Educational Links 11/30/16

Creating Moments Our Students Will Remember

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teacher_leader_voices/2016/11/moments_our_students_will_reme.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Free Downloads

http://www.weareteachers.com/category/free-downloads/

Supreme Court Weighs Legal Standard For Intellectual Disability

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/11/29/supreme-standard-intellectual/23061/

Does Homework Improve Reading Achievement?

http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-literacy/does-homework-improve-reading-achievement

Books as Gifts

Holiday Buying Guide 2016

http://www.readingrockets.org/books/buyingguide/2016

‘Instead of seeing a student with disabilities as a square peg to be squeezed into a round hole, we need to change the shape of the hole’

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/support-students-disabilities

Heavy Screen Time Rewires Young Brains, For Better And Worse

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/19/502610055/heavy-screen-time-rewires-young-brains-for-better-and-worse

There's new evidence that excessive screen time early in life can change the circuits in a growing brain. Scientists disagree, though, about whether those changes are helpful, or just cause problems. Both views emerged during the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego this week.