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Permalink Reply by Waymon Levern Huggins on June 8, 2011 at 1:19pm

Hello all, my name is Waymon Huggins and I am the Technology Coordinator at Thirteenth Avenue School located in Newark, New Jersey.  We are a Pre-K through 8 school serving nearly 650 students.  The majority of our students are African American and Latino who were born technically literate. 

 

I am looking to gain strategies and techniques from this group to improve academic achievement levels of all students.  I need to match their technical wizardry with concrete thinking and problem solving skills.  I’m sure many of you face a similar dilemma.

 

Looking forward to sharing and growing.

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Permalink Reply by Prakash L Dheeriya, PhD on July 4, 2011 at 7:05am

Hi

My name is Prakash Dheeriya and I am a father to 2 young boys, ages 7 & 8, and an author of children's books "Finance for Kidz". In my day job, I am a professor of finance wth over 25 years' of teaching experience. I thought I would use my teaching skills and experiences to write books for children that explain complicated financial concepts through children's stories. I know we can teach these concepts (which, traditionally, are discussed in college level course-e.g inflation, deflation, risk & return, identity theft etc) to our elementary age school children if we couch these concepts in their daily experiences and in the form of chidlren's stories.

 

I believe in teaching them early on so that we don't have a repeat of the financial mess we are in..If we can teach our children to look both sides while crossing a street, or to not run with scissors, etc, then we should be able to teach them key financial principles that they can carry all their lives. Why not teach them how to be financially healthy, in addition to being physically healthy?

 

I look forward to interacting you.

Prakash

PS: I met Steve Hargadon at a recent CUE conference and have followed him since.

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Permalink Reply by sophica on August 2, 2011 at 3:06am

Hi i'm private tutor and mom of two great kids. http://www.tutorz.com/ helps me to find students to tutor them. It is great tutoring service which made my job easy.

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Permalink Reply by sophica on August 2, 2011 at 3:07am

Is anyone working as private tutors here?

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Permalink Reply by Mona Prince on August 5, 2011 at 7:05pm

Hi I'm Mona.  I am a teacher who is passionately interested in  politics.  So much of what happens in the classroom is as a result of government policies that I am somewhat surprised that I have not found more people commenting or debating on the influence of politics in education.

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