Show #7
Initial Air Dates:
Monday, November 27 at 6:30 pm
Saturday, December 2 at 9 am

Poetry Festival for Educators – Hundreds of New Jersey teachers attend the 11th biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival at Waterloo Village in Stanhope. Many of the teachers are poets themselves, but the value of the festival is learning to bring poetry to life for their students.

Brown Bag Book Bunch – Students from William H. Ross Elementary in Margate City bring a brown bag lunch into the library for a unique book club. The theme is Character for Life where the students read about people who face and overcome obstacles. For more on this reading program, go to: http://www.margateschools.org/whr/mediacenter_ross/brownbag.html

Integrated Learning – Mt. Arlington School students participate in “hands-on" team projects that incorporate critical, creative/open-ended thinking, decision making, problem solving, and real-world applications. The sixth grade classes are designing and building cars out of pasta shapes - think of the "pasta"-bilities! The fifth graders are immersed in a bridge design and construction project.

Dad & Me – Fathers and their children from Trenton gather at Gregory Elementary on a Saturday to learn strategies for a family approach to succeeding in school. Dads learn about MegaSkills, which are strategies that build confidence, motivation, responsibility, team work and problem solving. They also learn about recognizing signs of gang activities. Together, dads and kids learn about educational play.