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Teacher's Toolbox. Teacher's Toolbox See toolkit and toolbar. is designed to provide teachers with usefulinformation, including helpful hints and links to beneficial Web sites. Scholarships and Grants from Target Target not only offers scholarships to students through their"All-Around Scholarships for Students" program, but since1998, they have also provided teachers with scholarship dollars forenhancing their educations. In addition to scholarships, the company also offers grants in twoareas--arts and family violence prevention. If you have a Target storein your community, your school may be eligible for one of these grants.Arts programs should be family oriented, and family violence preventionprograms should focus on reducing domestic violence or preventing childabuse and neglect. Applications for grants are accepted between February1 and November 1. For more information about scholarships and education grants fromTarget, call 800-316-6142 or visit www.target.com. Middle Schools to Watch In 1999, the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reformlaunched its "Schools to Watch" initiative and has identifiedfour schools as being on their way to meeting the forum's criteriafor high performance. According to according toprep.1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.2. In keeping with: according to instructions.3. the forum, high-performing middleschools are academically excellent, developmentally responsive andsocially equitable. The National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform is analliance of more than 60 educators, researchers and officers of nationalassociations and foundations, and their members nominated 64 schools forconsideration. The four schools selected by the National Forum as "Schools toWatch" are Barren County Middle School in Glasgow, Ky., JeffersonMiddle School Jefferson Middle School is a middle school located in Jefferson City, Tennessee. The middle school is home to the football team the Elks, which has won more conference champs than any other middle school in Tennessee. in Champaign, Ill., Freeport Intermediate School inFreeport, Texas Freeport is a city in Brazoria County, Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown Metropolitan Area and is situated in Southeast Texas. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 12,708 and is about sixteen miles away from Angleton. , and Thurgood Marshall For people and institutions etc. named after Thurgood Marshall, see .Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Middle School in Chicago, Ill. To take a virtual tour of the four schools, including a virtualmeeting with each school's principal, visitwww.schoolstowatch.org/what.htm. Funding from Handspring for At-Risk Youth Education The Handspring Foundation has been established to provide cashgrants to nonprofit organizations that focus on issues directly relatedto children and youth at risk. The foundation was formed by Handspring,a manufacturer of hand-held computing devices. The grants range from $1,000 to $25,000 each, with most averagingbetween $5,000 and $10,000. The foundation is looking for Looking forIn the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. : * programs that target high-risk youth and utilize the arts,technology and sports; * programs for prevention, education and early interventionsservices related to the health of children; * programs for direct services for children who are victims ofabuse or neglect, including services to children in foster care; and * homeless assistance programs for families with children. Technical assistance/organizational effectiveness grants are alsoavailable for organizations that focus directly on issues directlyrelated to children and youth at risk. For more information about the foundation and its grants, visitwww.handspring.com/company/foundation. Sites You Can Use Here are two sites from PBS PBSin full Public Broadcasting ServicePrivate, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, that are companions to broadcastprograms. www.pbs.org/wgbh.buildingbig This Web site for the five-part miniseries on megastructures MegaStructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel and Five in the United Kingdom.Each episode is an educational look of varying depth into the construction, operation, and staffing of various structures or construction likebridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams and tunnels has educational materialsand activities for teachers to use in the classroom. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome The two-hour special on the human genome The human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens, which is composed of 24 distinct pairs of chromosomes (22autosomal+X+Y) with a total of approximately 3 billion DNA base pairs containing an estimated 20,000–25,000 genes. , "Cracking the Codeof Life," originally aired on April 17, but with cloning and stemcell stem cellIn living organisms, an undifferentiated cell that can produce other cells that eventually make up specialized tissues and organs. There are two major types of stem cells, embryonic and adult. research still in the headlines, this site and its resources forteachers may be helpful in exploring these complex subjects.