Summer is almost here [insert applause track], and your time is tight, so here are a couple of quick and helpful publications from Phi Delta Kappa.  The first gives a short list of ideas for ending the year with your students.  The second is a list of ways that you can use the summer to grow as an educator.

6 Tips for Ending the School Year

5 Tips for a Productive Summer

Do you have tips you'd like to share with other educators? Take a bit of time to gather your ideas in the format of Classroom Tips by writing 5 to 10 tips presented in 550 to 600 words. PDK will accept submissions up to July 11, 2008, and will select five winning manuscripts to be published during the 2008-09 year.  Take some time to give back to education what you've learned.