Educational Links 5/22/17

Why It's So Hard To Know Whether School Choice Is Working

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/21/522051355/why-its-so-hard-to-know-whether-school-choice-is-working?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170521

Teachers' Low Expectations for Students of Color Found to Affect Students' Success

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2017/05/teacher_expectations_black_students.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Using a Flipped Classroom Approach and Just-in-Time Teaching to Engage Students

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/blended-flipped-learning/using-a-flipped-classroom-approach-and-just-in-time-teaching-to-engage-students/

20 Things You’ll Notice in a Productive Teaching Environment

https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/20-things-productive-teaching-environment?utm_content=bufferb128d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Growing Up With ADHD

http://time.com/growing-up-with-adhd/

The Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Checklist: Informal Supports You Can Request for Your Child

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/evaluations/choosing-not-to-have-child-evaluated/checklist-informal-supports-you-can-request-for-your-child

A simple system for deconstructing your classroom in just one day

https://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/deconstructing-your-classroom/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCornerstone+%28The+Cornerstone+Blog%29

Problems with end-of-year close-out tasks arise when the teacher has things to do but the kids don’t.Students are perceptive—they know when we’ve given them busy work and are just trying to get them out of our hair, and we end up spending the whole day trying to keep them on-task.