Spanish Textbook Gets Rave Review!

Greetings from Teachers Brunch HQ in winter wonderland Auburn Hills, MI, site of today's first-ever (that we know of, anyway) Ketchup Festival. Later today, all of us will be trudging down to the Foreign Language building and partaking of a potluck featuring items made with or made for that most delightful of condiments, ketchup.

Before we party with the high fructose corn syrup and tomato paste, though, we want to offer big congratulations to Lauren in the Spanish Department. The book she edited, Capitan Espanol's Exploratory Spanish, just got a great review in Language Magazine.

The review mentions how the book "will definitely keep kids' attention beyond perfunctory glances" and how "once opened, (the books) are practically histerico."

There's plenty more good stuff in the review which appears in the February 2010 issue.

Now, where's the Canadian Ketchup Cake that Pat promised us?

Spell Well. . . but you already knew that

So here's a convoluted way to toot our own horns. . . .

Ron Siliman's Blog (a very interesting spot on the net about all things poetic and more, even when you disagree with Mr. Siliman) posted a link to this comic blog, The Oatmeal.

If you look carefully, you'll see that the posters we featured in this post pretty much have your students covered.

It's dangerous to be so cutting edge, but we don't mind buying the Band-Aids.

Science Division's Globe is World-Famous

Massive congratulations to our Science Division for landing on columnist Dave Barry's 2009 Holiday Gift Guide.

They also got featured in today's Detroit News. (Ahem, hello! Someone deserves a byline for that great photograph. It was difficult to get all of them to smile at the same time.)

Of course, the general demand for a Sperm Globe is fairly predicatable, so the influx of surprise orders caught with our pants down. Sadly, the globes are out of stock.

Without getting too detailed about the manufacturing process, we can say is that a new batch of globes will be ready to ship out in February.

Congrats to Nick, Gayann, and Sam--our Sceince Division. What will they think of next?

Another great response for Electronic Poetry Starter

We got another really great review for our Electronic Poetry Starter.



We have four electronic starters in all, and you can find them here.

They're so cool, and your students will enjoy using them to write so much, you might even forget heart-breaking baseball playoff losses.

You wish you were from Michigan

Followers of this blog remember this post we made a while back.

We just wanted to let you know that our Tigers are cautiously optimistic, our Red Wings are so awesome they've gone international, and there are football teams with worse records than our Lions.

It's also Michigan/Michigan State week, though nobody here at Teacher's Brunch HQ in ready-for-some-pumpkins Auburn Hills, MI attended either school. (Central/Western weekend IS a big deal in our office, though, and we hear Oakland University has read the rules to football.)

All this excitement, plus a crisp Autumn breeze and the promise of warm apple cider sipped to the earthy fragrance of burning leaves.

You wish you were from Michigan.

Your Friends at Teacher's Brunch--On the Cutting Edge of Educational Theory

In this month's issue of the English Journal, you'll find a piece called "Turn It On and Turn It Up: Incorporating Music Videos in the ELA Classroom" by Luke Rodesiler.

It's a fine article, one we here at Teacher's Brunch HQ in apparently prescient Auburn Hills, MI firmly endorse.

We endorse it so much, we even went back in time to create a blog post about the exact same thing. You'll find it here.

(We tried to post some of the videos Rodesiler mentions, but the videos are technologically blocked. They are, however, pretty widely available for viewing in your classroom.)

Promethean Loves Us, Too!

Hot on the heels of last week's announcement that we were recognized by SMART, we can now announce that interactive whiteboard company Promethean has also officially labeled us the bee's knees.


We've made a link on each of the subject websites so you can find individual products.

Here's Social Studies: here.

And English: here.

Of course, Science: here.

And finally, Foreign Language: ici, aquí, and hier.

This Just In: We're Officially SMART Board Ready!

From the beginning, we've known that our games and PowerPoint presentations work great on interactive whiteboards of all makes and models (including ours!).

Now, SMART has officially recognized a big batch of our products to be what they call "SMART Ready."

That means that SMART has reviewed our product and determined it to be a great fit with SMART Board interactive whiteboards.

To us around here, it's sort of like a perfect stranger coming up to you at the park saying "Your kid is great and would fit in perfectly with my family." (OK, maybe not quite as creepy, but you get the idea.)

Below is the list of SMART Ready products that we have so far. It makes for a rather dull blog post, but when you realize we have over 200 items that were awarded the SMART Ready tag, it seems worth the scrolling.

If you'd like to learn more about any of the titles listed below, click on the correct division at www.teachersdiscovery.com and search for the title.

We've made a link on each of the subject websites to make tracking things down a little easier.

Here's Social Studies: here.

And English: here.

Of course, Science: here.

And finally, Foreign Language: ici, aquí, and hier.

As always, we're here at teachersbrunch at teachersdiscovery dot com if you'd like to fire off an email with your question.

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This also marks the first time we've used a table in our blog. HTML is fun!

Hey! We're TV Stars! Thanks, Southgate Community Schools!

Kristin, across the hall from the TB HQ in her SS/ENG Book Team cave, saw a commercial for Southgate Community Schools on the tele-tube last night, and her keen eyes spied one of our posters being proudly displayed on their classroom wall.

It looks like they're doing some really great stuff in their district.

The whole commercial can be found on their website.

And if you want to buy that same poster, you can find it here.