Saturday, February 13, 2016

Aww Garsh: Love Songs for Valentine's Day #28

Yep, Paul loved his Linda.

Wings/Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed (HQ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNh5Ca1dIXM

"Maybe I'm Amazed"

Baby, I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time,
And maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you.

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me out of time,
You hung me on the line.
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you.

Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand.

Baby, I'm a man,
And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me.
Baby, won't you help me to understand?
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
Oh.

Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand.

Baby, I'm a man,
And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me.
Baby, won't you help me to understand?
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me all the time,
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I leave you.

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my song,
Right me when I'm wrong-
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you.

McCartney said he would like to be remembered for this song.

MzTeachuh's Meditations: Love Never Fails

Looks like our work is cut out for us.

Educational Links 2/14/16

Inspiration Stations: A Creative Spin on the Station Rotation

http://catlintucker.com/2016/02/inspiration-stations-2/

Parents' Criticism Tied to Persistent ADHD in Kids

http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/news/20160212/study-ties-parents-criticism-to-persistent-adhd-in-kids

6 ways to make co-planning lessons more efficient

http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/2016/02/co-planning.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCornerstone+%28The+Cornerstone+Blog%29

Flexibility--How Much Is Too Much?

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2016/02/flexibility-much-much/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theeducatorsroom%2FvPKE+%28EducatorsRoom%29

Some Very Good Educational Apps

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/02/some-very-good-educational-apps-and.html

Guided Reading: How to Organize the Chaos

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-02-13-guided-reading-how-to-organize-the-chaos

Teaching Writing to Diverse Student Populations

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/teaching-writing-diverse-student-populations?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29

The Key to Boosting English Learners’ Language Skills? Challenging Content

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/10/the-key-to-boosting-english-learners-language-skills-challenging-content/

The English language learner population in the United States is growing quickly, posing a challenge for cash-strapped schools struggling to balance the diverse needs of learners. And while technology is becoming a more ubiquitous part of the school experience, it hasn’t always been used effectively to improve the language skills of English learners.

Black History Month: Marian Anderson

'Marian Anderson's Future Fund' was the name of the extra offering her church used to pass around so the little girl with the big voice could have singing lessons. Her dad bought her a piano when she was a very young, and after he passed away when she was eight, her mom raised her and her two little sisters. That's a lot of faith put into a young person.

Marian Anderson did not let anyone down. She not only used her very unusual gift for extreme excellence in opera, receiving international acclaim, but used her very unusual gift for grace and morality in the confrontation with baseness and racism.

She used a cash award from the city of Philadelphia to start an award for young people. Not for young people only of her race or profession, but young people of her humanitarian dispositions.

Even when accosted by racism in her own country, such as separate accomodations while touring, she was the perfect lady. The most famous incident of racism was in the nation's capitol when she requested to rent a certain hall for a concert in 1939. The Daughters of the American Revolution, who owned the hall, refused to rent to her because they had a segregationist policy. The First Lady at the time, Eleanor Roosevelt, resigned from the DAR because of their attitude, and arranged for Marian Anderson's now famous concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial twenty-five years before Dr. King's speech there. I could also be a member of the DAR from three out of four of my grandparents, but would rather not for the same reasons.

American Experience Biography: Marian Anderson

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/eleanor-anderson/

Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson

Easter morning 1939

Marian Anderson's Easter Sunday Lincoln Memorial concert on April 9, 1939 from the UCLA Film & Television Archive's "Hearst Metrotone News Collection."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF9Quk0QhSE

A short film about the life and career of singer Marian Anderson up through 1950. Transferred from original 35mm print. Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfLvusKNU7U

Langston Hughes wrote about Marian. Marian Anderson: Famous Concert Singer. with Steven C. Tracy 1954 free on ebooks, plus other resources about Marian Anderson:

Marian Anderson singing as Ulrica in Verdi's Opera.

Marian Anderson famous concert singer

http://www.gobookee.org/marian-anderson-famous-concert-singer/

This is an article from NPR.

Avedon And Marian Anderson At Smithsonian

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/marian_anderson.html

Marian Anderson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson

Aww Garsh: Love Songs for Valentine's Day #27

'Somewhere in Time' starring Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeves--the schmaltziest, most tear-jerking film ever?

And get ready for a new box of tissue for this song.

Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman - Time to Say Goodbye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_yCwFD6Jo

Time To Say Goodbye

When I’m alone
I dream on the horizon
and words fail;
yes, I know there is no light
in a room where the sun is absent,
if you are not with me, with me.
At the windows
show everyone my heart
which you set alight;
enclose within me
the light you
encountered on the street.
Time to say goodbye
to countries I never
saw and shared with you,
now, yes, I shall experience them.
I’ll go with you
on ships across seas
which, I know,
no, no, exist no longer.
It’s time to say goodbye…
When you are far away
I dream on the horizon
And words fail,
and, Yes, I know
that you are with me;
you, my moon, are here with me,
my sun, you are here with me,
with me, with me, with me.
Time to say goodbye
To countries I never
Saw and shared with you,
now, yes, I shall experience them.
I’ll go with you
On ships across seas
which, I know,
no, no, exist no longer,
with you I shall experience them again.
I’ll go with you
On ships across seas
Which, I know,
No, no, exist no longer;
with you I shall experience them again.
I’ll go with you,
I with you.

Friday, February 12, 2016

Educational Links 2/13/16

The Padagogy Wheel – It’s Not About The Apps, It’s About The Pedagogy

http://www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/blooms-taxonomy/the-padagogy-wheel/

Ed Tech Trends & Predictions: Right From the Horse's Mouth

http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/trends/2015-educational-technology-trends?utm_content=buffer88dc1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Mainstreaming Effort Prompts Outcry From Teachers

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/02/12/mainstreaming-effort-outcry/21906/

Don't Say "Your Child Can't Read"

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/dont-say-your-child-cant-read-tamara-spencer?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

Is Quality Math Preparation The Next Equity Battleground?

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/02/10/is-quality-math-preparation-the-next-equity-battleground/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

'Digital Learning Day' lives up to its name this year

http://edscoop.com/digital-learning-day-lives-up-to-name-this-year

Treatment Options for Auditory Processing Disorder

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/treatments-approaches/treatment-options/treatment-options-for-auditory-processing-disorder?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Beyond therapies and medication, there are many ways to help kids with auditory processing disorder succeed in the classroom. Kids with auditory processing disorder may have a hard time connecting sounds to written words. So reading interventions that clearly teach the systems of sounds, letters and grammar may help.

Black History Month: Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong

Louis Armstrong - It's a Wonderful World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2RbFVRRtqI

"What A Wonderful World"

I see trees of green,
red roses too.
I see them bloom,
for me and you.
And I think to myself,
what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue,
And clouds of white.
The bright blessed day,
The dark sacred night.
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow,
So pretty in the sky.
Are also on the faces,
Of people going by,
I see friends shaking hands.
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying,
"I love you".

I hear babies cry,
I watch them grow,
They'll learn much more,
Than I'll ever know.
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.

Yes, I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.

Oh yeah.

Awww Garsh--Love Songs for Valentine's Day #26

Taylor Swift - Mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPBwXKgDTdE

"Mine"

Uh, oh, oh
Uh, oh, oh

You were in college working part time waiting tables
Left a small town, never looked back
I was a flight risk with a fear of fallin’
Wondering why we bother with love if it never lasts

I say "Can you believe it?
As we’re lying on the couch?"
The moment I can see it.
Yes, yes, I can see it now.

Do you remember, we were sitting there by the water?
You put your arm around me for the first time.
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter.
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.

Flash forward and we’re taking on the world together,
And there’s a drawer of my things at your place.
You learn my secrets and you figure out why I’m guarded,
You say we’ll never make my parents’ mistakes.

But we got bills to pay,
We got nothing figured out,
When it was hard to take,
Yes, yes, this is what I thought about.

Do you remember, we were sitting there by the water?
You put your arm around me for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.

Do you remember all the city lights on the water?
You saw me start to believe for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.

Oh, oh, oh, oh

And I remember that fight
Two-thirty AM
As everything was slipping right out of our hands
I ran out crying and you followed me out into the street
Braced myself for the "Goodbye."
‘Cause that’s all I’ve ever known
Then you took me by surprise
You said, "I’ll never leave you alone."

You said, "I remember how we felt sitting by the water.
And every time I look at you, it’s like the first time.
I fell in love with a careless man’s careful daughter.
She is the best thing that’s ever been mine."

Hold on, make it last
Hold on, never turn back

You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter
You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.

(Hold on) do you believe it?
(Hold on) we're gonna make it now.
(Hold on) and I can see it,
(Yes, yes) I can see it now (see it now, see it now...)

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Educational Links 2/12/16

4 Things Innovative Schools Have In Common

http://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/disruption-innovation/4-things-innovative-schools-have-in-common/

Robots in Education: What’s Here and What’s Coming

http://www.edudemic.com/robots-education-whats-coming/

Proposed project-based school would rethink traditional learning

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2016/02/01/missouri-district-hopes-to-open-project-based-school/

Is Special Education Paperwork Really a Problem?

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2016/02/special_education_paperwork_burden.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OnSpecialEducation+%28Education+Week+Blog%3A+On+Special+Education%29

Students Too Dependent on You? Try This

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/student-centric-strategies/3698-students-too-dependent-on-you-try-this

What’s the Difference Between Executive Functioning Issues and ADHD?

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/executive-functioning-issues/difference-between-executive-functioning-issues-and-adhd?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

School Integration’s Comeback

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/02/breaking-up-school-poverty/462066/

“Researchers have documented that students’ exposure to other students who are different from themselves and the novel ideas and challenges that such exposure brings leads to improved cognitive skills, including critical thinking and problem-solving.”

The Century Foundation report by Wells, Fox, and Cordova-Cobo

Education Writers to Read #2

Annie Murphy Paul is a book author, magazine journalist, consultant and speaker who helps people understand how we learn and how we can do it better. A contributing writer for Time magazine, she writes a weekly column about learning for Time.com, and also blogs about learning at CNN.com, Forbes.com, MindShift.com, PsychologyToday.com and HuffingtonPost.com. She contributes toThe New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among many other publications. She is the author of The Cult of Personality, a cultural history and scientific critique of personality tests, and of Origins, a book about the science of prenatal influences. She is now at work on Brilliant: The New Science of Smart, to be published by Crown in early 2017.
http://anniemurphypaul.com/about/

Brilliant: The Science of Smart http://anniemurphypaul.com/

New research can help us all evoke our intelligence

Learning is the master skill, the ability that allows us to realize our ambitions: succeeding in school, getting ahead at work, playing a sport or a musical instrument, speaking a second language. Yet until recently, even the experts didn’t understand how learning works. Now research in cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience is revealing the simple and surprising techniques that can help us learn to be smarter.

In her own words about the articles at her website: Here you’ll find a selection of articles I’ve written about learning—part of the project of writing my forthcoming book, Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. If you have questions about these articles, or a topic you’d like me to write about, please email me at annie@anniemurphypaul.com.

Her books

The Cult of Personality

Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives

Brilliant: The New Science of Smart

,

I love reading Annie Murphy Paul because her articles are so encouraging. As both a Gen Ed and SPED teacher, I have instinctively believed ability (IQ) can improve and morph higher. But it is excellent to read the research. The writing style of these articles is clear, concise, and inviting--like learning should be. Get her RSS feed!

Aww Garsh--Love Songs for Valentine's Day # 24

The Temptations by Anita Kunz A group who gave us so much eloquent music, dance and class.

My Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRwmgYEUr8

"My Girl"

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day.
When it's cold outside I've got the month of May.
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl (my girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl (my girl).
I've got so much honey the bees envy me.
I've got a sweeter song than the birds in the trees.
Well, I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl (my girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl (my girl).
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
Ooooh.
I don't need no money, fortune or fame.
I've got all the riches, baby, one man can claim.
Well, I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl (my girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl (my girl).
I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
With my girl.
I've even got the month of May
With my girl
Talkin' 'bout
Talkin' 'bout
Talkin' 'bout
My girl
Ooooh
My girl
As long as I can talk about my girl...

Black History Month: Speeches of MLK # 2

Black History Month: Speeches of MLK # 2: M artin L uther K ing , J r . Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New Yor...

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Educational Links 2/11/16

The Coach

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/02/09/the-coach/

7 Essential EdTech Tips for School Leaders

http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/1870-edtech-educational-technology-tips-for-school-leaders?utm_content=bufferfaa9c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Why we need to be more courageous - and teach 'courage' to students

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/why-we-need-be-more-courageous-and-teach-courage-students

The Upside of Downtime: Encouraging Creativity in Kids with ADHD

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/11468.html

Teachers at Low-Income Schools Deserve Respect

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/02/10/teachers-at-low-income-schools-deserve-respect.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

50 Animation Tools And Resources For Digital Learners

http://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/technology/50-animation-tools-resources-digital-learners/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem&utm_content=56bbd2c204d30134c9974c3c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

What causes dysgraphia?

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dysgraphia/understanding-dysgraphia?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Experts aren’t sure what causes dysgraphia and other issues of written expression. Normally, the brain takes in information through the senses and stores it to use later. Before a person starts writing, he retrieves information from his short- or long-term memory and gets organized to begin writing.

Teaching Is Having A Sense of Humor

Teaching Is Having A Sense of Humor: 1. What's So Funny About Teaching http://www.edutopia.org/blog/educator-sense-of-humor-mark-phillips 2. Why a sense of hum...

Awww Garsh--Love Songs for Valentine's Day #23

Born to be my baby by mudshui

Bon Jovi - Born To Be My Baby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahf2B_eZUc4

"Born To Be My Baby"

Rainy night and we worked all day
We both got jobs 'cause there's bills to pay
We got something they can't take away
Our love, our lives

Close the door, leave the cold outside
I don't need nothing when I'm by your side
We got something that'll never die
Our dreams, our pride

My heart beats like a drum (all night)
Flesh to flesh, one to one (and it's alright)
And I'll never let go cause
There's something I know deep inside

You were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

We got something to believe in
Even if we don't know where we stand
Only God would know the reasons
But I bet he must have had a plan
Cause you were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

Light a candle, blow the world away
Table for two on a TV tray
It ain't fancy, baby that's OK
Our time, our way

So hold me close better hang on tight
Buckle up, baby, it's a bumpy ride
We're two kids hitching down the road of life
Our world, our fight

If we stand side by side (all night)
There's a chance we'll get by (and it's alright)
And I'll know that you'll be live
In my heart till the day that I die

Cause you were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

We got something to believe in
Even if we don't know where we stand
Only God would know the reasons
But I bet he must have had a plan
Cause you were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

[Solo]

My heart beats like a drum (all night)
Flesh to flesh, one to one (and it's alright)
And I'll never let go cause
There's something I know deep inside

Cause you were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

We got something to believe in
Even if we don't know where we stand
Only God would know the reasons
But I bet he must have had a plan

Cause you were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

You were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Educational Links 2/10/16

Culture of Readiness + Personalization Boosts Graduation Rates

http://gettingsmart.com/2016/02/culture-readiness-personalization-boosts-grad-rates/

Reading Rockets Valentine's Day Activities
http://www.readingrockets.org/calendar/valentine

Volunteer ‘Pushy Moms’ help community college students transfer to four-year schools

http://hechingerreport.org/volunteer-pushy-moms-help-community-college-students-transfer-to-four-year-schools/

The Connection Between Growth Mindset and Classroom Management

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/student-centric-strategies/3633-the-connection-between-growth-mindset-and-classroom-management

The Shift From Surviving To Thriving As A Teacher

http://www.teachthought.com/uncategorized/really-truly-happy-teacher/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem&utm_content=56ba02b204d30138eee8e270&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Black History Yesterday, Today, And Tomorrow

https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2016/02/05/black-history-month/

Innovative learning project takes on bee crisis

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/hebron/2016/02/07/innovative-learning-project-takes-bee-crisis/79972976/

In project based learning, students actively explore real-world problems and challenges and acquire a deeper knowledge of a subject.

Speeches of MLK #1

I've Been to the Mountaintop, Martin Luther King

Delivered the day before his assassination.

"And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be."

I've Been to the Mountaintop

delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

Aww Garsh--Songs for Valentine's Day #22

Lips, Andy Warhol

Besame Mucho--Cha Cha Boom!

Correct, that's not Ringo.

'This is one the songs The Beatles played for their audition for Decca Records on January 1st, 1962. Though the performance by Paul is extraordinary and the harmonies by George and John are razor sharp and as tight as they ever were The Beatles were rejected and another band now forgotten were signed. The song was written by Consuelito Velazquez in 1940, who is a Mexican songwriter!' per youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg48JepkiRo