Educational Links 5/30/17

11 Surprising Statistics That Sum Up the Life of a Teacher

https://www.weareteachers.com/life-of-a-teacher-stats/

13 Picture Books about Reading to Inspire Young Readers and Writers

https://www.weareteachers.com/books-about-reading/

Lit Circles: Fostering Heterogeneous Collaboration

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/fostering-heterogeneous-collaboration-sfusd

Hall Passes, Buses, Lunch Duty: What If The Principal Could Focus On Achievement?

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/29/527114390/free-the-principal?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170529

Fidget, Jiggle, Twiddle, Wriggle: Bring Back Activity in Schools

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teacher_in_a_strange_land/2017/05/fidget_jiggle_twiddle_wriggle.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Questions to Ask Yourself as the School Year Winds Down

https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2017/05/09/questions-to-ask-yourself-as-the-school.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Structures Drive Behavior: Work on the System, Not the People

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/structures-drive-behavior-work-system-people-tom-vander-ark

Structures drive behavior. Organized one way we can be inventive and cooperative; organized in a different way we are uninventive and uncooperative. That’s a research finding of Nicholas Christakis, director of the Human Lab at Yale. “Same human beings, different typology – a different architecture of ties – completely changes the kind of group properties that these individuals evince.”

Best Articles for Educators Week of 1/18/15

In an Era of Conflict, Healing the World One Classroom at a Time

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/01/in-an-era-of-conflict-healing-the-world-one-classroom-at-a-time/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Five Ways to a Cleaner, Healthier Classroom

http://www.nea.org/home/32002.htm 

8 Pathways to Every Student's Success

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/8-pathways-every-students-success-marilyn-price-mitchell

Too Much Sitting? Five Movement Strategies That Get Students Thinking

http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/much-sitting-five-movement-strategies-get-students-thinking/

How to Get the Most Out of Student-Owned Devices in Any Classroom

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-student-owned-devices-in-any-classroom/

How Integrating Arts Into Other Subjects Makes Learning Come Alive 

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/01/how-integrating-arts-into-other-subjects-makes-learning-come-alive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Energy and Calm: Brain Breaks and Focused-Attention Practices

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/brain-breaks-focused-attention-practices-lori-desautels?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

 

Educational Links 1/9/15

20 Ways To Get A Noisy Classroom’s Attention

http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/20-ways-quiet-noisy-students/ 

Are Principals and Vice Principals Unsure What CompSci Courses Offer?

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2015-01-08-are-principals-and-vice-principals-unsure-what-compsci-courses-offer 

Grolier Club's "Famous 100" Children's Books Named: Many Are Available in Alternative Formats

http://www.readingrockets.org/blog/grolier-clubs-famous-100-childrens-books-named-many-are-available-alternative-formats?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_StrugglingReaders+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Struggling+Reader+Resources%29 

Open Educational Resources Meet Instructional Design

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/open-educational-resources-instructional-design-andrew-marcinek?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29 

Questions for Eric London: Alternative Diagnoses for Autism 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/01/questions-for-eric-london-alternative.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29 

An IEP Refresher: Everything You Need to Know About an IEP

http://www.friendshipcircle.org/blog/2015/01/06/an-iep-refresher-everything-you-need-to-know-about-an-iep/?utm_source=Friendship+Circle+Blog&utm_campaign=5590a7f27e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3ec270b4ae-5590a7f27e-199111629 

[Infographic] How a Flipped Classroom Model Works

http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/1732-infographic-how-a-flipped-classroom-model-works