Do you have good news to share about youth? As a part of my book promotion, I’m encouraging bloggers to write about “Good News About Youth and the Adults Who Empower Them.” Please write about the great things you see happening in your community or the blogosphere - and I’ll feature the links once per week through August.

Welcome to the Carnival of Education! Once again, bloggers have submitted outstanding articles, covering many aspects of education. It’s a long list, and one worth clicking through.

POSTS THAT EMPOWER

Gisela Rots presents What’s in a role model? posted at Ponderings and Revelations. Gisela’s post is a perfect illustration of “Good News About Youth, and the Adults Who Empower Them.”

When I guest-blogged for Joel at So You Want To Teach, I shared tips for How to Empower Your Students.

Kim Hutmacher presents Publishing Opportunities For Children posted at Works in Progress. This is an excellent list for empowering the budding young authors in your life!

POSTS THAT INSPIRE

Overwhelmed Mom presents Perfectionism: Beliefs posted at A Bundle of Contradictions. I especially appreciate her comments about parental role-modeling in the final paragraph.

Jane presents Contest Winner Makes Summer Camp a Huge Success posted at Steve Spangler’s Blog. This is a great tribute to a teacher that obviously loves her job.

Nancy Flanagan presents THE OPERATIVE WORD posted at Teacher in a Strange Land. She points to the Dictionary for Good Teaching with some very inspirational definitions.

A Voice From the Middle presents its the most wonderful time of the year… , saying “School starts for me in two weeks and as an educator my head is filled with such hope and high expectations for how this will be THE best year ever!”

Elementaryhistoryteacher presents What’s Your Message? posted at History Is Elementary, saying “We all have a message to get out everyday. It’s how that message is delivered that makes all the difference.” The post also includes a short video with a lasting impact.

Rose presents Won’t you keep our neighbor? posted at Learning at Home, encouraging us to join in helping to preserve the Mr. Roger’s television program.

Jane presents Potatoes Fly at Science Teacher Training in Denver, Colorado posted at Steve Spangler’s Blog. Reading posts like these makes me wish I were a science teacher.

Pat presents Am I Replaceable? posted at Successful Teaching. We can all benefit from a concerted focus on what we do well.

POSTS THAT ENTERTAIN

Carol Richtsmeier presents Shopping, Barneys & Back to School Survival Tips at Bellringers.

mister teacher presents The new year is almost upon us! at Learn Me Good.

POSTS THAT MAKE US THINK

…ABOUT THE CLASSROOM

Joanne Jacobs presents Redshirting doesn’t work at Joanne Jacobs.

Jeff presents The Best Teachers Want To Be Creative Teachers at Build a School.

Clix asks for your advice about parent volunteers on Help! at Epic Adventures Are Often Uncomfortable.

denise presents What’s Wrong with Repeated Addition? at Let’s play math!.

oldandrew presents Group-Work at Scenes From The Battleground.

…ABOUT SOCIETY

Dana presents Zero tolerance? Or just what are schools expected to tolerate? at Principled Discovery.

jose presents A Letter To A New NYC Teaching Fellow posted at The Jose Vilson: The Blog.

Greg presents Letter Illustrates Problem With Teacher Unions at Rhymes With Right.

Coach Brown presents By the way, did I mention that the Wall Street Journal hates teachers? at A Passion for Teaching and Opinions.

…ABOUT GOVERNMENT

J.M. Holland presents Meme: Five Things Policymakers Ought to Know at Lead from the Start.

Clix presents Five Things… at Epic Adventures Are Often Uncomfortable.

John Voight presents Barack Obama sowing socialist seeds in young people.

…ABOUT HOMESCHOOLING

Miss Jocelyn presents You’ve Been Labeled! at A Pondering Heart, sharing some homeschooling stereotypes.

Tammy presents Is Deschooling All that Important? at The Life Without School Blog.

…ABOUT RESOURCES

Mark Montgomery presents Princeton Review’s Best 368 Colleges–A User’s Guide posted at Great College Advice.

Barbara Schreiber presents “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” at Britannica Blog.

Larry Ferlazzo presents English Language Learners As An Asset at Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day….

Naomi Stevens presents Buy Your Child a Dog for Better Exam Results at Diary From England.

ChristineMM presents Schooled: Book Review at The Thinking Mother.

POSTS THAT TEACH

...ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

Sagar Satapathy presents 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom.

Neel presents 100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques.

Jasmin presents VistaPrint posted at TheInfamousJ, sharing some fun ideas for how to use VistaPrint’s free printing.

…ABOUT SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Neel presents 101 Ways to Cope with Teaching Stress posted at Smart Teaching.

DecisionCare presents 5 Essential Habits to Avoid Financial Disasters.

…ABOUT MATH AND SCIENCE

Sam Shah presents Earthquakes, Richter Scale, and Logarithms posted at Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere, teaching us how to measure earthquakes.

Faraday’s Cage presents The Flaming Tube, describing how to build a Rubin’s tube (a flaming demonstration of standing waves) as well as providing some video clips demonstrating its use.

…ABOUT COLLEGE

Dad of Divas presents The College Application Process.

bookfundas presents McGraw-Hill’s GMAT, 2008 Edition.

Thanks everyone for participating! If you submitted a post related to empowerment, and you don’t see it here, please let me know via email.

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