Educational Links 2/26/18

ALEC COUROS’ 6 EPIC EDUCATIONAL TRUTHS

http://www.coolcatteacher.com/alec-epic/?utm_content=buffer4708e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Educators Say 'No Way' to Trump's Suggestion of Arming Teachers

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2018/02/educators_say_no_way_to_trumps.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

How to be a collaborative leader

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2018/01/30/collaborative-leader/

How teachers’ aggression may be creating bullies

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/how-teachers-aggression-may-be-creating-bullies

Pushing Learners to Think with Performance Tasks

https://esheninger.blogspot.com/2018/02/pushing-learners-to-think-with.html

If We Want Our Youngest Students to Love Reading, We Have to Do These 3 Things

https://www.weareteachers.com/teaching-kids-to-love-reading/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=GreatBooks_1706_SingleArt

In the News: Supreme Court to Hear Case on Unions, Non-Member Financial Requirements

http://educationnext.org/news-supreme-court-hear-case-unions-non-member-financial-requirements/

On Monday, February 26, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in  Janus vs. AFSCME, a case that could “deal a potentially crippling blow to public sector unions.”

The case was brought by Mark Janus, an Illinois government employee. He argues that he should not be required to pay a fee to the public sector union he has chosen not to join. He sees the required agency fee as a violation of his First amendment rights since the union takes positions he opposes, positions which he views as political.