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Growth Mindset Toolkit

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
A nine-slide presentation provides educators with practical ways they can help young people develop a growth mindset, a key competency in social-emotional learning.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Ven Conmigo; Giving Advice About Job Interviews

For Students 9th - 10th
From Holt Rinehart Winston's, on-line Ven conmigo series, this is a reading comprehension and sequence exercise on giving advice about job interviews in Spanish.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Life: Kabam! Comic Creator

For Students 6th - 8th
Students learn about making choices when dealing with bullies, peer pressure, and conflict, then create their own comics, using speech bubbles to write dialogue, in response to what they have learned. Requires Adobe Flash.
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Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Pacing Anxiety, or How to Stop Padding and Plot!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the seventh installment of a series giving advice to the author who is new to writing novels. This article focuses on how to take your characters and use them and their conflicts to develop the plot of your story. W.9-10.3b...
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A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email: Gestures

For Students 9th - 10th
Another site giving advice to beginning email users; this one deals with gestures in emails, such as smileys, pause equivalents, and creative punctuation.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Graphing General Polynomials, Radicals, Rationals, and Piecewise Fun

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides an overview of graphing, giving examples of general polynomial, radical, rational, and piecewise functions. Also includes advice on common mistakes made by students.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Not to Wear: Becoming a Personal Stylist

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Through this lesson students will investigate the career of a personal stylist and learn the job requirements. As a culminating activity, students will write a blog entry giving fashion advice to a fellow student.

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