Reflection: What Makes Learning Stick | MindShift | KQED News

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How Dorothea Lange Taught Us To See Hunger And Humanity

I want to live in a Unites States that "scrutinizes itself visually" and in all ways. Perhaps the kids can write their own loving scrutiny of what they see. Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   How Dorothea Lange Taught Us To See Hunger And Humanity NPR - Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways. [sic] Working from seven in the morning until twelve noon, we earn an average of thirty-five cents." California, February 1937 Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress Available on the App Store.

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This Massive New Project Is Great News for Homeless Vets in Los Angeles | Mother Jones

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Can Tiny Houses Help Fix Homelessness? | Mother Jones

Year 1 Homeless Vets Bring in Law Academy, Engineering Academy, Green Team, AP Psychology, and counseling dept. and the science department for land rights, home design, structure building and materials, fundraising, awareness campaign, solar, water, off-the-grid. Side note: Veterans' Park Year 2 - Women and children Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   Can tiny houses help fix homelessness? Mother Jones - Similar projects to put tiny roofs over people's heads have popped up in a handful of US cities. This new approach to homelessness offers the physical protection of a traditional shelter without sacrificing the autonomy of life on the street. And it's undoubtedly time for some new options: An estimated 578,424 Americans had no home in 2014. While twenty-eight percent of renter households live below the poverty line, the typical new apartment in 2012 was unaffordable to anyone making under $43,000. Available on the App Store.

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This Massive New Project Is Great News for Homeless Vets in Los Angeles | Mother Jones

Could we focus on homeless vets? I wouldn't want to leave out women. Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/01/va-housing-homeless-veterans-west-los-angeles-medical-center Mother Jones Available on the App Store.

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Silicon Valley discovers the cheapest way to help the homeless: Give them homes.

Class project? But how to account for preconceived notions (including my own) of homelessness and varied approaches toward helping them?  Consider the value of doing anything in this area of need. Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   Silicon Valley discovers the cheapest way to help the homeless: Give them homes. Mother Jones - Curtis Randle, who had been chronically homeless for about eight years, holds the keys to his apartment at New Hope Housing in Houston, Texas. Johnny Hanson/AP Santa Clara County is perhaps best known as the home of Silicon Valley. It also has one of the country's highest rates of homelessness and its third largest chronically homeless population. Available on the App Store.

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LongRead Education for this summer

Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   http://cdno4.gettingsmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/FINAL-Preparing-Teachers-for-Deeper-Learning-Paper.pdf cdno4.gettingsmart.com Available on the App Store.

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The Teaching Brain and the Science Behind Great Teaching | Getting Smart

This is one of my favorite pieces in a long time. It focuses on some of the most important aspects of teaching. Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   http://gettingsmart.com/2015/03/the-teaching-brain-and-the-science-behind-great-teaching gettingsmart.com Available on the App Store.

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One Man’s Millions Turn a Community in Florida Around - NYTimes.com

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Google Forms: Reusing Them Next Year

Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   Google Forms: Reusing Them Next Year alicekeeler.com - Hopefully, you have figured out by now that Google Forms is the best thing since sliced bread. If you are trying to be paperless, Google Forms is a must have. Not only are you paperless but all of your information is typed and in a single location. No more shuffling or losing papers. The data from the Google Form goes to a Google spreadsheet. Once your information is in a spreadsheet the things you can do with it are nearly limitless. How many times have you dug through a stack of papers to find one kid's name only to confirm that it is missing. Instead use Control F (Find) on the spreadsheet and know in seconds if the student submitted answers or not. Available on the App Store.

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Redefining Teachers with a 21st Century Education ‘Story’ | MindShift | KQED News

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Teachers of the Year tell us what's holding students back and where they'd spend education money

Asked what barriers to learning their students face that affect academic success the most, 76 percent of the teachers said family stress, 63 percent said poverty, and 52 percent said learning and psychological problems.   Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   Teachers of the Year tell us what's holding students back and where they'd spend education money Daily Kos - Every year, each state chooses its teacher of the year. This year, the Council of Chief State School Officers and Scholastic surveyed those outstanding teachers about their jobs, and it's worth paying attention to what they have to say about the barriers their students face and where they'd direct education funding. Asked what barriers to learning their students face that affect academic success the most, 76 percent of the teachers said family stress, 63 percent said poverty, and 52 percent said learning and psychological problems. Available on the App Store.

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Teaching better. My pedagogical to-do list

Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   Teaching better. My pedagogical to-do list headguruteacher.com - I've been a teacher for 27 years and two terms and this much I know….. What do you mean that's been done?! 27 years though! Scary number. I'm on a path to being a life-long teacher, never having had any other kind of job. Obviously it's a bit different being a Headteacher but I've always been a teacher too – next year I'm taking on a GCSE Maths class. I can't wait. There are lots of reasons to love teaching but one that has sustained me is that constant challenge to teacher better. My entire experience of teaching has been that my lessons never seem to go to plan; it's never quite right. I'm always thinking that, if perhaps I'd done something else instead, it might have been a better lesson. I used to worry about that – but now I see it as normal and healthy. Of course, every so often, I deliver a belter – where it all just sings beautifully; a perfect symphony of learning. But that's rare. I wrote a basic Teaching To-Do list at the start of the year but, recently, as ever, I've been absorbing more ideas from all around me. Some affirm things I think I do already; others cut through my armour, making me think I really need to do things a bit differently. Available on the App Store.

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Re: Promoting Optimal Development: Screening for Behavioral and Emotional Problems

How Schools Can Help Nurture Students' Mental Health

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On May 24, 2015, at 1:05 PM, Caston-Smith, Tosha <tcastonsmith@hoover.k12.al.us> wrote:

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Promoting Optimal Development: Screening for Behavioral and Emotional Problems

Follow-up to other article: 

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/135/2/384.short

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Always Learning With @R_H_Steele

Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   Always Learning With @R_H_Steele risktolearn.blogspot.com - This past week Christie Elementary had our very first Engineer Expo - Imagine this...Kindergarten all the way through fifth grade spent two weeks tackling interesting challenges all based on one state standard of the teacher's choosing…The teacher chose the guiding instructional standard, the students created the driving question, and while in collaborative groups the students engineered and presented products that amazed us all. It was a much-needed reminder that authentic student-owned learning is NOT measured by circling the correct letter choice. Available on the App Store.

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"The Kind of Professional Development We Need"

This is what we need to do to faculty meetings, professional development, and department meetings. Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   "The Kind of Professional Development We Need" Websites of the Day... - The Kind of Professional Development We Need is the title of my latest Education Week Teacher column. It's Part One in a two-part guest post by well-known educator and author Rick Wormeli. Available on the App Store.

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Yes, and… Thoughts on print versus digital reading by Kristin Ziemke

For initial thoughts, I'm seeing a clicker survey (update to the online version) where I give a pretest on digital citizenship, authorship, basically an overview of ideas we'll explore all year, and in it I'll include live links and ask the kids if they can tell which links are reliable and which are not based on appearance alone. By the end of the research project, they should be able to evaluate resources with a few clicks and tools and will have a strong sense of web reliability, enough to make an educated guess about it on first sight. Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   Yes, and… Thoughts on print versus digital reading by Kristin Ziemke nerdybookclub.wordpress.com - I come from a place of pedagogy. Raised by teachers who were readers and nurtured by principals who believed their most important job was to place text in the hands of kids. I come from classroom libraries and nightly book checkout, from teacher book clubs and living like a reader. I come from conversations about what's on your nightstand and passion for poetry and periodicals. Available on the App Store.

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