Keeping Track

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Design a calendar that lets everyone know how many days are left until testing begins. Decide how far in advance you want your “countdown” to start. Your calendar will contain as many pages as there are days. Print a number per sheet of paper. For example, if you pick 60 days, print the numbers 60 down to one. Make a set for each class. Explain to teachers that they should remove a sheet a day. Before the calendars are revealed to students, let them guess the number of days. Reward students who are the closest with Learn It, Know It, Show It Water Bottles. When your countdown time is over, pass out a Ready To Give The Test My Best Pencil to every test taker.

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Test taking can be stressful and tense for students, teachers, and administrators, but you can change that. Positive Promotions has developed products to help you ease testing jitters on test-taking days and the period leading up to them. Use our budget-friendly incentives, learning materials, and gifts for students and teachers, along with the ideas provided below, to have your most successful test time ever!

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First Place:
Del City Elementary School,
Del City, Oklahoma

Second Place:
Early County High School,
Blakely, Georgia

Third Place:
Wanatah Public School,
Wanatah, Indiana

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It was our pleasure to help you motivate and encourage your school's students during test-taking time. We invite you to participate in our 2010 Test Taking Contest, with awards including a $300 Grand Prize, $200 Second Prize and $100 Third Prize.

Tell us about the rallies and events you held to encourage and motivate your students before test-taking time–and about the celebrations you held after students "survived" their exams. Let us also know about any special activities you held to recognize the achievements of your students, as well as to show appreciation to your teachers for helping to prepare the students. List the materials you used and the Positive Promotions products you selected. Please feel free to include photos of your test-taking activities and events. Prizes will be awarded to the three best and most creative entries.

Suggestions and input from educators like you help us create products that will boost your students' study skills and test-taking confidence. When you tell us about your successful events, we can also incorporate them into the helpful idea guides we include in our catalogs. Many product and event ideas begin with entries in our contest. Please remember to send us the enclosed contest entry form.

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Nelson Taxel

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P.S. Contest entries are due by July 1, 2010.

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