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"Echolilia: A Father's Photographic Conversation with His Autistic Son Timothy Archibald uses his camera to find an emotional bridge to his son Photographs and text from the book Echolilia: Sometimes I Wonder"

"J. Richard Hackman's Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances (2002, Harvard Business School Press). Hackman, the Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University, has been studying teams for more than 40 years. This is his first book-length monograph on the subject drawing together much of this work into a clear and compelling presentation of team management theory. His focus is not on leadership teams, per se (and definitely not on social movement leaders). Rather, his research seeks to explain the effectiveness of work teams-groups of people in a variety of employment settings (from airlines to orchestras) who work together to produce some output (from successful flights to Mozart symphonies)."

"At Southern Impact in Laredo, TX, we met a talented SSF4 Chun-Li player named Mike Begum (aka "Broly" or "Legs") who has a condition called arthrogryposis. Despite his circumstances, he became one of the top Chun-Li players in Texas after playing the game for just 6 months, and is also one of the best Super Smash Bros. players in the state. In this interview with Gootecks, Broly talks about how he plays without using his hands, why and how he uses Chun-Li, and his advice for others in similar situations."

"This is how Garver lectures these days: He gives his lectures alone, at home, on his own time, into a microphone"

"Baruti Kafele makes the case that the "attitude gap" that often affects underperforming students can only be closed if educators first help students develop the will to strive for excellence. In this thought-provoking webinar based on his latest book, Closing the Attitude Gap, Kafele offers practical strategies and illustrative anecdotes drawn from his 20-plus years as a teacher and principal in inner-city schools. "

Henry has autism and fought to attend his neighborhood school. This is his presentation. - awesome!

"The 90 second spot features children following adults, mimicking their habits. At first the pattern appears to be innocuous, talking on a mobile phone while walking through a city square, making a call on a public telephone, waiting behind the yellow line in a railway station. The behaviour becomes more insidious with a girl copying a woman's smoking habits on an escalator. A boy follows as a grown man carelessly knocks a struggling mother's bag off her shoulder. We see examples of litter, drunken behaviour, road rage, racism and cruelty to animals. A woman yells at her baby, accompanied by her older daughter. A man is joined by his son as he verbally and physically abuses his wife."

"Photojournalist Dan Habib rarely thought about inclusion before his son Samuel was born.  Now he thinks about inclusion every day."

"Many children today struggle with mathematics while other children want greater challenges. DragonBox is a revolutionary game that will make your child enjoy learning mathematics while progressing at his or her own pace. Our intention has been to create a game that children experience as a real game that is actually fun, but where they after one hour of playing, they will be able to solve mathematic equations that they never thought they would be able to solve so quickly before."

"Families of children with Angelman Syndrome often experience stress about whether their child's needs are being met at school. Families are concerned about if their child is receiving enough support to develop strong communication skills, can demonstrate their learning effectively, is forming close friendships with other children, and is being prepared for a meaningful adult life. The Education Strategy Seminar will be a place where all people involved in the care and education of a person with AS can learn, reflect on, and discuss the education of your loved one with AS. Whether your son or daughter is a toddler or an adult, he or she is still on a journey of life-long learning and needs your advocacy to continue his or her education. This Seminar will be divided into four sections to teach families strategies to be more effective advocates for their child with Angelman Syndrome, across the lifespan."

Free resources - Success at the Core began as a question. In 2005, Paul G. Allen, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, asked his production company, Vulcan Productions, how media could be used to make a difference in education. In pursuit of an answer, Vulcan Productions teamed up with Education Development Center and together, we set out to discover if and how media-when used to illustrate good practice and inspire others to achieve the same-can impact student achievement

"his synthesis extends a report of research on extensive interventions in kindergarten through third grade (Wanzek & Vaughn, 2007) to students in Grades 4 through 12, recognizing that many of the same questions about the effectiveness of reading interventions with younger students are important to address with older students"

"There are some people in this world who have creative, musical genius that absolutely knocks your socks off when you hear and see it. Jon Cozart (Paint on YouTube) is one of those people. His 104 second video with himself, "Lord of the Rings in 99 Seconds," has 1.3 million YouTube views to date"

"On today's show, we meet a self-described robber baron who decided to spend his billions on finger paint and changing tables. We revisit decades-long studies that found preschool made a huge difference in the lives of poor children. And we talk to a Nobel prize-winning economist who says that spending public money on preschool produces a huge return on investment."

John Hattie talking about his work

Moving at the Speed of Creativity | blog "These are my notes from Matt Hardy's WONDERFUL presentation on February 9th on Classroom 2.0 Live about Blogging in the classroom and the platform he co-founded, KidBlog! The official title of his presentation was "Using Kidblog to Document Student Learning." "

A different idea for single content area teachers to form TBTs? "A recent post by high school physics teacher Casey Rutherford, describes how he used Google+ Hangouts (free video conferencing) to create his own PLC"

"This book aims to supply a few ideas and activities that could be useful for a youngster who uses AAC, by: Providing a reason to make sure that the Talker is always out of its bag, charged up, and on the table/wheelchair mount ready for daily use; Filling up some of those gaps in the school day with constructive and fun activities Helping the youngster to learn and practise - in other words, use - his or her Talker to enjoy interactions with others and build up useful social and communicative experiences."

"Can schools as we currently know them ever accomplish the mission we've established for them? This week Richard Elmore, one of the nation's most prominent educational thinkers, emphatically shared his conviction that they cannot.  Speaking at a forum on education reform sponsored by the Aspen Institute, the American Enterprise Institute and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (where Elmore is professor), the father of instructional rounds distinguished himself from other panelists by concluding that schooling as we know it will inevitably fail."

"Tim Holt shares his views on education, creativity, education administration, technology and the merger of all of them here. Whether it is links, articles, essays, or news, he shares a ton of information. He hopes you can keep up."