Written by Mr. Walter Dean Myers for the New York Times, this might be worth sharing with students in preparation for Mitali Perkins' author visit in May. This is a subject that she cares deeply about, and I'm sure it will be a focus for her when she speaks to our students

It seems as if Ohio has come up with a creative solution to snow days, or as they call them, "Calamity Days." It seems like something we could do very easily to preserve the school calendar.

Perhaps you've come across Greg at MassCUE presenting on iPads in the classroom, or perhaps you're familiar with his blog "The History 2.0 Classroom" at http://kulowiectech.blogspot.com/. This is a new site of his that is documenting "the process of only using an iOS device for one month." A few posts in, and there are already some great demos for using iPads for classroom work flow.

For all you mathematically inclined types out there... For all you writers, best one liner - "After watching the video myself, I checked to make sure I still had my wallet and my watch."

Great message, but it's the video here that is a must see - make sure you click link to see one of the most amazing Rube Goldberg machines.

Methinks Dan Pink might have some thoughts about this...

I heard this on the way to soccer this morning. It speaks to the idea of "fake writing days" that create for the sake of data. - Steve. "Want to do well on the essay portion of the SAT? Just make it up! Scott Simon speaks to English professor Anne Ruggles Gere of the University of Michigan who says that the college entrance exam is turning out a generation of bad writers who are fast and loose with the facts."

This makes the case that music helps "collaboration, creativity, discipline and the capacity to reconcile conflicting ideas." Interesting. I'm thinking you could say the same thing about sports.

Useful information on measuring student growth. (Pre/Post, Repeated Measures, Holistic, Post Only)

Among the many interesting things here is an experiment on the effectiveness of flipping a class. Food for thought.

This is so well written and so well explained that I feel like I want to drop everything I'm doing today and share it with my students

This looks like a great, engaging hands-on activity. Sometimes I wish I taught science just so I could do fun things like this.