Officials: 3rd Graders Plotted to Kill Teacher

Officials in Georgia have thwarted a plot by a group of third-grade special education students to kill their teacher.

Officials at the Center Elementary School in Waycross, Ga., learned of the plot on March 28, when a student told authorities about the plan before the start of the school day, the Waycross Journal-Herald reports.

The plot by as many as nine boys and girls was a serious threat, Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said Tuesday.

The students allegedly brought to school a broken steak knife, a roll of duct tape, handcuffs, ribbon and a crystal paperweight in a bid to kill their teacher, Belle Carter, the paper reports.

"We did not hear anybody say they intended to kill her, but could they have accidentally killed her? Absolutely," Tanner said. "We feel like if they weren't interrupted, there would have been an attempt. Would they have been successful? We don't know."

The children, ages 8 and 9, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, Tanner said.

"It’s our understanding that she did in fact discipline one of the students, and they did not like it, he told FOX News. "After that, she began to plot revenge on the teacher."

Big Picture Philadelphia and the Reform of America’s Educational System through Student-Centric Education

Here is a link to an interesting article I stumbled on from the Philadelphia Innovation Journal

http://www.philasocialinnovations.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41:big-picture-philadelphia-and-the-reform-of-americas-educational-system-through-student-centric-education&catid=21:featured-social-innovations&Itemid=35

Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal is the first online publication to bring a public focus to social innovators and their nonprofit organizations, foundations and social sector businesses in the Greater Philadelphia area, to recognize their successes and encourage others around the country to strive for similar results. As a forum for the region’s foremost social innovators, the Journal shares their expertise, strategies and ideas about topics such as leadership, human capital and disruptive innovation.

http://www.philasocialinnovations.org/site/

Let's Colour

Dulux Walls - Director's Cut



This 2 minute global film was shot by multi-award winning director Adam Berg over four weeks in Brazil, France, London and India. Every location is real and they remain transformed by a palette consisting of 120 different colours. The people in the film are not actors, they are real people who rolled up their sleeves to transform their community with colour.

Read more about the Let's Colour project here:
http://www.letscolourproject.com/blog
http://www.letscolourproject.com

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I encourage everyone to comment, post, and add to this blog. Post whatever you would like to share with the Art Education Professional Development Club. Resources, ideas, case puzzles, helpful links, anything!


Here is a bunch of links just to get it started


Www.Arteducators.org/presentations - all the handouts from the NAEA convention, PDFs and word docs.

Ning.com - discover online communities

http://www.arteducationforsocialjustice.org/

http://www.tolerance.org/

http://arteducators.org/community/student-chapter

http://www.artsonia.com/ - the online kids art museum

http://animoto.com/ - make home video and photos look good


Online Alternatives to Photoshop/image editors, fun for lessons

http://www.picnik.com/
http://bighugelabs.com/
http://www.sumopaint.com/home/
http://www.befunky.com/
http://www.photofunia.com/


RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video.
Google Reader

http://www.artmiles.org/

http://edsitement.neh.gov/

http://www.wherepeacelives.org/

www.kids-guernica.org/

http://cp.c-ij.com/en/index.html cannon creative park

Copyrightalliance.org is a free resource on copy writes for teachers

PAEA Conference

The Pennsylvania Art Education Association

There is an open call for proposals for the PAEP conference this year in Pittsburgh, October 28th -31

If anyone is interested in presenting any of their work or class presentations at the PAEP conference the AEPDC at U Arts can help.

Email Tyler.Anewalt@Gmail.com

Tanewalt@uarts.edu

Go to http://www.paea.org/ to learn more and submit a proposal.

2010 Presentation and Workshop Parameters

You may select from two presentation formats:

Presentations -- an individual or group presenting information via lecture, discussion, etc. All presentations will be 50 minutes.

Hands - on Workshops -- an individual or group presenting and demonstrating and activity in which participants work with materials or tools to practice or develop a skill. Workshops must be self-sustained from an economic stand point. PAEA cannot pay for workshop materials for the 2010 workshops. If attendees of the workshop are to make an item with art materials, the cost of the materials must be paid for by the attendees or presenters. Hands - on Workshops can be either 50 or 90 minutes in length.

Presenters must provide their own technology if it is needed for a presentation or workshop (laptop, projector, extension cords, extra light bulbs, etc.). PAEA will only provide projection screens.

Last day to submit proposals is June 30, 2010.