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Welcome to the FACS Classroom Solutions™ e-Newsletter

Kicking Off the School Year:
A Commitment to Rigor and Relevance

What does it mean to commit to rigor and relevance? As the new school year begins, demands on you as a FACS educator are greater than ever. In Glencoe's FACS Classroom Solutions, we will share the strategies that actual FACS teachers and experts have discovered to meet rigorous standards while offering students more relevant education than ever.

Spotlight: Meet the Author Roberta Larson Duyff

Roberta Larson Duyff: "If I ruled the world, all schools would teach food and nutrition."

Registered dietitian, author, media spokesperson and food industry/government consultant Roberta Larson Duyff is an authority on "the power of positive nutrition." We sat down with this author of Glencoe's Food, Nutrition & Wellness to talk about the book, and the strategies that FACS teachers must use to help empower students of all ages with food and nutrition information to make wise food decisions.

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Professional Development

Glencoe Online Professional Development for Integrating Academics

Perkins IV has placed more emphasis than ever on providing a quality professional development for FACS educators. The legislation mandates that the focus on professional development be the integration and reinforcement of academic competencies in order to improve student achievement. Specifically, Perkins requires measurements of students' academic success. Glencoe Online Professional Development for Integrating Academics suite of products can help.
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Rigor, Relevance, & Relationships

A Lifelong Project: Dawn Lewis

"Seek support from textbooks that already integrate the required standards."
--Dawn Lewis, FACS educator, Douglas, GA

What measures can you take to integrate and reinforce academic competencies in your FACS classrooms? How can you continue to make those all-important connections between FACS subjects and the real world? Hear how FACS educator Dawn Lewis is meeting the challenge.
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Technology Solutions

Customize Your Lesson Planning

How many hours per month do you spend trying to adapt lessons to your classroom needs? What could you otherwise accomplish with those hours? With today’s technology, you must be able to access all of the resources you need for lesson planning in one place. Glencoe’s powerful lesson planning software tools make it possible.
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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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Featured Products

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Motivate students to develop responsible eating and fitness habits with Food, Nutrition & Wellness, authored by a prominent member of the American Dietetic Association. Based on the latest in nutrition science and research, FNW focuses on the basics of nutrition, food prep, and working in the kitchen while providing point-of-use academic integration to help teachers meet Perkins mandates.
Food, Nutrition & Wellness

Designed to guide students toward their own strong future, Families Today focuses on family skills and relationships in a relevant context designed to encourage student competence in every arena. Writing Activities, Math in Action, or Science in Action features are included in every chapter to support the mandates of Perkins legislation. Group activities and project-based learning offer opportunities to apply concepts.
Families Today

Put students on the path to discovery and excellence with Discovering Life Skills, a new program designed to encourage students to forge paths and set goals through learning. Stay in School features support solid study skills and behaviors that determine success and have a positive impact against dropout risks. New and revised academic integration with relevant standards are cited at points of use throughout the book.
Discovering Life Skills

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