Aww Garsh: Love Songs for Valentine's Day #28

 

Yep, Paul loved his Linda.

Wings/Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed (HQ) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNh5Ca1dIXM

 

"Maybe I'm Amazed"

Baby, I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time,
And maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you.

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me out of time,
You hung me on the line.
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you.

Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand.

Baby, I'm a man,
And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me.
Baby, won't you help me to understand?
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
Oh.

Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand.

Baby, I'm a man,
And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me.
Baby, won't you help me to understand?
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me all the time,
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I leave you.

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my song,
Right me when I'm wrong-
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you. 

McCartney said he would like to be remembered for this song.

MzTeachuh's Meditations: Love Never Fails

Looks like our work is cut out for us.

Educational Links 2/14/16

Inspiration Stations: A Creative Spin on the Station Rotation

http://catlintucker.com/2016/02/inspiration-stations-2/

Parents' Criticism Tied to Persistent ADHD in Kids

http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/news/20160212/study-ties-parents-criticism-to-persistent-adhd-in-kids 

6 ways to make co-planning lessons more efficient

http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/2016/02/co-planning.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCornerstone+%28The+Cornerstone+Blog%29 

Flexibility--How Much Is Too Much?

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2016/02/flexibility-much-much/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theeducatorsroom%2FvPKE+%28EducatorsRoom%29 

Some Very Good Educational Apps

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/02/some-very-good-educational-apps-and.html 

Guided Reading: How to Organize the Chaos

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-02-13-guided-reading-how-to-organize-the-chaos 

Teaching Writing to Diverse Student Populations

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/teaching-writing-diverse-student-populations?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29 

The Key to Boosting English Learners’ Language Skills? Challenging Content

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/10/the-key-to-boosting-english-learners-language-skills-challenging-content/ 

The English language learner population in the United States is growing quickly, posing a challenge for cash-strapped schools struggling to balance the diverse needs of learners. And while technology is becoming a more ubiquitous part of the school experience, it hasn’t always been used effectively to improve the language skills of English learners. 

 

Black History Month: Marian Anderson

'Marian Anderson's Future Fund' was the name of the extra offering her church used to pass around so the little girl with the big voice could have singing lessons. Her dad bought her a piano when she was a very young, and after he passed away when she was eight, her mom raised her and her two little sisters. That's a lot of faith put into a young person.

Marian Anderson did not let anyone down. She not only used her very unusual gift for extreme excellence in opera, receiving international acclaim, but used her very unusual gift for grace and morality in the confrontation with baseness and racism.

She used a cash award from the city of Philadelphia to start an award for young people. Not for young people only of her race or profession, but young people of her humanitarian dispositions.

Even when accosted by racism in her own country, such as separate accomodations while touring, she was the perfect lady.  The most famous incident of racism was in the nation's capitol when she requested to rent a certain hall for a concert in 1939. The Daughters of the American Revolution, who owned the hall, refused to rent to her because they had a segregationist policy. The First Lady at the time, Eleanor Roosevelt, resigned from the DAR because of their attitude, and arranged for Marian Anderson's now famous concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial twenty-five years before Dr. King's speech there. I could also be a member of the DAR from three out of four of my grandparents,  but would rather not for the same reasons.

American Experience Biography: Marian Anderson

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/eleanor-anderson/ 

Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson

Easter morning 1939

Marian Anderson's Easter Sunday Lincoln Memorial concert on April 9, 1939 from the UCLA Film & Television Archive's "Hearst Metrotone News Collection."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF9Quk0QhSE 

 

 A short film about the life and career of singer Marian Anderson up through 1950. Transferred from original 35mm print. Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfLvusKNU7U 

 

Langston Hughes wrote about Marian. Marian Anderson: Famous Concert Singer. with Steven C. Tracy 1954 free on ebooks, plus other resources about Marian Anderson:

Marian Anderson singing as Ulrica in Verdi's Opera.

 

Marian Anderson famous concert singer

http://www.gobookee.org/marian-anderson-famous-concert-singer/ 

 

This is an article from NPR.

Avedon And Marian Anderson At Smithsonian

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/marian_anderson.html 

Marian Anderson

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

Aww Garsh: Love Songs for Valentine's Day #27

'Somewhere in Time' starring Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeves--the schmaltziest, most tear-jerking film ever?

And get ready for a new box of tissue for this song.

Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman - Time to Say Goodbye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_yCwFD6Jo

Time To Say Goodbye

When I’m alone
I dream on the horizon
and words fail;
yes, I know there is no light
in a room where the sun is absent,
if you are not with me, with me.
At the windows
show everyone my heart
which you set alight;
enclose within me
the light you
encountered on the street.
Time to say goodbye
to countries I never
saw and shared with you,
now, yes, I shall experience them.
I’ll go with you
on ships across seas
which, I know,
no, no, exist no longer.
It’s time to say goodbye…
When you are far away
I dream on the horizon
And words fail,
and, Yes, I know
that you are with me;
you, my moon, are here with me,
my sun, you are here with me,
with me, with me, with me.
Time to say goodbye
To countries I never
Saw and shared with you,
now, yes, I shall experience them.
I’ll go with you
On ships across seas
which, I know,
no, no, exist no longer,
with you I shall experience them again.
I’ll go with you
On ships across seas
Which, I know,
No, no, exist no longer;
with you I shall experience them again.
I’ll go with you,
I with you.

 

Educational Links 2/13/16

The Padagogy Wheel – It’s Not About The Apps, It’s About The Pedagogy

http://www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/blooms-taxonomy/the-padagogy-wheel/ 

Ed Tech Trends & Predictions: Right From the Horse's Mouth

http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/trends/2015-educational-technology-trends?utm_content=buffer88dc1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

Mainstreaming Effort Prompts Outcry From Teachers

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/02/12/mainstreaming-effort-outcry/21906/ 

Don't Say "Your Child Can't Read"

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/dont-say-your-child-cant-read-tamara-spencer?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29 

Is Quality Math Preparation The Next Equity Battleground?

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/02/10/is-quality-math-preparation-the-next-equity-battleground/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29 

'Digital Learning Day' lives up to its name this year

http://edscoop.com/digital-learning-day-lives-up-to-name-this-year 

Treatment Options for Auditory Processing Disorder 

 https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/treatments-approaches/treatment-options/treatment-options-for-auditory-processing-disorder?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Beyond therapies and medication, there are many ways to help kids with auditory processing disorder succeed in the classroom. Kids with auditory processing disorder may have a hard time connecting sounds to written words. So reading interventions that clearly teach the systems of sounds, letters and grammar may help.

Black History Month: Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

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

Louis Armstrong - It's a Wonderful World 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2RbFVRRtqI 

 "What A Wonderful World"

I see trees of green,
red roses too.
I see them bloom,
for me and you.
And I think to myself,
what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue,
And clouds of white.
The bright blessed day,
The dark sacred night.
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow,
So pretty in the sky.
Are also on the faces,
Of people going by,
I see friends shaking hands.
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying,
"I love you".

I hear babies cry,
I watch them grow,
They'll learn much more,
Than I'll ever know.
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.

Yes, I think to myself,
What a wonderful world.

Oh yeah.