[Catalist] Books, and resources for (new, ish) teachers

[Leon Harris]

Greetings to all.

My daughter started and has run for 3 years a book 
repurposing/re-life-ing program, in which she collects cast offs from 
her school (and others) and tries to place them with schools at need. 
The idea being, if you give a textbook to a studious kid at a low SES 
environment, you may fire them up, do good and help make the word a 
better place. (Is it just me who remembers how much I loved reading some 
textbooks - especially Web Of Life?)

As a byproduct, we have a collection of y7-10 science textbooks that 
would be useful to new teachers without many materials.
It is always good to have a couple of "off program" textbooks. In the 
two days during which you are dying of bird flu (actually, in our 
profession, swine flu :D), you can fish out a couple of activities and 
send them into your relief coordinator - especially if you are unsure 
about the calibre of your relief teacher! There are other uses as well ...

Anyway, if you are a new teacher, and could use a few of these, please 
contact me off list.

Cheers, and Happy New Year,
Leon