What's wrong with my room?

· Look around your classroom with the eye of a visitor. What do you see?

· When you walk into your room in the morning, how do you feel?

· When you leave in the afternoon, have you accomplished all that you planned?

If you are not satisfied with any of the answers you provided to those three questions, you need a Feng Shui adjustment.

You have three options...

1. Read FENG SHUI FOR THE CLASSROOM on your own and determine how to remedy your problem areas using the tips in my book.

2. Purchase a personalized Feng Shui analysis. Send me either by email or snailmail, a floor plan of your room, your answers to my questionnaire below, and photographs of each wall. The cost of this service is $125, payable through PayPal link below.

3. Buy Feng Shui for the Classroom: 101 Easy-to-Use Ideas directly from me AND send me the details of your room. The cost of this service is $140, payable through PayPal. This is actually a good deal because I can reference areas of my book for you and you get a discount from the publisher's price of the book.

What do you get?

A two-page written analysis of your room, indicating the areas that need Feng Shui remedies.
Recommendations on how to achieve those remedies.
Email contact with me for three months.

COMMON PROBLEMS:

No windows
High ceilings
Irregular shape
No storage
Too small
Too many doors
Disorganized centers
Smelly carpets
Dingy walls
Small bulletin boards
Scratched blackboard
ETC!

Recommendation:

For my new elementary classroom, most of the ideas suggested worked very well. It helped me design a room with little clutter, and the colors in different areas work well at "tying" an area together without competing with the rest of the room. The author has a nice chart to make this easy to do.

Everyone who has come into my room notices that it is tranquil and peaceful. My class is a special day class for students with learning disabilities, ADHD and/or autism, and I think the uncluttered room helps them focus and concentrate.

I also feel peaceful and tranquil when I enter the room. It helps me, too! Plus, it's aesthetically pleasing. ~ C. Patterson

Sign me up!

First, complete the questionnaire.

Second, take digital pictures of your classroom. If possible, label the pictures to correspond to your diagram.

Third, draw a diagram of your floor plan, indicating doors, windows, desks, cabinets, etc.

Fourth, submit payment via PayPal (above) or a check made out to Renee Heiss. If you submit by snailmail, also include a SASE.

Fifth, send by snail mail (please request my home address by email) or attach a digital copy of the questionnaire, pictures, and diagram to Renee Heiss, consultant

NEWS FLASH!

This post is for busy teachers who want to earn extra credits to boost their pay scale. Corwin Publishers, which has my Feng Shui for the Classroom and Helping Kids Help, has partnered with California Lutheran University, an NCATE-accredited institution, to offer teachers one unit of graduate course credit for reading any Corwin book and completing a series of three course assignments.

What great news! Just for reading my books and completing associated assignments, you can earn one credit for each book. It's not as easy as it sounds because each book costs $199 for this arrangement, and you must complete the assignments within three months of enrollment. Still not a bad deal!

This arrangement gives busy educators who need graduate credit to take the next step in their careers the opportunity to earn credit at their own pace through independent study. Simply select a Corwin book (my books would be a great place to start!), register for credit at www.corwin.com/read2earn, read the book, and complete three writing assignments within three months.

If I were still in teaching and needed to boost my credits to the next payscale, I'd jump at this chance to earn the credits. Corwin Press has some amazingly interesting books, in addition to my own :-) Looks like summer reading to me!