Educational Links 10/8/16

How Play Wires Kids’ Brains For Social and Academic Success

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/07/how-play-wires-kids-brains-for-social-and-academic-success/ 

Poverty Matters, But Not the Way You Think

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2016/10/poverty_matters_but_not_the_way_you_think.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB 

Why Busing Didn't End School Segregation

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/06/496411024/why-busing-didnt-end-school-segregation 

Study Finds Students Of All Races Prefer Teachers Of Color

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/07/496717541/study-finds-students-of-all-races-prefer-teachers-of-color 

Desk Arrangement: Four Corners 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/desk-arrangement-for-collaboration-nea 

Now I Get What It’s Like to Have Executive Functioning Issues 

https://www.understood.org/en/community-events/blogs/what-i-wish-id-known-sooner/2014/11/07/now-i-get-what-its-like-to-have-executive-functioning-issues?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg 

Fostering Identity Safety in School

http://www.edutopia.org/article/creating-identity-safe-school-becki-cohn-vargas?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow 

An environment where students are not bullied based on their race or other aspects of identity can be intentionally cultivated both inside and outside of the classroom.