School will be closed on Thursday, December 24, 2009 and will reopen on Monday, January 4, 2010.
On behalf of the Asbury Park Education Association Executive Committee, we want to wish you and your family, a very safe and happy holiday season.
APEA WINTER CELEBRATION AT
THE WONDER BAR
Friday, December 18, 2009
Ocean Ave., Asbury Park
Time: 3:00-?
Price: $10.00 for APEA Members
$30.00 for Non Members
(2 drink tickets, buffet dinner, dancing w/ DJ)
Your ticket and wrist band must be picked up at the place of purchase the day of the party. YOU MUST HAVE YOUR WRISTBAND ON TO ENTER!
The AP (11/25, Gross) reports that the current financial crisis has made economics “more relevant and immediate to many high school and college students, and they are suddenly paying closer attention in class. … Instructors are delighted by the opportunity to use the dramatic events on Wall Street to explain concepts students might otherwise find dry, such as liquidity and Federal Reserve monetary policy.” The AP adds, “At Plano West Senior High School in a prosperous Dallas suburb, Advanced Placement economics teacher Sally Meek said her students keep veering off into politics and policy, debating the presidential candidates’ plans during the election and grappling with questions of how big a role government should take in trying to turn around the economy.” Also, the “Arizona Council on Economic Education is helping teachers design classes based on the current financial crisis.”
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New York’s Post-Standard (11/24, O’Toole) reported that according to Harrison Yang, professor of curriculum and instruction at the State University College at Oswego, “Rapidly changing technology is a challenge for many teachers.” As such, “students training to become teachers are required to take courses that teach them how to integrate new technologies into the classroom, Yang said.” In North Syracuse, schools “are keeping up with the ever-changing technology” by enrolling “eighth-graders…in a hands-on interactive computer course that aims to teach them tools needed to be successful in and out of the classroom.” A digital communications class teaches students to “format reports and newsletters; create graphs, tables, charts and spreadsheets; design documents; and use digital tools, including Weblogs, Wikis, Blackboard, podcasting computers and iPods.” The Post-Standard list examples of ways other school districts in Central New York are keeping up with technology.
Massachusetts’s South Coast Today (11/25, Gonet) reports that fifth-graders in Debra Suprenant’s science class at Betsey B.
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APEA Winter Celebration at THE WONDER BAR
Friday, December 18, 2009
Ocean Ave., Asbury Park
Time: 3:00-? Price: $10.00 for APEA Members
$30.00 for Non Members
(2 drink tickets, buffet dinner, dancing w/ DJ)
Your ticket and wrist band must be picked up at the place of purchase the day of the party. YOU MUST HAVE YOUR WRISTBAND ON TO ENTER!
• Tickets go on sale December 1. • Tickets must be purchased by Fri. Dec. 11. • No tickets will be sold at the door! • The Wonder Bar is closed to the public.