Resources

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Sites to Visit:
=Inside Donald Trump’s Extremist Education Agenda=

[|David Whyte on Being at the Frontier of Your Identity, an interview by Tami Simon]
==__ Three Ways for Schools to Help Kids Cultivate Kindness __==

__ A Classroom With Love At The Center by Peggy Sia __
==__ How to Cultivate Well-Being in Students and Teachers __== ==__ Eight Tips for Teaching Mindfulness in High School __==

A New Model of School Reform
=**[|The Top 10 Insights from the “Science of a Meaningful Life” in 2015]** =

Hackschooling Makes Me Happy TED video
==[|Being the Change: Building Communities of Collaboration and Co-inspiration for Systemic Change] by Claudia Madrazo and Peter Senge.==

The Problems with the Common Core by Stan Karp, Rethinking Schools
== Martin Luther King Jr. and the Common Core: A Critical Reading of "Close Reading" by Daniel E. Ferguson, Rethinking Schools ==

Numbers Can Lie: What TIMSS And PISA Truly Tell Us, If Anything by Yong Zhao
==5 Myths About Our Schools That Fall Apart When You Look CloserVideo by The American Federation of Teachers==

A Warning to Young People: Don't Become a Teacher by Randy Turner, former English teacher
== An Alternative to Accountability-Based Education Reform, by Paul Thomas: The Progressive Investigates the Public School Shakedown==

==Defies Measurement: A documentary film by Shannon Puckett that exposes the damage caused by high stakes testing on children, teachers, schools and communities== ==Teacher's Facebook Resignation Wendy Bradshaw, PhD explains why she resigned from Polk County Florida Public School System==

==What's Good for Bill Gates is Bad for Public Schools and Microsoft, Too by Dave Morris==

==State of the States: Using Teacher Effectiveness to Inform Policy and Practice, NCTQ (National Council on Teacher Quality), Report funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Joyce Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation==

The Ball Foundation Initiatives: Improving Literary Achievement Through Whole System Change
==The Hollow Promise of School Vouchers by Robert Lowe, Rethinking Schools (NOTE: google this to find related articles) ==

The Rubric Debate
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=Sir Ken Robinson, "How to Change Education from the Ground Up"= =Sir Ken Robinson, Changing Education Paradigms= =Sir Ken Robinson, "How to Escape Education's Death Valley"= =Sir Ken Robinson, "Leading a Learning Revolution"= =Noam Chomsky, "The Purpose of Education"=

= Resources shared by my students =

Forget Mentors: Employ a Personal Board of Directors Priscilla Claman
==The Learning Myth: Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart//This Op-ed was part of a Khan Academy initiative to change how people think about learning."Growth mindset" rather than "Fixed Mindset"//==

Rachel's Challenge A website inspired by Rachel Joy Scott, the first victim of the Columbine shooting
= = =This I Believe: Website for help in writing your "This I Believe" essay (Philosophy of education)= = = =The Ethical Educator A monthly scenario that poses an ethical dilemma for school administrators with recommendations for solving it from four leaders= = = = = == = =
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 * =Original Invitation from "This I Believe=

=**Blogs**=

=Re-thinking Schools Blog= =Sir Ken Robinson's Blog= =Yong Zhao's Blog= =George Goens Blog= =Diane Ravitch's Blog= =Will Richardson's Blog= = = = = = = =RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms= =media type="youtube" key="zDZFcDGpL4U" height="417" width="672" align="left"= = = = = = = = = = = = = =This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.= = = =For more information on Sir Ken's work visit: http://www.sirkenrobinson.com= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

= = =Mind vs. Machine: Atlantic Monthly= =By [|Brian Christian] = = = =In the race to build computers that can think like humans, the proving ground is the Turing Test—an annual battle between the world’s most advanced artificial-intelligence programs and ordinary people. The objective? To find out whether a computer can act “more human” than a person. In his own quest to beat the machines, the author discovers that the march of technology isn’t just changing how we live, it’s raising new questions about what it means to be human.=

= = = 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal: Time Magazine By [|Lev Grossman] Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 = === = =

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