MzTeachuh: Teachable Moment: Supermoon and Perseid Meteors (o...

MzTeachuh: Teachable Moment: Supermoon and Perseid Meteors (o...: Supermoon On August 10 Will Be Biggest Of 2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/08/supermoon-august-2014-how-to-see_n_5659215.html...

Teachable Moment: Supermoon and Perseid Meteors (on Sunday 8/10/14)

Supermoon On August 10 Will Be Biggest Of 2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/08/supermoon-august-2014-how-to-see_n_5659215.html 

File this under: The Sky Is Cheap Entertainment. Not quite as amusing as a family member in Choir or the Glee Club or Dance--but the sky is pretty entertaining.

Keep your eye on the sky: Supermoon, annual meteor shower collide Sunday

http://mynorthwest.com/11/2582914/Keep-your-eye-on-the-sky-Supermoon-annual-meteor-shower-collide-Sunday 

Most “super” supermoon of 2014 on August 10

http://earthsky.org/ 

Supermoon On August 10 Will Be Biggest Of 2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/08/supermoon-august-2014-how-to-see_n_5659215.html 

How you can watch the Perseid meteor shower, even with the full moon

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0808/How-you-can-watch-the-Perseid-meteor-shower-even-with-the-full-moon 

Everything you need to know: Perseid meteor shower

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-perseid-meteor-shower 

Kid's Astronomy

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/ 

Bigger, brighter ‘supermoon’ set to shine this weekend 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/bigger-brighter-supermoon-set-to-shine-this-weekend/article19967935/ 

The Science Behind the Super Moon 

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/science-super-moon-16287659 

And for fun:

Evening of Music With the Supermoon 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/07/evening-of-music-with-supermoon.html?spref=bl 

 

MzTeachuh: The Summer Wind

MzTeachuh: The Summer Wind: Tree in the Wind, Van Gogh Sirocco?  热风--首页? Santa Ana? (SoCal reference to hot winds.) Frank Sinatra -Summer Wind (1966)...

The Summer Wind

Tree in the Wind, Van Gogh

Sirocco?  热风--首页? Santa Ana? (SoCal reference to hot winds.)

Frank Sinatra -Summer Wind (1966)Arrangement by Nelson Riddle.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug8cBIbxDaY&feature=related

The summer wind, came blowin' in from across the sea
It lingered there to touch your hair and walk with me
All summer long we sang a song and then we strolled that golden sand
Two sweethearts and the summer wind

Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by
The world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky
Then softer than a piper man one day it called to you
I lost you, I lost you to the summer wind

The autumn wind and the winter winds, they have come and gone
And still the days, those lonely days, they go on and on
And guess who sighs his lullabies through nights that never end
My fickle friend, the summer wind

The summer wind
Warm summer wind
Mmm, the summer wind

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/9/14

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/9/14: Game On: 10 Best Sports for Kids with ADHD or Learning Disabilities http://www.additudemag.com/slideshow/104/slide-1.html    Intervie...

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/9/14

Game On: 10 Best Sports for Kids with ADHD or Learning Disabilities

http://www.additudemag.com/slideshow/104/slide-1.html 

 Interview with Dr. Lawrence Diller

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/interviews/diller.html

A Complete Guide to Natural ADHD Treatments

http://www.additudemag.com/slideshow/21/slide-1.html 

How Childhood Trauma Could Be Mistaken for ADHD

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/how-childhood-trauma-could-be-mistaken-for-adhd/373328/ 

How Do IEPs and 504 Plans Work?

http://www.additudemag.com/slideshow/3/slide-1.html?utm_source=FacebookAds&utm_medium=Desktop&utm_term=ADHD&utm_content=IEPs&utm_campaign=Fans 

Advice For Dating With Asperger's: Don't Call 100 Times A Week

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/08/09/338910290/advice-for-dating-with-aspergers-dont-call-100-times-a-week?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140809 

When Food goes from Foe to Friend

http://www.specialeducationadvisor.com/when-food-goes-from-foe-to-friend/ 

 

 

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 8/9/14

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 8/9/14: 10 Questions To Encourage Math Thinking http://lemonlimeadventures.com/10-questions-encourage-math-thinking/   Apps That Challenge Ki...

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 8/9/14

10 Questions To Encourage Math Thinking

http://lemonlimeadventures.com/10-questions-encourage-math-thinking/ 

Apps That Challenge Kids to Solve Environmental Issues

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/02/apps-that-challenge-kids-to-solve-environmental-issues/ 

The NY Times Replica Edition - Free for K-12 Classrooms 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/08/the-ny-times-replica-edition-free-for-k.html#.U-ZFMWNgh-w 

Survey Says: 2.3 Million Tablets in U.S. K-12 Schools

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-08-08-survey-says-2-3-million-tablets-in-u-s-k-12-schools 

Two Flipped Lessons on Aspects of Meteorology 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/08/two-flipped-lessons-on-aspects-of.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=freetech4teachers#.U-ZLamNgh-w 

5 ways to choose and use K-5 apps, mobile devices

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/08/07/k5-mobile-apps-372/ 

How Technology Is Being Used In Music Classrooms

http://www.edudemic.com/technology-is-being-used-in-music-classrooms/ 

 

 

MzTeachuh: Cool Things To Do In Class Tweets of the Day 8/9/1...

MzTeachuh: Cool Things To Do In Class Tweets of the Day 8/9/1...: Books | Reading Rockets: Topics A to Z http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/3a2bea64-e4e6-406d-b393-8281107c6c16/books-reading-rock...

Cool Things To Do In Class Tweets of the Day 8/9/14

Books | Reading Rockets: Topics A to Z

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/3a2bea64-e4e6-406d-b393-8281107c6c16/books-reading-rockets-topics-a-to-z/?utm_source=SocialMedia&utm_medium=site&utm_campaign=mktg_2014  

A Mighty Girl's book section

http://www.amightygirl.com/books 

Inventive Games That Teach Kids About Empathy and Social Skills

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/inventive-games-that-teach-kids-about-empathy-and-social-skills/ 

Over 5,000 complete Common Core-aligned lessons from our 130 Master Teachers.

http://betterlesson.com/ 

Fantastic Foldable Freebies Link Up! 

http://corkboardconnections.blogspot.com/2012/03/fantastic-foldable-freebies-link-up.html 

What Kids Should Know About Their Own Brains

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/what-kids-should-know-about-their-own-brains/ 

Using Dialogue Circles to Support Classroom Management

http://www.edutopia.org/practice/stw-glenview-practice-dialogue-circles-video 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MzTeachuh: The Human Side of Assessing Writing

MzTeachuh: The Human Side of Assessing Writing: Commas, all I can think about is commas. The higher level thinking skills it requires to write, and assess writing, brings humans righ...

The Human Side of Assessing Writing

Commas, all I can think about is commas.

The higher level thinking skills it requires to write, and assess writing, brings humans right up to the level of angels. Which is a metaphor no computer program could compute, I'm guessing. After teaching kids to write for about thirty years, I will say that allowing a mathematical computer program to attempt to inspire young writers is rather unimaginative, to say the least.

I've seen what those programs did to the Gettysburg Address. Low scores for brevity and poor sentence structure, no doubt. "I Have A Dream," I bet too much repetition and veering off the main topic. We won't consider what a computer would try to do to poetry--ha, it kind of makes me laugh--the overload e e cummings would give it (just on written conventions!)

Can we trust our kids' thought development to a computer program?

1. The Algorithm Didn’t Like My Essay

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/business/essay-grading-software-as-teachers-aide-digital-domain.html?_r=1&ref=education 

No points for free indirect discourse, Jane.

Even English teachers have different perspectives on writing. I've worked with English teachers that will say, "Oh, I don't like poetry." How can that be? How can a person with no taste for the higher developed thoughts of man train young people to be eloquent? How can a machine with no soul?

2. Computers Grade Essays Fast ... But Not Always Well

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/07/154452475/computers-grade-essays-fast-but-not-always-well 

The choice of words (and using written conventions, sentence structure, new use of vocabulary) to express thought really need an educated, well-read person to analyze it. And a person tolerant of new ideas. Are we looking for Data from Star Trek? He couldn't even use a contraction or understand an idiom.

Don't we want our kids to create new idioms?

What do they mean, "Miss Bronte, Wuthering Heights too emotional?"

 "There's a terrible tendency to confuse raising standards with standardizing." 

— Sir Ken Robinson

 

Yes, Sir Ken, standardizing the genius of the next generation will only make them really bored with education. And finding a new venue to express themselves besides traditional school. I think maybe they've already found the acceptance of new ideas online.

I scored 3 on the rubric, same as the Emancipation Proclamation?

 "On a scale of 1 to 6, one of the greatest presidents of the United States was only getting 2s and 3s. " 

 

- University of Akron's Mark Shermis, on a computer's evaluation of the Gettysburg Address

I've often thought it was a good thing Lincoln had a frontier education. More clear thinking. More clarity of action. Our kids are on the tech frontier and will reject the criticism of an algorithm that is from the past, traditional and can't think; just like they reject intolerant and backword teachers.

We won't be climbing the ladder of Bloom's Taxonomy if we remain super-glued to written on the lower rungs of convention and sentence structure without the inspiration of living language.  Woops, that was another metaphor a computer couldn't evaluate.

Man, I only got a 3 on the Writing Rubric.

 "Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio."
Love's Labour's Lost -- Act I, Scene II

Almost funny how William's words would end in the clutches of a computer program--maybe Word's Labour's Lost

 

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/8/14

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/8/14: Possible Causes of ADHD  http://www.ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/adhd-related-issues/adhd/possible-causes-adhd?utm_source=faceb...

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/8/14

Possible Causes of ADHD 

http://www.ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/adhd-related-issues/adhd/possible-causes-adhd?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ldorg 

Prenatal Influences in Autism

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-too-much/201408/prenatal-influences-in-autism 

A Cruel Paradox When It Comes to Mental Disorders 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2014/08/a-cruel-paradox-when-it-comes-to-mental.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29 

Is Your Child a “Class Clown” to Gain Acceptance?

http://special-ism.com/is-your-child-a-class-clown-to-gain-acceptance/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Special-ism+%28Special-ism%29 

 

What Does Full Inclusion Really Mean?

 

http://www.thinkinclusive.us/what-does-full-inclusion-really-mean/#sthash.bznx1jVv.4I1pSnei.dpbs

9 Terms to Know If Your Child Struggles With Writing Issues 

http://www.ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/dysgraphia/terms-to-know-child-struggles-writing-issues?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ldorg 

Apps to Help Students With Dysgraphia and Writing Difficulties 

http://ncld.org/students-disabilities/assistive-technology-education/apps-students-ld-dysgraphia-writing-difficulties?utm_campaign=social 

 

 

What Does Full Inclusion Really Mean?

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 8/8/14

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 8/8/14: Tests That Look Like Video Games http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/08/07/337129961/tests-that-look-like-video-games?utm_medium=RSS&u...

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 8/8/14

Tests That Look Like Video Games

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/08/07/337129961/tests-that-look-like-video-games?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=education 

How to Teach Kids About Factoring a Polynomial

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/how-to-teach-factoring-polynomial-jose-vilson

Screen Time That’s Valuable For Young Kids

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/screen-time-games-learning-thats-valuable-for-young-kids/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29 

Scratch Releases "Creative Computing" Teaching Guide

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-08-07-scratch-releases-creative-computing-teaching-guide 

Help Students Explore the U.S. Constitution With This Interactive Site 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/08/help-students-explore-us-constitution.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=freetech4teachers#.U-TzaWMfgwA 

3 Reasons Why Chromebook Beats iPad in 1:1 Programs

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-06-30-3-reasons-why-chromebook-beats-ipad-in-1-1-programs 

It’s Time to End the Device Debate

http://www.edudemic.com/time-end-device-debate/ 

 "Personally, I have no strong emotion tied to one device or another. In fact, as a learner, I get a great deal of satisfaction by figuring out how I can get my daily tasks done on any device that is placed before me. In fact, my main takeaway from most of these debates regarding one device or another is that those of us in schools need to steer clear of strapping on the blinders that can come along with one platform or another." Patrick Larkin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MzTeachuh: Counseling and Supervision; Supervision and Counse...

MzTeachuh: Counseling and Supervision; Supervision and Counse...: What to initiate positive change in a school? I have reflected upon what change would have the greatest impact based just upon my ow...

Counseling and Supervision; Supervision and Counseling

What to initiate positive change in a school? I have reflected upon what change would have the greatest impact based just upon my own observations.

Counseling and supervision. More and more effective supervision and counseling. Kids learn better when their minds are focused. Internal and external conditions affect their ability to be successful in school, therefore counseling and supervision.

Counseling usually indicates a counselor working in scheduling classes and sometimes personal intervention with parents and kids. Of course keep this, adding more opportunities for individual students and groups to interact with trained counselors. Have a variety of topics, a variety of groups. Maybe even a club. A qualified counselor at every school site.

Classes and class activities can  identify and/or aid in relief of tensions and stressors. Activities can give kids confidence and bolster their ability to learn.
One year when I was teaching a Special Day Class for the Severely Handicapped, a group of students from the student government class came once a week for a class period for peer interaction. My students and the gen. ed. student leaders interacted while I ran a very simple self-esteem class. The benefits? The gen ed. kids were exposed to new career choices (SPED teacher, counselor, etc.) and my students gained language and other academic skills, plus great self-confidence and new friends. It was like pouring Miracle-Gro on them.

Here are a few activities I developed to help students relieve stress:

Writing Prompts to Sooth Kids' Toxic Stress
 http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2012/04/writing-prompts-to-sooth-kids-toxic.html 

Books to Relieve Kids' Toxic Stress
http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2012/05/mzteachuh-books-to-soothe-kids-toxic_26.html

Here are curriculum sources for self-esteem:
Discovery Education
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/self-esteem.cfm

Writing prompts have therapeutic effects for students, too. The counseling comes in with discussion, either through teacher's written response or carefully guided group discussion. Kids are eloquent when narrating their own feelings and experiences. Teachers are professionals who interact with students at least 35 hours a week--we need to know them and how they are doing. Reading their thoughts in writing will do that. Then it is up to us to interact personally with them. Identify a student's internal stressor a student leads to getting them the help she/he needs.

Here are sources for writing prompts for self-esteem: 

Self Esteem & Confidence 52 Journal Prompts for Kids 
http://journalbuddies.com/journaling/self-esteem-confidence-journal-prompts-for-kids/ 

Reflective Journal Writing Prompts

 http://www.self-esteem-health.com/reflective-journal-writing-prompts.html

Supervision-oh my!  By my observation, only one school I taught with in the about a dozen in the past two decades actually followed the principal's directives on supervision consistently. On the playground, at the classroom doors before and after school, during assemblies. It was amazing. It was as though that principal had somehow cornered the teacher market on efficiency and cooperation. As a result, the kids were more secure, cooperative and generally happier. School rules were consistently enforced. The teachers were dependable in their appearances to supervise. At this school, the principal was also present on the campus, even making surprise visits to the classrooms, where he was welcome.

No teachers at any other school I encountered, except for the one above, even consistently enforced supervising passing time between classes. Every year the principal of these schools would announce the importance of teachers being at the door during this time, and in about a week most of the teachers stopped doing it. Why? Because people do what you inspect, not was you expect. The principals had no system to verify if teachers were doing this, except the increase of horseplay, fights  and other misbehavior in the hallways based on referrals. Parents of my students would tell me their child was afraid to go down the fall, to lunch or even to the restroom. 

Supervision, or lack thereof, enhances the student's learning environment or detracts from it. Personally, I believe the leadership in the admin. building needs to step up on this matter.

Just to put a chill down our spines.

FAILURE TO PROPERLY SUPERVISE STUDENTS

CAN LEAD TO EXPENSIVE LITIGATION 

 http://www.mymcharterlaw.com/pdf/Student_Safety_on_Campus_020808.pdf

 School Supervision Problem Areas

http://web3.esd112.org/docs/risk-management-matters/risk_winter_10_insert.pdf?sfvrsn=0 

 

MzTeachuh: Checklists for Parents and Teachers Special Needs ...

MzTeachuh: Checklists for Parents and Teachers Special Needs ...: IEP Checklist for Parents  http://www.ncld.org/learning-disability-resources/checklists-worksheets/iep-checklist-for-parents   Checkli...

Checklists for Parents and Teachers Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/8/14

IEP Checklist for Parents 

http://www.ncld.org/learning-disability-resources/checklists-worksheets/iep-checklist-for-parents 

Checklist, General Info
http://www.ncld.org/images/stories/Publications/Forms-Checklists-Flyers-Handouts/RecordsParentsNeed.pdf?utm_source=ldorg&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=social

SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAM CHECKLIST FOR PARENTS

https://netforum.avectra.com/temp/ClientImages/MAAPS/412b5574-3188-4e8a-8786-57edad0d2b5c.pdf 

 

Forms, Tables, Checklists, and Procedures. 

https://www.naset.org/2512.0.html 

 

 EDUCATION PLAN CHECKLIST 

 http://specialed.about.com/od/idea/a/Parent-IEP-Help.htm

https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/fr/fr04/issue1/f040105.html 

 

IEP Checklist for Parents

http://specialed.about.com/od/idea/a/Parent-IEP-Help.htm 

Checklist IEP
Is Your Child's IEP Really Individualized?

http://www.wrightslaw.com/nltr/13/nl.0416.htm 

 

MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 8/8/14

MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 8/8/14: Is Handwriting Instruction Important?  http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/is-handwriting-instruction-important.html   Teaching Is....

MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 8/8/14

Is Handwriting Instruction Important? 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/is-handwriting-instruction-important.html 

Teaching Is...Soothing the Soul (SEL) 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/teaching-issoothing-soul-sel.html 

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/2/14

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/special-needs-tweets-of-day-8214.html 

Music for the Soundtrack of Your Classroom (Music to Work To)

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/music-for-soundtrack-of-your-classroom.html 

Teaching Is Collaborating Until You're A Team 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/teaching-is-collaborating-until-youre.html 

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 8/6/14 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/ed-tech-and-stem-tweets-of-day-8614.html 

Books to Soothe Kids' Toxic Stress 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/books-to-soothe-kids-toxic-stress.html 

Special Needs Tweet of the Day 8/6/14 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/special-needs-tweet-of-day-8614.html 

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 8/4/14

 http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/ed-tech-and-stem-tweets-of-day-8414.html

BYOD--Is It Fair and Equitable for the Poor Kids? 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/byod-is-it-fair-and-equitable-for-poor.html

...unless you're a poor kid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MzTeachuh: BYOD--Is It Fair and Equitable for the Poor Kids?

MzTeachuh: BYOD--Is It Fair and Equitable for the Poor Kids?: ...unless you're a poor kid. In the year 2000, there was a lawsuit called the Williams Case in the State of California (The Wi...

BYOD--Is It Fair and Equitable for the Poor Kids?

...unless you're a poor kid.

In the year 2000, there was a lawsuit called the Williams Case in the State of California (The Williams Case -- An Explanation http://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/ce/wc/wmslawsuit.asp) that specified students in less affluent districts were not having access to appropriate curriculum, such as textbooks. The state was required to maintain current curriculum, and by my observations in various California schools, there was diligence to do so. Not outdated or worn textbooks. Nice new ones; many students having a text at home and a class text.

Could that concept apply when there is a BYOD or a flipped/blended classroom method of teaching? Would the financial burden of in-home technology and internet access not hinder the educational progress of the student if she/he did not have that tech or access?

I'm just thinking out loud here. The friends of mine teaching in various levels of public school all have a similar demographic: low income, and high percentages of  ESL. Will the ed tech trends create a greater gap in opportunities for a large chunk of American students? Does Free and Appropriate Public Education mean a guarantee they can participate in flipped and blended learning classes? Could they be using a BYOSID-- Bring Your Own School-Issued Device?

Principals in our areas are definitely using funds to place iPads and notebook-type tech in the hands of students. But when the students go home, it is like time-traveling back fifty years. The assignments involving technology and the internet are impossible. The kids go home to a third world nation. For decades, around one-fourth of American children live in poverty (Evidence Mounting that Poverty Causes Lasting Physical and Mental Health Problems for Children http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2013/12/evidence-mounting-thatpovertycauses.htmlutm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo) to the detriment of our society. Will the conditions at also school recede decades behind other districts resulting in these student's further disadvantages?

Our communities definitely can solve this dilemma through far-sighted planning and recognition that all kids are our most valuable resource. How about laying out FIOs-type cables, free WiFi in the wider community, tracking school-issued tech so there isn't another LAUSD type situation where thousands of iPads disappear overnight. (My experience with school librarians--whom we lovingly called The Library Police--is they are so organized that if a first grader loses a book, they can't graduate 11 years later til they pay for it.)

MzTeachuh: Project Based Learning

MzTeachuh: Project Based Learning: Project Based Learning Improves Teaching Techniques http://www.kxnet.com/story/26217582/project-based-learning-improves-...

Project Based Learning

Project Based Learning Improves Teaching Techniques

http://www.kxnet.com/story/26217582/project-based-learning-improves-teaching-techniques 

Increase Student Mastery to Solve Real-World Problems with Project-Based Learning

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2107726

Project-Based Learning Through a Maker's Lens

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/pbl-through-a-makers-lens-patrick-waters  

Project Based Learning (Huffington Post)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/project-based-learning/

Project-Based Learning

http://www.newtechnetwork.org/about/project-based-learning 

Project-based learning done right

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/06/19/project-based-learning-259/ 

What Project-Based Learning Means for Your High School Child

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/2014/04/25/what-project-based-learning-means-for-your-high-school-child 

Project-Based Learning and the Common Core: Resource Roundup

 http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning-common-core-resources 

Mind/Shift and Edutopia are leading sources of educational thought, here's more to cogitate on!

The Challenges and Realities of Inquiry-Based Learning

 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/07/the-challenges-and-realities-of-inquiry-based-learning/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Inquiry Learning Vs. Standardized Content: Can They Coexist?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/inquiry-learning-vs-standardized-content-can-they-coexist/ 

Project-Based Learning

http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning 

Project-Based Learning: Success Start to Finish

http://www.edutopia.org/stw-project-based-learning-best-practices 

Creating Classrooms We Need: 8 Ways Into Inquiry Learning

 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/03/creating-classrooms-we-need-8-ways-into-inquiry-learning/

Project Based Learning Resources

http://www.edutopia.org/groups/project-based-learning/399566 

Why Inquiry Learning is Worth the Trouble

 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/01/what-does-it-take-to-fully-embrace-inquiry-learning/

Project-Based Learning as a Context for Arts Integration

 http://www.edutopia.org/blog/PBL-context-for-arts-integration-andrew-miller

 

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/7/14

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/7/14: Advocating for Your School-Aged Child  http://www.ncld.org/parents-child-disabilities/ld-rights/advocating-for-your-school-aged-child  ...

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/7/14

Advocating for Your School-Aged Child 

http://www.ncld.org/parents-child-disabilities/ld-rights/advocating-for-your-school-aged-child 

The Kids Who Beat Autism 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2014/08/the-kids-who-beat-autism.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29 

Long-Sought Autism Therapy A Medi-Cal Benefit, State Says

http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/08/05/long-fought-autism-therapy-a-medi-cal-benefit-state-says/ 

Controversy over shocking people with autism, behavioral disorders

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/controversy-over-shocking-people-with-autism-behavioral-disorders/ 

ASK THE EXPERTS

http://www.ncld.org/learning-disability-resources/ask-experts 

How A Popular TV Doc Has Learned To Explain ADHD Simply

http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2014/08/05/how-a-popular-tv-doc-has-learned-to-explain-adhd-simply/ 

Uncovering the Why Behind the Rise in ADHD Cases

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nichola-petts/uncovering-the-why-behind_b_5604461.html 

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 8/7/14

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 8/7/14: EarthSky’s meteor shower guide for 2014 http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide   Science Media Collec...

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 8/7/14

EarthSky’s meteor shower guide for 2014

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide 

Science Media Collections (KQED)

http://blogs.kqed.org/education/science-media-collections/

Math Word Wall Posters for Elementary School Classrooms 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/08/math-word-wall-posters-for-elementary.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=freetech4teachers#.U-N2emNgh-w 

Using Design Thinking to Create a School from Scratch

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-08-07-using-design-thinking-to-create-a-school-from-scratch 

5 ways to choose and use K-5 apps, mobile devices

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/08/07/k5-mobile-apps-372/ 

How To ‘App Smash’ And Implement Digital Storytelling On The iPad

http://www.edudemic.com/app-smashing-digital-storytelling-ipad/ 

The Best Education Apps (Android)

http://www.edudemic.com/best-education-technology/the-best-education-apps-android/ 

 

 

 

MzTeachuh: Storytime Tweets of the Day 8/7/14

MzTeachuh: Storytime Tweets of the Day 8/7/14: Why Storytelling in the Classroom Matters http://www.edutopia.org/blog/storytelling-in-the-classroom-matters-matthew-friday   Four Ke...

Storytime Tweets of the Day 8/7/14

Why Storytelling in the Classroom Matters

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/storytelling-in-the-classroom-matters-matthew-friday 

Four Keys About Grading

http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/four-key-questions-grading/ 

3 Ways to Rock Your Classroom Library! 

http://www.kleinspiration.com/2014/08/3-ways-to-rock-your-classroom-library.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+http%2Fwwwkleinspirationcom%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault+%28Kleinspiration%29 

8 Needs For Project-Based Learning In The 21st Century

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/8-needs-for-project-based-learning-in-the-21st-century/ 

African-Americans Must Blaze Own Path on School Choice, Ed Reform

http://educationnext.org/african-americans-m

ust-blaze-path-school-choice-ed-reform/ 

Things to Do Now to Be Better Organized When You Head Back to School

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2093:things-to-do-now-to-be-better-organized-when-you-head-back-to-school&catid=105:teachers-aide&Itemid=299 

Your Two Kinds Of Memory: Electronic And Organic

http://anniemurphypaul.com/2014/08/your-two-kinds-of-memory-electronic-and-organic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-two-kinds-of-memory-electronic-and-organic 

Four Key Questions about Grading

 

Four Key Questions about Grading