Educatonal Links 3/21/21

“How I Learned to Appreciate the Magical Brains I Teach.”

https://www.additudemag.com/students-with-intellectual-disabilities-adhd-advocacy/

What is Proficiency-Based Learning?

https://www.teachhub.com/teaching-strategies/2021/03/what-is-proficiency-based-learning/

SATURDAY’S MUST-READ ARTICLES & MUST-WATCH VIDEOS ON SCHOOL REOPENINGS – THREE FEET EDITION!

https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2021/03/19/saturdays-must-read-articles-must-watch-videos-on-school-reopenings-three-feet-edition/

CDC Eases Social Distancing Guidelines Seen as a Hurdle to School Reopening

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/cdc-eases-social-distancing-guidelines-seen-as-a-hurdle-to-school-reopening/2021/03

California adopts CDC’s recommendation to reduce social distancing in school to 3 feet

https://edsource.org/2021/california-to-follow-cdcs-recommendation-to-reduce-social-distancing-in-school-to-3-feet/651787

 Michigan reading law improving student literacy

https://www.k12dive.com/news/study-michigan-reading-law-improving-student-literacy/596845/

How to Help Students Improve Executive Functioning During Hybrid Learning

https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-help-students-improve-executive-functioning-during-hybrid-learning

Executive functioning is a set of skills that comprise working memory, organization, flexible thinking, and self-control. We use executive functioning skills daily to learn, work, organize, manage schedules, and complete tasks. Many students have executive functioning challenges that can make it extremely difficult to focus, follow directions, organize learning spaces, complete tasks, and control emotions. These challenges can negatively impact learning and school experiences.

Women's History Month: Mother Teresa India's Mother भारत मा

 

Women's History Month: Mother Teresa India's Mother भारत मा

Mother Teresa

"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"
Mother Teresa 1971 Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. 

I could put up Mother Teresa for Women's History Month and she would be enough, actually. She gave up a cushy life to follow her heart and soul. She stood up to the world, toe to toe, to represent for those she loved, the lowest of the low, the caste beneath all castes. Just like Jesus did (and does.)

I especially admire how she stood up to abortion advocates, Bill Clinton, et al, in particular.

National Prayer Breakfast Speech Against Abortion - 1994

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles4/MotherTeresaAbortion.php
 When asked by a reporter how he felt about what Mother Teresa had to say on abortion, Bill Clinton said the following: “How can anyone argue with a life so well-lived?”

Mother Teresa quotes

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/838305.Mother_Teresa 

Books about Mother Teresa that may be of interest http://www.motherteresa.org/06_publication/books_en.html

Learn more about Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa 

dearest freshness deep down things

In my little garden this week. A wee bit of grandeur.

  

God's Grandeur

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;

    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

This poem is considered the first on ecology.

Educational Links 3/20/2021

‘There Is No Playbook’ for How to Do Hybrid Teaching

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-there-is-no-playbook-for-how-to-do-hybrid-teaching/2021/03

Addressing Race and Racism Head-On in the Classroom

https://www.edutopia.org/article/addressing-race-and-racism-head-classroom

CDC: 3 feet social distancing OK for students, with some exceptions

https://www.k12dive.com/news/cdc-3-feet-social-distancing-ok-for-elementary-students/597046/

The LD Checklist: Recognize and Respond

https://www.ncld.org/learning-disabilities-checklist/

What California teachers want policymakers to know

https://edsource.org/2021/what-california-teachers-want-policymakers-to-know/650786?fbclid=IwAR1V45w-AnKtC66yQtPftm2VmUzNgJnoFTOeATRaSamGeIHvgA51R5oP2R8

Igniting Student Success Through Culturally Responsive Teaching  

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/igniting-student-success-through-culturally-responsive-teaching-tickets-147001502451?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=esfb&utm-source=fb&utm-term=listing&fbclid=IwAR0iMUUUIOK3bNUlpg24eH_YpAFy6Aa73kkUle4_HTW7bN3pmiBzobPA2iY

Breaking the Behavior Code

https://childmind.org/article/breaking-behavior-code/?fbclid=IwAR3nvMq9gk2gktuRYaxkuqeD1YBI12bbNMPbb1UYnZ9Dhn_9pyJxI9cPt9k

If the student is displaying problematic behavior, it is a symptom of an underdeveloped skill.

Here Comes the Sun (Eventually) Harrison and Monet

Fields in Spring, Claude Monet

 

The Beatles- Here Comes The Sun 

Here Comes the Sun 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwmVfewqu7I

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
It's all right, it's all right

Women's History Month: The Original 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=Jzy4R8EbWJ4

Educational Links 3/19/2021

 

Why Black Parents Aren’t Joining the Push to Reopen Schools

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/why-black-parents-arent-joining-the-push-to-reopen-schools/

Ed Dept: Use American Relief Plan funds for quick, safe school reopenings

https://www.k12dive.com/news/use-arp-funds-for-quick-safe-reopening-of-schools/596902/

Schools chief uses influence to shape policy during pandemic, but lacks power to make big decisions

https://edsource.org/2021/state-schools-chief-lacks-power-to-make-big-decisions-uses-influence-to-shape-policy-during-pandemic/651480

Suburban Public Schools Are Now Majority-Nonwhite. The Backlash Has Already Begun

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/suburban-public-schools-are-now-majority-nonwhite-the-backlash-has-already-begun/2021/03

As Many Parents Fret Over Remote Learning, Some Find Their Kids Are Thriving

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/08/971457441/as-many-parents-fret-over-remote-learning-some-find-their-kids-are-thriving?fbclid=IwAR2ENmjG4P7NAJLuw38S6YgFMIiJZVRqQqC2pgK5O1ftt65kOnF6ydvTJBc

The U.S. needs billions to close the digital divide

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2021/03/18/the-u-s-needs-billions-to-close-the-digital-divide/

Essay Assignments That Actually Engage High School Writers

https://www.edutopia.org/article/essay-assignments-actually-engage-high-school-writers

Cookie-cutter essays may reflect students’ attitude toward the assignment, not their writing ability. Here’s a way to make that stack of grading more rewarding.