Educational Links 5/30/17

11 Surprising Statistics That Sum Up the Life of a Teacher

https://www.weareteachers.com/life-of-a-teacher-stats/

13 Picture Books about Reading to Inspire Young Readers and Writers

https://www.weareteachers.com/books-about-reading/

Lit Circles: Fostering Heterogeneous Collaboration

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/fostering-heterogeneous-collaboration-sfusd

Hall Passes, Buses, Lunch Duty: What If The Principal Could Focus On Achievement?

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/29/527114390/free-the-principal?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170529

Fidget, Jiggle, Twiddle, Wriggle: Bring Back Activity in Schools

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

Questions to Ask Yourself as the School Year Winds Down

https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2017/05/09/questions-to-ask-yourself-as-the-school.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Structures Drive Behavior: Work on the System, Not the People

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/structures-drive-behavior-work-system-people-tom-vander-ark

Structures drive behavior. Organized one way we can be inventive and cooperative; organized in a different way we are uninventive and uncooperative. That’s a research finding of Nicholas Christakis, director of the Human Lab at Yale. “Same human beings, different typology – a different architecture of ties – completely changes the kind of group properties that these individuals evince.”