Educational Links 3/2/19

Giving Students Stepping Stones For Participation To Lift Up Their Voices

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53108/giving-students-stepping-stones-for-participation-to-lift-up-their-voices?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Moms Can Reduce Autism Odds — Even For Kids At High Risk, Study Shows

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2019/03/01/moms-autism-odds-study/26104/

No Fine Motor Skills? What’s the Big Deal?

http://www.raepica.com/2019/02/no-fine-motor-skills/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RaePica+%28Rae+Pica%29

QUICK WAYS TO BUILD A POSITIVE CLASSROOM COMMUNITY

https://www.theedadvocate.org/quick-ways-to-build-a-positive-classroom-community/

Use Digital Notebooks to Facilitate Book Clubs and Literature Circles at the Secondary Level

https://catlintucker.com/2019/02/book-clubs-and-literature-circles/

5 WAYS TO TEACH WITH ART

https://www.coolcatteacher.com/5-ways-to-teach-with-art/?fbclid=IwAR31SOQr0RE6vfAEnOcH7FJXDXXi2A8S9_-1VrvIxEJUr75-5QgeNpGmR1s

Access does not equal equity

https://hechingerreport.org/access-does-not-equal-equity/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HechingerReport+%28Hechinger+Report%29

The school’s leaders made diversity a priority before it even opened five years ago, Bauer says, when they chose not to use grades or test scores as admissions criteria. They also embraced a nontraditional educational model. Like a growing number of schools around the country, Maker Academy uses a mastery-based learning model, in which static letter grades on one-off tests and assignments are jettisoned in favor of detailed feedback that students use to revise their work as they progress toward mastery of clearly defined skills.