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August 2010 Print Edition
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Helping you implement strategies in the classroom
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August 2010 Volume: 3 Issue: 3
 Schools around the country are finding that parents, students, and staff members are beginning to expect the same convenience when purchasing school items. A third-party online store can be a profitable and simple way to raise funds for the school and decrease the expenses and issues associated with payment collection, apparel inventory, and management of a school store. more
 According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, students and staff may be exposed to polluted indoor air, lead, asbestos, chemical fumes, pesticides, molds, and other toxins at school. A well-designed green cleaning program can help reduce these harmful exposures and yield many other positive benefits for students, custodial staff, administrators, and the environment. more
In every organization, secular or religious, that invites the public onto their property, there needs to be five key emergency plans in place. Further, they need to be written down, communicated at every level, and practiced regularly, because in an emergency, people do what they have practiced. more
In order to prepare students to be successful, lifelong readers, you need to reach students on their level. By using audiobooks in the classroom, you are giving struggling readers the chance to comprehend at the same level as their peers. more
School Web Lockers 
K-12 students and teachers struggle on a daily basis with the basic ability to store, access and share files in a secure and easy manner. School Web Lockers solves this challenge, serving hundreds of K-12 schools and school districts across the U.S. with cost-effective, Web-based tools for file sharing, collaboration and storage. A fraction of the cost of traditional on-site storage systems, School Web Lockers provides students and instructors with an efficient way to access everyday projects beyond the school day, while administrators benefit from improved school-wide productivity. As a paperless homework system, School Web Lockers allows schools to reduce their paper usage by an order of magnitude. Featuring a new digital “mark up” feature, the system now enables teachers to grade assignments online, saving even more paper in the process. Easy to deploy and manage, School Web Lockers offers complete firewall protection.
Mentoring Minds is an educational publisher 
focused on creating a successful learning environment for children. They consider themselves partners with educators in the continuous pursuit of providing a quality education for all students. It is their privilege, as former educators, to provide teaching tools that empower educators to positively impact the lives of children.
The Astaro Security Gateway integrates network, web, and mail security through an intuitive GUI. It includes features such as content filtering, virus, spam and phishing protection, VPN, IPS, and WAN link balancing. This UTM appliance provides complete security with the lowest total cost of ownership.
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 HeadMaster OnDemand for Schools is a Web-based solution that enables you to connect your organization.
- Teachers can enter grades away from school.
- Parents can communicate with teachers online.
- Students can access homework from home.
- Administrators can manage background checks, tuition, and registration from any location.
Contact us to see if HeadMaster OnDemand is right for you school!
Essential Industries Sport Kote® 
Sport Kote is the industry’s leading waterborne wood floor finish specifically designed for gymnasium floors. It offers one hour dry time, excellent durability, minimal floor down time, simplified floor prep and repairability. Its environmentally responsible properties include low VOC’s (complies with all state and federal laws), water-based for easy clean-up and low odor for greater user safety.
 Fabulous, free, award-winning K-12 social studies history plans. Aligns with advanced placement and national standard tests. May be modified or taught in segments. Tested and proven to raise SS scores. The most-used, free K-12 LPs in America. Over 92,000 teachers now using LPs!
 SMARTdesks.com gives you options for the new thinking in education: collaboration, multiple teaching methods using laptops, computers, mobile devices. Make room arrangements for group interaction, demonstration or testing privacy. Asset security, too! New Thinking product brochure is a great idea starter!
 Battery Clocks from American Time & Signal are proudly made in the USA and have a 5-year warranty. Designed for the classroom with a highly visible dial, polycarbonate crystal and tough plastic case. Special Back to School pricing at $14.95 each. Use source code CSP10 when ordering P/N E56BADD304.
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