Notice how the dog moves in this Video. Design plays a big part in optical illusions, where visuals trick our brain into perceiving something that is not present or perceiving something differently from how it actually is.

This is how optical illusions mess with your mind. First you see two dogs and their owner, and then...

I have boundless admiration for teachers who help kids read good books thoughtfully without turning it into a tedious structured exercise that pulls them out of the text and focuses them on monitoring their own reading skills.

61 years ago today, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated. His murderer was convicted 30 years later. June 12, 1963: Medgar Evers is assassinated. He was 37. Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Emerging from his car

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Willie Mays makes a catch at the wall at Ebbets Field, 1954. Willie Howard Mays Jr. who was born on May 6, 1931. Nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid” Mays spent almost all of his 22-season Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the New York/San Francisco Giants (1951–1952,

So… individual topics vary, but the whole thread is hilarious- someone trying to challenge an argument but having no idea of who they’re arguing with 😂

Just had my son’s birthday party. He invited everyone in his class, his church class, teachers, piano teacher, even their siblings, everyone. I told him most probably wouldn’t come because it’s a summer party. He said he didn’t care, he just wanted to show that when you have a

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Tim Walz’s son just ripped my heart RIGHT OUT OF MY CHEST GEEZUS 😭

Harriet Tubman's great nieces, Eva and Alida Stewart, 1910.

Multiple, higher-level overexcitabilities expressed together are distinctly different (than one or two overexcitabilities) and allow profound autonomous forces to develop such as strong independence, self-direction, and self-education. mdpi.com/2227-7102/14/8…

Great conversation as a guest presenter today at UCCS College of Education, with preservice teachers. What do you think of when you hear “gifted” students?

So — this has four different references to assessments, and one reference to encouraging creativity. Teachers ask how they’re supposed to allot time to creativity when they’re pressured to raise test results, where assessment = tests and convergent thinking.