Lifetime Health Textbook Teacher Edition Pdf

[Antonio Brittenham]

Everyday, so many of you prove that the difference between a life of sorrow and a life filled with success can be the guidance of a good teacher. Your commitment and your passion encourage us to hope for the very best in our schools. And your willingness to become involved in public service is a reminder that in America, optimists are found on every corner.

Years ago, one of our most courageous optimists grew up on a most forgotten American corner. As a little girl living in a Coney Island tenement, she attended New York Public School 188. And from the day her second-grade teacher gave her her very first book, she began a lifetime giving back to our teachers, our schools, and our children.

Fortunately for teachers everywhere and the children who count on them, it was there, she is here, and her seven years of leadership has brought us closer to an America where quality education is there for every child. Sandy Feldman, we are moved by your public dedication and inspired by your personal courage. Thank you.

One of my favorite high school teachers was named John Walker. He was the kind of teacher who always encouraged you to do your very best. He pushed you. He believed in you. He inspired you. And if you ever stopped trying, he'd remind you that effort is everything.

Teachers like John Walker are demanding. But they're the ones who make a difference. You never forget your great teachers. They stay with you, throughout your life, looking over your shoulder and pushing you forward.

We can make America stronger by making a new commitment to our schools and our children. They don't need a politician's praise. They need a president who values a good education as the gateway to a good job, a better life, and the best America. And if you send me to the White House, that's exactly the kind of President we'll have. My first priority will be to meet our financial responsibilities to our schools.

We also need to do something about the infrastructure of our schools. Thousands of schools across America are crumbling today. What does that say about valuing our kids' future? When I am President, we will build and rebuild, modernize and repair, our school buildings with new school modernization bonds.

But I have to tell you, even after we put in these resources, we will still have a lot left to do. As I've often said, reform without resources is a waste of time and resources without reform is a waste of money. We need to continue the work of reform, and improve education in America. The AFT has been a leader in promoting education reform, because you know that we owe our children the best we have to offer.

We need to treat teachers more like the professionals that they are and pay them more like professionals. Not only does that mean higher pay; it means new rewards for teachers who gain advanced training and excel in raising student achievement. And teachers deserve due process protection from arbitrary dismissal, but we must have fast, fair procedures for improving or removing teachers who aren't performing. We should hold all teachers to the same high standards you apply to yourselves.

And today, one of the biggest obstacles to higher pay for teachers is the rising cost of health care. You've all seen it during negotiations. The money that should be going into your pockets is going to pay for the rising cost of health care. That's why I've got a plan to get the waste and greed of our health care system and help families save up to $1,000 on their premiums. This will help all working Americans earn the pay they deserve.

Second, we need a national movement to raise graduation rates. It's time to make and keep a commitment to leave no high school student behind by tracking graduation rates just like we track test scores.

And finally, we need to send more young people to college and help them graduate. My plan will provide new incentives to hold tuitions down and a new refundable tax credit on up to $4000 of tuition. We can never stand back and shrug pessimistically at the fact that 220,000 young people have to walk away from their dream of going to college simply because they can't afford it. We can't afford to lose those bright minds. We value our children too much.

What if this airplane could take off at Kitty Hawk and change the world forever? What if we could go to the moon in ten years? What if we could take all the information in the world and put it in a little chip, the size of a fingernail. If you'd told anyone that 50 years ago, they wouldn't have believed you. But you know what? We did them. And we're going to keep pushing those boundaries in the future.

I know that the teachers of America will not rest until we build the future of our children's dreams, for all Americans. And as your President, neither will I. Because you and I believe America can do better. We believe in the possibility of tomorrow. And we believe, as the poet Langston Hughes once wrote, that we must "Let American be America again."

Robert Boone (M.A., 1964) authored his second book, Inside Job: A Life of Teaching (The Puddin' Head Press). From Staten Island to Frankfort to Chicago, this book chronicles Boone's life and reveals the heart of an inspirational educator. Boone holds a Ph.D. in English Education from Northwestern University; he currently runs a private learning center outside of Chicago and directs Young Chicago Authors, a scholarship program for inner city high school students who like to write.

Henry L. Fernandez (Ed.D., 1993; M.A., 1987, 1985, 1984), was appointed to the new position of Executive Director, Scholarships, Outreach and Philanthropy at USA Funds, the nation's leading education-loan guarantor. Fernandez was program director for Lumina Foundation for Education and previously worked as director of the Peace Corps Fellows Program, as a grant-proposal reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education and as a program administrator at TC. Earlier in his career, he served as an elementary school principal and teacher. He completed his undergraduate studies at Queens College of the City University of New York.

Toby Kurzband (Ed.D., 1953) received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NYC Art Teachers Association and United Federation of Teachers. Kurzband was the first art teacher at Bronx High School of Science, and has taught at Columbus High School, the University of Rhode Island, Pratt, Pace, The New School, NYU, Marymount, FIT and currently Penn South Senior Center. He has lectured at TC and The New York Society for Experimental Study of Education and served as a docent at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. He was principal of PS 1 in Manhattan, superintendent of District 2, and special assistant to the NYC Chancellor.

Kimberly Lane (Ed.M., 2004), was selected to be a MetLife Fellow by the Teachers Network Policy Institute (TNPI), an honor shared by over 100 exemplary elementary, middle and high school teachers representing 12 TNPI affiliates nationwide. Lane teaches art and heads the art department at The Heritage School, a public high school located in East Harlem established by Judith Burton, Professor of Art Education at TC, who opened the school in collaboration with the New York City Board of Education in September 1997.

Martin Nystrand (M.A., 1987) co-authored, Towards a Rhetoric of Everyday Life: New Directions in Research on Writing, Text, and Discourse (The University of Wisconsin Press). The book investigates the language of nontraditional speakers, including immigrants, women, urban children and others who have long been on the boundaries of civic life and political forums. Nystrand is a professor in the Graduate Program in Composition and Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Judith Peck (M.A., 1974) authored five new books (Imagination Art Publications), adding to her illustrated resource collection for art educators, adults and youth. Peck is Professor of Art at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is author of Sculpture as Experience, and two other books on creative processes. She appears in Who's Who in American Art, The World's Who's Who of Women, and Designing Public Art. Peck holds a doctorate from NYU and two master's degrees in sculpture and art education from TC. She studied sculpture at the Art Students League and at the Sculpture Center in New York.

Lisa Jo Sagolla (Ed.D., 1992; M.A., 1986) authored, The Girl Who Fell Down: A Biography of Joan McCraken (Northeastern University Press). The book recounts the story of dancer and actress Joan McCraken, whose pioneering and influential career started with her role in the musical Oklahoma. Sagolla teaches dance education at TC and also at Marymount Manhattan College and the School of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She is a dance critic for Black Stage newspaper.

Peninnah Schram (M.A., 1968) received the Covenant Award for Outstanding Jewish Educator and the National Storytelling Network's 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award. She is an Associate Professor of Speech and Drama at Yeshiva University's Stern College and the Azrieli Graduate School. Schram authored seven books of Jewish folktales, including Jewish Stories One Generation Tells. She has also recorded a CD, The Minstrel and the Storyteller: Stories and Songs of the Jewish People, with singer/guitarist Gerard Edery. Schram is the Founding Director of The Jewish Storytelling Center at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

Stephanie Snyder (Ed.M) was named Director and Curator of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her curatorial experience includes, "Performing Judaism" at Cooley Gallery, and "Film Show" at Cooley and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, where she was a member of the advisory board. She was a coordinator and founding member of the Heritage School. Snyder's work was shown in the above exhibitions in addition to many other individual exhibitions. She holds a B.A. from Reed College and an Ed.M. from TC, both with honors.

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