I updated the flipcharts to provide better visual clarity in the classroom. The next version will have completely different backgrounds, tables, containers. The Notes section was revamped and updated as well.

The day after I wrote the last update, and came to this site, I came down with bacterial meningitis. I lost my vestibular balance completely and all hearing. But, I will be teaching this fall. Amazing. I've worked hard to gain new brain connections for balance and regularly go for walks, walk the dog, throw a football. Not the best, but getting there. I have had simultaneous cochlear implant surgery and will be activated in two weeks. That will give me a month to relearn speech, now digital and electrical, before the kids come in this fall. Wow. Anyways, enjoy your downloads.

Major uplift and more user-friendly approach has been taken on the NBCTeacher frontpage. Less text, more pics to click and get you to where you need to go.

Updated site for dead or missing links. Reviewed informative analysis from Google. Preparing new flipcharts due to change in school assignment.

I've begun updating all of my current flipcharts to the new software: ActiveInspire. This software is backwards compatible, but I'll keep the old ones in an archive for those who have ActiveStudio. I added answer keys to all of the flipcharts, adjusted colors, fixed a few oddities, and the first batch, Words for Within-word spellers, is ready. These are for students who still struggle with vowels and letters inside of the words.

After downloading flipcharts recently, I decided to clean up the sidebar. I updated links and the countdown timer for the end of the first marking period. I'm going to publicize the flipchart page this weekend. Enjoy.

New flipcharts have been uploaded to the NBCTeacher website. They include a variety of concept, reading, and Social Studies organizers. Many are available to download for free. Some are only intended for LCPS-VA employees.

What is more annoying to you as a teacher, or to your classroom learning environment, then distracting student behaviors?These are time management issues that must be resolved. Besides using your classroom management plan, you can also address motivation to help keep students on task and focused.

I recently wrote a little about professional integrity: what it means and what it looks like.

I wrote an article about how to start working with Promethean Board flipcharts. It can be viewed onsite, of offsite at Ezinearticles. I covers the rationale for flipcharts and the basic overlays and screens that you will encounter when you access it. It is a great beginning article.