2013 Educators Calendar With Daily Activities Now Available on TeacherVision.com

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BOSTON, Mass. (PRWEB) January 09, 2013

Teachers can make every day a celebration with the holidays, special events and important days in history featured on TeacherVisions 2013 Educators Calendar. Now available on TeacherVision.com, this years calendar includes an activity for each event listed, putting thousands of ideas to stimulate students creativity at teachers fingertips. Designed to meet the needs of all educators, the calendar is available as an interactive feature online, a printable PDF, or a free widget for featuring on a blog.

Discussing and celebrating holidays, significant dates in history and birthdays of important public figures provides teachers with a great way to make learning come alive for their students, said Jess M. Brallier, publisher, TeacherVision. The 2013 Educators Calendar offers engaging learning activities, lesson plans and other resources to support the thousands of creative teachers who turn to TeacherVision every year for new ways to encourage learning in their classrooms.

Major holidays, such as Martin Luther King Day, Valentines Day, Chinese New Year, Halloween and Fourth of July, are featured on the site with plenty of lessons, projects and activities for celebrating with students. However, every day is a holiday on the 2013 Educators Calendar, where teachers will find smaller, more unusual reasons to celebrate. For example, January 29 is Puzzle Day, and teachers can help their students celebrate with tangrams, word finds, math squares and other fun and educational puzzles. On May 16, Biographers Day, teachers can encourage their students to read full-length biographies or even write their own life stories. September 30 marks International Translation Day, and the 2013 Educators Calendar provides great ideas for discussing foreign languages with students even teaching them a few new words.

The calendar also presents teachers with great resources for discussing major historical events. For example, April 6, 1896, marked the beginning of the first modern Olympics, and teachers and their students can learn about the advent of the Games and what happened at that inaugural event. On June 18, they can explore the War of 1812 on the day that President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Great Britain.

The 2013 Educators Calendar includes activities for celebrating monthly events as well. For February, Black History Month, the calendar highlights resources on the contributions of African Americans, from Harriet Tubman to Barack Obama; during Womens History Month in March, the calendar features female historical figures, such as Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt and Sally Ride.

The 2013 monthly calendar for teachers is one example of the many quality resources and classroom tools that are regularly added to TeacherVision. To receive updates on the site, special offers and new resources, educators can sign up for TeacherVisions free teacher newsletters, Great Stuff for Teachers and Special Offers for Teachers.

Teachers can also visit TeacherVision on Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/teachervision/), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/TeacherVision), Google+ and Twitter to find more great ideas for integrating current and historical events into their teaching calendar throughout the year.

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Thelefthandstore.com Announces a Contest for the Best “My Left-Handed Valentine” Stories

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 31, 2013

Do left-handers make the best Valentines? Thelefthandstore.com announces a contest for the best “My Left-Handed Valentine” stories. The 1st Prize is a $ 100 gift certificate to thelefthandstore.com, with three runner-up prizes of $ 25 gift certificates. Entries should be emailed to leftycontest (at) gmail (dot) com by midnight on February 10, 2013.

Left-handers tend to be funny, empathetic, athletic, and creative – a great mix for a Valentine. According to Melissa Roth, whose book The Left Stuff reports that lefties are disporportionately represented among comedians (Jon Stewart, Tina Fey, Shirley MacLaine for example), psychiatrists, professional athletes (Pele, Jon McEnroe, Babe Ruth are among their ranks), as well as in a host of creative fields (Leonardo da Vinci, PIcasso, Paul McCartney, Beethoven).

An impressive number of lefties are importoant leaders. 5 out of the last 7 US Presidents have been lefties, including Obama, and a stunning roster of the world’s most famous military and political leaders – including Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon.

Lefties can also be ultra-hot! Left-handed celebrities from Cary Grant to the ultimate left-handed couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, have dazzled millions with their looks.

Visit Lefty’s retail stores in San Francisco’s Pier39, at the Marketplace in Downtown Disney in Orlando, FL, or at the Old Town Mall in Kissimmee, or on-line at thelefthandstore.com. Lefty’s has Everything for the Left-Hander!







Edith Sanford Convenes National Thought Leaders Council

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Sioux Falls, SD (PRWEB) June 11, 2013

The Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Foundation is breaking new ground in the nonprofit space by looking to successful entrepreneurs and social innovators to help reach its philanthropic goals. Last week in Sioux Falls, S.D., the Foundation convened the first meeting of its National Thought Leaders Advisory Council, a think tank designed to help formulate fresh new strategies for building grassroots support.

“The Edith Sanford initiative was founded as a catalyst for transformational change in the way we think about and treat breast cancer,” said Kimberly Simpson, president of the Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Foundation. “Part of our success depends on going beyond the mainstream and leveraging the experience, connections and insights of creative, entrepreneurial thinkers from a wide variety of professional backgrounds.”

Edith Sanford stands out because it embraces innovation in everything from its mission to the way it does business, said council member Ron McCray, a private investor and corporate director who has also served as chief administrative officer of Nike, Inc. and as chief legal officer of Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Every for-profit business knows that a culture of creativity and innovation is the key to success, but its unique for a charitable nonprofit to be so nimble and forward thinking.

The distinguished council represents recognized leaders in areas including biotechnology, IT, health care, food, consumer goods, apparel, digital media, finance, and political consulting. Each member was carefully selected to ensure a diversity of experience and perspective that the Foundation will draw on to help identify and maximize engagement, grassroots fundraising and major gift philanthropy opportunities.

In addition to McCray, the council boasts names such as Jan Fields, former president of McDonald’s USA, LLC, who has been named to the Forbes list of The Worlds 100 Most Powerful Women.

“I am very excited about the bold new approach to breast cancer,” said Fields. “I think Edith Sanford is the answer to finally ending this devastating disease.”

Another leader on the council is Craig Arnold, president and CEO of Permara LLC. Arnold previously served as a director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he led initiatives to bring access to computers and the internet to small towns and large cities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Chile.

“I believe in Edith Sanford’s approach to ending breast cancer and raising the standard of care for women everywhere. I’m eager to contribute to the success of its mission,” said Arnold.

Council Members:

Ron McCray

McCray is a private investor and corporate director. He previously served as the chief administrative officer of Nike, Inc., and chief legal officer of Kimberly-Clark Corporation. McCray is the minority owner of the Boston Celtics NBA franchise and serves on the boards of Cornell University and the Harvard Law School. By nomination of President Obama and Senate confirmation, he is also a member of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board.

Janice (Jan) Fields

Fields is the former president of McDonald’s USA, LLC, and one of the most widely recognized women in business leadership. She currently serves on the boards of St. Louis-based Monsanto, The Field Museum, The Global Board of Ronald McDonald House Charities, and chairs the Board of United Cerebral Palsy. She is also a member of The Chicago Network, an organization of professional women in the upper echelons of business, the arts, government, and academia.

Fields has been named to the Forbes list of The Worlds 100 Most Powerful Women, Fortunes 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list, The Wall Street Journals 50 Women to Watch list, and Crains Chicago Business list of 25 Women to Watch.

Craig Arnold

Arnold is the president and chief executive officer of the technology company Permara LLC and a former director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he led one of the foundations earliest initiatives to bring access to computers and the internet to small towns and large cities in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Chile. Arnold has also served as chief executive officer at Plymouth Energy and has been a board for NPower.

Katie Behnke

Behnke is managing partner and cofounder of The Starboard Group. She is a successful political and fundraising campaign advisor who has worked with a veritable whos who of Colorado politics, including U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Gov. Bill Owens.

Ralph Kauten

Kauten is the chairman and chief executive officer of Quintessence Biosciences, Inc. located in Madison, Wisc. Kauten has served as co-founder and leader of a number of biotechnology companies including Promega Corporation, PanVera Corporation, and Mirus Corporation. He has also been designated as an Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young.

Clare A. Martorana

Martorana is a digital media executive who has held senior leadership positions with WebMD Health, including the role of senior vice president of partnerships and editor-at-large at WebMD Health, and the senior vice president and general manager of the WebMD Network. Before joining WebMD, she served as chief operating officer at Oncology.com. Martorana’s previous experience includes the positions of vice president and executive producer at CBS HealthWatch by Medscape, where she developed CBS HealthWatch radio and broadcast programming as well as special projects for CBS. Martorana has also worked as an independent film producer at SDR Films and Coleman Parker Productions in New York where she produced numerous feature films and documentaries.

Pierce H. McDowell III

McDowell is a co-founder and current president, co-chairman and co-chief executive officer of South Dakota Trust Company LLC and South Dakota Planning Company LLC. The former is a national trust boutique company for the wealthy based in Sioux Falls, S.D., and the latter a trust/estate planning consulting, marketing and sales firm based in New York City.

Matthew Meskell

Meskell works on operations, product and strategy at a privately-held company based in Silicon Valley whose software enables integrating, analyzing, and visualizing large-scale data. He previously served as a managing director for a multi-billion dollar investment fund dedicated to macro trading strategies. Meskell has also served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and practiced law with a focus on intellectual property disputes.

Catherine Rodewald

Rodewald has served as the president and chief executive officer with Prudential Asset Resources, Inc. and the managing director/chief information officer for Prudential Mortgage Capital Company. Rodewald has also held leadership positions with AMRESCO (international publicly traded diversified financial services corporation) and Ernst and Young (formerly Kenneth Leventhal & Company). She was also formerly president of the Komen affiliate in Dallas.

Dwayne Spradlin

Spradlin is the chief executive officer of Health Data Consortium, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit public private partnership advocating and enabling improvements in health and health care through better use of health data. He previously served as president and chief executive officer of InnoCentive, the pioneer in open innovation and crowdsourcing, president of Hoovers Online, president and chief operations officer of StarCite Inc., senior vice president at VerticalNet Inc., and director at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he spent ten years delivering technology and strategy solutions to Fortune 500 clients.

Spradlin recently coauthored The Open Innovation Marketplace, published by FT Press; and his article Are You Solving the Right Problem? was pu