NIE Student Writing and Cartoon Contest!

Congratulations to all the winners and students who entered this years contest. To view all the entries please click here.

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NIE Student Supplement Winners

The time has come, Starting tomorrow morning in the print paper we will start having our K-2 winners appear in print. They will be in the newspaper Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Also the student supplement with all of the other winner will be published and available in next Wednesday’s Print copy. You will [...]

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NIE contest and preparing for college

Hi all, Just a reminder that the student supplement and writing contest is well under way. Deadline for entries is February 17th. I am attaching the form to this e-mail in case you have not seen or downloaded it yet. Please remember that there is a total of $5,000 in sponsorship money that is awarded [...]

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Happy New Years

I wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year. Also look for the Robyn Reports Serial Story to start on Wednesday January 3rd. You can download the teachers guide here. Teacher’s Guide RR 2012 Thanks

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The 2012 Student Supplement

The time is here! The 2012 NIE Student writing and cartoon contest has officially begun! We will once again have prompts for all grade levels in both writing and political cartoon drawing. Download the entry form here 2012 Student Supplement or click on the link at the upper left hand column of the page. Please [...]

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The Mini-Page and Student Supplement

Hey all, A few things. First the mini-page will now be available online. I have received some feedback about the new mini-page format not being very helpful so I am now able to offer it digitally in the old 4-page tab format. It also will contain the standard and spotlight lesson plan that used to [...]

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New job and blog help

Greeting all, I wanted to update you on just a few things. First I have changed positions here at the BDN. I have moved out of the circulation department and into our New Media/Editorial department. My new title is Audience Development Manager. This won’t affect you hopefully at all as I will still oversee the [...]

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Message on Geography Action Week

Dear NIE teacher! Welcome to another year of excitement and great programs. I just wanted to remind you that next week, November 13th- 19th ,  is Geography Awareness Week .This year’s theme is ” Geography: the Adventure in your Community”.  National Geographic Education has produced a poster with activities for you to do with your [...]

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Update

Hi everyone, I hope that everything is running smoothly for you as we get into November. A lot is happening with NIE right now. Many of you are using the Mega Skills section that is being printed in the Bangor Daily News. The section will be printed each day (Mon-Fri) until it finishes on November [...]

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Update

Hi everyone, I hope that everyone who used the Brass bell serial story enjoyed it over the past few weeks. We will have another story that will run beginning in January so look for that coming in 2012. Next week on November 1st we will begin running the Mega Skills series in the newspaper. it [...]

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