Educational Links 10/15/17

When The Focus Is On The Student, Not The Class

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/10/14/545631502/when-the-focus-is-on-the-student-not-the-class

We need to talk about pornography in schools

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/we-need-talk-about-pornography-schools

The Problem Is Wasted Time, Not Screen Time

http://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/10/should-we-limit-screen-time-in-school/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Getting%20Smart&utm_content=The%20Problem%20Is%20Wasted%20Time,%20Not%20Screen%20Time

Reading Strategies That Work, According To Science

https://www.weareteachers.com/science-backed-reading-strategies/

The 50 Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2017

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/10/14/the-50-best-web-2-0-applications-for-education-in-2017/

Leading Change: How School District IT Departments are Evolving to Become Technology Evangelists

http://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/10/how-school-district-it-departments-are-evolving-to-become-technology-evangelists/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Getting%20Smart&utm_content=Leading%20Change:%20How%20School%20District%20IT%20Departments%20are%20Evolving%20to%20Become%20Technology%20Evangelists

Reading Strategies That Work, According To Science

https://www.weareteachers.com/science-backed-reading-strategies/

Brain research is just plain fascinating. For teachers of reading, brain imaging studies (fMRI) provide windows into what’s actually going on in your students’ heads. There’s the middle schooler who is completely engrossed in a novel. And, there’s the young child with dyslexia who makes gains after intensive intervention. There’s so much brain research out there––and you have no time––so we’ve done the work for you. Here are brain-based reading strategies you can use right now.

Educational Links 10/14/17

Arts Education Helps Train Tomorrow’s Workforce: A strong arts education helps prep kids for the future

https://blog.americansforthearts.org/2017/10/12/arts-education-helps-train-tomorrow%E2%80%99s-workforce-a-strong-arts-education-helps-prep-kids-for-the

AM I BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP WITH EVERY STUDENT?

https://www.teacher2teacher.education/2017/10/11/am-i-building-a-relationship-with-every-student/

How to Embed Foundational English Skills In Meaningful Work

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/10/12/how-to-embed-foundational-english-skills-in-meaningful-work/

Woz U? Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Launches Online School to Teach Software Development

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-10-13-woz-u-apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-launches-online-school-to-teach-software-development?utm_content=buffer7fc70&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

THE NEURAL EFFECTS OF MEDIA MULTITASKING

https://www.learningandthebrain.com/blog/the-neural-effects-of-media-multitasking/

How to Assess Arts Education—And Why You Should

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/10/04/how-to-assess-arts-education--and-why-you.html

Dysgraphia in Children

https://www.additudemag.com/screener-dysgraphia-symptoms-test-children/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=diagnosis

Could your child’s struggles with handwriting and fine motor skills be symptoms of dysgraphia? Take the results of this screener quiz to your doctor or an education specialist to find out.

Educational Links 10/13/17

BULLYING AND CYBERBULLYING: THE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

http://www.coolcatteacher.com/bullying-cyberbullying-things-need-know/

A Quick Guide to Recognizing Depression Symptoms in ADHD Children

https://www.dealwithautism.com/news/a-quick-guide-to-recognizing-depression-symptoms-in-adhd-children/

Too Much Screen Time Can Lead to Later Addictions in Children

http://www.childrenandnature.org/2017/10/06/too-much-screen-time-can-lead-to-later-addictions-in-children/

How to Solve the Top 5 Classroom Challenges

http://blog.mimio.com/how-to-solve-the-top-5-classroom-challenges

Create Learning Activities, Inspire the Four C’s

http://www.techlearning.com/app-of-the-day/0011/spiral/70786

How Listening to Podcasts Helps Students Read and Learn

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/10/10/how-listening-to-podcasts-helps-students-read-and-learn/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Turning Your Students Into Web Detectives

https://www.edutopia.org/article/turning-your-students-web-detectives?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

As teachers, we’ve probably seen students use questionable sources in our classrooms, and a recent study from the Stanford History Education Group confirms that students today are generally pretty bad at evaluating the news and other information they see online. Now more than ever, our students need our help. And a big part of this is learning how to fact-check what they see on the web.

Teaching Is Taking Time For Art In All Subjects

Math instructor teaching tesselations.

1. Teaching Math With Art Helps Children Remember Key Concepts

http://www.teacher-support-force.com/teaching-math-with-art.html 

2. Art & Science: A Curriculum for K-12 Teachers

http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/art_science/index.html 

3. Teaching Science Through Art: Longitudinal Nature Observations/ 1st grade 

http://everyarteverychild.blogspot.com/2012/01/teaching-science-through-art.html 

Leonardo--the original STEM to STEAM guy

4. Using the Arts to Support English Language Learners

Why and how to engage English language learners through the arts

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/how-to/supporting-individual-needs/supporting-ell-with-the-arts.aspx 

5.  Teaching Strategies for Writing through Art

http://schools.walkerart.org/arttoday/index.wac?id=2338 

6.  Of Paint and Poetry: Strengthening Literacy Through Art

http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/958 

7. How to Use Art to Teach Social Studies

http://www.ehow.com/how_6605995_use-art-teach-social-studies.html

8.  The Arts Give You Smarts: STEM to STEAM
 http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/04/the-arts-give-you-smarts-stem-and-steam.html

The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher http://platonicrealms.com/minitexts/Mathematical-Art-Of-M-C-Escher/

Educational Links 10/12/17

A Bridge Between School and Faith

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/17/10/bridge-between-school-and-faith

Meeting the Needs of Students With ADHD

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/bridging-the-adhd-gap-merle-huerta?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Read&Write Assistive Technology App

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/10/read-assistive-technology-app.html#.Wd742kuGPGJ

'Gender inequality starts in schools, so let’s end it'

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/gender-inequality-starts-schools-so-lets-end-it

Program for Parents Improves ADHD Behaviors in Young Children

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2017/10/program-for-parents-improves-adhd.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

How Listening to Podcasts Helps Students Read and Learn

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/10/10/how-listening-to-podcasts-helps-students-read-and-learn/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Suspensions Don’t Teach

https://www.edutopia.org/article/suspensions-dont-teach?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

Restorative practices—an alternative to punitive justice—keep kids in school, where they can learn how their behavior affects others.

Educational Links 10/11/17

“What Is That?”: How We Unwittingly Dampen Children’s Creative Development

http://www.raepica.com/2017/10/09/creative-development/

How Schools Can Help Children with ADHD

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/adhd/Pages/Your-Child-At-School.aspx

6 TECH TREASURES FOR SPECIAL ED TEACHERS (K-6)

http://www.coolcatteacher.com/e167/

50 Crazy Ideas To Change Education

https://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/50-radical-ideas-change-education/

Talking to Kids About Violence: Experts Weigh In

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/06/talking-to-kids-about-violence-experts-weigh-in/

'Racial inequality within our schools system is deep-rooted, endemic and institutionalised'

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/racial-inequality-within-our-schools-system-deep-rooted-endemic-and

The Role of Adaptive Learning in Education

http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/trends/2923-the-role-of-adaptive-learning-in-education?utm_content=bufferfc39c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

For example, most of the suppliers provide features for direct communication between students and faculty as well as student-to-student and faculty-to-faculty interaction. These features promise to enhance the ability of faculty to stage interventions with students who are struggling, and to improve collaboration and social learning among peers, which helps in promoting the feeling of a conventional class experience in the adaptive environment.

Silly Music For Halloween #2...I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts

Well, I'm not.
Writing prompt: 5 Reasons I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts 
Can include illustrations of inventions, such as the Ghost Vacuum (Portable Containment Unit.) 

Ghostbusters song 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rarRiqWH8v4

Music For When You Feel Pressured

Hubble Space Telescope records the beauty surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Circinus Galaxy.

You're not really headed for a black hole--it just feels like it for now. 

Not letting the stress define you--but I do like the little voice saying 'Ay ay ay' in the background. 

Let us take a trip on the solar ship and chill for awhile.

Solaris Navis - Blissful Memories 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9IFszWf2GM

Educational Links 10/10/17

Grants for Teachers

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/10/grants-for-teachers.html#.Wdwz-UuGPGI

HOW TO MAKE YOUR TEACHING SOMETHING SPECIAL

http://www.coolcatteacher.com/e166/

Response: We Need to let Students 'Read, Read, Read'

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2017/10/response_we_need_to_let_students_read_read_read.html

Why the school ‘accountability movement’ based on standardized tests is nothing more than ‘a charade’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/10/05/why-the-school-accountability-movement-based-on-standardized-tests-is-nothing-more-than-a-charade/?utm_term=.2cf4c84a82b1

Should Teachers Take Mental Health Days?

https://www.weareteachers.com/mental-health-days/

When the News Traumatizes Young Children: What Can We Do?

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/student-centric-strategies/4514-when-the-news-traumatizes-young-children-what-can-we-do

Disruptive Behavior: Why It’s Often Misdiagnosed

https://childmind.org/article/disruptive-behavior-why-its-often-misdiagnosed/

Most children have occasional temper tantrums or emotional outbursts, but when kids repeatedly lash out, are defiant, or can’t control their tempers, it can impair their functioning in school and cause serious family turmoil.

The first challenge in helping a child manage his behavior better is to understand why he’s doing what he’s doing. In the same way that a headache or a fever can be caused by many things, frequent outbursts — which clinicians call “emotional dysregulation”— can reflect a number of different underlying issues.

Helpful Hints for When Teacher Is Overwhelmed

Time Saving Tips for Teachers 
http://www.educationoasis.com/resources/
Articles/time_saving_tips.htm 

Replacing Classroom Chaos with Control 
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/coach_gs_teaching_
tips/2010/10/going_from_classroom_chaos_to_control.html 

Understanding the Common Core
http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/commoncore

Understanding the Common Core

Dealing with Angry Parents
 http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin474.shtml

The Teacher’s Guides To Technology And Learninghttp://www.edudemic.com/guides/  

How to Get Along With ANY Teaching Colleague

http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2012/06/15/how-to-get-along-with-any-colleague 

Classroom Management: 10 Ways to Deal with Difficult Students http://www.teachhub.com/10-ways-deal-difficult-students  

Solutions for Teachers Bullied by Colleagues

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teachers-bullied-by-colleagues-2-todd-finley  

A Curriculum of Concerns

 http://www.edutopia.org/blog/a-curriculum-of-concerns-mark-phillips

Vincent's Autumn Perspective

Van Gogh – Landscape with House and Ploughman 1889

Getting perspective from Vincent with lovely music to listen to.

Autumn Music.Piano Music.lyrics music.autumn scenery.10 min .丘の雲 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6MYFSxndJA

Educational Links 10/8/17

Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-10-03-why-flipped-learning-is-still-going-strong-10-years-later

Reading Skills: What to Expect at Different Ages

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/signs-symptoms/age-by-age-learning-skills/reading-skills-what-to-expect-at-different-ages?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

5 Things That Happen When We Empower Students

http://www.coolcatteacher.com/5-things-happen-empower-students/

Four points to consider before you quit teaching

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/four-points-consider-you-quit-teaching

Why Assessments Don’t Really Measure Understanding

https://www.teachthought.com/learning/the-problem-with-understanding/

Skills That Can Be Affected by ADHD

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/add-adhd/skills-that-can-be-affected-by-adhd?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

You may already know the major symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. But how do they impact your child’s abilities, whether at home or school? Here are some of the skills that may be affected by ADHD.

a wind has blown the rain away

Four Trees, Egon Schiele

a wind has blown the rain away
by E.E. Cummings

a wind has blown the rain away and blown
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand. I think i too have known
autumn too long

          (and what have you to say,
wind wind wind—did you love somebody
and have you the petal of somewhere in your heart
pinched from dumb summer?
          O crazy daddy
of death dance cruelly for us and start

the last leaf whirling in the final brain
of air!)Let us as we have seen see
doom’s integration………a wind has blown the rain

away and the leaves and the sky and the
trees stand:
        the trees stand. The trees,
suddenly wait against the moon’s face.

This poem is actually a Shakespearean sonnet.