SCI Foundation is proud to announce six teacher/educator workshops at its American. Wilderness Leadership School located 33 miles southeast of Jackson, Wyoming. SCI Foundation/AWLS is a permittee of the Bridger-Teton National Forest. This course is available for graduate credit through Colorado State University. Click here for more details. Need to earn renewal or graduate credits before June 30? Then don't miss out on our TeacherLine courses beginning May 7th! They are your last chance to earn credits through TeacherLine by the June 30th deadline. Click here for more details. 2008 Lexile National Conference & Quantile Symposium will stir your passion for teaching and learning. The conference combines the highest-quality speakers and information to create a meaningful experience that will have an immediate and lasting impact on you and your students. Click here for more details. in January 2007 with the hopes of providing funding for innovative classroom-based education projects. “Bright Ideas” grants are intended to fund projects outside normal public school funding parameters and can be made available to all disciplines in grades K-12 in Horry County. Any school may submit an application, and teachers are limited to one application per year. The Bright Ideas grant program is just one of the many programs Horry Electric and HTC implement in the educational sector of Horry County. For more information about the Bright Ideas grant program or other educational programs for local schools, visit www.htcinc.net, www.htcschool.com or www.horryelectric.com. Feel free to contact Nicole Hyman, HTC Senior Marketing Coordinator at 369-8498 or Toni Gore, HEC Marketing and Public Relations Assistant at 369-6359. Brush up on you teaching skills and earn renewal credits with one of our online courses. Click here for more information. The State Department of Education Grants Office will offer two additional workshops in its grant writing series. The dates are May 2-4 and September 12-14. Department of Education employees, educators, non-profits staff, and personnel from other state agencies are eligible to attend. click here for more information.
The Merrill Lynch Stock Market Game is an online simulation that supports the state’s academic standards in mathematics, social studies, and language arts and enhances team building, technology, and decision-making skills. To register for an orientation workshop, click here. SM is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals, whom we call Citizen Philanthropists, choose projects to fund. More information Google, Inc., is promoting free software to teachers who often lack the money and expertise to introduce more technological tools into their classrooms. More information Each month The Object of History features an artifact from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History’s collections related to a major topic in U.S. history. The site includes curriculum materials and opportunities for students to participate in live online forums with Smithsonian curators and historians. Teacher materials include lesson plans and other resources to support instruction. For more information, e-mail teachers@objectofhistory.org or visit: http://objectofhistory.org/ | 
