Black History Month: Strange Fruit

Jacob Lawrence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Lawrence

  

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs 

Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

Lynching in the United States

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

Aww Garsh--Love Songs for Valentine's Day # 25

OMG! A love triangle!

ELVIS PRESLEY - Love Me Tender 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txh5l7cQXa0

 

 

 "Love Me Tender"

Love me tender,
love me sweet,
never let me go.
You have made my life complete,
and I love you so. 
Love me tender,
love me true,
all my dreams fulfilled.
For my darlin' I love you,
and I always will. 
Love me tender,
love me long,
take me to your heart.
For it's there that I belong,
and we'll never part. 
Love me tender,
love me dear,
tell me you are mine.
I'll be yours through all the years,
till the end of time. 
(When at last my dreams come true
Darling this I know
Happiness will follow you
Everywhere you go).

Educational Links 2/13/19

'Stop Hiding Behind The Factory Model of Teaching': Rick Wormeli on Differentiation

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2018/02/stop_hiding_behind_the_factory_model_of_teaching_rick_wormeli_on_differentiation.html

But Who’s Going To Save The Bully?

https://www.teachthought.com/education/but-whos-going-to-save-the-bully/?utm_content=buffer62554&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

ADHD Supports Are Often Ineffective

http://www.smartkidswithld.org/adhd-supports-often-ineffective/

The Difference Between ADHD and Executive Functioning Issues

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/executive-functioning-issues/difference-between-executive-functioning-issues-and-adhd

Reflective Practice: Growing by Developing Your Metacognitive Skills

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/ascd-learn-teach-lead-radio/4628-reflective-practice-growing-by-developing-your-metacognitive-skills

Youngzine - Great Current Events Resource

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/02/youngzine-great-current-events-resource.html#.WoJMG2inHGJ

Student Engagement

https://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/student-engagement

NASA Kids' Club - Fun Games for Learning About Space

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/02/nasa-kids-club-fun-games-for-learning.html#.WoJMg2inHGJ

NASA Kids' Club is a collection games, interactive activities, and images for students in Kindergarten through fourth grade. At the center of the NASA Kids' Club is a set of games and interactive activities arranged on five skill levels. The activities range from simple things like guessing numbers in "Airplane High Low" to more difficult tasks like identifying planets based on some clues provided in prompts in "Go to the Head of the Solar System." 

Aww Garsh--Love Songs for Valentine's Day # 24

The Temptations by Anita Kunz A group who gave us so much eloquent music, dance and class.

My Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRwmgYEUr8

"My Girl" 

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day.
When it's cold outside I've got the month of May. 
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl (my girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl (my girl). 
I've got so much honey the bees envy me.
I've got a sweeter song than the birds in the trees. 
Well, I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl (my girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl (my girl). 
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
Ooooh. 
I don't need no money, fortune or fame.
I've got all the riches, baby, one man can claim. 
Well, I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl (my girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl (my girl). 
I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
With my girl.
I've even got the month of May
With my girl
Talkin' 'bout
Talkin' 'bout
Talkin' 'bout
My girl
Ooooh
My girl
As long as I can talk about my girl...

Black History Month: the Real Glee Girls

The Marvelettes in a 1963 promotional photo.Clockwise form top left, Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, and Wanda Young

These girls were in their high school glee club when they were signed by Motown. They were the first successful girl group for Motown. 

I like the integrated audience way back in 1961. BTW the Beatles did a cover of this song (what an amazing compliment for the girls from Detroit; the Beatles very much appreciated black artists--young women artists, too.)

So we celebrate Women's History Month with encouragement to teens everywhere to sing, sing, sing. 

The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman 

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

And the Beatles homage to the Marvelettes, with John Lennon requesting to 'delivah da lettah, the sooner the bettah.' And a little British humor.

 Please Mr. Postman - The Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYO-kVk97js

Educational Links 2/12/18

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/02/11/around-the-web-in-esleflell-258/

The growing acceptance of autism in the workplace

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-growing-acceptance-of-autism-in-the-workplace/

Student social, emotional and academic development becoming more intertwined in K-12 classrooms

https://edsource.org/2018/student-social-emotional-and-academic-development-becoming-more-intertwined-in-k-12-classrooms/592899?utm_content=buffer8d73a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Technology--Teach Thought

https://www.teachthought.com/category/technology/

It's Time for a Confrontation Reframe

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/work_in_progress/2018/02/its_time_for_a_confrontation_r.html?override=web

79 Math In "Real Life" Lessons

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Trauma Was Hiding at This School. How Teachers Found Out and What They’re Doing to Help.

https://www.weareteachers.com/trauma-hiding-at-school/

How talented kids from low-income families become America’s ‘Lost Einsteins

https://theconversation.com/how-talented-kids-from-low-income-families-become-americas-lost-einsteins-89126

To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly with Neviana Petkova of the U.S. Treasury, paints a very different picture. We found that a child’s potential for future innovation seems to have as much to do with the circumstances of his or her family background as it does with his or her talent.

Educational Links 2/11/18

8 Tips For Teachers Frustrated With Technology

https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/8-tips-for-teachers-frustrated-with-technology-in-their-classroom/?utm_content=bufferc2cb1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Inside an Evaluation for Learning Disorders

https://childmind.org/article/inside-an-evaluation-for-learning-disorders/

Fun, Hands-on Science Lessons

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/02/fun-hands-on-science-lessons.html#.Wn-6LGinHGJ

“The Best Ways to Resolve Conflicts Between Students”

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/02/10/the-best-ways-to-resolve-conflicts-between-students/

How Do You Teach to the Standards When Doing Project-Based Learning?

http://www.spencerauthor.com/standards-and-pbl/

       A new twist on cyberbullying

https://www.iste.org/explore/articledetail?articleid=193

Teaching: Just Like Performing Magic

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/what-classrooms-can-learn-from-magic/425100/?utm_source=atlfb

Education, at its most engaging, is performance art. From the moment a teacher steps into the classroom, students look to him or her to set the tone and course of study for everyone, from the most enthusiastic to the most apathetic students. Even teachers who have moved away from the traditional lecture format, toward more learner autonomy-supportive approaches such as project-based and peer-to-peer learning, still need to engage students in the process, and serve as a vital conduit between learner and subject matter.