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From: Ramsey.Imam@p3.f155.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Ramsey Imam)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.soc-studies
Subject: International History Exchange
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 16:55:16 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 3:633/155.3 - SECAP BBS, Clayton Vic


                 INTERNATIONAL HISTORY EXCHANGE

(Project proposal with Glen Waverley Secondary College, Vic Australia)

What do we teach our students about the history of other
countries and cultures?  Are we considering the attitudes,
feelings and beliefs of the people of those countries and
cultures when we investigate their histories?

The INTERNATIONAL HISTORY EXCHANGE links students from country to country and culture to culture, giving information to students from an area they do not have access to from books - real people!

This first hand knowledge acquistion gives students the
opportunity to compare their initial reactions with the attitudes of the people who are part of the culture being studied, then further develop their theories, going on to draw more relevant and accurate conclusions.

This world-wide exchange is available to all.  Any ideas or proposals for areas of study are considered; it only requires a match to be made for you to be up and running!

               Find out more today about how you can join the          INTERNATIONAL HISTORY EXCHANGE.

Ok folks, if you are interested in this idea or you know of somebody who might be, Email your expressions of interest to:
Ramsey Imam at 3:633/155.3
or Ramsey.Imam@p3.f155.n633.z3.fidonet.org

Regards from Australia!


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From: K12Net.Council@f223.n321.z1.fidonet.org (K12Net Council)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.soc-studies
Subject: Happy Holidays
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 16:23:38 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:321/223 - SchoolHouse BBS, Lanesboro MA

        *                      Happy Holidays
       * *
      *   *                    to everyone in
     *     *
    *       *                      K12Net
   *         *
  *-----------*         from the Council of Coordinators

           Gordon Benedict  Jack Crawford   John Feltham   Janet Murray
                 Rob Reilly    Gleason Sackmann  Mort Sternheim
              Helen Sternheim     Andy Vanduyne     Louis Van Geel




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From: Elizabeth.Sobie@f12.n246.z1.fidonet.org (Elizabeth Sobie)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.soc-studies
Subject: Peru
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 21:54:00 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:246/12 - The Staff Room, Windsor ON

Hi Becky
I am not answering your message about Peru.  I just want to tell you what my maiden name is -Pearsall! I have a sister and a brother and several cousins in the area (Ontario, Canada) but do not know of any other relatives in other parts of the country.
Contact me if you want to compare family trees.


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From: Tim.Adams@p0.f120.n231.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Adams)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.soc-studies
Subject: Exchange
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 14:33:01 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:231/120.0 - Someplace BBS, Indianapolis IN

Hello Michael:
     I am a Economics teacher in the state of Indiana in the U.S.A.
I would be real pleased to have an open forum on Economics with you and any 
of your classes.  In the state of Indiana it's economy is based upon 
agriculture and manufacturing.  I live in a community just east of 
Indianapolis our state capital.  Our state was one of the few who did not 
vote for new president Bill Clinton.  His economic policies are going to be 
tax and spend!  I am prepared to answer any questions or discuss anything 
you might want.

                                Yours truly,

                                Tim Adams
                                Mt. Vernon H.S.  
 

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From: tlong@rvgs.vak12ed.edu (Tom Long)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.soc-studies
Subject: LAW RELATED EDUCATION
Date: 2 Jan 93 12:32:43 GMT
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Roanoke)

Under the direction of the Virginia Institute for Law and
Citizenship Studies, School of Education, Virginia Commonwealth
University, 1015 W. Main St., Richmond, VA 23284-2020, a group
of K-12 teachers is developing curriculum, model lessons, and
workshop presentations promoting law related education (LRE).
This is a 2 year project that should complete most of its work
by the end of 1993.

I will appreciate comment on:

1.  What you see as important components of LRE.

2.  Model lesson that have be successful in classes K-12 and in
classes other than social studies.  Interdiciplinary lessons
would be great.

3.  Any other comments on LRE in your school.

You may post followups in this BBS or mail them to the
addresses above or below.

 APPLE/PROTERM/APPLE/PROTERM/APPLE/PROTERM/APPLE/PROTERM/APPLE
   Tom Long (tlong@rvgs.vak12ed.edu)               ,__o
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   Rt. 1, Box 124-A, Swoope, VA  24479
From: Michael.Brown@f328.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Michael Brown)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tag
Subject: SCHOOL DISTRICT BBS
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 11:54:01 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:260/328 - Galaxia!, Phoenix NY


Pete,
    I'm the library media specialist in an elementary school outside Syracuse,
 NY.  We're getting ready to start up our BBS soon.  K12 Net will be the heart
 of the system.  This is ALL VERY NEW to me, but I'm moving ahead with some good
 help.  I'm hoping to get our teachers involved first, then open it up to
 students and perhaps the larger community.  Hope all goes well for you.  Let
 me know what you learn.  Hope to talk again.

            Mike Brown



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From: K12Net.Council@f223.n321.z1.fidonet.org (K12Net Council)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tag
Subject: Happy Holidays
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 16:14:52 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:321/223 - SchoolHouse BBS, Lanesboro MA

        *                      Happy Holidays
       * *
      *   *                    to everyone in
     *     *
    *       *                      K12Net
   *         *
  *-----------*         from the Council of Coordinators

           Gordon Benedict  Jack Crawford   John Feltham   Janet Murray
                 Rob Reilly    Gleason Sackmann  Mort Sternheim
              Helen Sternheim     Andy Vanduyne     Louis Van Geel




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From: stsciuto@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (susan t sciuto)
Subject: 312
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:53:51 GMT
From: Michael.Brown@f328.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Michael Brown)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tag
Subject: Information Source
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 11:47:00 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:260/328 - Galaxia!, Phoenix NY


Barb,
    Hi, I'm the library media specialist in a K-3 elementary building in the
 town of Marcellus, just outside of Syracuse, NY.  We'll have K12 Net in the
 school within a few weeks.  This whole telecommunications thing is new to
 us.... Until we're up and running I can be contacted at the address of this
 message.  Anyway, our gifted and talented program goes up to grade 6.  I'll
 tell the teacher about your request and see if she can get in touch with you.
    Hope you can get a good project going.
            Mike Brown



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From: Grant.Wiseman@f40.n2310.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Wiseman)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tag
Subject: Pen-Pal
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 10:59:00 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2310/40 - EVSC BBS, Evansville IN

       Dear Kieth,
I dropped you a message earlier, and I know you are probably very busy.I just
have one question. Can you help a class of 27 kids and 1 teacher some
 pen-pals? Thanks! Froliech Weinachten!(Merry Christmas)


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From: David.Rahfeldt@p0.f23.n105.z1.fidonet.org (David Rahfeldt)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tag
Subject: Re: National Center for Tech Planning
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 21:13:48 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/23.0 - HI TECH TOOLS / Lib, Portland OR

I am NOT an educator.
 
I would NOT teachin public school systems as I have found so far, 
universally that that teachers are incompetent, poorly motivated, 
and simply a disaster!
 
(PLEASE PLEASE find me a school filled with Ph.D level staff who CHOOSE 

to teach grade school or high school as they are so well suppported 
by the system and infrastructure they find it stimulating, gratifying, 
and exciting to teach !!!)
 
(I will move my family near there in a heartbeat and apply for a job)
 
Frankly I think that TECHNOLOGY PLANNING is a GREAT idea... but a 
BETTER idea is requiring competency from teachers in the areas in 
which they teach!
 
For instandcce .... require that they pass the equivalent of a graduate 
departmental BEFORE being allowed into the classroom to dispense 
information to the students...
 
Having spent years stopping on classrooms and listening to various 
"GOOD" teachers I am shocked at the level of MIS-INFORMATION dispensed...
No wonder our ed system in in trouble and so is our country...
 
Youare making step in reight direction...
 
HOW CAN I HELP?
 
David Rahfeldt (Physicsist/ Pilot / engineer / Computer guru)



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From: Lori.Loranger@f114.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Lori Loranger)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tag
Subject: home education
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 15:58:26 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/114 - The Electronic Educ, Washougal WA

 JC> your girls interested in having pen pals with my girls. 
 JC> It would be great for our children to communicate with 
 JC> each other from different parts of the country. What do 
 JC> you think?  
My oldest daughter has penpals both electronically and the traditional way, and enjoys it a lot.  My little one's just starting to write, and has expressed a desire to get some penpals when she's able.
 JC> Who writes the portfolio review , you or the certified teacher ?
The portfolio is simply a collection of the child's work for the teacher
to review; this and an interview with the child should be enough for the teacher to write an assessment (in lieu of standard testing).
 JC> The school offcials don't have to see the evaluations 
 JC> at the end of every school year? Who determines a 
 JC> "deficiency"? Who  then knows about the deficiency and 
 JC> how do you reassure the officials the problem is resolved?
The only thing the officials are legally entitled to see each year is the "intent to homeschool" form, stating that the child is being homeschooled. I've never had to deal with this type of problem, but I believe that whatever certified (by the state) teacher does the assessment would identify any deficiency and arrange for a follow up evaluation of some kind.  Unless or until the deficiency is called to the state's attention (I honestly don't know if certified teachers are required to report this to the s



tate or not), it would be between the cert. teacher and the homeschooled family.
  The Washington Homeschool Organization probably has more specific info on dealings with the state in these areas- let me know if you want their address.
   Happy Homeschooling! -LL



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From: Ann.Bradford@f302.n321.z1.fidonet.org (Ann Bradford)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tag
Subject: Penpals
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 13:09:26 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:321/302 - SpaceMet South 1, Holyoke MA

Barb, I teach a G/T program for grade 4 students here in Agawam, MA.  Our students would be glad to correspond with yours.  Let me know details.  Best wishes in your work--it's SO needed and so appreciated by students and by their families!


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From: Stephanie.Porter@f734.n153.z1.fidonet.org (Stephanie Porter)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tag
Subject: 9Q  } W/}YO(
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 16:58:57 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:153/734 - ED-NET 9600, Vancouver BC

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From: Gary.Bandzmer@p0.f51.n140.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Bandzmer)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tag
Subject: Re: National Center for Tech Planning
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 01:56:15 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:140/51.0 - SaskTel P.A.C.M.I.D, Prince Albert Sask

 
 
 
I'm really not too sure what you're talking about,
but I agree with one thing: most "educators" in the
institutions of education are as dry, rigid and
un-inspiring as the very walls of the institutions
themselves.
 
In my books, "learning" is a process which must involve
the "whole" person, not just a specialized fragment of
their cerebral hemispheres.  Humans are not "robots"
meant to be programmed to perform boring tasks or even
lifeless calculations like the sterile amber moniter
I'm staring into right now.  We're very much more...
and all that "more" is just waiting there to be explored.
 
Our spirits, emotions and psyches are intimately and
delicately tied together to embrace the most fantastic
and far-reaching sensations and perceptions in life.
 
All else is a mindless chore, and a waste of precious
Human Time.  For all else, we may as well be dogs
performing in a circus, or "educators" barfing up
packaged rhetoric to be assimilated like junk food and
barfed up again at exam time.
 
Life is for Celebration, and true education teaches
us how to Celebrate, how to recapture the whole of
our spirits... before our little Timex watches
peeter out for the last time...
 
See you in the hot seat... 


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From: Ben.Samford@f6506.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Ben Samford)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tag
Subject: Re: PEN PALS
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 13:00:03 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:124/6506 - BBS AMERICA/3RS BBS, Richardson TX

Dear Paul,
   
     I read your message about being pen pals with other people.  I would really like to be your pen pal over this Bulletin Board System. I enjoy writing stories too , right now I am working on a book about a boy who is a detective and solves a mystery about a ghost in his attic.  Are you in the Reflections program?  I am working on a project in photography for that program.                                      Sincerely,
                                                  Ben Samford


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From: Soozi.Miller@f17.n3400.z1.fidonet.org (Soozi Miller)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.special
Subject: Special Education Funding
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:35:04 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3400/17 - MET NET BBS, Helena MT


Montana is considering changing the way that Special Education state money is distributed.  They are strongly looking at the Vermont funding model.  I work for a special education cooperative which provides specialists to several school districts in a large region. We serve 5-counties which equals an area the size of the state of W.Virginia and 35 school districts.
The info on the Vermont model indicates that funding for such entities as ours fluxuates greatly. Is there anyone out there who can tell me more about how this model works?  Our special education programs are presently funded by a "child count" system.   Thanks.  Soozi


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From: Tim.Ames@f734.n153.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Ames)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.special
Subject: Re: BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 18:03:49 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:153/734 - ED-NET 9600, Vancouver BC

Soozi, I am reading your message on 12/13/92, and so if I don't get our IEP 
sent to you by next week, I will do it after X-mas break. Hasta el ano. Tim


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From: Tim.Ames@f734.n153.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Ames)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.special
Subject: Re: GANG
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 18:18:24 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:153/734 - ED-NET 9600, Vancouver BC

Hi again Mary, I am interested in the Vietnamese culture since my students 
are very careful about what they are willing to say. We have talked about 
religion, and though they are Buddhist, they seem to know very little about 
what Buddhism is about. We have also talked about our earliest memories, and 
one of my students refuses to discuss them at all; he is very slowly becoming 
willing to reveal himself to staff or other students. Tell me more. Tim


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From: Tim.Ames@f734.n153.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Ames)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.special
Subject: Re: EMOTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 18:14:29 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:153/734 - ED-NET 9600, Vancouver BC

Hi Mary, We have 5 staff people at our school of 20-24 students. Two are 
paid by the Vancouver School Board, and three are paid for by our non-profit 
society. We all do counselling even though 3 of us are "teachers" and 2 are 
"counsellors". I do a drug and alcohol group that lasts about 10 hours total 
time, but many of our kids drink and do marijuana, hashish, and coke to 
varying degrees, so it is constantly dealt with. Our rule is that a student 
has to be clear headed during school hours, so if a kid comes stoned or 
mentally trashed from recent taking of drugs [incl. alcohol], they are sent 
out for the day. If it happens too frequently, they must come in with their 
guardian [parent, social worker or house parent] and talk about why they want 
to be in school [ this is before they are allowed to attend class again].
If you want to visit our school, phone the Phoenix Program at 604-253-1505 
and talk to Lou Fisher [our Program Director]. Tell him that I have invited 
you to visit through Ed_Net. Looking forward to a visit from you. Tim
 

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From: K12Net.Council@f223.n321.z1.fidonet.org (K12Net Council)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.special
Subject: Happy Holidays
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 16:26:48 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:321/223 - SchoolHouse BBS, Lanesboro MA

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       * *
      *   *                    to everyone in
     *     *
    *       *                      K12Net
   *         *
  *-----------*         from the Council of Coordinators

           Gordon Benedict  Jack Crawford   John Feltham   Janet Murray
                 Rob Reilly    Gleason Sackmann  Mort Sternheim
              Helen Sternheim     Andy Vanduyne     Louis Van Geel




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From: Tim.Ames@f734.n153.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Ames)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.special
Subject: Re: BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 18:01:26 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:153/734 - ED-NET 9600, Vancouver BC

Carol, Read your message on 12/13/92. If I dont't get it done by the X-mas 
break, I will send our IEP form out to you in January.


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From: Don.Boring@f111.n207.z1.fidonet.org (Don Boring)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.special
Subject: Learning Disabled Boy Age 6
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 20:55:50 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:207/111 - Gentle Rain Forum, Claremont CA

To all Special Education Professionals
    I have been trained in Special Education Skills although I am
not using them professionally at this time.  I have a 6 year old
Hispanic step-son who was born into a Spanglish speaking house hold.
He appears to have moderate to severe learning disabilities with an
emotional overlay problem that "flairs" up occasionally.  He has
been to the neurologist, and no concrete problems have been pinned
down. He is apparently not ADD since a trial treatment with Cylert
turned out to be a horrendous experience for the little guy.  He was
awake for a full 48 hours and enganged in hallucinatory behavior during the late morning hours (verified, since his mom and grandma
stayed up with him throughout this ordeal).  We have continued to
work with him on his letters and numbers, and his recognition of
letters and matching them on the keyboard has improved in his second
year in Kindergarten.  He is mostly a well behaved little guy, but
occasionally gets so out of control that his mother and I don't know
what to do with him other than isolate him, and treat him with
Cough syrup.   I am afraid that the school district he is in, although well funded by most standards, is trying to abandon him and
not offer a full range of classes.  His speech delays are being treated by a (1) twenty minute session with the therapist per week, but with the retirement of an older, more seasoned professional, and
her replacement with a "rookie", I fear he is not getting the help he
needs, or deserves.  What strategies do you recommend to make certain that the School District fulfills its obligations to the young man under the provisions of the law.  Thanks,   Don Boring  Glendora, CA.


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From: bx472@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Collyer)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.special
Subject: Re: IDEA Transition Regulations
Date: 28 Dec 1992 15:08:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Texs started Individual Transition Plan (ITP) a few years ago.  This process
is very useful to all.  The ITP is just a formal method to what people were
doing for students.  ITP is useful for not just the student but also 
program development.  My concern is not with the student/parent but the
participation of the other agencies.

The other agencies are not responsible for anything.  I don't like writing
into an IEP action of another agency that will not be held to provide the
service and the poor district is left with the financial responsibility to
pay for another agency's program.  IDEA has no hold on the other agencies
just schools.

Texas schools are like all the other schools where we are the one 
responsible for the activites of all other agencies.  Schools can't be the
only provides to disabled students.
From: Graham.Gales@f369.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Graham Gales)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.special
Subject: Sites of significance
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 08:54:48 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 3:633/369 - City Limits BBS, Boronia Vic

I am interested in trying to travel to the North American continent to see how disabled students use computers to gain greater ciommunication with their pee5rs and to have greater participation
in the curriculum.
The reason that I am writing this is to see whether anyone there could direct me to places and peopole who may be able to assist in the planning of my itinerary.
I would be especially interested in names and addresses of appropriate contacts.
If anyone reads this from another continent, I would also be interested in hearing about any such sites from other locations
I hope that you get the gist of what I am trying to say ...
it does not read quite right to me ...
Perhaps the simplest suggestion is to say "Where are there good things happening with disabled students (intellectual and physical) and computers?"


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