Best Articles for Educators Week of 8/24/14

Ferguson Teachers Use Day Off As Opportunity For A Civics Lesson

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/19/341651494/ferguson-teachers-use-day-off-as-opportunity-for-a-civics-lesson?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140819

Back to School: A Surefire Strategy for Building Classroom Community

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/back-to-school-strategy-building-community-anne-shaw 

More Important Resources On Race & Racism

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/08/23/more-important-resources-on-race-racism/

How Play Wires Kids’ Brains For Social and Academic Success

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/how-play-wires-kids-brains-for-social-and-academic-success/ 

Brain Study Gives a Peek at Move From Problem-Solving to Fact-Finding in Math

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2014/08/brain_study_gives_a_peek_at_mo.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InsideSchoolResearch+%28Education+Week%3A+Inside+School+Research%29 

Get Tech Out of Schools

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/08/technology_in_the_classroom_patricia_greenfield_says_kids_don_t_need_it.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top



Teaching Ferguson

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/once-more-feeling/201408/teaching-ferguson