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-- Japanese proverb
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School & Community
MSTA’s award-winning magazine is mailed to members’ homes four times a year. The most recent issue included the stories listed below. Click on the highlighted title to read the featured story.
Features
The big A
Students identified with autism and related disorders are flooding Missouri schools.
Are you ready to meet their needs?
Tackling trauma
Students who have experienced trauma present challenges for teachers. An expert in the field offers advice.
Mentors step up
The state's new standards recognize that mentoring and student performance go hand-in-hand.
The saving grace of mentors
Even a confident second-generation teacher needed support when she first stepped into the classroom.
Mis familias/my families
New MSTA President Rebecca Ruth talks about her career as a Spanish teacher, her priorities as a leader and the people she calls family.
Shining light on an unspeakable evil
A Chillicothe teacher and her students bring a Holocaust survivor's story to life.
Teacher Tip: Fun with food
Two Missouri teachers incorporate familiar foods into the curricula and serve up some tasty learning.
Departments
FORUM: Members speak up
NOTEBOOK
Ozark inequities, green schools and nutrition guidelines
PEOPLE
Member honors, MSTA's outstanding leaders, Missouri Teacher of the Year nominee Rani Khakh, novelist and school librarian Brian Katcher
NEWS
Full convention coverage, Bunker Hill campaign, personnel changes and retirement news
TECHNOLOGY
Web 2.0 and student safety
LEGAL
Virtual schools and special education
RESOURCES
Teaching ideas and student competitions
CLOSE UP
Lee's Summit R-9 P.E. teacher Felton Bishop
Columns
AGENDA
You said it! by MSTA Executive Director Kent King
PERSPECTIVE
Time: an irreplaceable resource by MSTA President Rebecca Ruth