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***********************************************MIDDLEWEB’S "OF PARTICULAR INTEREST"JUNE 28, 2007 (#321)*********************************************** NEW TEACHERS: HARRY WONG’S MAJOR CONCEPTShttp://www.glavac.com/harrywong.htmWhat’s the most common answer to the new-teacher question: "Whatshould I do first?" We suspect it’s "Read Harry Wong." The author(with his wife Rosemary) of the perennial best-seller "The First Daysof School" is sometimes criticized for over-simplification but moreoften praised by new teachers [...]

I just watched the most amazing documentary called the Paper Clip Project about a small middle school in Tennessee.From Wikipedia– "The Paper Clips Project is a project by middle school students from the small southeastern Tennessee city of Whitwell who created a monument for the Holocaust victims in Nazi Germany. It started in 1998 as [...]