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There have now been over 8,000 votes placed for Teacher of the Year and the voting closes at 5pm EDT tonight.

Next, a national winner will be selected from the state winners and that person will be flown to Washington, D.C. in August to receive their award in a ceremony with a representative from the U.S. Department of Education. Stay tuned to our website in early August for the announcement about the recipient of the National ABCTE Teacher of the Year Award.

We're approaching 2,500 teaching certifications issued and, with story after great story coming to us about our teachers’ accomplishments, we have decided it is time to recognize this fantastic work through an ABCTE Teacher of the Year award.

We’ve reached that time of year in most schools when students are watching the calendar counting down the days until summer vacation begins. For teachers, this often means having the additional challenge of keeping students engaged who’d rather be getting an early start on their vacation.

We surveyed ABCTE alumni and asked them what they do to keep students engaged as the end of the school year approaches. Here are a few of the suggestions we got back from our teachers and the comments are open for you to share your own ideas.

Sometimes a member of the press will ask us why we’re recruiting aspiring teachers into our teaching certification program or into our teaching scholarship program in areas that are seeing teacher layoffs.

Today, Newsweek asked people: "In 6 words, tell us your thoughts on the American educational system." I submitted: "Improving it will solve many problems."

The next deadline to apply for ABCTE's Teach & Inspire Scholarship Program is fast approaching.

If you're interested in teaching in a high-need school and subject in Florida, Mississippi or South Carolina, Teach & Inspire provides accepted participants with a full scholarship and materials needed to become certified teachers through the ABCTE program. Once ABCTE certification is obtained, candidates are eligible for an additional $1,000 stipend for completing classroom observations.

If you subscribe to the monthly ABCTE Circular email, then you may have read about this in the edition that came out last week.

We receive a huge response anytime we offer a discount on the ABCTE program and we’ve decided to try something new—-we will now hold special one-day sales, during which you can save $150 on an ABCTE enrollment.

Here's how the ABCTE one-day sales will work...

This week's submissions touch on a variety of topics such as virtual schools, online learning, and ideas for teachers:

Mathew Needleman presents Back to School Week: It’s a Marathon Not a Sprint posted at Creating Lifelong Learners.

There is a very important article on teaching by Rick Hess in EducationNext this month. He has some outstanding facts and great suggestions on what has to happen in teaching in order to maximize talent and increase student learning.

First the background – he uses one of my favorite stats about our society of career changers: by 30, most people have held 4 different jobs. So assuming that every kid in college going into teaching is going to stay in teaching through retirement is ludicrous.

Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Carnival of Education Innovation.