New Study: Sleep Boosts Production Of Myelin
A new study has come out suggesting that sleep boost the production of myelin, and that lack of sleep reduced it. “So, what?” you might ask…. I wrote about myelin in a previous post titled Deliberate Practice, Myelin & The Brain. Here’s an excerpt from that earlier post: Myelin is white matter in the brain that forms layers that make nerve impulses faster and stronger (see the image at the top
U.S. Constitution Day Resources
Federal legislation requires schools in the United States to offer lessons related to the U.S. Constitution on U.S. Constitution Day — September 17th of each year. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About The Constitution Of The United States.
Resources For Mexico’s Independence Day
September 16th is Mexico’s Independence Day. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About Mexico’s Independence Day.
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
I’ve started a somewhat regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention: New Guide To Help States Commonly Define English-Learners is from the Learning The Language blog at Education Week. Second Language Acquisition is a blog post worth reading by Nicholas Meier. Cutting to the Common Core: Ma
Video: “President Obama’s Labor Day Message”
I’m adding this video to The Best Websites For Learning About Labor Day:
Extremely Positive Review Of Our ESL/ELL Book
The Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language — August, 2013 has just published a very positive review of our book, The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide. Look for it under “Reviews” on the right side of the page. It’s a pretty lengthy review by Grace Christino at the University of Central Florida. Here’s how she ends it: If an ESL teacher could have one book, The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Surviv
This Week In Web 2.0
In yet another attempt to get at the enormous backlog I have of sites worth sharing, I’ve recently begin a regular feature called “The Week In Web 2.0.” It’ll be a short compilation of new decent sites that are worth noting, but maybe not necessarily worth a separate post and generally — though not always — not worthy of being on a “The Best…” list (let me know if you think I’m wrong in my assess
Labor Day Infographics & Charts
Here are some new additions to The Best Websites For Learning About Labor Day: Happy Labor Day, in eight charts! is from The Washington Post. Where Wages Have Grown the Most (and Least) Since the Recovery is from The Atlantic.
This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t” – September
I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a few and list them here with a minimal description. It forces me to look through these older links, and help me organize them for my own use. I hope others will find them helpful
School’s Starting Tomorrow!
Well, as you can see from the above image of my new room, I’m ready — more or less — for school starting tomorrow. My colleague, Katie Hull, and I both moved our rooms and Small Learning Communities, so it was an opportunity to get rid of a lot of “stuff” (I think switching rooms at least once every ten years is probably a good idea, even though it can be a bit of a pain) and have a “new beginnin
Resources For Teaching About 9/11
I have a very extensive collection of resources at The Best Sites To Help Teach About 9/11. I haven’t gotten a chance to review them all to see if there are any dead links, but most, if not all of them, should still be okay. I’ll be adding a whole lot more between now and anniversary date, and I’m very open to hearing suggestions from readers for sites I may have missed.