RDR Books to Appeal ‘Lexicon’ Ruling

{Via Children's Bookshelf]

 Representatives for RDR Books plan to appeal last week’s ruling by Judge Robert Patterson in J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. Entertainment’s lawsuit against the Michigan-based publisher, according to the Detroit Free Press. RDR publisher Roger Rapaport told the paper that he expects his legal team to file an appeal this week, in an effort to allow The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steven Vander Ark to be published.

The Free Press reports that RDR and Vander Ark are considering presenting a revised version of the Lexicon, in the hopes that the Judge Patterson might allow it to be published. “I’ve always been very much willing to work with [Rowling and Warner Bros.] and try to see what can be done,” Vander Ark told the paper.

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Teaching Kids With Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom

 

Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Challenge and Motivate Struggling Students

by
Susan Winebrenner, Pamela Espeland

 

A gold mine of practical, easy-to-use teaching methods, strategies, and tips, it helps teachers differentiate the curriculum in all subject areas to meet the needs of all learners-including those labelled "slow," "remedial," or "LD," students of poverty, English language learners, and others who struggle to learn. Full of proven ways to significantly improve learning outcomes for students who score below proficiency levels, this is an essential resource for every educator.  

Meetings 101

If you want to have more effective meetings, first you have to learn the basics. Here are some simple, easy-to-follow and proven guidelines that should be followed each and every time your group meets.

Print this page. Hang it on your meeting room wall. Write the guidelines on a poster. Memorize them by heart. Do whatever it's going to take to improve your meetings!

Guidelines you and your group can follow before, during and after your meeting

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Video – The Shift

Many people believe that the world is close to a crisis point. Weapons of mass destruction and global warming are capable of destroying life as we know it. Our very existence could be at stake. Every crisis provides opportunities for positive change. If enough people get involved and decide to make a positive difference we can shift direction from a destructive course to one that is constructive and life enhancing. "The Shift" is a short film about a shift toward higher consciousness and a new movement for positive change that is taking place throughout the world.

A massive worldwide phenomenon is in progress,
offering seeds of great hope for the future.

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Garner wins Qld Premier’s literary award

Another win: Garner.

 

Acclaimed Melbourne author, screen writer and journalist Helen Garner has taken out the top prize at this year's Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.

Garner won $25,000 for her novel The Spare Room at a ceremony in Brisbane last night.   (more...)

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Talk Like a Pirate Day – books and lessons

Celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day - 19th September?
Try these resources

–  List of pirate books for kids

–  Lesson plans on Pirates

–  Fiction activities for books about pirates

– Pirate DVDs

– Make a milk carton pirate ship

– Pirate images

– Play a pirate game

– Take the Pirate Quiz

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Book Review – New Talkpower

The New Talkpower: The Mind Body Way to Speak Without Fear
(Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development)

by Natalie H. Rogers

" . . .the ultimate workbook . . .perfect for public speaking novices or for speakers with a tough case of stage fright." -- Continental Magazine, November 28, 2000
"Natalie Rogers. . . she shows you. . . how to write, how to talk, how to be. . . so you can perform like a pro. It's magic. . ." -- Henry J. Fishman, M.D., creator and host of "TVMD," PBS national network

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The World of Words

This is my kind of site!!

Showcasing the best of the worst in the wide world of words

Wordsplosion

Spending on Happiness

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5944.html
Money can't buy you love but it can buy happiness—as long as it's money for someone else. New research by HBS professor Michael I. Norton and colleagues Elizabeth W. Dunn and Lara B. Aknin, described in the journal Science, looks into how and why spending money on others promotes happiness. Norton explains more in this Q&A.