Students Seeing Assets, Not Deficits, In Their Neighborhoods
My favorite lesson each year is when my students compare their neighborhood with the wealthiest neighborhood in Sacramento, and then write a persuasive essay about which one they think is better. At least ninety percent of them choose their neighborhood. You can read — at length — about that lesson at A Lesson Highlighting Community Assets — Not Deficits. Here’s a powerful tweet about Chicago stud
More Resources On Sleep & Teenagers
© 2011 Pink Sherbet Photography, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are a new additions to The Best Resources For Helping Teens Learn About The Importance Of Sleep: Too little sleep may trigger the ‘munchies’ by raising levels of an appetite-controlling molecule is from Science Daily. To Get More Sleep, Get More Sunlight is from Forbes. Experts Make a Case for Later School Start Times is from Ed Week
Video: “Barbecue From Around The World”
I’m adding this video to The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures:
Create A Map Of Places You Want To See With “KLM Must See”
The KLM Must See Map lets you create a map of most major cities in the world, along with the key places you want to see in them. No registration is required. If you want, you can invite others to make suggestions, too. Once you add sites to your map, you’re also provided with a link to go to where you can find out more about information about it. It’s very easy to use. It does have two drawbacks,
Two Good Resources For Virtual Field Trips
© 2011 Wesley Fryer, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are two new additions to The Best Resources For Finding And Creating Virtual Field Trips: 6 virtual field trips to give lesson plans a boost is from Education Dive. Here’s a map of virtual field trips and webcams that I learned about from Richard Byrne. You can see a bigger version here. View Virtual Tours & Webcams in a larger map
The Best Articles Highlighting Parallel Critiques Of Increasing School & Health Care “Efficiency”
© 2011 401(K) 2012, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio There have been a number of articles and posts over the years highlighting efforts in education and in health care to institute similarly misguided changes in both areas. Here are ones that I’ve seen, and feel free to suggest more: Medicare Penalizes Nearly 1,500 Hospitals For Poor Quality Scores is from NPR, and shows that some hospitals get penal
NY Times Column Skewers Performance Pay
Many school reformers view teacher merit pay as one of the “be all, end all” solutions to the challenges facing schools, even though it’s been found to never work (see The Best Resources For Learning Why Teacher Merit Pay Is A Bad Idea). Today, The New York Times published a column that highlights all of what is wrong about merit pay. However, they talk about it in the context of doctors and the m
“Race To The Top Has Been A ‘Fiasco’”
Race To The Top Has Been A ‘Fiasco’ is Part Two in my series on the Race To The Top program, which has just had its fifth anniversary. Today, Barnett Berry, Ariel Sacks, John Thompson, Alice Mercer and David B. Cohen weigh in with their thoughts, and I include comments from readers, too. Here are some excerpts:
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Amazing Video: 1980 Bush & Reagan Comments On If Undocumented Children Should Be Able To Attend Schools
This is amazing. What has happened to the Republicans? I’m adding this to The Best Resources About The New Push For Immigration Reform. Remarkable. MT@jdickerson-1980: Reagan & Bush discuss whether the children of illegals should attend school 4 free. https://t.co/0lWrYz1O2V” — Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) July 28, 2014
7-27-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: The Best Resources To Help Promote A Physically Healthy Lifestyle For Our Students© 2014 Juhan Sonin, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio I’ve published a fair amount number of posts about lessons and tools I use to help promote a physically healthy lifestyle for my students, including research that shows how essential it is for lea