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Seesaw - Student Driven Digital Portfolios. This 5-Minute TED Talk Shows Exactly Why Neuroscience Rocks. The High Costs of Multitasking for You and Your Kids. Uk.businessinsider. Lisa Niver of We Said Go Travel.Lisa Niver/We Said Go Travel The INSIDER Summary: • Lisa Niver was a teacher before quitting her job to work on a cruise ship.• She's since been to 95 countries, founded We Said Go Travel, and wrote a travel memoir.• She believes a traveler's attitude and outlook shape their experiences, and that staying positive is key.

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CAN'T SLEEP? Gentle Sleep Talkdown with Ocean Nature Sounds. Bad mood? New app senses emotion and suggests food to lift spirits  Encouraging Grit: Warm, Demanding, Authoritative — But Not Authoritarian. Encouraging grit begins with being warm, getting to know students, and displaying your willingness to help them so that students feel the classroom is a safe environment in which to expend effort and take risks.

Encouraging Grit: Warm, Demanding, Authoritative — But Not Authoritarian

Picture a teacher in the classroom trying to promote student learning in order to enable students to produce evidence of their learning. That teacher can begin by being warm, getting to know students, being thoughtful, and being helpful. Teachers must also be demanding, holding students accountable to expectations and identifying how they can improve. High school students unearth rare 4,000-year-old jug in Israel. A group of high school students participating in an archaeological excavation in Israel expected to uncover artifacts from long-ago civilizations buried deep in the ground.

High school students unearth rare 4,000-year-old jug in Israel

But what they found went far beyond the routine fragments of pottery, instruments and bones they anticipated. The students, digging in the city of Yehud prior to the construction of residential buildings, helped uncover a nearly 4,000-year-old jug with the sculpture of a person sitting on top of it, a Middle Bronze Age artifact archaeologists said was unlike anything they’d ever seen. Uk.businessinsider. Matika Wilbur takes intimate portraits of Native people across America.Courtesy Matika Wilbur The INSIDER Summary: • Matika Wilbur is photograping members of every federally recognized Native American tribe.• She asks people about themselves and their identies and records their answers for an archive.• Wilbur feels that narrative and representation are especially important for Native Americans, whose stories are often misunderstood.

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Photographer Matika Wilbur is on a mission to photograph members of every federally recognized Native tribe in North America. 3 Learner Characteristics To Predict Success in Life. Think of a little kid that is just learning to walk.

3 Learner Characteristics To Predict Success in Life

For the kid, success means being able to walk five steps straight without falling down. And to be successful in that, the kid needs to learn to move one leg forward, be stable, and then move another leg forward. It is a series of small learnings that – when combined together – create success. What makes a kid learn so fast? Apart from physiological factors, attitude is key. 3 Learner Characteristics To Predict Success in Life. Want A Productive Day But End Up Wasting It? Here Are 3 Obstacles You Need To Remove. Remember all those times you wanted to get back in shape and you told yourself, “I’ll start Monday”?

Want A Productive Day But End Up Wasting It? Here Are 3 Obstacles You Need To Remove

Sunday night rolls around, you set your alarm, it goes off in the AM, it’s earlier than you would normally get up so you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through your social media and the next thing you know, two hours have passed by and now you have no desire to go to the gym. The day comes to a close and you find yourself wondering at what point in the day your desire to be productive dwindled away. Sound familiar? Well, there can be quite a few contributing factors that can affect your productivity and end up wasting the day away. Compositional Devices. Physics of Ceramics (with a bit of chemistry) An Online Resource for Art Teachers. The 7 Key Components of Powerful Artist Statements - The Art of Ed. Coaching students to write artist statements is important for several reasons.

The 7 Key Components of Powerful Artist Statements - The Art of Ed

No matter what the next steps in life may be for each student, writing will likely play a role in success. Artists need to apply for grants to receive funding. Students must write reflective cover letters when applying to college. Back Button Focus Explained - What Is It & Why You Need It! 8 Things Every Person Should Do Before 8 A.M. Life is busy.

8 Things Every Person Should Do Before 8 A.M.

It can feel impossible to move toward your dreams. If you have a full-time job and kids, it’s even harder. How do you move forward? When You Learn to Let Things Go, These 5 Miracles Will Happen in Your Life – Learning Mind. One of the most painful aspects of life is the temporality of all things – that is, the fact that nothing is permanent.

When You Learn to Let Things Go, These 5 Miracles Will Happen in Your Life – Learning Mind

When we don’t feel like we’re ready to let things go, having them ripped away from us is one of life’s cruelest and most painful lessons. The experience of something we depend on being taken away from us can stay with us for years, and even dictate the rest of our lives. Bulgaria PM to quit after setback in presidential poll. Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times Covers After the World Series. Connecting Science and Art (w/ Werner Herzog, Cormac McCarthy and Laurence Krauss) Ex-Harvard interviewer shares life skills everyone should have by 18. These life skills are crucial for just about any functioning adult.

Ex-Harvard interviewer shares life skills everyone should have by 18

Marcio Jose Bastos Silva / Shutterstock If the future generation is going to one day successfully run the world, they'll need a few essential skills at their disposal. Jillian Bayor, founder and CEO of college admissions firm Ivy League Essay and business school admissions firm MBA Ivy League, spent the college admissions seasons of 1998, 1999, and 2000 looking for the world's future leaders as a Harvard admissions interviewer. "They're looking for people who are going to go into the world and do things and become thought leaders in their areas, become the authors, become the writers, become the scientists, become the people who create patents that advance the world," Bayor tells Business Insider.

How to Easily be a White Ally to Marginalized Communities – Medium. Hey, fellow white person. How much do we suck, huh? You know I used to defend the white racists who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution by saying “Well, they didn’t live the words they wrote, but they framed our country around morals that made us better than themselves.” But that was kind of bullshit, because here we are 240 years later and we just elected a white nationalist demagogue, pretty much for the sole reason that he’s a white nationalist demagogue. We really fucking blew it, and we won’t even be the ones to suffer the consequences. So now lots of white people are making themselves feel better by putting on safety pins, which is really bullshit. 5 Steps to Reduce Your Worry and Anxiety - 6 Steps to Tackle That Project You're Dreading. You end each day feeling pretty productive -- as long as you let your eyes skip over that one giant, looming project that's been obnoxiously hanging out on your to-do list for weeks.

We've all been there. There's no denying that the daunting project you continue pushing to the back burner is going to need to be accomplished eventually. But, it's working up the courage to actually get started on that to-do item that often gets in our way. Critique Protocol: Helping Students Produce High-Quality Work. Student: Wait, should I clear out this? Jodi: I numbered the lines in your tribute poems. Ceramics Final Vocab Flashcards. Stressed state of glaze bonds (seals) fired under reducing conditions.

Glossary of Glaze Colorants. Please be kind and cite me too! Short Link for this Page: NB: Some entries may be repeated in other parts of the Glaze Resource. Landscape iowa photos. Landscape iowa photos. Great Big Story. 5 Steps to Achieve the Look of Black and White Film Using Lightroom. As a hobbyist, amateur, or professional photographer, you may be interested in achieving the look and feel of black and white film without the hassle and investment in equipment and gear. You can edit a digital image using Lightroom with this goal without having your hands smell like rotten eggs (developing chemicals). If you shoot black and white film often, as I do, then you might actually love that smell. How to Take a Non-Crappy Picture of the Moon. How Bystanders Can Defuse Islamophobic Hate.

15 Styles of Distorted Thinking. 8 Things to Remember When You Fail. Break Free from Traditional Nature-Inspired Lessons - The Art of Ed. Using Playlists to Differentiate Instruction. Learn Bulgarian. Learn Bulgarian If you're trying to learn Bulgarian, check our courses below about adjectives, adverbs, articles, gender (feminine, masculine...), negation, nouns, numbers, phrases, plural, prepositions, pronouns, questions, verbs, vocabulary, excercises... to help you with your Bulgarian grammar. Old Photo Archive - Journal. Hear It Again: Tennessee Ernie Ford, 16 Tons - Old Photo Archive - Vintage Photos and Historical Photos. Shiseido partnered with Microsoft to create a make-up filter for women who telecommute — Quartz.

The US presidential candidates were trained by some of world’s top political debate coaches for the final debate last night (Oct. 19), taught how to skillfully dodge questions, attack, and defend with canned soundbites. But body language can give away what a person is feeling beyond what they are vocally expressing at a given moment, no matter how well trained they are. At about 29 minutes into last night’s final presidential debate, an AFP photographer captured a curious moment in human body language: While the candidates were arguing about whether Russia had played a role in hacking the Democratic National Committee emails, Donald Trump pointed his right index finger towards the sky, thumb and middle finger slightly pinched together—his signature gesture—but he also pointed his left index finger to his left, where Hillary Clinton stood.

Learning in a Visual Age (2016) How to Teach and Introduce Children the Wonders of Photography. Children see the world through a special lens. Photography for Kids: Activities They Can Do! *Post contains affiliate links. Photography for Kids: Activities They Can Do! The Original Best Piano App Online. Businessinsider. Reader Resource. 9 Tips for Creating Great Street Portraits. I love taking street portraits. What is a Stop? The Common Currency of Exposure Explained.

Pick the Best Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO Settings. Fundamentals of Digital Photography: Common Misconceptions. Art of The Photographer: Your Global Guide to Photography, Travel & Adventure. The Most Effective Way to Keep Your Students on Track - The Art of Ed. Amaze Your Students with Google Arts and Culture - The Art of Ed. Now You Can Easily Assess Your Students' Process - The Art of Ed. The Life of a Photograph. Europe's best-selling wildlife photographer David Yarrow on taking pro photos. How Visually Intelligent Are You? Amy Herman on Perception and the Pertinent Negative. How to Compose Brilliant Black and White Photos. Faith Ringgold Has a Special Message for YOU! - The Art of Ed. Businessinsider.

3 Ways to Organize Your Room to Support Student Choice - The Art of Ed. 15 public art projects that boldly advocate for social justice. DANIEL SMITH - From the Dust of the Earth: Watercolors. Cassie Stephens: In the Art Room: I Ain't Gonna Paint No More Portraits. Uk.businessinsider. Copyright for Teaching. Mindset Kit - Growth Mindset For Teachers. 10 TED Talks Every Art Teacher Should Watch. What should I create - Art of Apex Portal. 5 Ways to Change Your Composition For Better Photos. Using the Rule of Thirds for Photographic Composition. The 5 Elements That Can Help You Make a Great Photos. 4 Reasons It Wasn’t Your Fault - The Best Ways to Convert Your to Photos Black & White [And 2 Ways to Avoid at All Costs] Identifying Artistically Gifted Children. Gifted and Talented in Visual Art. Google Classroom - Teacher and Student view. Google Classroom - Teacher and Student view. Student Centered Instructional Methods.

Assessment and Evaluation Using Autocrat & DocAppender. Autocrat - Creating Rubric Template. 10 TED Talks Every Art Teacher Should Watch - The Art of Ed. Student Documentation Workflow -GAFE. Blind Photographers Push the Envelope of Expression. Grindtv. Ceramic Arts & Decoration Picture Gallery Collection. Ceramic lesson plans: pinch pots with animal features. 6 Opening and Closing Routines for New Teachers. When We Listen to Students.

Uk.businessinsider. The backstory behind my most popular shots on Instagram. Grade%20Level%20Reading%20Behaviors%20and%20Questions. Sigalit Landau's Salt Bride put a dress in the Dead Sea for two months. Avoiding Tangents: 9 Visual Blunders Every Artist Should Watch Out For. Video - Massive Fireball Streaks Across California Night Sky. Rio 2016 Olympic cauldron based on Lucea, a kinetic wind sculpture by Anthony Howe.