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Siri Anderson

JPL Climate Time Machine - 0 views

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    Go back and forth on climate change with visualizations. Fancy!
Siri Anderson

Katharine Hayhoe - "Our future is still in our hands" | The On Being Project - The On B... - 0 views

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    This may be a useful resource to those of you who work in environments where there are still those afraid that admitting to the dire direction climate change is pulling our global community is a partisan rather than a scientific issue. Functioning democracy requires that we accept the reality of facts and the powers of reason to discern our ways forward. I enjoyed the talk anyway. ; )
Siri Anderson

Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change Worries - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Interact with this article on scientific inquiry into the thawing of the permafrost. Highlight one important fact. Ask one question or make a note about the entire article in a comment.
Siri Anderson

The EPA Climate Change Kids Site - 1 views

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    EPA designed kid-friendly material on global warming
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    Lots of great information on climate change with fun games and links to other environmental sites with kid-friendly activities.
Siri Anderson

Climate Change Denial, the Tea Party, MN Koch Oil Refinery, and Newly Elected Republicans - 0 views

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    I'm going to start a discussion line on this in Diigo.
Jill Ollmann

Tiki the Penguin's home page - for kids and for the planet - 0 views

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    Website designed for kids to use with information on topics such as energy, pollution, eating the future, and food. It also has videos, quizzes, and fun stuff too.
emerickjudy

Culturally Responsive Teaching - 1 views

  • concerns that, without the proper guidance, education leaders and individual educators can adopt simplistic views of what it means to teach in culturally responsive ways
  • key scholars and teacher educators Gloria Ladson-Billings, Geneva Gay, and Django Paris
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      How do educators know if students are benefitting from the CRP or CRT approaches utilized in the classroom?
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  • culturally relevant pedagogy to describe a form of teaching that calls for engaging learners whose experiences and cultures are traditionally excluded from mainstream settings
  • First, teaching must yield academic success. Second, teaching must help students develop positive ethnic and cultural identities while simultaneously helping them achieve academically. Third, teaching must support students’ ability “to recognize, understand, and critique current and social inequalities.”
  • Geneva Gay
  • culturally responsive teaching to define an approach that emphasizes “using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant to and effective for them.”
  • positive changes on multiple levels, including instructional techniques, instructional materials, student-teacher relationships, classroom climate, and self-awareness to improve learning for students.
  • Like Ladson-Billings, Gay also places a strong emphasis on providing opportunities for students to think critically about inequities in their own or their peers’ experience.
  • Django Paris
  • culturally sustaining pedagogy, an approach that takes into account the many ways learners' identity and culture evolve
drewevanaho

Multiple sclerosis - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic - 0 views

  • Multiple sclerosis (
  • disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).
  • can cause permanent damage or deterioration of the nerves.
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  • ose the ability to walk independently or at all, while others may experience long periods of remission without any new symptoms.
  • no cure for multiple sclerosis
  • Numbness or weakness in one or more limbs that typically occurs on one side of your body at a time, or your legs and trunk Electric-shock sensations that occur with certain neck movements, especially bending the neck forward (Lhermitte sign) Tremor, lack of coordination or unsteady gait
  • Partial or complete loss of vision, usually in one eye at a time, often with pain during eye movement Prolonged double vision Blurry vision
  • lurred speech Fatigue Dizziness Tingling or pain in parts of your body Problems with sexual, bowel and bladder function
  • xperience periods of new symptoms or relapses that develop over days or weeks and usually improve partially or completely.
  • elapses are followed by quiet periods of disease remission that can last months or even years.
  • 50% of those with relapsing-remitting MS eventually develop a steady progression of symptoms, with or without periods of remission, within 10 to 20 years from disease onset
  • autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues.
  • Certain infections
  • Climate
  • Vitamin D
  • Certain autoimmune diseases
  • Smoking
  • Muscle stiffness or spasms Paralysis, typically in the legs Problems with bladder, bowel or sexual function Mental changes, such as forgetfulness or mood swings Depression Epilepsy
  • Numbness or weakness in one or more limbs that typically occurs on one side of your body at a time, or your legs and trunk Electric-shock sensations that occur with certain neck movements, especially bending the neck forward (Lhermitte sign) Tremor, lack of coordination or unsteady gait
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      Symptoms of MS
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    Clinical view of MS
Katelyn Karsnia

What is PBIS? | PBIS Rewards - 1 views

  • eaching positive and appropriate behavior, instead of punishing misbehavior, is the goal of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, or PBIS.
  • methods used to identify and support desired behaviors in the school setting.
  • PBIS seeks to reduce or eliminate poor behavior schoolwide through the encouragement of positive behaviors.
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  • positive school climate includes
  • Tier 2 – Some Students
  • Tier 1 – Universal or Primary Prevention:
  • Schoolwide For all students, staff members, and settings Designed to reduce problem behaviors Increases instructional time
  • A feeling of safety Respect Engagement in learning Involvement in school life Shared vision Involvement of teachers, students, and families
  • ier 2 addresses at-risk behavior.
  • focus on specific groups of students and the underlying issues that may be causing the behavior.
  • Tier 2 interventions parse out the hidden causes behind negative behavior and provide support in changing those behaviors.
  • Tier 2 – Secondary Prevention: Group supports for some students Specialized interventions for students demonstrating at-risk behavior Prevents worsening of problem behaviors
  • These interventions target students who exhibit high-risk behavior.
  • ndividual plan created to address specific academic or behavioral concerns.
  • Tier 3 – Tertiary Prevention:
  • ndividual support for a few students Specialized interventions for students with high-risk behavior Designed to reduce severity of ongoing problem behaviors
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