“The High Price Of The American Dream” Is A Free eBook & Great Writing Model For English Language Learners
My extraordinarily talented teacher colleague at our high school, Dana Dusbiber, along with the extraordinarily talented bilingual aide Alma Avalos, teach a class of adult English Language Learners once-a-week at our school in the evening. With support from the University of California at Davis, their students have published a “must-read” book that I’m sure will be a model for ESL classes around
More Resources On The Shooting Death Of Michael Brown
© 2014 dignidadrebelde, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio I’ve turned my previous post on Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri into a “Best” list on related resources. Here are new additions: The Media Keeps Failing Black Teens is from The Atlantic. Black Kids Don’t Have to Be College-Bound for Their Deaths to Be Tragic is from The Root. Police Use Tear Gas On Crowd is from The Washington Post. I
“Google Classroom” Now Open To Any Teacher With “Google Apps For Ed” Account
I’ve previously posted about the new Google “Classroom” (see Wow! 800 Pound Gorilla Google Unveils “Google Classroom” That May Make Many Present Tools Irrelevant). Today, Google made it available for free to any teacher with a Google Apps For Education account. It’s free, with no ads, and describes itself as providing the ability to: Create and collect assignments: Classroom weaves together Goog
Contribute A Post To The Next “ELT Carnival” – “Back To School Tips”
David Deubelbeiss over at ELL Classroom 2.0 will be hosting the next ELT Blog Carnival (formerly known as the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival). The deadline is September 1st and the topic is “Back To School Tips.” Here’s what he wrote: Post any and all entries HERE We are also looking for future hosts of the Carnival for the coming year. Find out more and sign up to host a monthly carnival HERE. Check
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Education Policy
© 2012 firedoglakedotcom, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Here are some useful and relatively recent posts/articles on ed policy issues: Lunch lady rises to teachers union leader and takes on all comers, bluntly is from The Washington Post. “D.C. halting key Michelle Rhee reform: One of the first U.S. cities to judge teachers off of student test scores is now putting the practice on hold” is from Sa
8-11-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: How Many Of Our Students Feel This Way?The full story has yet to come out about what happened on Friday night in Ferguson, but the larger narrative of the challenges facing so many of our African-American youth could not be more clear. MLK: "…a riot is the language of the unheard…Social justice and progress are the abs