Understanding Bipolar Disorder (Video)

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New Math Resource: Calculators.org/games

A variety of fun games to help teach math skills in a free online arcade that open in a tab with no branding, navigation, ads, or any other distracting elements, so students can learn math while having fun learning in a focused environment.

36 Free Educational Resources Kids Can Use At Home

250 Ivy League Courses You Can Take Online for Free

Twinkl.com
Access to over 525,000 teacher-created resources for just $5/mo: Pre-K - 5th, Special Ed and Christian Ed.

Learn About: Eosinophilic (ee-uh-sin-uh-fil-ik) Esophagitis (EoE)

An allergic swallowing disorder. It is often triggered by food. EoE may be triggered by pollen as well. Both children and adults can have EoE.
Taco Bell is giving away $21 million in college scholarships—and they don’t care about SATs or GPA

Mightier.com by Neuromotion Labs
“With our bioresponsive games, kids learn self regulation to help them thrive.” Developed and tested at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Featured Resource: Grand Rapids Academic Summer Program (For All Michigan Kids!)
GRASP is a Reading and Math correspondence program for children completing grades K-8. There is also an online version for grades 4-8. The program seeks to help students retain skills learned during the past school year by providing review exercises created by curriculum professionals and teachers. GRASP has 9 lessons to be submitted during the summer—one per week or at their own pace to work around other activities, as long as everything is submitted by the deadline. Each lesson reinforces the basic skills typically found in most curricula at that particular grade level. GRASP staff score the lesson and return it to the student with comments. Online students get immediate results. Students who successfully complete at least 7 of 9 lessons by the deadline are awarded a GRASP certificate. A medal is awarded for 9 successfully completed lessons. For more information or to enroll, go to http://grasp.grps.org or call (616) 819-2548.

New Resource from Galludet! What is ASL Connect all about?
ASL Connect is intended to be a central resource for learning ASL and about Deaf Studies online, with all content created by Deaf ASL-fluent scholars. We offer ways to learn some basic ASL online to get you started, and then we offer highly engaging and interactive ASL and Deaf Studies courses online.

New Math Resources!

Graphing Puppies - How do you get a middle schooler stoked about graphs? One word: puppies! Home Design-Inspired Activities for Kids - What better way to learn about geometry and other core concepts than designing a room or even a whole home? 10 Enjoyable Math Crafts And Activities For World Maths Day - If your student thinks they’re destined to hate math because they prefer to use the creative side of their brain, give a few of these activities a try. 70 Cool Math Games - If you disguise math as a game (or 70!), kids won’t mind learning arithmetic. Cooking with Recipes - Kids won’t be able to resist learning about fractions, multiplication and division if their favorite recipe plays a part. This lesson also has customizable, printable worksheets.

Featured Resource: Khan Academy

You can learn anything. For free. For everyone. Forever.

Which Dyslexia Program is Right For Your Child?

Read about the differences between Barton, Lindamood-Bell LiPS and ABeCeDarian.

Once At Rock Bottom, This Northern Michigan Elementary Now Produces Stars
By almost any indicator, the students at Kenwood Elementary in Cadillac should be poor readers. Almost 3/4 of Kenwood students are economically disadvantaged, in a state that ranks 44th in the nation in low-income 4th grade reading skills. More than 9/10 of students at the school are white; Michigan’s poor, white students rank a dismal 49th in 4th rade reading, ahead of only Alaska. Yet these low-income students are reading all-stars, meeting Michigan’s 4th grade reading standards at double the rate of poor students elsewhere in the state.

Detroit Might Create Special Schools for Students with Special Needs

GAMES FOR LEARNING: From MIT

Playful approaches for building cognitive skills and exploring science math. Games play an important role in the learning process: they provide a safe, creative environment in which children learn to experiment, collaborate and problem-solve. We work with educators to make sure our games tie into their math and science curriculums. The games we develop can be played on computers or mobile devices, and are used both inside and outside the classroom.

Love: A Story About Who You Truly Are
In 2006 Anita Moorjani succumbed to cancer, had a near death experience, and came back miraculously healed. Her books Dying to Be Me and What if THIS is Heaven? are New York Times best sellers. In this book, she shares with children what she wishes she had learned as a child and the secret of her miraculous healing.
Derelict School Becomes National Leader by Making a Surprising Subject Compulsory
We were in special measures. We had low staff morale, parents not happy with the school, results were poor and nobody wanted to come here, we had budget issues. It's a downward spiral when you're there.
Doting Grandfather Murders Family, After Taking Just 2 of These
It's the world's second most prescribed antidepressant, taken for everything from anxiety, depression, irritability, muscle tension and fatigue. Up to 85 percent get addicted within weeks.

9 Back-to-School Tips for Parents and Students
Between the social-media-fueled pressure, college admissions madness and bullying, schools today can be a minefield. We collected some education-themed Op-Eds to help guide families as they settle into the new year.

Now what? A Familiar Fear When Disabled Children Turn 26
The murder-suicide of a respected educator and his son serves as a rallying cry to some about the stresses that begin when special education ends.
Cyber Bullying: The Complete Resource Guide
A list of the best resources on cyberbullying prevention including guidance for victims.