Can I get a woot?  I just learned that Why Great Teachers Quit was nominated for ForWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards for 2010.  Here’s a little about ForWord and the awards:

“ForeWord Reviews‘ Book of the Year Awards were established to bring increased attention to librarians and booksellers of the literary and graphic achievements of independent publishers and their authors. ForeWord is the only review trade journal devoted exclusively to books from independent houses.

Our unique awards process brings readers, librarians, and booksellers together to select their top categories as well as choose the winning titles. Their decisions are based on editorial excellence, professional production, originality of the narrative, author credentials relative to the book, and the value the book adds to its genre.”

Recipients will be announced in March.  Wish me luck!

January 6, 2011 – 7PM (PST) EducationNow! welcomes the return of Katy Farber for a discussion on her new book: “Change the World with Service Learning”.  Katy Farber was our guest in early August 2010 talking about her book: “Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus”.

Listen: http://www.educationnowhermes.com/

Comment: hermes@pacific.net

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Change the World with Service Learning – How to Organize, Lead and Assess Service-Learning Projects is Katy Farber’s new book. Katy is a fifth and sixth-grade teacher from Vermont.  She also writes a popular parenting blog about green living called Non-Toxic Kids.

A documentary film by Noodlehead Network called “Is This Going to Be on the Test? Place-Based Learning: Kids Exploring Their Own Community” was created about the service-learning projects completed by Katy Farber’s students in 2002. Katy writes that her students have located and preserved habitats, built community gardens, set up all-school composting and recycling programs, created numerous field guides, written and illustrated children’s books with science themes, and created and performed plays to teach younger students about science, history and culture.

Do you want to see improved school attendance, lessened dropout rates, increased standardized test scores and academic performance, improved attitudes, a better sense of responsibility and civic engagement in our students?  Then you won’t want to miss this discussion with Katy Farber.

Contact Information for Katy Faber:

http://katyfarber.com

http://www.whygreatteachersquit.com/

http://www.non-toxickids.net/

I hope you will be able to join me for the launch, but if not, you can download free and/or listen any time after the launch, at our website.

Education Now! is a production of The Hermeneutic Institute for Wholistic Health & Education, a 501c3 non-profit corporation.

Education Now’s broadcasts are listed in the events calendar on the American Montessori Society website at:http://www.amshq.org/regionalGroupsEvents.htm

Athena Melville – host

EDUCATION NOW!

Here’s an interview I did last week over at LifeTips Radio about my  book Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus.  In it, I share 10 tips for how parents can work best with schools and teachers.  It was fun to speak with Byron White, the founder of LifeTips.  I appreciated the opportunity to speak with him and share how we can better sustain teachers in our nation’s schools.