How the Arts Unlock the Door to Learning

 http://www.edutopia.org/stw-arts-integration-reform-overview 

Artful Thinking

This Land Is Your Land!

http://www.pz.gse.harvard.edu/artful_thinking.php

The Benefits of Music Education

http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/music-arts/the-benefits-of-music-education/ 

Arts Every Day

 http://www.artseveryday.org/

Alas, Poor Yorick!

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/collection/strategies-arts-integration  

Use Arts Integration to Enhance Common Core

 /http://www.edutopia.org/blog/core-practices-arts-integration-susan-riley

Poetry Slam Hits Schools with Literary Force

http://www.nea.org/tools/13380.htm 

Fun Activities & Crafts for Grade School

http://www.brighthubeducation.com/elementary-school-activities/ 

Making Art Fun

http://makingartfun.com/ 

How Learning Dance in School Can Produce Smarter Kids

http://sheris-musings.tumblr.com/post/7026400499/danceinschool 

Making Middle School Memories

 

 

 

To Tech Or Not To Tech, Answering The Question

American High School Hosts Poetry Slam http://thesmokesignal.org/2014/05/15/american-high-school-hosts-poetry-slam/

Kids Get Enough Tech Outside of School—Shouldn’t the Classroom Offer Them Something Different?

 http://anniemurphypaul.com/2014/08/kids-get-enough-tech-outside-of-school-shouldnt-the-classroom-offer-them-something-different/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kids-get-enough-tech-outside-of-school-shouldnt-the-classroom-offer-them-something-different

Poetry Slam Hits Schools with Literary Force

http://www.nea.org/tools/13380.htm 

Removing The Gamification In Your Classroom

http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/17829/ 

Why kids need recess and exercise

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/health/diet-fitness/parenting-recess-kids/ 

Why Arts Education Is Crucial, and Who's Doing It Best

http://www.edutopia.org/arts-music-curriculum-child-development 

Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb-less-kindles-paper-study-plot-ereader-digitisation 

 

 

 

 

All Learning, All The Time Tweets of the Day 7/12/14

Left Bank Learning: When "Work Time" Becomes "Studio Time"

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/left-bank-learning-work-time-studio-time-amy-burvall?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

25 Books That Diversify Kids’ Reading Lists This Summer

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/25-ideas-to-diversify-reading-lists-this-summer/ 

Myth-Busting Differentiated Instruction: 3 Myths and 3 Truths

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/differentiated-instruction-myths-and-truths-john-mccarthy?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-differentiated-instruction-myths-and-truths-link 

Disruptive Innovation And Education

http://educationnext.org/disruptive-innovation-education/ 

How to graduate globally competitive students

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/07/11/globally-competitive-students-010/ 

How to graduate globally competitive students

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/07/11/globally-competitive-students-010/ 

Overcoming Burnout: Why Overwhelmed Is The New Normal

 http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2064:overcoming-burnout-why-overwhelmed-is-the-new-normal-and-what-to-do-about-it&catid=105:teachers-aide&Itemid=299

 

 

Oxygen Is Our Friend Tweets of the Day 6/17/14

Can 12 Minutes of Exercise Help Close the Achievement Gap?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/can-12-minutes-of-exercise-help-close-the-achievement-gap/ 

Students Learn to Fail—and Recover—at Calif. School

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/06/05/34failure.h33.html?intc=EW-DPCT14-FB 

How to Hold Onto a Kid’s Natural Genius

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/06/how-to-hold-onto-a-kids-natural-genius/ 

At The Head Of Her Class, And Homeless

http://www.npr.org/2014/06/11/321022595/at-the-head-of-her-class-and-homeless?utm_content=buffer457e6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

Is Anybody Listening to Teachers?

http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/06/10/fp-maguire-speech.html?cmp=ENL-EU-MOSTPOP 

Teaching Through Trauma: How poverty affects kids' brains

http://www.scpr.org/blogs/education/2014/06/02/16743/poverty-has-been-found-to-affect-kids-brains-can-o/ 

Response: The Role Of Arts Education In Schools

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2014/06/response_the_role_of_arts_education_in_schools.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB 

Promises, Promises Tweets of the Day 1/27/14

1. The American Promise to Our Young Students

 http://www.edutopia.org/blog/american-promise-to-our-students-jose-vilson

2. Do You have the Personality To Be an Inquiry-Based Teacher?

 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/11/do-you-have-the-personality-to-be-an-inquiry-based-teacher/

3. Study: Number Of Kids with Autism May Decline Under New Diagnostic Criteria

 http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2014/01/study-number-of-kids-with-autism-may.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

4. 10 Reasons Why the Arts Are So Important for Kids

http://blog.k12.com/tips-parents/10-reasons-why-arts-are-so-important-kids?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thinktank12+%28thinktanK12%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo#.UuZOjLSIY1k 

5. 4 Steps To Creating Confident And Creative Thinking Students

 http://www.edudemic.com/creative-thinking-students/

6. 50 fun call-and-response ideas to get students’ attention

http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/2014/01/50-fun-call-and-response-ideas-to-get-students-attention.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCornerstone+%28The+Cornerstone+Blog%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 

7. Far Beyond Test Scores, What We (Should) Value In Students

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/01/far-beyond-test-scores-what-we-should-value-in-students/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo