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Inauguration Day: Ten activities to help your students learn about and commemorate this historic event.

Math Games With Joanne and Jane: �What�s The Difference?� teaches subtracting 3-digit numbers.

Martin Luther King Jr.: More than 20 lessons that teach students about King's life and legacy. Plus countless teaching resources.

Writing Bug: Describe snow to someone who has never seen snow.

Early Childhood Theme: Mark the beginning of a new year with fun.

I Do Solemnly Swear: A lesson plan for grades 3-5 in which 55 presidential inaugurations are investigated.

Sites to See: This week's sites are among the best on the Web for teaching about presidential inaugurations.

Miguel Guhlin: Writing an AUP must be a collaborative, transparent process that facilitates conversation.

Gadget of the Week: With Poll Daddy, users can create and administer a one-question poll.

Focus On� Programs: Programs that are working in schools just like yours.

School Foundations Help Out in Hard Times: In many communities, a school foundation picks up where board of ed funding leaves off. Included: Tips for starting a foundation.

Pete Hall: Remember when there was a line of students awaiting punishments outside your office door? Oh, you mean that happens every day?

Diane Hodges: Fun with food #4: a year of food celebrations.

The Principal Poet: You�ve heard of the Don�t Call List. How about the �Don�t Call On Me List�?

Take Five for� Finding and supporting substitute teachers.

Do You See What I Mean? Teaching students to interpret and create visual, digital, and audio media in a contemporary culture.

Introducing Tesselations: Students create tessellations from regular and irregular polygons.

Holiday Worksheets: Check out our Christmas and Hanukkah worksheets.

Gadget of the Week: Fodey�s newspaper clip generator is a great solution for enticing reluctant writers.

Brenda�s Blog: Brenda Dyck discusses a new suite of tools for teachers called Google for Educators.

Nancy Willard: Why teens make poor choices.

Starr Points: Dear Santa: A holiday wish list for schools.

Education Humor With Regina Barreca: Just drop my masking tape and no one will get hurt.

Repaying the Kindness of Strangers: A teacher who survived the 2004 tsunami goes back to help those who helped her.

Read About It: What is a teacher researcher?

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