Innovative Educational Projects - By Educational Dividends

Educational Dividends offers innovative tools that revolutionize the learning environment and provide a proven approach for community involvement in education. Our work is leading the way; bringing new ideas, higher standards and a framework for accountability to our educational system.

Educational Dividends strengthens education through project design and business-education partnerships. Our goal is to establish "win-win" relationships between the business and the education communities and deliver educational products that integrate technology, standards-based learning, leadership and workplace skills.

Carol Timms, President of Educational Dividends says, "Success requires shared responsibility. To see long lasting, positive results, our schools will need leadership from all of education's stakeholders."

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Educational Dividends provides you with information; a great tool when it comes to making improvements. Join the mailing list for Monthly Dividends and you join a network of partners who stay current on issues related to business, education and families. You will learn about resources for your classroom or office, and discover fun sites on the Internet. Subscribe to the Monthly Dividends e-mailing list.

What issues are most important in your classroom? Share them in the Teachers' Lounge, a place for insightful discussion related to the teaching profession.

EnergyNet Energy Auditing
6th-12th grades

Students become energy consultants for their school and work to solve a real world issue: The responsible reduction of the costs of energy in their school building.

Students complete an energy audit of their school, record energy data on computers, use the Internet to communicate with experts and complete research, and present solutions to their school board.

Teachers find this proven project is an effective and engaging teaching method that meets learning standards and school improvement criteria.

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Business: Discover the benefits of supporting education. View a list of projects that your company can support or find out how we can create a project to fit your needs. Educational Dividends helps you to gain a positive image while keeping education first.

Teachers: Discover the resources that are available for educators. Download curriculum or submit yours to share. Join a discussion with innovative teachers. View information on current trends in education, standards, schools, teaching careers and more.

Families: Discover tools that show you how to help your child in school. Check out the Homework Helper. Learn how to help your child set goals and achieve them. Find out about a project that can help you partner with your school. View information on colleges. If you home school your child, we have find information and curriculum, too.

Students: Discover resources that can help you succeed. Link to a wide range of resources from encyclopedias to science fair ideas. Take the Learning Quiz to find out how you learn. Get guidance on career choices including the latest on technology fields. Find out what issues in education are important for you today.

Press Pass: Discover a page that's designed just for the media. Learn more about Educational Dividends and how our plans address what educators, students, businesses and parents are calling for in schools. View a range of story ideas related to education. See our news releases about successes in schools.

About Us: Discover Educational Dividends and the projects that offer students a chance to get involved in their education. Find out our goals and ethics. Learn about the people who work here and the people who partner with us. Join our team.

Creating partnerships between
businesses and schools
Educational Dividends seeks to bring businesses, communities and schools together for the benefit of all. By working together toward the same goals, Educational Dividends can help make a better community for everyone.

Educational Dividends develops standards-based K-12 projects that produce results

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EnergyNet's success stories are available in an online publication called Best Practices.

Best Practices allows educators, community members, parents, students and business leaders to see how improvements in education are taking place.

Project Design: Educational Dividends can design a project to fit your specific needs and requirements. Let us show you what we can do for you.

Benefits: Sponsoring an Educational Dividends project can have many benefits. Let us show you how sponsorship makes sense for you.

Ethics: All products made by Educational Dividends are student-focused and standards-based. View how our ethics translate into a better investment for you.

Sponsorship: We offer a wide variety of sponsorship opportunities, from nation-wide projects to schoolroom resources. Find out how to sponsor one of these great products.

Providing tools and information to teaching professionals
Educational Dividends offers teachers with tools, reference information, news on the profession and an area to network with your colleagues.

The AND Model

When it comes to educational improvements, people begin looking for a magic solution - the one right answer. Educational Dividends knows that educational improvement is not about one way but about AND; everyone working together, using what works to reach a common goal.

Discover the key components of The AND Model, a proven approach to learning for all students, and find out how it's woven into our projects

Teaching Tools: Grab a teaching tool here. Request lesson plans, visit some suggested Internet sites, get help planning a field trip and register for your free subscription to Monthly Dividends.

Reference Desk: Conduct research on learning standards and learning styles, learn about yourself by taking career and personality tests and find out what the numbers say about education.

Professional Development News: Whether you are planning to enter the profession or enhancing your skills, you will find valuable career information here.

Teachers' Lounge: Take a moment out of your hectic schedule to visit with your colleagues in the Teachers' Lounge.

Parent Involvement and Home Schooling Learning begins at home
Educating our young people is a community need and should be a community effort. The combined talents of families, communities, businesses and educators are required for our children to succeed.

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Join the e-mail list for Monthly Dividends and you join a network of partners who stay current on issues related to business, education and families. You will learn about resources for your classroom or office, and discover fun sites on the Internet.

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Home Schooling: Some families have opted to teach their children at home for a variety of reasons including religious beliefs, concern about violence, issues related to peer pressure and a perception of poor academic quality in traditional schools. For information about requirements and resources, visit our Home Schooling area.

Homework Helper: Parents are not only a child's first teacher, they are a child's continuous teacher. Helping your child develop into a lifelong learner can be demanding. To help you be most effective, we've developed a Homework Helper area containing tips and resources.

School Partnership: Success requires nothing less than shared responsibility. Ideas on how parents can become a positive partner with the school to promote educational excellence, visit the School Partnership area.

Goal Setting: A family is a team with a shared vision. Ideas and techniques for improving your team's success, visit our Goal Setting area.

Colleges: Helping your child prepare for and choose a post-secondary educational path involves many factors. Visit our Colleges area for some great advice.

Links: You will find links to a variety of helpful Internet sites for parents here.

Student Life
If you've spent much time searching the Internet recently, then you know how hard it is to sort through to find what you need. We can help.

We've scoured the Web for you to create a great starting point for finding what you need. Start with our Resources page and Learning Quiz, then move on to our Technology primer and Career Choices section. Or, make your opinion count in the Student Issues section. Enjoy, and tell us what you think.

How do you learn?

Student Poll

I prefer to learn by:

Results available in Student Issues.

Everyone uses different methods to learn. Some people are visual while others learn by listening. How do you learn?

Read the Student Issues article for this month, Learning Styles.

What We Offer:

Resources: We've found just about the best of everything. Come visit our fun resources and use our homework helper links.

Learning Quiz: Use these tests to determine your Learning Style and dominant intelligence. As they say, "Know Thyself."

Technology: Are you wondering if what you are learning will be of use. Find out what employers are asking for before you show up at their door.

Career Choices: Looking for information on colleges? A.P. credit information? Wondering what to study in school? We can help you find that information.

Student Issues: Make your opinion count. Read our topic of the month and discuss what it means to you.

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Extra Extra

The education topic can be daunting for a reporter to cover. To help, we have created this guide. The information here is not meant to be inclusive, but we do offer some general resources and some specifics on educational reform.

Educational Dividends creates educational and training products for all students. We believe in teaching teachers to facilitate the learning of students.

Our education and facilitation experts can help you research your news story. Carol Timms, President of Educational Dividends, is available to answer your questions about education, reform, school-to-work, the facilitative learning model, or any of Educational Dividends products. Call (877) 359-9444 to arrange an interview.

Field Trip Planner

Field trips can enhance the lessons students are learning in the classroom. Find out what to do before, during and after the field trip to provide a rich educational experience for all students.

Field Trip Planner

Press Pass Links

Just the Facts: Find information about Educational Dividends, our projects, our mission, and our people.

Education Beat: This section is a primer for reporters to begin researching their stories. We also offer story ideas and press releases here.

Photo Library: Coming soon, this section will feature stock photos for newspapers and magazines to use.

Statistics: Looking for a telling statistic for your story? Look here for links to general education statistics and statistics specific to the education reform movement.

Helpful Links: Here we have links to reform organizations as well as some of the major players in the educational system, including teachers unions and education associations.

Educational Dividends' mission is to change the classroom paradigm to consistently produce creative, self-learners who are employable. We establish "win-win" relationships between business and the educational community and deliver educational products and projects that integrate technology, standards-based learning, leadership and workplace skills. Educational Dividends' projects are relevant to students and challenge them to take responsibility for their education.

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Educational Dividends' teachers and their peers are sharing ideas, commenting on issues in education and using information shared in the Teacher's Lounge to enhance their work in the classroom. Visitors are welcome.

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Changing the World: Educational Dividends has significant goals. Read about them and find out about projects and products that are moving us toward our goals. Learn how we create mutually beneficial relationships between schools, communities and business.

Our People: Talent and teamwork. Meet the people who help us to succeed. Give us feedback on our site and products.

Curriculum for Sale: Check out curriculum that is available for purchase. Tell us about the curriculum you have developed, we may be interested in buying. Find out more.