Educational Links 3/28/17

9 Teacher-Tested Ways to Encourage Creativity in the Classroom

https://www.weareteachers.com/encourage-creativity-classroom/?utm_campaign=ISTE_1215&utm_medium=FB&utm_source=Article&utm_content=1489070037

You Can’t Cover Everything

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/you-cannot-cover-everything-david-cutler

School Closures: What Do They Mean for Students and Communities?

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2017/03/school_closures_community_effects.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

What Students With Learning Differences Really Want Us to Know

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-03-27-what-students-with-learning-differences-really-want-us-to-know?utm_content=buffer836d1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

How Kids Benefit From Learning To Explain Their Math Thinking

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/03/27/how-kids-benefit-from-learning-to-explain-math-thinking/

Embrace the Messiness of Learning

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/edugeek_guide/2017/03/embrace_the_messiness_of_learn.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

5 VIDEOS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

https://www.thinkinclusive.us/5-videos-that-will-change-your-mind-about-inclusive-education/

I don’t know which side of the fence you are on in regard to inclusive education. And for all intents and purposes…it does not matter. This post could just as easily have been called, No…Really…I’m Not Crazy…Inclusive Education Works! Usually when I talk to people who are not familiar with the idea of having students with disabilities (including significant disabilities) in the general education setting they say they are having a hard time “wrapping their head around it” or want to see “what it actually looks like”. So…just for those of you who need to see it to believe it, I have picked out five videos that will most definitely change your mind about whether inclusive education is really a good thing or not (or at least they should).