Welcome to the FACS Classroom Solutions™ e-Newsletter

Nourishing Relevance:
Keeping FACS Education on the Forefront

Among all professional educators, FACS teachers may be the most plugged into the real world. Your lesson plans not only relate to your students' present and future lives, but also reflect and encompass social and economic changes in our society. Food and nutrition education is a perfect example of a field that flexes to accommodate changes, specifically how and what we eat and why. Now, as you and your students prepare for the holiday season, we will direct this edition of Glencoe's FACS Classroom Solutions toward discussing today's challenging realities, how those realities are affecting FACS classrooms, and what can be done to effectively address them. We hope that our contributors' expert advice, along with our new programs, will help deliver a season of true thankfulness for you and your students.

Professional Development

Differentiated Instruction for English Language Learners

Differentiated instruction is especially important in language-diverse classrooms, where many learning activities can be and should be modified and differentiated. Before determining what level of differentiation is needed for your English language learners (ELL), there are two questions you need to ask.
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Rigor, Relevance, & Relationships

Using FCCLA in Your Classroom

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is a dynamic and effective national student organization that helps young men and women become leaders and address important personal, family, work, and societal issues through Family and Consumer Sciences Education. FCCLA has more than 220,000 members and nearly 7,000 chapters from 50 state associations and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The organization has involved more than 10 million youth since its founding in 1945.
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Technology Solutions

Online Learning Center

Online learning is quickly becoming an important adjunct to classroom education. It is crucial that as students turn more to the Internet to help them keep up with their studies, that teachers can use the same resource to ensure that they are "on the same page." Professionally developed with these imperatives in mind, Glencoe's Online Learning Center provides access to the information and materials that students and teachers need.
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Perkins & Funding

Bring Multimedia to Your Classroom Using Perkins Grants

Need fresh teaching materials but can’t get local funds? Use Perkins grants to buy videos, simulations, workbooks, and more for your FACS courses.
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