Ready to hunker down for yet another snow day? If you are anywhere on the East coast today, you may be! You can not spend the entire day shoveling, skiing or frolicking in the snow so here are a few recent finds that you might find interesting. Enjoy!

• Listen while you work: What music does to your brain. 
• As our faculty discuss the myriad issues around grades and grading, the topic of redos and retakes has come up many times. Here is a thought provoking blog post from a fellow educator, Reed Gillespie (@rggillespie) that makes the case for redos and retakes. If you want some more on the topic, here is a video from Rick Wormeli about the same issue.
• Need a chuckle? Here is one of the most creative school closing announcements I have ever seen!
• 8 Education Tools that are Going Away. What do you think?? Perhaps there is still a case for the “old-fashioned” book.
• Was honored to receive a mention in a blog post from Bill Ivey (@bivey) after engaging in a discussion on Twitter about single sex education vs. coeducation. His post has several great links to info on the topic that came out of the discussion. One link in particle is to a study that looked at Practices for Inclusive STEM. Worth checking out if you are a classroom teacher.