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Royalty free, copyright cleared art images for educators & students by Bridgeman Education.

Educators and students who need to use art images for teaching, presentations, special projects and anything education related now have access to the most comprehensive art educational resource.  The Bridgeman Art Library has over 30 years of specialist art historical knowledge and experience.
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Mary Mountstephen Building More Movement into The Day by Mary Mountstephen

Why we need to be providing more opportunities for exploration, and  physical activity to improve learning, language and behaviour.
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Min Sandhu

Presenting the Right Image at School, the look good, feel good, teach better principle by Min Sandhu

“Staff threat after PE teacher is sacked for wearing trainers in class.
That’s outrageous, he’s a PE teacher, why shouldn’t he be able to wear trainers? But on further reading, he also taught maths and, although achieving an exemplary 30 year record, should he really have been wearing trainers in the classroom?
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Dr Hans Andrews

Recognising Exceptional Teachers by Dr Hans Andrews

Improving or Removing Poor Teachers leads to improved student outcomes Improved Student Outcomes. After the fourteenth semester in a row, of students from my community college, Illinois Valley Community College, having either the highest or second highest “transfer” grade point averages at Illinois State University during their junior and senior years it seemed that the work we had been doing was really paying off!
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Ben Vining

Leadership Skills learned via Outdoor Education by Ben Vining

There’s nothing like unrelenting rain, leeches, mud and mountains to turn a sweet 15 year-old girl off. There’s no doubt that the first few days of the camp were tough, but by the end of six days the girls had adjusted to the trying conditions and developed a new set of values and a better understanding of themselves and others. It was revealing to watch their gradual progress of self and group discovery.
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Sally Goddard Blythe

Learning to Move and Move to Learn by Sally Goddard Blythe

Over the last 50 years the importance of daily exercise to support all aspects of learning has become the poor relation of the school curriculum, but new evidence suggests that daily movement experience plays a vital role in fitness for learning.
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Jarvis Finger

They sure say some funny things in our school’s newsletter by Jarvis Finger

One of the most important and often neglected, aspects of the writing process is proofreading. It’s so easy for writers to see in their work what they want to see, or see what they think they see, and not necessarily see what their readers will see.
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Dr Linda Vining

The Marriage of Education and Marketing by Dr Linda Vining

Education and marketing are strange bedfellows. Education is solid, conservative and altruistic. Marketing is ephemeral, glossy and self-serving. What place does marketing have in education?
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Angie Wilcock

Coping with the transition to High School by Angie Wilcock

Transition to high school is considered by some to be one of the most traumatic experiences our children will encounter. This period in a young person’s life is already associated with huge physical, cognitive, and emotional changes – and they are expected to cope with social and academic change as well.
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Dr Hans Andrews

Recognising Exceptional Teachers by Dr Hans A Andrews

Improving or Removing Poor Teachers leads to improved student outcomes Improved Student Outcomes.
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Robyn Pearce

Time Management at home - Tips on how to teach children responsibility by Robyn Pearce

In today’s working world, where so many parents do double duty not only in the commercial or educational world but also in running a home and family, it’s become really important for everyone’s wellbeing that all family members contribute to chores and childcare duties.
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Jenny McConnell

Reducing Tantrums by Jenny McConnell

It may sound like pie in the sky, but reducing frustration is only one of several benefits sign language can provide for infants and toddlers. Over ten years of research has demonstrated that using sign language while speaking to hearing infants can; give them the tools to communicate before they can speak, reducing frustration, increase verbal language skills, enhance whole brain development, and increase IQ.
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Back to School Blues by Angie Wilcock

Well, it's almost that time of the year again when kids start to feel all kinds of emotions about starting a new year at school - and parents as well! For those little ones who are about to step into the world of 'big school' there is the excitement of new uniforms, new backpacks, new routines and new friends. For those starting high school there is excitement tempered with a sense of the 'unknown'.
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