Special Education Weekly Update 10/12/15

Why Recognizing Dyslexia In Children At School Can Be Difficult

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/10/08/why-recognizing-dyslexia-in-children-at-school-can-be-difficult/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Fidgeting Helps Kids with ADHD Learn 

http://www.nesca-news.com/2015/10/fidgeting-helps-kids-with-adhd-learn.html

How Recess Promotes Focus for ADHD Children

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/807.html 

Anti-Vaxxers Accidentally Fund a Study Showing No Link Between Autism and Vaccines 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/10/anti-vaxxers-accidentally-fund-study.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

The Lessons of Autism History 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/10/the-lessons-of-autism-history.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

 Study Reveals Letting ADHD Kids Move is Beneficial to Their Learning 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/10/study-reveals-letting-adhd-kids-move-is.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

Please Stop Whitewashing Autism 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/10/please-stop-whitewashing-autism.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

 

Educational Links 10/12/15

EdTech Doesn’t Hold All The Answers For Struggling Students

 http://www.teachthought.com/technology/edtech-doesnt-have-all-the-answers-for-struggling-students/

Alternatives to YouTube 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/alternatives-to-youtube.html#.Vhr63Gu8nIW 

How Do You Help Your Students Develop A Growth Mindset? 

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2015/10/10/how-do-you-help-your-students-develop-a-growth-mindset/

Interrupting and Impulsivity: Help Your Child with ADHD Pay Attention

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/1976.html 

Test Scores Under Common Core Show that ‘Proficient’ Varies by State http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/10/test-scores-under-common-core-show-that.html

What Does It Feel Like to Have ADHD?

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/9774.html 

How To Protect Devices Everywhere

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2015/10/how-protect-devices-learn-everywhere-era

 

Silly Music For Halloween #2...I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts

Well, I'm not.
Writing prompt: 5 Reasons I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts 
Can include illustrations of inventions, such as the Ghost Vacuum (Portable Containment Unit.)

Ghostbusters song 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rarRiqWH8v4

MzTeachuh's Meditations: For the Father Himself Loves You...

MzTeachuh's Meditation: For the Father Himself Loves You...: Red Orb, Damongman because you love Me. Good verse when you're feeling like an orphan. I realize the painting is kind of abstr...

Educational Links 10/11/15

Five-Minute Film Festival: Turning Bystanders Into Upstanders Against Bullying http://www.edutopia.org/blog/film-festival-bullying-prevention-upstanders?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

White House’s ‘Every Student, Every Day’ Tackles Chronic Absenteeism - See more at: http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/white-houses-every-student-every-day-tackles-chronic-absenteeism/#sthash.2RFSA5K4.dpuf

Tackling Absenteeism

http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/white-houses-every-student-every-day-tackles-chronic-absenteeism/ 

Why Emotions Matter in the Classroom

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2015/10/emotions-matter-classroom/ 

Google Tutorials 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/google-tools-tutorials.html#.Vhm1cmu8nIU 

Turn Testing Into Learning: Sample Lesson on Exam Wrappers

http://anniemurphypaul.com/blog/ 

Ideas for E.L.L.s | El Chapo

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/author/larry-ferlazzo/?_r=0 

What You Might Not Know About Misbehaving Students But Should

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/student-centric-strategies/ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White House’s ‘Every Student, Every Day’ Tackles Chronic Absenteeism - See more at: http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/white-houses-every-student-every-day-tackles-chronic-absenteeism/#sthash.2RFSA5K4.dpuf

Best Articles for Educators 10/11/15

How People Learn: An Evidence-Based Approach

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/how-people-learn-evidence-based-paul-bruno?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

Why Recognizing Dyslexia In Children At School Can Be Difficult

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/10/08/why-recognizing-dyslexia-in-children-at-school-can-be-difficult/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

STEAM YouTube Channels for Elementary Kids

http://imaginationsoup.net/2015/10/steam-youtube-channels-for-elementary-kids/

How Recess Promotes Focus for ADHD Children

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/807.html

Good Tools for Student Writers 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/10/good-tools-for-student-writers.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=freetech4teachers#.VhNE-2u8nIU

Please Stop Whitewashing Autism 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/10/please-stop-whitewashing-autism.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

Moving Students From Digital Citizenship To Digital Leadership

http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/moving-students-from-digital-citizenship-to-digital-leadership/ 

Educational Links 10/10/15

How People Learn: An Evidence-Based Approach

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/how-people-learn-evidence-based-paul-bruno?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29 

How Adding Math to a Child’s Home Routine Can Advance Achievement

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/10/09/how-adding-math-to-a-childs-home-routine-can-advance-achievement/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29 

The Case Against Private Education: Why We Put Our Kids in Public School 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/10/the-case-against-private-education-why.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29 

Fidgeting Helps Kids with ADHD Learn 

http://www.nesca-news.com/2015/10/fidgeting-helps-kids-with-adhd-learn.html 

When Schools Ban Technology

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-10-09-when-schools-ban-technology 

What to Do about Those Absent Students

http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/what-to-do-about-those-absent-students/ 

Moving Students From Digital Citizenship To Digital Leadership

http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/moving-students-from-digital-citizenship-to-digital-leadership/