Educational Links 4/22/17

Where Good Ideas Come From & How Your Classroom Can Respond

http://teachthought.com/pedagogy/where-good-ideas-come-from-and-how-your-classroom-can-respond/?utm_content=buffer7442f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Teaching Generation Z? Start by engaging their parents—here’s how we did it

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/04/03/generation-z-engaging-parents/

How to Hire a Superintendent Who Will Stick Around

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/04/19/how-to-hire-a-superintendent-who-will.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

How Various Learning and Attention Issues Can Make Mental Math Hard

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/math-issues/how-various-learning-and-attention-issues-can-make-mental-math-hard?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Having Just One Black Teacher Can Keep Black Kids In School

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/04/10/522909090/having-just-one-black-teacher-can-keep-black-kids-in-school

To Reduce the Stress of Parent-Teacher Meetings Try This...

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/the-flip-side-with-jon-bergmann/4348-to-reduce-the-stress-of-parent-teacher-meetings-try-this

Forget Grit. Focus on Inequality.

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2017/04/forget-grit-focus-on-inequality.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

However, treating grit as an appealing and simple fix detracts attention from the larger structural inequities in schools, while simultaneously romanticizing notions of poverty.