Angela Maiers and Amy Sandvold, both new Eye On Education authors, have recently written The Passion-Driven Classroom: A Framework for Teaching and Learning. The book will help teachers discover ways to cultivate a thriving and passionate community of learners in their own classrooms! Read below to learn even more about the book, Angela, and Amy, as well as the need for passion-driven learners! (Click here to read Part One.)

Angela Maiers and Amy Sandvold, both new Eye On Education authors, have recently written The Passion-Driven Classroom: A Framework for Teaching and Learning. The book will help teachers discover ways to cultivate a thriving and passionate community of learners in their own classrooms! Read below to learn more about the book, Angela, and Amy, as well as the need for passion-driven learners!

Eye On Education recently published Annette Breaux's newest poetry book, 101 Poems for Teachers. The book is illustrated by L. Susan Brandt. Read below for a poem and strategy about being the most positive teacher at your school.

This coming Thanksgiving is a special opportunity for teachers to educate and celebrate at the same time! Give this important holiday new dimension for students by bringing it into the classroom with interesting lesson plans, party ideas, games, and more. With your help, kids can have the same enthusiasm for learning as they do for Thanksgiving dinner.

Do you have an interactive whiteboard in your classroom and you're not sure what to do with it? Amy Buttner's new book Getting the MOST Out of Your Interactive Whiteboard: A Practical Guide can help you learn how to use it . Read below for one way you can use the interactive whiteboard to ENHANCE your instruction and ENGAGE your students.

Three Eye On Education staff members, Dan Sickles (Vice President), Jon Rothman (Sales Representative), and Morgan Dubin (Marketing Assistant), attended the National Middle School Association's (NMSA) Annual Conference and Exhibit. Several Eye On Education authors held sessions at the conference, which took place from November 4-6 in Baltimore, Maryland. Keep reading for a behind-the-scenes look at NMSA with Eye On Education!

In our monthly E-News, we bring you the latest education news, resources, and classroom ideas from the Eye On Education Blog and other blogs we read. Click below for our favorite educational blog posts from the past month. If you would like to have E-News sent right to your inbox, click here to sign-up.

Lead Me, I Dare You! Managing Resistance to School Change by Sherrel Bergmann and Judith Allen Brough provides strategies to help you lead the reluctant followers in your school. Read below for three strategies focusing on inclusion and communication.

This coming Veterans Day, November 11th, is a chance for teachers to share an important aspect of American history with their students and help them appreciate those who have risked their lives to serve our country. Take advantage of this opportunity to educate children about this holiday and the country they live in!

Below are several possible resources and ideas from the web you could implement to honor Veterans Day in your classroom. Please click on the links for complete descriptions, instructions, and additional resources:

A Good Start: 147 Warm-Up Activities for Spanish Class (Un Buen Comienzo) by Rebekah Stathakis was published by Eye On Education in November 2010. The book features lively, interactive activities with a focus on writing, speaking, and langugage immersion. Read below from a tip from the book!

How do you educate, engage, and empower your students? Educators on Twitter are answering this question and organizing this conversation around the hashtag #passiondriven. Along with Eye On Education, Angela Maiers and Amy Sandvold, authors of the new title The Passion-Driven Classroom: A Framework for Teaching & Learning began this conversation online, encouraging teachers and school leaders to voice their opinions on the subject of passion. Click here to see the conversation unfold (and participate in the conversation) on Twitter.

Eye On Education recently published Annette Breaux's newest poetry book, 101 Poems for Teachers. The book is illustrated by L. Susan Brandt. Read below for a poem and strategy about taking responsibility for the successes and failures of your students.

Now that you’ve satisfied your sweet tooth on Halloween, it’s time to feed your brain. National Family Literacy Day is held annually on November 1. This year, libraries and community centers around the country are hosting over 8,000 literacy programs. These programs include read-a-thons and book drives to help engage students in reading, workshops, and family activities. The event, started by ReadWriteThink and first held in 1994, was created in response to the high percentage of American adults scoring in the lowest level on the literacy scale. The goal was to get people and their families engaged in reading together.

RE:FORM SCHOOL, an art exhibition, national art contest, performance, and public awareness campaign, took place Friday, October 9th to Monday, October 11th in New York City. Held at St. Patrick's school, RE:FORM SCHOOL requested the following of the general public, "We would like to invite you to join together with many of today’s top contemporary artists, hundreds of volunteers, sponsors and grass roots organizers to send a loud message that the time has come to fix our ailing public school system."

If you haven't heard about "Waiting for 'Superman,'" click here to learn about the movie!

Education has recently become one of America’s hottest topics. Davis Guggenheim’s much anticipated documentary “Waiting for ‘Superman’” was at the center of educational debates and controversy even before its opening on September 24th. The film, which follows five young children struggling to get a better education, has been celebrated for revealing the problems in American education, but also criticized for its depiction of charter schools as heroes and teachers’ unions as villains.