Educational Links 9/14/17

A Review of Humor in Educational Settings: Four Decades of Research

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03634523.2010.496867

How to help students who struggle with ‘executive function’ skills? Education Lab IQ has answers.

http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/how-to-help-students-who-struggle-with-executive-function-skills-education-lab-iq-has-answers/

Extreme student behavior: 7 traps to avoid when NOTHING seems to work Extreme student behavior: 7 traps to avoid when NOTHING seems to work

https://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/truth-for-teachers-podcast/extreme-student-behavior-7-traps-avoid-nothing-seems-work/

It's Time to Teach Our Ugly American History

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/09/08/its-time-to-teach-our-ugly-american.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

'Disrupting Thinking': An Interview With Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2017/09/disrupting_thinking_an_interview_with_kylene_beers_robert_e_probst.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Don't Forget the Joy: A Call to Action for Our Students

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/edwords-blog/don-t-forget-the-joy-a-call-to-action-for-our-students

“Edu-speak” is a disease that undermines efforts to improve U.S. schools

http://hechingerreport.org/edu-speak-is-a-disease-that-undermines-efforts-to-improve-u-s-schools/?utm_content=buffer93091&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

While I’m at it, just how many different types of learning can there possibly be? Various groups are championing learning that is blended, personalized, universally designed, student-centered, deeper, 

individualized, competency-based and data-driven. At The Hechinger Report, we write about many of these, but we try hard to explain what they actually are and how they might change education. And we are always skeptical when anyone claims they can close the achievement gap, another overused phrase, along with the newly created “excellence gap.”