Teaching is ...
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort.
The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
K. Patricia Cross
A Vision of Students Today
So what changes should we be making?
Great books for teachers
Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work
Amazon Price: $16.94 (as of 12/19/2009) 
Teaching With Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom
Amazon Price: $12.21 (as of 12/19/2009)
The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher
Amazon Price: (as of 12/19/2009)
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life, 10th Anniversary Edition
Amazon Price: $17.61 (as of 12/19/2009)
WHAT GREAT TEACHERS DO DIFFERENTLY: 14 THINGS THAT MATTER MOST
Amazon Price: $18.57 (as of 12/19/2009)
Spotlighting
You Can't Say You Can't Play
Amazon Price: $11.52 (as of 12/19/2009)
I think this book and others you can find like it are worthwhile as people search for ways to make schools more humane and functional for all students, not just the favored.
Its relevance goes far beyond the kindergarten classroom, which is the setting of Paley's story.
Useful websites for teaching
Ever wonder what foods the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream?
What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip,and why?
There is a section of this site that covers Historic Food Prices. Seems like somebody always wants to know what a gallon of milk cost Back In The Day. Some data from other countries can be found here as well.
Australians at War
An online photographic album of the Australian soldiers at Gallipoli is freely available on the National Archive of Australia's website. This album contains 41 views of Anzac Beach and the surrounding hills and gullies taken in 1915. The photographs capture Gallipoli through the eyes of the digger.
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