Educational Links 3/4/16

 

Letting Students Lead the Learning

http://catlintucker.com/2016/03/students-lead-learning/ 

Cultivating Food and Life Lessons

https://www.fix.com/blog/kids-gardening-for-health-and-fun/ 

 The Writing Recipe: Essay Structure for ELLs 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/ell-essay-structure-lesson 

5 Things We Can do to Prepare Students to Work Independently 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/12/5-things-we-can-do-to-prepare-students.html#.VtkD5NAz4s4 

How Meds Affect Personality

http://www.additudemag.com/q&a/ask_the_add_medical_expert/1577.html 

Note-Taking Is Becoming a Lost Art, So I Decided to Do Something About It

http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2016/03/03/note-taking-is-becoming-a-lost-art-so-i-decided-to-do-something-about-it 

How Could the Presidential Transition Affect ESSA Implementation?

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2016/03/how_could_the_presidential_tra.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB 

 The law doesn't go fully into effect until the 2017-18 school year, which means that Congress may have wanted the next president to have some say in implementation, according to Diane Stark Rentner, the deputy director of the Center on Education Policy. 

Alyson Klein