January’s Best Posts From This Blog
I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here). Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this p
Court Case Attacking California Teachers Begins This Week
It appears the media has discovered the major court case unfolding in California attacking teachers, which is set to begin this week. Here are new additions to The Best Resources On California Court Case Attacking Teacher’s Rights: Lawsuit takes on California teachers’ job protections is from The Los Angeles Times. Teacher Job Protections Vs. Students’ Education In Calif. is from NPR. Teacher te
“Let Them Eat Character”
I thought readers might be interested in a comment I included in my latest post at Education Week Teacher about teaching character in schools:
I’ll Be Presenting At San Francisco “Learning & The Brain” Conference — Here Are Supporting Resources
My colleague Katie Hull Sypnieski and I will be leading workshops at the Teaching Self-Aware Minds: Using Brain Science to Boost Social and Emotional Skills Conference in San Francisco on February 14th and 15th. Katie and I will be co-presenting on Friday, and then she’s abandoning me to do the Saturday workshop on my own. It will be interesting — it looks like we’re the only K-12 teachers prese
The Latest Videos From Our Sister Class Geography Project — This Time, From Spain!
I’ve been posting about the short-and-sweet video exchanges my English Language Learner Geography classes have been doing with English classes from around the world — we videotape questions about their countries and they respond. Here are a few of my past posts on the project: More Video Responses From Sister Classes — Time From Latvia! Terrific New Videos: Using English “Sister Classes” From Thro
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts On Education Policy
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues: Growing Pains for Rocketship’s Blended-Learning Juggernaut is from Education Week. David Berliner Invites You to Try a Thought Experiment is from Diane Ravitch’s blog. Declaring war on teachers’ rights won’t improve children’s access to a sound education is by Gary Ravani. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Californi
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: Teaching English at The British Council has greatly expanded the number of bloggers who are writing monthly posts on different topics. You can find them all here. I’ll also be writing there, and you can find my posts her
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 1-25-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 1-18-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLarry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYMore Resources On The Sochi OlympicsHere are more additions to my already massive The Best Sites For Learning About The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games: The many, many problems of the Sochi Olympics is from The W