Educational Links 5/27/18

Why misbehaviour isn’t just a free choice

https://www.tes.com/news/why-misbehaviour-isnt-just-free-choice

Two Useful Videos About Immigration To The U.S.

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/05/25/two-useful-videos-about-immigration-to-the-u-s/

How Constraints Can Stimulate Creative Solutions

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48468/how-constraints-can-stimulate-creative-solutions

50 SCHOOL LIBRARIES TO FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM

https://bookriot.com/2018/05/20/school-libraries-on-instagram/

3 Ways to Make Digital Citizenship Part of Your Everyday Teaching

https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/3-ways-to-make-digital-citizenship-part-of-your-everyday-teaching?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Making the Ethical Leap to Strengths-Based IEPs

https://www.middleweb.com/37675/making-the-ethical-leap-to-strengths-based-ieps/

5 Ways Any School Can Be A 21st Century School

https://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/5-ways-schools-can-think-like-startups/

But there is more going on than is immediately visible. The field (industry?) of public education is struggling not just to correct its inefficiencies, but to define itself entirely. And with the adoption of truly national standards in the Common Core movement, the possibility of pockets of unique academic “identity” emerging across the nation have been reduced in pursuit of uniformity and sameness.