say?
Ken Schwarz

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The distraction level is high these days. Amid all the historical hoopla surrounding the Presidential political campaigns, the NFL playoffs, and almost daily falls from grace of various sports and entertainment figures, let’s not forget the serious business of our individual and collective commitment to saving this planet.
Coming soon- around the end of January-and Earth [...]

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An instructor at a college in North Carolina has created a website with the goal of making science “cool” for kids. Take a look and encourage kids to check out Mop Top the hip hop scientist.

Click THIS link to enter the site. I’ve also placed a link to the right in our Blogroll, so that [...]

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Do you believe there is a relationship between your child’s intelligence and the development of mastery-oriented qualities ?
In a very interesting article in the online magazine Education World, a conversation with a Columbia University professor of psychology, Carol S. Dweck, highlighted the need for parents and educators to do everything necessary to encourage students [...]

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Hello again all….
Edublogs has given us a plethora of delicious options and I have been experimenting with the look of the site.   I like changing things around to get a different experience and to continue learning, but I think I like this new look. I’ve also gotten back some tools that I ‘lost’ with the last [...]

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I have been thinking about the fate of our students over the weekend. The lessons that I and the teachers and instructors have been trying to teach over the last month and a half seem to be regarded with disinterest.  Students still do not appear to know what they are here to do, or to [...]

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