Educational Links 2/14/17

10 Benefits Of Special Education Tutoring For Children With Learning Disabilities

http://specialedresource.com/resource-center/10-benefits-special-education-tutoring-children-learning-disabilities?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=ct&utm_campaign=blog-10benefits-a

Love Lessons

https://www.edutopia.org/article/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-christina-gil

How Reading Aloud to Therapy Dogs Can Help Struggling Kids

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/02/13/how-reading-aloud-to-therapy-dogs-can-help-struggling-kids/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

African Americans in the Arts

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2017/02/13/celebratewithde-african-americans-in-the-arts-2/

Senators Want Answers On IDEA Website Outage

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2017/02/13/senators-answers-idea-website/23315/

How Much Reading Gain Should be Expected from Reading Interventions?

http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-literacy/how-much-reading-gain-should-be-expected-reading-interventions?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29

Mindfulness Is All the Rage—But Does It Work?

https://www.edutopia.org/article/mindfulness-all-the-rage-does-it-work-youki-terada?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

A 2016 study further explored the connection between mindfulness and cognitive benefits, looking at middle school students in a four-week mindfulness program. Compared with their peers, these students showed significant improvements in working memory capacity.