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Articles in August 2005 issue of Instructor

• Q & A real advice
  by Sheila G. Flaxman
• Share your thoughts wiki-style
• For Karen King, teaching means reaching out
• Clean your community
• Good behavior graph
• Name phonics
• Improve vocabulary with Text Talk
• Awesome art posters
• Write it: online writing workshop
• Anna Quindlen: the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer tells us about great teachers and what tops her education wish list
• 7 just-right books for back-to-school
  by Lynne T. Burke
• 4 creative ways to use a graphing calculator
• Standards
• Bag bargain books
• A penny for your thoughts
• Healthful curriculum
• 10 ways to … decorate your classroom: get your class involved and watch the community feeling bloom
  by Jennifer Prescott
• Meet tomorrow's Web designers
• Time for a fresh start
  by Dana Truby
• Tweens & tech
• Helping hands
• Poetry appreciation day
• Fishy "fossil" prints
  by Kim Bartholomew
• Classroom homepage builder
• Build a bully-free classroom: stay-cool strategies to teach your students
• We visited schools in nine states
• A modern-day superhero
• Milk jug Animals
  by Karen Skophammer
• Future self-portraits
• Marvelous markers
• Mentor Teacher program
• The hidden lives of middle schoolers: what's really going on in the minds of middle schoolers? Instructor talks to Linda Perlstein, who spent a year finding out
  by Jenn Shreve
• Full shelves
  by Alicia Estis
• Classroom stars
• Pharaoh party
• Guest readers
• How do you use alphabet books?
• Jasper Johns: Flag
• Teacher challenge
  by J. Perez
• School spending: Springfield, USA
• New special Ed guide
• Insist on kindness and respect and kids will follow your lead
  by Ron Clark
• No secrets
  by Wendy North
• Deadlines to watch
• A photo welcome
• No Homework Club
• 32 ideas to use now!
• 10 jobs in one! Scientist, coach, computer whiz … teaching is many professions rolled into one. We asked Instructor readers what it really takes to be "highly qualified."
  by Caralee Adams
• From homeroom star to rock star
• Teddy bear sleepover
• Substitute's bag of tricks
• Online courses
• Take a photo, make a friend: easy photo activities that build early skills, self-esteem, and community
  by Beth Geyer
• A conversation about tutoring: straight talk about the Sylvan Learning Center method
• Middle school matters
• Go global
• School supplies
• Instructor catalog showcase: a showcase for your catalogs, products and brochures
• Help wanted! Meaningful work and cool job titles can get middle graders thinking about the work world in new ways
  by Pamela Chanko
• Stack it, file it, rack it: 6 great storage solutions
• Timely timesavers
  by Maureen Eliasson
• Renovate your room
• Race car math
• Test detective
• Learn from the experts at Science Explorations