Who Put Up With Your Toddler Highjinks?

'Mother and Child' Pablo Picasso

Mostly your mom.

Mother's Day May 12.

And I bet you had the cutest little baby face!

Here's a Sesame Street favorite:
You're My Baby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r501NT3NYw4&feature=related

Teaching Is... Seeing The Happy 'I Got It' Face

 1. Helping Struggling Readers

http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/ 

2. 5 Fun Ways to Help Your Kids Learn Math Online

http://mashable.com/2010/06/29/kids-learn-math-online/ 

3. Teaching Reading to Teens with Learning Disabilities

http://www.ncld.org/students-disabilities/ld-education-teachers/teaching-reading-teens-with-learning-disabilities 

4. Top 10 Skills for High-School Students

http://school.familyeducation.com/skill-builder/college-prep/37653.html 

5. Helping Newcomer Students Succeed in Secondary Schools and Beyond

http://www.cal.org/resources/pubs/helping-newcomer-students-succeed-in-secondary-schools-and-beyond.html 

6. Helping your child

Many parents want to help their child or children with their English but are not sure what they can do to help. In this section you'll find lots of expert advice about helping your child learn English.
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/parents/helping-your-child

7. Helping kids learn to succeed

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2012/02/helping_kids_learn_to_succeed.html 

8. Parental Involvement in School

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/succeed/ 

National Poetry Month: Matsuo Basho

From time to time

The clouds give rest

To the moon-beholders.

The summer grasses

All that remains

Of brave soldiers dreams

A bee 

staggers out

of the peony.

Matsuo Basho

About Matsuo Basho

Matsuo Basho was one of the most famous haiku masters of the world. His poems were influenced by his firsthand experience of the world around him, often encapsulating the feeling of a scene in a few simple elements. 

National Poetry Month:Poem #29

JONI MITCHELL /// 10. Both Sides Now - (Clouds) - (1969) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i7WceS--p4 

 Bows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way

I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way

But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way

Oh but now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost but something's gained
In living every day

I've looked at life from both sides now
From WIN and LOSE and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all

I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all

National Poetry Month: Poem #28

Haiku

“The piercing chill I feel:

      my dead wife’s comb, in our bedroom,

          under my heel…”

Taniguchi Buson

Educational Links 4/29/19

5 online discussion tools to fuel student engagement

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2019/04/22/5-online-discussion-tools/?fbclid=IwAR23z-NWDi7V77g-S1U74sh7Fzc7tDzqTWtck9BA1ZkTaoO0tejA2k9n0V4

How Much Freedom Should A Teacher Have?

https://wegrowteachers.com/how-much-freedom-should-a-teacher-have/?fbclid=IwAR1NRJ5Ypqhx6VB34J5RwlnDexn0D7TC_iGIsz1dAn9Uyk4f9dnLxZ03zXg

10 GREAT CRITICAL THINKING ACTIVITIES THAT ENGAGE YOUR STUDENTS

https://www.wabisabilearning.com/blog/10-great-critical-thinking-activities-that-engage-your-students?fbclid=IwAR3vt_AZvwixrhq1KRZm8wjfuU9_0gpWIQwrZ966tU-Qtf727niqZFo1xVI

Digital Leadership: Leading Change from Where You Are 

https://esheninger.blogspot.com/2019/04/digital-leadership-leading-change-from.html?fbclid=IwAR157KaH2HFa-hWO15hOQiMzoXsNv5So8X1_FFr42Sd4Rjs3mr5a8ROIDUc

The Benefits of a High School Psychology Class

https://www.edutopia.org/article/benefits-high-school-psychology-class?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0eHkAzC_6Ek5mMBdyCNCqiybzSngZ9X9iDpmqdA02Z5qhAaf9RcT06aFQ

What is dyslexia? - Kelli Sandman-Hurley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zafiGBrFkRM&feature=player_embedded

Ways to Have Students Evaluate Classes

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2019/04/response_ways_to_have_students_evaluate_classes.html?fbclid=IwAR2ISmj9eCHK4gKWrvAZPc2ZBWhCW5ZmMFU8zVFBdcRcfA2z3DGw0N4fs_E

Getting Started With Experiential Learning

https://www.edutopia.org/article/getting-started-experiential-learning?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0bS--gfE98gz2z6eKe6xtrJk-RsQBqXiGzDxN5G5a6_U9eA2h0VCfBijk

How team sports can protect pupil mental health

https://www.tes.com/news/sports-depression-neuroscience-students?fbclid=IwAR0UJp0a3NYzBCikCYH9RcujQGoUe2ClBNopiSYGDAYm4bnHcYivzlHLQl4

The rush for a knowledge-rich curriculum is squeezing out PE, but research suggests that the benefits stretch beyond the body.

National Poetry Month: Poem #27

The Bean Eaters

BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS

They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair.   

Dinner is a casual affair.

Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,   

Tin flatware.

Two who are Mostly Good.

Two who have lived their day,

But keep on putting on their clothes   

And putting things away.

And remembering ...

Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,

As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.

Gwendolyn Brooks