Educational Links 12/23/17

Strategies for English Language Learners

http://blog.mimio.com/strategies-for-english-language-learners

At a Glance: Classroom Accommodations for Sensory Processing Issues

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/instructional-strategies/at-a-glance-classroom-accommodations-for-sensory-processing-issues?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Has Technology Changed the Way We Look Into Assessments?

http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/3034-technology-supported-assessment?utm_content=buffer85d53&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

3 apps that lead to improved executive functioning skills

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/12/06/apps-executive-functioning-skills/

Critical Thinking Skills to Help Students Better Evaluate Scientific Claims

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/12/21/critical-thinking-skills-to-help-students-better-evaluate-scientific-claims/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Symptoms That Suggest ADHD

https://www.additudemag.com/symptoms-that-suggest-adhd/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=diagnosis

Civil Rights Commission Takes on Issue of Minorities in Special Education

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2017/12/us_civil_rights_commission_disproportionality.html?utm_content=buffer5e8c2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights—an agency with no policymaking power but with a potent megaphone—took on the complex issue of minority students and special education at a day-long session Friday. 

The name of the session, "The School-to-Prison Pipeline: The Intersections of Students of Color with Disabilities," offered a clue to the stance of some panelists who spoke before the bipartisan commission: That too many students with disabilities are being placed in special education, and once there, they face punitive discipline that puts many of them on a rocky path to incarceration.