Educational Links 3/30/17

4 good computer habits every teacher should have

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/03/06/computer-habits-teachers/

Are High School Students With Disabilities Prepared for Life After School?

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2017/03/high_school_students_with_disabilities_and_postsecondary_transition.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

BECOMING SUPERMAN: HOW AMERICANS CAN SAVE THE NATION’S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

http://www.theedadvocate.org/becoming-superman-how-americans-can-save-the-nations-educational-system/?utm_source=ReviveOldPost&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost

How a New Supreme Court Ruling Could Affect Special Education

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2017/03/how-new-supreme-court-ruling-could.html

Building Empathy for the “Other” Through PBL

http://www.bie.org/blog/building_empathy_for_the_other_through_pbl

Redefining At-Risk Kids

https://www.edutopia.org/discussion/redefining-risk-kids

A Toolkit for Students in Crisis

https://www.edutopia.org/article/when-students-act-out-toolkit-ryan-wheeler

I’ve learned a few tricks over many years of working with emotionally reactive students—kids who feel emotions intensely and have difficulty managing them. Each time I acquire a new skill, I put it in my toolkit, my figurative database of different techniques to try in situations when students are in crisis. These students do not yet possess self-regulation strategies to help themselves, so my job is helping them out of the immediate moment. One technique does not work for every student, so I take the pragmatic approach and just keep rolling through my toolkit of tricks until I find one that’s effective.