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May 2010
Sharon M. Valente |
Assessing patients for suicide risk This article will help you update your knowledge of suicide risk factors and prevention strategies, and provide guidelines for effective intervention.   |
T.H.E. Journal
February 1, 2010
Vanessa Hua |
Scare Tactics In April, as public fears about a mysterious new strain of flu grew, the Los Angeles Unified School District moved to forestall a panic. Many districts are using technology solutions to respond to emergencies such as this. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 7, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Netbooks All Around Missouri-based North Kansas City Schools with a total of 18,000 students, kicked off its 1:1 initiative about two years ago in an effort to equip all 5,600 of its high school students with netbooks. |
American Family Physician
November 1, 2003
Stovall & Domino |
Approaching the Suicidal Patient In an attempt to help the family physician prevent suicide, this article reviews known risk factors and offers a strategy for assessing and addressing these factors in individual patients. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 25, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Bolstering Support for High Needs Students with Technology For teachers in the Thunder Bay (Ontario) Catholic School District, it's not a question of if they will get the chance to teach an autistic or "high-needs" student. It's a matter of when it will happen. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2009
Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2009
Charlene O'Hanlon |
Safe at Home Combining high-tech safeguards with face-to-face user education is a must for schools whose laptop programs allow students to take the computers off-site. |
PHONE+
July 20, 2009 |
Case Study: LifeSize Takes Teachers to Class With looming budget cuts, one school district turns to video communication to keep teachers connected for professional development, staff meetings, and training sessions. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 8, 2010
Jennifer Demski |
Winning Back Homeschoolers With the defection of local families causing a steep dip in enrollment, a rural Ohio district goes virtual to stem the tide. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2009
Jeff Weinstock |
Data-Driven Decision-Making: Mission Accomplished Two districts, one goal: to use data to drive decision-making. Both have achieved breakthroughs, discovering new ways to draw insights from student performance, and then step in to better it. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 1, 2010
Rama Ramaswami |
Nothing to LOL About Schools fear the predatory behavior that lurks around social networking sites can make users sitting ducks for hackers, thieves, cyberbullies, and scammers. So they're caught in what appears to be an all-or-nothing choice. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2009
Jennifer Demski |
Assess. Instruct. Repeat. In response to new federal rules mandating organizations retain their electronic documents, districts are using outside providers to archive their in-house e-mails. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2009
Charlene O'Hanlon |
Title I-- and Then Some School districts are getting creative in finding ways to finance technology purchases, blending Title I dollars with money from numerous other funding sources. |
Job Journal
February 13, 2005
Rich Heintz |
Positive Outlook for Mental Health Careers Passage of Prop 63 in California offers hope of a hiring boom. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 28, 2009
Scott Aronowitz |
Pearson Launches Early Warning System for At-Risk Students In an effort to help schools combat the decision by at-risk students simply to "give up" and drop out, Pearson has launched Prevent, a data-driven software system designed to give early-warning alerts to educators. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 1, 2010
Christine Fox |
Alabama Gets on Board The changes seen in the Roanoke City Schools in the four years since Tools for Life was launched are remarkable. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2009
Jennifer Demski |
Facebook Training Wheels A secured social networking site allows schools to incorporate the technology into academics while preparing students for the perils of online communities. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 9, 2009
Sara Stroud |
A New Way Forward Tech-based solutions, such as tools for teaching kids how to recognize facial expressions, are giving educators a means of helping autistic students acquire basic life skills. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2006
Matt Miller |
Staying Connected Is a 'Breeze' An ed-tech specialist explains how a versatile Web conferencing tool is helping his sprawling district remove the distance between teachers, administrators, and staff. |
Job Journal
May 28, 2006
Rich Heintz |
Do You Have a Head for Mental Health Work? Would working in the field of mental health make you happy? Here is a look at some professions. |
T.H.E. Journal
December 3, 2009
Bridget McCrea |
Keeping on Task in a Digital Environment It doesn't take much to disrupt an entire high school classroom and get a student off task, particularly when that student is using a desktop or laptop computer to finish a lesson. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 8, 2010
Jeff Weinstock |
Left to Their Own Devices Cienega High in Vail, AZ launched a bring-your-own-laptop program in about a dozen classes. |
Psychology Today
Jul/Aug 2008
Taylor Clark |
Plight of the Little Emperors Coddled from infancy and raised to be academic machines, China's only children expect the world. Now they're buckling under the pressure of their parents' deferred dreams. |
Salon.com
May 26, 2000
Dawn MacKeen |
Shrinks under scrutiny Should shrinks probe the violent fantasies of patients? They often don't. And that failure can be tragic. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 9, 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Computer Science Courses Show Steep Decline... Students to Take on Challenge to Change the World... Avermedia Announces Stimulus Promotion... etc. |
American Journal of Nursing
September 2011
Schmid et al. |
Care of the Suicidal Pediatric Patient in the ED: A Case Study At Childrens Hospital Boston, an algorithm-the Risk of Suicidality Clinical Practice Algorithm has been developed to ensure evidence-based care supported by best practice guidelines. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2009
Matt Eckel |
Logging On With... After 40 years of serving Broward County schools, the educator turned politician Robert Parks remains a force for technology integration. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2010
John K. Waters |
Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 27, 2010
Reinhard Kargl |
Getting an Earful Classroom audio systems have become a must-include component of comprehensive technology upgrades. The point is not just to give more oomph and clarity to teachers' voices, but to have sound quality worthy of the video now commonly streaming to their computers. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2, 2009
David Nagel |
Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree. |
Information Today
February 19, 2015 |
New Bill Could Increase Students' Technology Access Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) proposed a bill that would allow teachers, principals, and district leaders to upgrade their curricula to emphasize technology as an avenue for student achievement. |
Salon.com
May 25, 2000
J.B. Orenstein |
Who will care for the crazy? She was 18 and had been found hanging by a noose. But the moment I saw her insurer, I knew she was one of the lucky ones. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 17, 2010
David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2009
Paula Jacobs |
Power Grab Facilities departments combine sophisticated technologies with ordinary common-sense steps to shave dollars and kilowatts off energy consumption. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2009
Jeff Weinstock |
Logging On With... A veteran district superintendent looks to his students' future with stars in his eyes. |
ifeminists
January 20, 2004
K.C. Wilson |
Killing Men Why do men commit suicide more often than women do? |
T.H.E. Journal
April 1, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
It Goes Both Ways The days of using the internet as merely a one-way supplier of news are over. With social media tools encouraging a back- and-forth exchange of information, parents, alumni, and other stakeholders can participate directly in the life of their school. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 29, 2009
David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2008
Sean Portnoy |
Working Hand in Hand Alliances between school districts and community-based organizations are serving students in ways that neither group can do alone. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 1, 2010
Jennifer Demski |
They're Taking Requests: Student Techs Command the Help Desk Varun Kumar, the technology coordinator at William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens, NY, has it good. His workforce consists of Bryant High students, members of the Mouse Squad, a student-based IT support program. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 8, 2010
Jennifer Grayson |
Virtual P.E.? NO SWEAT! Tammy Cowan still chokes up every time she tells the story of how one student's life was forever changed by enrolling in her online gym class. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 28, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Wisconsin District To Launch Online School Howard-Suamico School District of Green Bay, WI, has announced it will partner with Kaplan Virtual Education to launch Bay Port iAcademy to provide full- and part-time online education opportunities to middle school and high school students throughout the state. |
Registered Rep.
March 19, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Risks of Independence When parents realize that they haven't saved nearly enough money for college, some of them start wondering how their college-bound teenagers could qualify as independent students. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 26, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
California District Implements Writing Program Throughout Elementary Schools Stanislaus Union School District in Stanislaus, CA, reported that it implement Vantage Learning's MY Access! writing software for the 5th and 6th grades in all of its five elementary schools. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2009
John K. Waters |
All Hands on Tech A district finds integrating handheld devices is the way to an effective and cost-effective expansion of its 1-to-1 computing program. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 1, 2010
Robert J. McGarvey |
You Want Me to What ? It's a riddle faced by virtually every IT director: how to fulfill users' desire for more muscular computing resources while still obliging administrators' commands to keep education spending down. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 16, 2014
Michael Blanding |
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening? |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2009
Christine Fox |
More Than Machines Comprehensive technology integration programs go beyond laptop initiatives to provide teachers with the support they need to improve student engagement and achievement. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 9, 2009
Dian Schaffhauser |
Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers. |
