Educational Links 8/21/18

Check Your Syllabus 101: Disability Access Statements

https://anthrodendum.org/2018/08/13/check-your-syllabus-101-disability-access-statements/

How to Create a Comment Bank in Google Classroom

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/08/how-to-create-comment-bank-in-google.html

When Higher Functioning Follows Form: Special-Needs Students Flourish in Sensory-Designed Schools

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2018/08/when-higher-functioning-follows-form.html

SEL WEEKLY UPDATE

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/08/19/sel-weekly-update-81/

I Loved Teaching, but I Let Others Define Success for Me

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/my-bad/4711-i-loved-teaching-but-i-let-others-define-success-for-me

Happy Teachers Practice Self-Care

https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2017/06/07/social-emotional-competence-starts-at-the-head-of.html

How Can Private Schools Contribute To the Public Good?

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51909/how-can-private-schools-contribute-to-the-public-good?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

This is a cohort-model, so the same kids return year after year. In addition to targeted reading and math support, kids get to do a lot of the activities that many public schools can no longer afford. They have two recesses, drama, art and dance. This summer students attended the theater, where they saw School of Rock; they went kayaking; and they visited the Exploratorium, among other field trips.