tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33926285916236592682024-03-13T20:03:07.579-07:00OpenSkoolchaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-73607213384295617022012-05-25T06:21:00.000-07:002012-05-25T06:21:16.488-07:00Special Education<a href="http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/fba/chalcycle.htm">Functional Behavior Assessment: IRIS Center</a><br />
<a href="http://nichcy.org/adhd-10-tips-for-teachers?fb_ref=.T7-C8p_Q1yw.like&fb_source=timeline">ADHD in Your Classroom: 10 Tips For Teachers</a>chaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-15243250517076450712012-02-07T11:36:00.001-08:002012-02-07T11:36:50.858-08:00Let's Read Math Link<a href="http://www.letsreadmath.com/0_home.htm">Let's Read Math Website</a>chaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-68909221424265277362012-02-02T07:28:00.000-08:002012-02-02T07:28:22.928-08:00Social Justice Links<a href="http://6elementssje.blogspot.com/">6 Elements of Social Justice Blog</a>- includes titles of children's literature<br />
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<a href="http://www.justiceplanbook.com/">Planning to Change The World</a>- A plan book for social justice teacherschaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-32849562631715971862011-10-04T18:18:00.000-07:002011-10-05T05:24:33.263-07:00Education for the OccuPie Movement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/k5kHACjrdEY?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><h1 id="watch-headline-title"><span class="" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="The Story of Citizens United v. FEC (2011)"> <span style="font-size: small;">The Story of Citizens United v. FEC (2011)</span></span></h1><h1 id="watch-headline-title"><span class="" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="The Story of Citizens United v. FEC (2011)"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h1><h1 id="watch-headline-title"><span class="" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism"><span style="font-size: small;"> 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism</span></span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/J7m9wfFnH6o?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><h1 id="watch-headline-title"><span class="" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h1><h1 id="watch-headline-title"><span style="font-size: small;">RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms</span><span class="" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/n2BLcv_9apI/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n2BLcv_9apI&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n2BLcv_9apI&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><h1 id="watch-headline-title"><span class="" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </span> </h1><h1 id="watch-headline-title"><span class="" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="The Story of Citizens United v. FEC (2011)"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </span> </h1>chaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-52846671395422520242011-09-12T06:04:00.000-07:002011-09-12T06:04:45.136-07:00Mindfulness for kids-Resources<a href="http://www.stressfreekids.com/352/indigo-dreams-3cd-set">Indigo Dreams</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link_code=qs&field-keywords=mindfulness%20curriculum%20kids&sourceid=Mozilla-search#/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mind+up&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Amind+up">MindUp<br />
</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moody-Cow-Meditates-Kerry-MacLean/dp/086171573X">Moody Cow Meditates</a> and <a href="http://chaos.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/thoughts-in-a-jar/">Mind Jar activity</a> I wrote about on my blog<br />
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mindfulness for teachers<br />
<a href="http://www.garrisoninstitute.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=79">CARE for Teachers</a>chaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-47729030486895476422011-08-28T10:37:00.000-07:002011-08-28T10:37:26.444-07:00RWT: Read Write Think LinksRWT: Read Write Think <br />
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<a href="http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/tips-howtos/record-podcasts-30118.html">How to record Podcasts</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/tips-howtos/revise-edit-30116.html">How to revise and edit</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/">Parent and After-school Resources </a><br />
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chaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-74131963985015871032011-05-11T09:36:00.000-07:002011-05-11T09:36:29.775-07:00Boys and Learning<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Male-Brain-Think-School/dp/1412936632/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305131719&sr=8-1"><span class="body"><em>Teaching the Male Brain: How Boys Think, Feel, and Learn in School</em></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Minds-Boys-Saving-Falling-Behind/dp/0787995282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305131758&sr=8-1"><span class="body">The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life. </span></a><span class="body"><em><br />
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IXL:<a href="http://www.ixl.com/membership/"><span style="font-size: small;"> Math for the left and right brain</span></a><br />
<div class="messages"> </div><h1> </h1><a href="http://mathforum.org/">Math Forum</a> at Drexel U <br />
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<a href="http://www.coolmath.com/index.html">CoolMath</a>- very pleasing visual presentation <br />
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<a href="http://www.visualmathlearning.com/">Visual Math Learning</a><br />
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<a href="http://algebra.mrmeyer.com/">Algebra curriculum supplement</a><br />
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<a href="http://geometry.mrmeyer.com/">Geometry curriculum supplement</a>chaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-53931848789929274892011-03-22T09:04:00.000-07:002011-03-22T09:04:01.710-07:00Women's History Links<a href="http://womenshistorymonth.gov/teachers.html">for teachers</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/index.html">video/ live performance</a><br />
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<a href="http://rockethics.psu.edu/education/femphil/philosophy.shtml">feminist philosophy</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nwhp.org/resourcecenter/index.php">National Women's History Project Resource Center</a><br />
<a href="http://www.nwhp.org/resourcecenter/links.php"> resource center links</a>chaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-89118876475386660732011-03-16T15:06:00.000-07:002011-03-22T09:06:37.328-07:00Sources for Printable Books<a href="http://www.mrsjonesroom.com/teachers/minibooks.html#mini">Mrs. Jones Room</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.readinga-z.com/">reading a-z </a>chaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-86603688034402264012011-02-18T08:19:00.000-08:002011-02-18T08:25:50.579-08:00Philosophy of Educationcross posted at <a href="http://chaos.wordpress.com/">Chaos is Normal</a><br />
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I've been asked during the course of my career as an educator to state my philosophy of education. It is currently getting a 'make over' due to the fact I've got a kiddo to educate. She's four and showing all the signs that she's ready for it to begin. So without further ado I present the foundation of my philosophy of education.<br />
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From Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible-In Search of Pharaoh's Daughter by Patricia J. Williams<br />
<blockquote><i>Cultivating the extraordinary richness of what children offer us depends on neither a mother nor a father alone but is a responsibility that extends to grandparents, friends, neighbors, and civic community--across fences, across religion, across class, and across town.</i></blockquote><a _mce_href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/29-2" href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/29-2">Take Back Your Education by John Taylor Gatto<br />
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<blockquote>To know yourself, you have to keep track of your random choices, figure out your patterns, and use this knowledge to dominate your own mind. It's the only way that free will can grow. If you avoid this, other minds will manipulate and control you lifelong.</blockquote><br />
I've made a folder that has each of these headings on the top: three powers, three weaknesses, and keeping track of kiddo's choices. I'm going to start talking to Kiddo about my strengths and weaknesses and how I build upon them. She seems to be noticing how I think about this already, she told me that I wasn't good at driving/ navigating. It's one of my professed weaknesses.<br />
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Thus, the foundation has been dug.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">School Resources/Notes:</span> <br />
<dl _mce_style="width: 68px;" class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_1052" style="width: 68px;"><dd class="wp-caption-dd"></dd></dl></div><a _mce_href="http://www.rethinkingschools.org/index.shtml" href="http://www.rethinkingschools.org/index.shtml"><i>rethinking schools</i></a><br />
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<a _mce_href="http://www.amazon.com/33-Revolutions-Minute-History-Protest/dp/0061670154" href="http://www.amazon.com/33-Revolutions-Minute-History-Protest/dp/0061670154">A book about protest songs</a>: meaningful music<br />
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<a _mce_href="http://www.truth-out.org/thom-hartmann-chapter-4-an-informed-and-educated-electorate65685" href="http://www.truth-out.org/thom-hartmann-chapter-4-an-informed-and-educated-electorate65685">An Informed and Educated Electorate</a><br />
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<blockquote>Besides the dates of his birth and death, he<i> (Jefferson)</i> chose to be remembered for three things that he did in his 83 years of life on earth:</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>Here Was Buried Thomas Jefferson<br />
Author of the Declaration of American Independence<br />
of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom<br />
and Father of the University of Virginia</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>Writing the Declaration of Independence was an obvious choice, and declaring forever his opposition to integrating church and state also made sense (although it got him demoted in 2010 in schoolbooks in the state of Texas). But "Father of the University of Virginia" being more important than "President of the United States of America"?<br />
Jefferson, it turns out, had this wacky idea. He actually believed that young people should be able to go to college regardless of their ability to pay, their station in life, and how rich or poor their parents were.<b> He thought that an educated populace was the best defense of liberty and democracy in the new nation he'd helped birth.</b></blockquote><br />
<blockquote>So the University of Virginia that he started was free.</blockquote>chaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-22171936442402275362010-12-22T11:26:00.000-08:002010-12-22T11:28:11.684-08:00Mindful Schools Training<a href="http://www.mindfulschools.org/training/">Adult Mindfulness in Schools Training Information</a>chaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392628591623659268.post-30914867065512145822010-12-22T05:37:00.000-08:002010-12-22T05:39:59.382-08:00Computing Resources<a href="http://www.gabrielgurley.com/books/OOo3book/conceptualguideOOo3.html">Book/ Lessons how to use OpenOffice in the classroom</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6349">Linux K to Highschool</a>chaos (aka ferret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10810291715798498624noreply@blogger.com0