Q&A Collections: Best Ways to Begin the School Year is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts offering advice on the best ways to begin the school year (from the past eight years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
PhotoMIX-Company / Pixabay I used to post weekly collections of my best tweets, and used Storify to bring them together. Unfortunately, Storify went under. Fortunately, however, Wakelet was a new tool that was able to import all of a person’s Storifys. So you can see all those previous Twitter “Best” lists here . I don’t want to risk putting all the work into those posts again and risk losing the
aitoff / Pixabay This is a video from The New York Times which I will be showing to my Theory of Knowledge classes next school year when we study memory. Here’s how they describe it : I began exploring the intersection of memory and law after hearing the story of Penny Beerntsen, who was assaulted while running on a beach in 1985 — and who misidentified her assailant in the subsequent investigati
This blog has recently gained many new readers. Because of that, I thought it might be worth sharing a “A Look Back” where I periodically share my choices for the most important posts from the past twelve years. You can also see all of my choices for “Best” posts here . This post appeared earlier this year. Free-Photos / Pixabay I’ve previously posted about the Home Cultures project that my stude
Last week’s Democratic Presidential candidate debate has put desegregation and busing in the news. Here are some related and thoughtful pieces which I’m adding to The Best Resources For Learning About School Desegregation (& Segregation) – Help Me Find More : Did busing for school desegregation succeed? Here’s what research says. is by Matt Barnum. ‘Why Busing Failed’ author on Biden remarks: ‘Th
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay The United Nations has declared July 11th to be World Population Day . You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About Our World’s Population Of 7 Billion .
By Antoine Germany Editor’s Note: Antoine Germany is a valued colleague who has been working with our teachers on equity and access issues. I’m adding this post to New & Revised: Resources To Help Us Predominantly White
