Links of the week

• Free ready-made Nearpod lessons - just download and use when you reserve student iPads. 
  
• Website that re-writes news stories in 5 different reading levels  (If you like Newsela you might also like Wonderopolis)
  
• Visual highlights of presentations on how to ask better questions from the book A More Beautiful Question.
  
• What school is TRULY like for most students -a teacher shadows a student for 2 days and is shocked. This is a similarly sobering article: 10-things-students-experience-every-day
• 2/3  of your students are dealing with childhood trauma-- and that's just a study of middle class students. http://lucidwitness.com/2014/09/13/danny-goes-to-school/
  
• My most re-tweeted article was by the amazing Yong Zhao, who writes a lot about how our interest in modeling education after autocratic regimes is damaging- here he advocates for field trips and the arts and a holistic model of education like our IB curriculum http://zhaolearning.com/2012/06/17/common-sense-vs-common-core-how-to-minimize-the-damages-of-the-common-core/