Educational Links 12/23/18

Will Letter Grades Survive?

https://www.edutopia.org/article/will-letter-grades-survive?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=facebook

Federation for Children with Special Needs

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2018/12/the-school-to-prison-pipeline.html?

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Dear School Leaders, Please Stop Cutting Recess for Kids

https://www.weareteachers.com/dont-cut-recess-for-kids/?utm_content=1545412020&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0iYcvx6NbEmx43ooMA9_qUAJzMng10B-bYyXFAN9RJvtR0eU1lIqSUg9Q

Recharging Your Teaching Battery

http://blog.mimio.com/recharging-your-teaching-battery

Schools don’t have to reinvent the wheel

https://hechingerreport.org/schools-dont-have-to-reinvent-the-wheel/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HechingerReport+%28Hechinger+Report%29

This “open” innovation may indicate the future of learning

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/12/12/open-badges-future-learning/

My Principal Wants to Improve Test Scores ... Is He Right?

http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-literacy/my-principal-wants-improve-test-scores-he-right?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29

Their “theory” — and it is just a theory — is that one can raise reading scores through targeted teaching of particular comprehension skills. Teachers are to use the results of their state accountability tests to look for fine-grained weaknesses in reading achievement — or to try to identify which educational standards the kids aren’t meeting.