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Welcome! This site was created to make your teaching life more efficient, effective, and ENJOYABLE. My name is Angela Powell, and I teach third grade in downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. This fall I began my 10th year teaching, having completed the first 5 years in Washington, D.C. I started this website in 2003 to create a place for sharing tools that help you overcome discipline issues, disorganization, paperwork overload, and the regimented, boring curriculums that drive so many teachers from the classroom each year.
I don't believe there's one right way to teach something, especially since there's no one teaching method or strategy that will reach all students. Only YOU can determine what will work best in your classroom--but you need to be highly knowledgeable about best practice in order to make those decisions. I hope this website will be one of many resources you use to help you find the most effective methods for your teaching context and philosophy.
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What's New?
December 13, 2008
It's official--as of July 2008, 'Ms. Powell's Management Ideas for Teachers' has become 'The Cornerstone for Teachers'! The new website name, format, and content all correlate with the summer release of my book.
It's taken me five years to get mspowell.com to the place where it is today, and creating a new site won't happen overnight. I'm reading and revising EVERY page on mspowell.com to consolidate and update information. Simply copying and pasting from the old site to the new is not only difficult to carry out practically, but would also not produce the quality of material that I want to be associated with my book. I need to take the new site to the next level, and that's going to require some time.
Over the coming weeks, you can expect to see old material from mspowell.com reworked, reformatted, and relaunched on TheCornerstoneForTeachers.com. All of the free resources will be updated by the end of January 2009. This is an ambitious schedule, considering I am also teaching full-time, doing freelance writing, consulting, marketing/promoting my book--and prioritizing my personal and spiritual life as well! I truly appreciate your patience.
The good news is that you can still access all of the materials you need on mspowell.com, and you have updates to look forward to on TheCornerstoneForTeachers.com. Also, the NEW blog has been launched! It's easier to navigate and read, and visitor's comments are featured more prominently. You can also subscribe and have new posts sent directly to your email inbox! Find out what's new with my personal teaching experience, The Cornerstone projects, and the field of education in general.
Once again, thanks for your support and patience. Enjoy!!
:-) Angela
For updated information on the website and book, please join the NEW Yahoo Group, TheCornerstoneForTeachers! This feature will replace the old mailing lists from mspowell.com, which were filling up too quickly for me to make room for new users. Yahoo Group members can choose to be notified via email whenever there are updates to the website or new information is made available about the book. Members can also post messages to one another and to me, and access many other features related to the site.
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Look for Amazon.com product recommendations throughout the site. When you click on any link and purchase materials, a portion of the sale will automatically benefit this site, with no cost to you! Amazon has TONS of great books, games, and software for the classroom (and lots of things for you and your home, too).
ALL PURCHASES BENEFIT MSPOWELL.COM AS LONG AS YOU INITIALLY CONNECT TO AMAZON BY CLICKING ON ANY AMAZON LINK FROM THIS SITE.
That means you can buy CD/DVDs, jewelry, clothes, toys, gifts, home goods, groceries, or anything else Amazon sells (not just the items I recommend) with complete confidentiality (your identity isn't provided to me). When you get to Amazon.com, it automatically registers that you came from here, even though you'll see no reference to my site. You can get free shipping on many orders, so if you're going to buy, why not connect to Amazon through this site and help out a fellow teacher? :-)
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This site is dedicated in loving memory of Chelsea Cromartie
(1995-2004)
Four years after she was a student in my PreK classroom, 8-year-old Chelsea was playing with Barbies on her aunt's living room floor in northeast Washington, D.C. when bullets sprayed through the front window. Chelsea's aunt was hit in the shoulder and recovered, but Chelsea was shot in the head and died a short time later. Under intense pressure from the community, witnesses eventually came forward with enough information for police to arrest three teenage suspects. The gunfire apparently began after an argument over how someone was dressed. Rasheed Hall admitted to firing the shot that mistakenly killed Chelsea and was sentenced to twenty-three years in prison. His younger brother, who brought him the gun, was sentenced to two decades. Sadly, both boys were under the age of 18, contributing to the epidemic of children killing children in the city: Chelsea was the 30th juvenile to be murdered in Washington D.C. in a four month period. This senseless murder will forever be a lesson to the students I teach on the downfalls of pride, materialism, and the consequences of being unable to solve problems without violence.
Click on Chelsea's picture for a slideshow about her story.
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