Educational Links 8/26/18

The Shift From Content To Purpose: A Continuum of Choice

https://wegrowteachers.com/shift-content-purpose-continuum-choice/

Video: Why Executive Function Is So Important for Your Child

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/executive-functioning-issues/video-why-executive-function-is-so-important-for-your-child?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Use This Chrome Setting to Save Your Laptop's Battery

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/08/use-this-chrome-setting-to-save-your.html

Free Resource: Make Mindfulness Work for You

https://www.additudemag.com/download/mindfulness-for-adhd-natural-treatment-faq/

Reading Buddies

https://www.edutopia.org/article/reading-buddies

Can an Online Tool Depolarize Campus Discussions?

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-08-23-can-an-online-tool-depolarize-campus-discussions

Digital Disaster: Screen Time is Destroying Childrens’ Health

https://richardjamesrogers.com/2018/07/01/digital-disaster-screen-time-is-destroying-childrens-health/

As teachers, we’ve pinned our colours to the ‘Technology Troop’ so much that as soon as people start speaking up about the dangers of widespread and pervasive technological encroachment into peoples’ lives they are often shunned; sometimes disgraced and can be seen as ‘old-fashioned’ or not ‘with the times’.

This Week in MzT's Classroom 8/27--8/31 2018

This week includes the High School and Middle School Retreats on Thursday and Friday.

So, oh happy day, no assessment on Friday!

Monday 8/27/18 

Grades 7, 8, and 9

Takes notes from teacher's lecture on genres of literature.

Literary Genres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A1aM-zzJls

Reading Team Day

The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus

https://westenglish7.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/8/3/28833613/icarus___daedalus_phaethon.pdf

First read through with partner on Chromebook, take notes on plot diagram with partners CW

List vocabulary words from story in HW section.

Book Chat about Outside Reading

HW Using notes from your INB, write a paragraph summary of the story.

The Story of Icarus 

https://westenglish7.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/8/3/28833613/icarus___daedalus_phaethon.pdf

Study vocabulary.

Grades 10, 11, 12

Reading Team Day

The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus And Phaeton

https://westenglish7.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/8/3/28833613/icarus___daedalus_phaethon.pdf

First read through both stories with partner on Chromebook, take notes on plot diagram with partners CW

List vocabulary words from both stories in HW section.

Book Chat about Outside Reading

HW Using notes from your INB, write a paragraph summary of the story.

The Story of Icarus  and the Story of Phaeton

https://westenglish7.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/8/3/28833613/icarus___daedalus_phaethon.pdf

Study vocabulary.

Tuesday 8/28/18

Grades 7, 8, 9

Elements of Plot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH5jlkK4aUI

Reading aloud as a class The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus

Answer questions together in writing  from story.

Writer's Workshop

Writing summaries about stories using a plot diagram.

HW Study notes on genres of literature.

Study notes on the elements of plots.

Study vocabulary from the Icarus story.

Grades 10, 11, 12

Elements of Plot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH5jlkK4aUI

Reading aloud as a class The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus

Answer questions together in writing  from story link;

Discuss with teams the story of Phaeton; answer questions together.

Writer's Workshop

Writing summaries about stories using a plot diagram.

HW Study notes on genres of literature.

Study notes on the elements of plots.

Study vocabulary from the Icarus story.

Wednesday 8/29/18 

Grades 7, 8, 9.

Teacher review of story vocabulary.

Class discussion of extra questions on story.

Ed Tech Cafe

Digital Citizenship topics

What You Students Really Need to Know About Digitial Citizenship

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-need-to-know-vicki-davis

HW No new homework on Wednesdays.

Grades 10, 11, 12

Teacher review of both stories' vocabulary.

Class discussion of extra questions on stories.

Ed Tech Cafe

Digital Citizenship topics

What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digitial Citizenship

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-need-to-know-vicki-davis

HW  No new homework on Wednesday.

Thursday and Friday 8/30/18 and 8/31/18

High School and Middle School Retreat

Psalm 9:1-2 The Message (MSG)

A David Psalm

9 

1-2 I’m thanking you, God, from a full heart,

    I’m writing the book on your wonders.

I’m whistling, laughing, and jumping for joy;

    I’m singing your song, High God.

Educational Links 8/25/18

The Answers to 5 Questions Frequently Asked by New Chromebook Users

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/08/the-answers-to-5-questions-frequently.html

THREE GOOD RESOURCES ON SCHOOL DRESS CODES FOR STUDENTS

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/08/22/three-good-resources-on-school-dress-codes-for-students/

California community colleges urged to plan now for fewer students in remedial courses

https://edsource.org/2018/california-community-colleges-urged-to-plan-now-for-fewer-students-in-remedial-courses/600905

New Google Classroom: Add Your Resources to the About Link

https://alicekeeler.com/2018/08/22/new-google-classroom-add-resources-about/

Alternative Consequences

http://www.boystowntraining.org/alternative-consequences.html?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blogs&utm_content=Alternative_Consequences

Educators, students file lawsuit against Education Department, DeVos

https://www.cta.org/About-CTA/News-Room/Press-Releases/2018/08/20180823.aspx

Discipline Policies That Illegally Punish and Exclude Students with Disabilities Must Stop

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2018/08/discipline-policies-that-illegally.html

Disconcerting and problematic, this case is, on one level, a microcosm for the public education sector at large: A recent report by the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools found that students with disabilities continue to be disciplined roughly twice as often as their peers without disabilities.

The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus Unfolded

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Bruehgal

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963

According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring

a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry

of the year was
awake tingling
near

the edge of the sea
concerned 
with itself

sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings’ wax

unsignificantly

DAEDALUS AND ICARUS (plus Phaeton) retold by Josephine Preston Peabody)

https://westenglish7.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/8/3/28833613/icarus___daedalus_phaethon.pdf

Daedalus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus

Icarus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins

https://archive.org/details/youtube-3s2QPQnuaGk

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Reflective

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Reflective: A Mid-Year Reflection for Teachers and Students   http://www.edutopia.org/blog/mid-year-reflection-teachers-students-maurice-elias   ...

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Collaborating Until You're A Team

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Collaborating Until You're A Team: 1. The Benefits of Teacher Collaboration http://www.districtadministration.com/article/benefits-teacher-collaboration   2. Teacher C...

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Having With It Ness

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Having With It Ness: 1. Teacher Withitness http://rossieronline.usc.edu/teacher-withitness/   2. Withitness...what does it mean? http://www.withitness....

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Being Consistent

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Being Consistent: 1.  Teacher tips: How to be flexible and still enforce consistent classroom discipline  http://www.helium.com/items/700569-teacher...

Educational Links 8/24/18

Student Connections for Success

http://blog.mimio.com/student-connections-for-success

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

How to Create a Bibliography With MyBib

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/08/how-to-create-bibliography-with-mybib.html

How Design Thinking Can Help Teachers Solve Real Problems—and Find Their Voice

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-08-22-how-design-thinking-can-help-teachers-solve-real-problems-and-find-their-voice?utm_content=buffer02d09&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=EdSurgeBuffer

CDC Expands Autism Monitoring Efforts

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2018/08/23/cdc-expands-autism-monitoring/25404/

Boosting Resilience Through Creativity

https://www.edutopia.org/article/boosting-resilience-through-creativity?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=facebook

Many educators are concerned with managing stress and preventing burnout, well aware as we are of the demands of the profession and the high rate of turnover in schools. We know we need to sleep, eat well, exercise, and maybe meditate, and those habits are certainly useful in cultivating resilience, which is the ability to tackle adversity and emerge stronger than before.

Literacy Celebration

Malala receives the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Highlights of Malala's speech at the UN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1IeXT3kCUE

Malala's book.

Please take notes on these highlights of Malala's speech.

Lets eat kids. Let's eat, kids. Punctuation saves lives!

Read, listen and review the concepts of punctuation. Copy at least 5 sentences from the Worksheet on Commas in #3 Section of your Interactive Notebook: CLASSWORK. Your station may work together.

A Quick Guide to Punctuation

https://www.lynchburg.edu/academics/writing-center/wilmer-writing-center-online-writing-lab/grammar/a-quick-guide-to-punctuation/

Grade 8 Punctuation 11: Review Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bau5bwdVMWY

Worksheet on Commas

http://englishlinx.com/cgi-bin/pdf_viewer.cgi?script_name=%2Fpdf%2FAdding-Commas-3.pdf&x=106&y=37

Vote for the Most Interesting Greek Myths

5 TERRIFYING TALES FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/greece/greek-myths/

The 10 Greatest Heroes of Greek Mythology

https://www.thoughtco.com/greatest-greek-heroes-118992

Top 10 Heroes of Greek Mythology

https://www.teachervision.com/heroes-role-models/top-10-heroes-greek-mythology

Educational Links 8/23/18

Yes, teens are texting and using social media instead of reading books, researchers say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/08/20/for-american-teens-texting-and-social-media-are-replacing-books/?utm_term=.d03a9ecf1b6d

The How and Why of Trauma-Informed Teaching

https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-and-why-trauma-informed-teaching

#BlackStudentsMatter: Why Digital Activism Is a Voice for Black students

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-08-23-blackstudentsmatter-why-digital-activism-is-a-voice-for-black-students

What Adolescent Girls Wish Their Parents Understood About Them

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51736/what-adolescent-girls-wish-their-parents-understood-about-them

Favorite Resources

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/multidiscipline-projects-with-web-tools.html

I’m Going to Leave Work on Time This School Year … Really.

https://www.weareteachers.com/leave-work-on-time/

Stop Fighting Your Child’s Neurodiversity: A Step-by-Step Plan for Parents in Diagnosis Denial

https://www.additudemag.com/neurodivergent-diagnosis-adhd-autism-learning/

Your child is wired differently, and that means his life may not follow the path you envisioned. Before you can help him thrive, you must give yourself space and time to recognize the emotions that a neurodivergent diagnosis brings. Here’s how to get started embracing your new “normal.”

MzTeachuh: Counseling and Supervision; Supervision and Counse...

MzTeachuh: Counseling and Supervision; Supervision and Counse...: What to initiate positive change in a school? I have reflected upon what change would have the greatest impact based just upon my ow...

MzTeachuh: The Human Side of Assessing Writing

MzTeachuh: The Human Side of Assessing Writing: Commas, all I can think about is commas. The higher level thinking skills it requires to write, and assess writing, brings humans righ...

MzTeachuh: The Summer Wind

MzTeachuh: The Summer Wind: Tree in the Wind, Van Gogh Sirocco?  热风--首页? Santa Ana? (SoCal reference to hot winds.) Frank Sinatra -Summer Wind (1966)...

MzTeachuh: Helpful Hints for When Teacher Is Overwhelmed

MzTeachuh: 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...

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Learning Ed Tech

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Learning Ed Tech: How Technology Helps Teachers to Manage Their Classroom http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/472-technology-helps-teachers...

MzTeachuh: Are You Your School's Grumpy Cat?

MzTeachuh: Are You Your School's Grumpy Cat?: I confess, at times I have been the grumpy cat at school. As I realized it, I would go through this handy checklist I once heard in a se...

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is...Soothing the Soul (SEL)

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is...Soothing the Soul (SEL): 1. Resources and Lesson Plans for Social and Emotional Learning  http://www.edutopia.org/stw-louisville-sel-resources-downloads#gr...

Ed Tech Cafe: Digital Citizenship 8/22/18

lJust as attending school requires courtesy, comportment and general rules of behavior--so does the  online community. Let's start with the Nine 'P's of Digital Citizenship.

What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital Citizenship

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-need-to-know-vicki-davis

Teacher’s Guide to Digital Citizenship

http://www.edudemic.com/teachers-guide-digital-citizenship/

1. Remember that everything you post online is permanent.
2. Give proper credits to sources.
3. Report cyberbullies to parents or teachers.
4. Get Permission before sharing information about others.

Educational Links 8/22/18

Digital Text is Changing How Kids Read—Just Not in the Way That You Think

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/49092/digital-text-is-changing-how-kids-read-just-not-in-the-way-that-you-think?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

8 Classroom Management Mistakes Teachers Make at the Beginning of the Year

https://www.wgu.edu/heyteach/article/8-classroom-management-mistakes-teachers-make-beginning-year

Running Records 101: The History & How to Score, Code, & Analyze

https://literacypages.wordpress.com/2018/08/21/running-records-101-the-history-how-to-score-code-analyze/

A LOOK BACK: “GUEST POST: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT – REDIRECTING WITHOUT ESCALATING”

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/08/21/a-look-back-guest-post-classroom-management-redirecting-without-escalating/

Children Are Losing Their Connection to Nature – and the Consequences Are Real

http://www.raepica.com/2018/08/children-losing-their-connection-to-nature/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RaePica+%28Rae+Pica%29

Power Up Blended Learning: A Professional Learning Infrastructure to Support Sustainable Change

https://catlintucker.com/2018/08/power-up-blended-learning/

Technology in the Classroom: 7 Apps to Inspire Students

http://www.teachhub.com/technology-classroom-7-apps-inspire-students

 Limit new apps to five. All year. Introduce them; let students get comfortable using them in varied circumstances, in multiple subjects. Only then expect students to take ownership of the apps' ability to share the student's knowledge.

MzTeachuh: All-American Music To Grill To

MzTeachuh: All-American Music To Grill To: This is mostly for Americans. And maybe your wish to grill in quiet-- that's okay, too. But for us in the States, these might b...

MzTeachuh: Figurative Language Resources

MzTeachuh: Figurative Language Resources: FIGURES OF SPEECH (OFFICIAL LIST) http://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/rhetoric-overview/figures-of-speech-official-list/ Figurat...

MzTeachuh: Special Education Update

MzTeachuh: Special Education Update: A brief history of dyslexia and the role women played in getting it recognized   h ttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/dyslexia...

MzTeachuh: Summer Tunes

MzTeachuh: Summer Tunes: This might be Saturday in the park somewhere. Gelato sounds good. Could be summer guys LFO Summer Girl Yeah, gelato sounds goo...

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.