All My Ed Week Posts On Brain-Based Learning In One Place!
My latest Education Week Teacher column brings together all my posts on brain-based learning — in one place! Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
USDE Unveils “Teach To Lead”: Do We Really Need Another Online Community To Promote Teacher Leadership?
Education Secretary Arne Duncan today announced a new site that is supposed to promote teacher leadership and develop some kind of online community. It’s called Commit To Lead and is part of Teach To Lead, which in turn is connected to RESPECT program he announced earlier this year (you can read about that program in a post by Barnett Berry and another one by Stephen Lazar). With all the online t
“If you’re observant about things happening around you, there are insights waiting to be discovered”
Parking Behavior May Reflect Economic Drive is the title of an NPR piece on a new study suggesting that a nation’s economic health can be evaluated by if its drivers back-in or drive-forward into a parking space. The study itself has big enough holes through which you could drive a truck, but that’s not that important for how I envision using it in my International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledg
New Resources On Students & Sleep
© 2011 Pink Sherbet Photography, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are some new additions to The Best Resources For Helping Teens Learn About The Importance Of Sleep: Let Them Sleep In: Docs Want Later School Times for Teens is from NBC News. Students Aren’t Getting Enough Sleep—School Starts Too Early is from The Atlantic. High school will keep starting too early. Here’s why. is from Marketplace.
“Education Is Not ‘Moneyball’: Why Teachers Can’t Trust Value-Added Evaluations Yet”
Education Is Not ‘Moneyball’: Why Teachers Can’t Trust Value-Added Evaluations Yet is an excellent Ed Week piece by William Eger. Here’s an excerpt: I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The “Value-Added” Approach Towards Teacher Evaluation.
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“The Dos and Don’ts of Classroom Management: Your 25 Best Tips”
Apparently, long ago when, for awhile, I moderated a classroom management forum at Edutopia, I invited readers to share their best classroom management tips. Well, Edutopia just put them all together in a a nice slideshow that I think readers will find useful. I’m adding it to The Best Posts On Classroom Management.
September 8th Is International Literacy Day — Here Are Related Resources
© 2013 Stephen Luke, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio UNESCO has declared September 8th to be “International Literacy Day” for the past forty years. You might find The Best Resources For International Literacy Day useful. By the way, the International Reading Association is working with NASA on a related project — Story Time From Space.
8-27-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Education Policy© 2010 Dave, Flickr | CC-BY-ND | via Wylio Here are some recent valuable posts and articles on educational policy issues: A Quick Look At The ASA Statement On Value-Added is from The Shanker Blog. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About