The New York Times article headlined California School Shooting Is Another Nightmare Made Real – and the videos below – tell the story of what happened yesterday. It was the twenty-second school shooting this year . Even though California has many of the toughest gun laws in the nation, we obviously have to do more legally and culturally. Unfortunately, I have had many reasons to curate resources
Every few months, I reprint this post so that new subscribers learn about these resources. I have many free resources, including excerpts and student hand-outs, available from all my books. Clicking on the covers will lead you to them. Look for a fourth book in my student motivation series (out in 2022) and a second edition of The ESL/ELL Teachers Survival Guide (out in 2021), along with three bo
Hate-Crime Violence Hits 16-Year High, F.B.I. Reports is the depressing headline of a recent New York Times article. If you’re interested in learning ways educators can respond to these kinds of attacks on our fellow and sister human beings (many who are our students and their families), you might want to explore: Teaching & Learning Resources For The Pittsburgh Massacre New & Revised: A Collecti
I’m beginning to republish posts that made it onto my A LOOK BACK: 2019’S BEST POSTS FROM THIS BLOG – PART TWO list. Genial.ly made it on The Fifty Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2016 as a new tool for creating infographics. Now, as you can see from the image at the top of this post, the site – which is FREE to use – lets you create an amazing array of interactive tools, including gam
Prettysleepy2 / Pixabay In addition to posts here and at Ed Week , and regular episodes of my BAM! Radio Show , I’ve got seven new projects/articles appearing over the next thirty days: * A lengthy article I wrote about our school’s support effort for Long Term English Language Learners, including data from the experiment and control groups, will appear in ASCD Educational Leadership next week. I
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 19,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). You might also be interested in MY MOST POPULAR PINS OF 2019 The f
Pixaline / Pixabay In August, I shared a very impressive Google resource highlighting fifty-five indigenous languages from around the world (see Google Creates Interactive On Indigenous Languages ). Today, they unveiled what looks to me to be an impressive lesson plan on indigenous languages: Exploring Indigenous Language Vitality. In addition, they are “exploring the option to expand the story w
WikiImages / Pixabay Ruby Bridges made history on this day in 1960. You might be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT RUBY BRIDGES . #OTD in 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South, at William Frantz School in New Orleans, Louisiana. For the entire school year only one teacher taught Bridges, in a classroom by he
What Is the Difference Between Treating Students ‘Fairly’ & ‘Equally’? is the new question-of-the-week at my Ed Week column. Feel free to leave responses in the comments sections there or here…
(I’m beginning to republish posts that made it onto my A LOOK BACK: 2019’S BEST POSTS FROM THIS BLOG – PART TWO list. Mojpe / Pixabay Editor’s Note: Guest Post: What ELLs Taught Our School In A Week-Long Empathy
