Elements of an Effective Math Lesson is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, teachers explain how creative math lessons can spring from students’ surrounding environments and culture such as the cost of the Thanksgiving meal and the search for “math selfies.” Here are some excerpts:
12019 / Pixabay In Search of Refuge that is designed for “Mapping forced displacement from 1951 to 2017.” I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day .
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Today, I’m highlighting a piece I wrote in The Huffington Post over several years ago, What Do School Reform Technocrats and Failed Urban Renewal Schemes Have in Common? Here’s an excerpt:
Dylan Wiliam shared an incredibly important piece on Twitter explaining how Districts screw-up adopting materials, including technology. To start off with, here are a couple of tweets: Because they tend to be bad? https://t.co/qCKr6UZrGK — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) December 31, 2019 Really, monumentally bad. — Tom Rademacher (@MrTomRad) December 31, 2019 Why aren’t teachers using the resour
geralt / Pixabay Obviously, a ton of other “Best” lists are useful to teachers of ELL Newcomers, including: The Best Online Resources For Teachers of Pre-Literate ELL’s & Those Not Literate In Their Home Language (which also
