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Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.6 No.4 April 2009

Cover Story by Alfie Kohn
When “21st-Century Schooling” Just Isn’t Good Enough: A Modest Proposal
Are we serious about educating students for the global competitive economy of the future?


Earth Day Special Article:
GE Project Plant-A-Bulb
Give the planet the gift of flowers for Earth Day....


Harry & Rosemary Wong: Effective Teaching
The Tools for Success


Columns
»Actively Involve Every Reader—Ten Easy Ideas! Sue Gruber
»Motivating Children Leah Davies
»Multiple Working Hypotheses Todd R. Nelson
»Eliciting vs. Punishments Marvin Marshall
»The Busy Educator's Monthly Five Marjan Glavac
»Tattle Tales and Classroom Helpers Barbara Pressman
»Tips for Travel to France or Italy with Students Josette Bonafino
»Too Much Parent Involvement? Can It Be? Dorothy Rich
»Return to Sender & The Neon Necklace Rick Morris
»Be Your Own Mentor: Reflect Hal Portner

Articles
»Getting Your Students' Work Published Alan Haskvitz
»At Risk Students: Victims of Miseducation and Failure Bill Page
»Teachers – Healing Broken Lives Graysen Walles
»Get Smart! Doodle! Tim Newlin
»A Dozen Ways to Build a Caring Classroom Community Susan Fitzell
»April 2009 Writing Prompts James Wayne
»Using Photographs To Inspire Writing VI Hank Kellner
»Quality in School Systems Panamalai R. Guruprasad
»Problems With 9th Grade Euclidian Geometry Stewart E. Brekke
»Multisensory/Kinesthetic Alphabet ActivitiesJeanine Horner

Features
»Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes Barb Stutesman
»Today Is... Daily Commemoration Ron Victoria
»The Lighter Side of Teaching
»Teacher Blogs Showcase
»Guided Reading in Kindergarten (printable)
»Printables - Happy Earth Day, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands, Portable Word Wall, Earth Day Every Day Award, Bringing Choices to Light, and April - May Calendar
»Photo Tour: 3rd Grade Classroom, Red Creek, NY
»Lessons, Activities, Theme ideas: Earth Day, Mother’s Day, Paul Revere, Spring, Easter, more!
»Featured Lesson: Outdoor Activities/Nature
»Meet Bill Martin Jr. and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Creative Quotes from Shakespeare, Massive Ant Colony Uncovered! AMAZING science!, Tim Hawkins - Cletus Take the Reel, Lovefield, and Dolphin Bubbles: An Amazing Behavior
»Live on Teachers.Net: April 2009
»Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers
»Wisdom for the pain? Why Did You Do It? Why Pursue National Board Certification?


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Alan Haskvitz

Archive | Biography | Resources | Discussion

Getting Your Students’ Work Published

Dozens of sites where students’ creativity can be shared with the world!
by National Hall of Fame Educator
Alan Haskvitz

Continued from page 1
April 1, 2009

For those 13 and under who want to submit music, art, or writing, Kids’Space is worthwhile. Especially interesting is BeansTalk where kids create a picture book while cooperating with other children on the ‘net. A child can send either a picture or a story that goes with another child's work. www.kids-space.org/index.html.

For those under 16, KidsWWrite is a good place to post poetry or prose at www.kalwriters.com/kidswwwrite/write.html and Mama Lisa’s World is looking for songs and nursery rhymes to publish. www.mamalisa.com/?t=e_submit_song.

If you just want to turn your child’s work into a printable book, this popular site has templates and is very easy to use and offers a variety of tips to help the student improve their English skills. www.readwritethink.org/materials/stapleless/index.html.

Stone Soup is a more discerning publisher for work done by children up to age 13. You need to send the work by mail for consideration; email is not accepted. For more details check www.stonesoup.com/send-work.

Teen Ink takes poetry, essays, and stories and places them in a magazine that is distributed in classrooms by English teachers. The site is aimed at teenagers. www.teenink.com/About/.

The Write Source is interested in writings for publication in its handbook or on its websites. All grade levels are sought and the best gets a Savings Bond. www.thewritesource.com/publish.htm.

Poetry publishing from all grade levels can be sent to the Writer’s Slate, www.writingconference.com/writer%27s.htm.

Acrostic poems are published at www.holycross.edu/departments/socant/
dhummon/acrostics/acrostics.html
and Haiku at homepage2.nifty.com/haiku-eg/. General poems are taken at Fern’s Poetry Club, pbskids.org/arthur/games/poetry/.

Environmental poetry and art is sought from The Environmental Art and Poetry Gallery at kids.niehs.nih.gov/gallery.htm. For polished poets the Poetry. Com site offers contests www.poetry.com/.

A site that offers a huge number of opportunities to publish in its online newspaper is ZuZu. Articles, reviews, art, photos and other works can be submitted. www.zuzu.org/contents.html.

There are several magazines that carry work, but the competition is keen and frequently they are submitting work against adult writers. Check out Cricket Magazine and MidLink Magazine as examples. There are lists of children’s publishers at www.manuscriptediting.com/publishers-children.htm and www.publishingcentral.com/subject.html?sid=86&si=1.

Scholastic has a terrific site that helps students learn how to write in a variety of genres as it offers youngsters tips from professional writers… very worthwhile and a good starting place for young writers. teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm.

If all else fails, sending in photographs of the family pet is perfect for Pet of the Day at petoftheday.com/submit/.

For a more complete list of places that publish the work of young people go to www.reacheverychild.com/feature/kids_publish.html.

[Editor’s note: Another free site, one where students can post their drawings to share for noncommercial use, or browse the work of other amateur and professional artists: timtim.com]



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About Alan Haskvitz...

Alan Haskvitz teaches at Suzanne Middle School in Walnut, Calif., and makes staff development presentations nationwide. In addition, he serves as an audio-visual evaluator and design consultant for his county department of education; a tutor to multi-cultural students in English and art; and an Internet consultant.

Haskvitz's career spans more than 20 years. He has taught every grade level and core subject, has been recognized repeatedly for innovative teaching and has received the following honors, among many:

  • USA Today All Star Teacher
  • 100 Most Influential Educators
  • Reader's Digest Hero in Education
  • Learning Magazine's Professional Best
  • National Middle Level Teacher of the Year
  • National Exemplary Teacher
  • Christa McAuliffe National Award
  • Robert Cherry International Award for Great Teachers
In addition, Haskvitz publishes articles on successful educational practices and speaks at conferences. He has served on seven national committees and boards.

Haskvitz maintains credentials and training in special and gifted education, history, administration, bilingual education, journalism, English, social studies, art, business, computers, museumology and Asian studies. He holds these credentials for Canada, New York and California. His experience also includes staff development, gifted curriculum design, administration, community relations and motivation. His background includes 10 years of university education.

As a teacher, Haskvitz's curriculum increased CAP/CLAS test scores from the 22nd percentile to the 94th percentile, the largest gain in California history. In addition, Haskvitz and his students work continuously to improve their school and community. His students' work is often selected for awards in competitions in several subject areas. For more details about Alan and his students' work, visit his page on the Educational Cyber Playground.

Haskvitz works tirelessly to improve and advance his profession, which is why he developed Reach Every Child. http://www.reacheverychild.com/


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