Irish Prayers and Blessings

I understand this sentiment, but I wouldn't ever pray it.

This is my favorite!

Educational Links 3/14/15

Bold teacher leadership for equity and excellence in public education: Lessons for administrators

https://www.teachingquality.org/content/blogs/barnett-berry/bold-teacher-leadership-equity-and-excellence-public-education-lessons

THE ROLE OF AN INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION IN MATTERS OF INCLUSION

http://www.thinkinclusive.us/the-role-of-an-independent-educational-evaluation-in-matters-of-inclusion/

INVISIBLE HARM: TOXIC SCHOOL AIR AFFECTS 8,000 PUBLIC SCHOOLS

http://www.momscleanairforce.org/toxic-school-air/

Classroom Management: Overcoming Parental Barriers

http://www.teachhub.com/classroom-management-overcoming-parental-barriers

Videos to Watch to Learn About Cyber Footprint

http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/2690-cyber-footprint

Growing An Educator Pipeline Starts By Sparking Student Passion For Teaching

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/03/13/growing-an-educator-pipeline-starts-by-sparking-student-passion-for-teaching/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Mastering Classroom Transitions

https://www.edutopia.org/article/mastering-transitions-todd-finley

There are essentially three types of transitions: entering class and taking a seat, switching from one academic activity to another, and exiting class. And just like any academic procedure, transitions are taught through explicit explanations, clear models, rehearsal, and review.

Women's History Month: Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams: wife of John Adams, community leader, intellectual, and considered quite the hottie.

Abigail Adams:  Capable, independent minded, articulate and not that unusual among women in the Yankee American colonies where women were frequently educated and empowered with responsibilities. Not quite like nowadays, but a precursor experience. She supported women's rights, and the abolition of slavery. And she was considered quite attractive, not exactly a super model like Melania, but a 'Venus' of her times.

Abigail Adams

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Adams 

The wife of John Adams held down the fort (well, the Massachusetts farm) during the Revolutionary War while he was in Philadelphia. Their correspondence--over 1100 letters--includes sweet

John to Abigail: Miss Adorable

Abigail to John: My Dearest Friend

references, political discussions, and practical input on running
the homestead. She accompanied John Adams to France when he was the ambassador. Not bad for a country girl from the sticks. Her son (John QuincyAdams) became president, too, before Barbara Bush performed that trick.

She was articulate, active, a woman of her own mind. She was American.
The marvelously written book, John Adams by David McCullough includes much about Abigail, too, as does the miniseries and this American Experience production:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/

Here are some of Abigail's thoughts:

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

 To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.


A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abigail_adams.html#KUDwpTvrJ1P7O1FB.99

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to forment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Teachable Moment: The Irish Diaspora

The Irish Diaspora: It’s Not Easy Being Green

 http://blogs.haverford.edu/celticfringe/2014/03/04/the-irish-diaspora-what-does-it-mean-to-be-irish/

The Irish have been leaving the Old Sod for centuries for many reasons. First, as explorers and proclaimers of the Good News of the Gospel, some say all the way to the Caribbean. 

Hiberno-Scottish mission

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-Scottish_mission 

Then, forced immigration. I would say that the mandated expulsions of the Irish from their homeland is a marvelous example of the law of unintended consequences, though not so marvelous from the British perspective. 

Flight of the Wild Geese

http://www.houseofnames.com/wiki/wild-geese

The leadership (the Wild Geese) were 'invited' to leave by the British, then fulfilled important roles in the empires and governments of Europe. Later, Cromwell especially liked to be rid of Irish Catholics, even sending Irish enslaved to the Caribbean.  The Scots, especially Highlanders, were exported to Northern Ireland then to the American Colonies after the Bonnie Prince Charlie fiasco, along with the northern Irish that were troublesome to the British (for frequently having uprising for independence.) About thirty years later, the American Revolution began. 

Sending Convicts To Virginia 

 https://sites.google.com/site/britishmuseumproject2/home/object-3

 Convicts in Australia 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia

 The Irish were loaded into 'convict' ships to Australia--Australia, now a mighty example of democracy. The potato famine was celebrated by British capitalists as a brilliant opportunity to be rid of the Irish, either by starvation, disease or evacuation to Canada or the 

Grosse Isle Memorial, list of the lost.

USA on 'coffin' ships. There is a memorial in Canada at Grosse Isle, where my Sullivan ancestors arrived in 1842--one Sullivan survived, Elizabeth, my great great grandmother.

The vibrant contribution of Irish Canadians and Irish Americans is self evident, and not to underestimate the contributions of the same to the persistent, dogged, relentless cause of Irish independence. Unintended consequences (to the British.) But Irish independence is a whole other story.

Irish Canadian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Canadian 

Irish American

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_American 

The City of Chicago - Christy Moore

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK0J5MfK4ow&feature=kp

 To the City of Chicago,
As the evening shadows fall,
There are people dreaming,
Of the hills of Donegal.

Eighteen forty seven,
Was the year it all began,
Deadly Pains of hunger,
Drove a million from the land,
They journeyed not for glory,
Their motive wasn't greed,
Just a voyage of survival,
Across the stormy sea.

To the City of Chicago,
As the evening shadows fall,
There are people dreaming,
Of the hills of Donegal.

Some of them knew fortune,
And some them knew fame,
More of them knew hardship,
And died upon the plain,
They spread throughout the nation,
Rode the railroad cars,
Brought their songs and music,
To ease their lonely hearts.

To the City of Chicago,
As the evening shadows fall,
There are people dreaming,
Of the hills of Donegal. 

Here are a couple of interesting links about the Irish:

The Irish Diaspora Center

http://dlharbour.ie/projects/diaspora-centre/

The Wild Geese

.http://thenewwildgeese.com/

Educational Links 3/13/17

9 Teacher-Tested Ways to Encourage Creativity in the Classroom

https://www.weareteachers.com/encourage-creativity-classroom/?utm_campaign=ISTE_1215&utm_medium=FB&utm_source=Article&utm_content=1489070037

8 Reasons Teachers Should Rethink Homework

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/12249.html

Teaching Life Skills

http://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-more-than-lessons

4 STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE SELF-CARE FOR TEACHERS IN THE CLASSROOM

http://www.thinkinclusive.us/self-care-for-teachers/?utm_content=buffer9acbd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buff

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Congress Erases K-12 Rules, A Financial Aid Foul-Up And Other Education News

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/03/11/518809259/congress-erases-k-12-rules-a-financial-aid-foul-up-and-other-education-news?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170311

Three Creative Ways to Teach the Boring Stuff

https://www.bamradionetwork.com/teachers-aid/4291-three-creative-ways-to-teach-the-boring-stuff

What Is an "Appropriate" Education for Students with Disabilities? The (Supreme) Court Will Tell Us Soon

The deeper issue is the meaning of equality. A demand for equal treatment is not satisfied by providing light for the seeing and the blind student alike.

Music for Women's History: You Don't Own Me

Lesley Gore 1964

Just for Women's History Month. (And this song was written by a man!)

Lesley Gore- "You Don't Own Me" Live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmOrWG2FTbg

You don't own me

I'm not just one of your many toys
You don't own me
Don't say I can't go with other boys

And don't tell me what to do
Don't tell me what to say
And please, when I go out with you
Don't put me on display 'cause

You don't own me
Don't try to change me in any way
You don't own me
Don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay

I don't tell you what to say
I don't tell you what to do
So just let me be myself
That's all I ask of you

I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free
To live my life the way I want
To say and do whatever I please

And don't tell me what to do
Oh, don't tell me what to say
And please, when I go out with you
Don't put me on display

I don't tell you what to say
Oh, don't tell you what to do
So just let me be myself
That's all I ask of you

I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free
To live

Festival of Irish Arts and Music Day 5

I also like the one that says, 'May you be in Heaven a half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.'

Cousins?

That's some pot of gold.

Here's some fun with Irish folklore, film, mirth, music and lively dance.

'Darby O'Gill and the Little People' includes a rundown of many well-known Irish superstitions from leprechauns to banshees, as well as a very young Sean Connery.

'The Secret of Roan Inish' is another film that also reveal lovely Irish landscapes as well as the legend of the silkies.

Numerous fantasy and faerie stories. These are old timey ones by 
W.B. Yeats. Read them first yourself before reading them aloud to children; some are rather creepy. 

Oh no, not a changling!

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/fip/  

Here's more on the gift of gab (remember our Irish American presidents?

Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan

Reagan and Kennedy? They inherited the joke telling and the charm.)

Irish Quotations, Irish Blessings, Irish Proverbs and Irish Toasts

http://tacomaweekly.tripod.com/Irish-Quotations.html 

Here is live Irish music from a pub in County Clare--great fun even if you're just drinking O'Douhl's.

Traditional Irish Music - Brogan's Bar - Ennis, Ireland

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z_TheGgFWI&list=HL1394432606

Irish dance has worldwide participants and audiences.

Irish dance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_dance 

I don't know if this happens every day at the Dublin Airport, but how cool if it did. 

TAKE THE FLOOR Flashmob Dublin Airport 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ff_uLoEBEo 

Love the sentiment.