I’ve recently begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists. You might also be interested in THE BEST SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES OF 2019 – PART TWO Finally, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources . Here are this week’s picks: Good Things Come to Those W
geralt / Pixabay We’re writing a story in my Early Intermediate English Language Learner class. When I did this with a similar class a few years ago, it started off as a fiasco because I didn’t have anywhere near the amount of needed scaffolds in place. However, I recovered and developed a great unit (see Here’s My Entire ELL Beginners Seven-Week Unit On Writing A Story (Including Hand-outs & Lin
What Works: Restorative Practices Versus Traditional School Discipline is the title of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show. Sheila Wilson, Timothy Hilton, and Maurice McDavid join me in the discussion, and they’ve also all contributed written commentaries to my Ed Week column. I’m adding this show to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions .
How Much Should Teachers Talk in the Classroom? Much Less, Some Say is the headline of a new and useful article in Education Week. It’s a good reminder to all of us to be conscious of how much we talk (see The Best Research Demonstrating That Lectures Are Not The Best Instructional Strategy ) and, also, to be more aware of what we say when we do talk (see Quote Of The Day: We Teachers Shouldn’t T
Who among us have had to attend a professional development session that has been a complete waste of our time? All of us (see The Best Resources On Professional Development For Teachers — Help Me Find More )! Education researcher Robert Slavin wrote an interesting piece today titled What Works in Professional Development , where he reviews research on the topic. It’s worth reading in its entirety
I’ll obviously be adding many more resources to this list next week when a lot more collections are posted around the web, but figured I’d get a head start today. You can see all previous annual editions of this list, along with many other infographic-related resources, here . I’m adding list list to ALL MY 2019 “BEST” LISTS IN ONE PLACE! Here’s what I have so far: Information is Beautiful is the
pixelcreatures / Pixabay (I publish this post every six months so new readers are aware of the resources) In addition to this blog, I regularly post at several other sites: Engaging Parents In School: Weekly Posts At Classroom Q & A With Larry Ferlazzo: Past Posts At The New York Times Learning Network on Teaching English Language Learners: Periodic Posts at Edutopia: Quarterly Posts At The Briti
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 20,000 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
I’ve written a lot, and shared a lot, about research on the importance of promoting a sense of belonging in classrooms and actions to promote it (see THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING HOW TO PROMOTE A SENSE OF “BELONGING” AT SCHOOL ). Today, the Harvard Business Review published an article about yet another related study – this one focusing on its impact in the workplace. I don’t think it’s a huge
Every two 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
Pexels / Pixabay Here’s another new addition to All My 2019 “Best” Lists In One Place! There are actually three ed research annual reviews (that I know of), and I figured it would be useful to bring them together: MY BEST POSTS ON NEW RESEARCH STUDIES IN 2019 – PART TWO is from me. 2019 Education Research Highlights is from Edutopia. Eight lessons we learned from education research in 2019 is fro
Focusing on What Our Students Are Doing Instead of What They’re Not … is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Elizabeth Stein, Beth Kobett, Ed.D., Carol Pelletier Radford, Dr. Noah Prince, Michael Hart, Ph.D, Jenny Edwards, and Keisha Rembert offer their answers to the question, “How do we highlight student assets?” Here are some excerpts:
Ed Week writes about a new study that, as the textbox above highlights, finds that science textbooks don’t always give an accurate picture of how success is achieved in science (see Few Science Textbooks Show How New Discoveries Are Really Made ). Of course, science textbooks are not alone in telling inaccurate stories emphasizing the role of one person in achieving major breakthroughs. Many year
I’m making a change in the content of the regular feature. In addition to sharing the top five posts that have received the most “hits” in the preceding seven days (though they may have originally been published on an earlier date), I will also include the top five posts that have actually appeared in the past week. Often, these are different posts. You might also be interested in IT’S THE TWELFT
I usually just publish one of these posts each week, but I have a big backlog, so I thought I’d share another brief one. Six years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might a
geralt / Pixabay It’s not unusual for ELL teachers to begin their class with asking students a question and then, with sentence frame support, going around quickly and having everyone respond in English. I’ve often done that in the past and, I’m sure, continue to do it at times in the future, too. However, I’ve been trying something a little different the past month or so that has been working ou
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION IN 2019 – PART TWO. Here are this week’s picks: Is Phonics Boring? These Teachers Say It Doesn’t Have to Be is from Ed Week. I’m adding it to The Best Articles & Sites For Teac
When Does Activism Become Powerful? is a good NY Times article providing a realistic and practical description of what kind of community organizing is required to affect political change. And I feel qualified to say it’s “good” because I was a community organizer for nineteen years prior to becoming a high school teacher. Coincidentally, another related and useful article appeared in The Washingt
Fewer Students Are Going To College. Here’s Why That Matters is an article worth reading from today’s NPR. You might also be interested in The Best Resources For Showing Students Why They Should Continue Their Academic Career .
The Importance of Focusing on Students’ Assets is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Lisa Westman, Salome Thomas El, T.J. Vari, Amber Chandler, Michelle Shory, Ed.S., Irina V. McGrath, Ph.D., Rita Platt, Cheryl Mizerny, and Adria Klein, Ph.D., contribute commentaries on the importance of emphasizing student strengths. Here are some excerpts:
aitoff / Pixabay The Sacramento Bee has just released a documentary called “S.A.C.: A Stephon Clark documentary.” Here’s how they describe it: The Sacramento Bee documentary on the legacy of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man killed by Sacramento police officers in March 2018, takes an in-depth look into the lasting impacts of Clark’s death on his family, the Sacramento and legislation. You can
I’m adding these new resources to various “Best” lists. You can find links to all of those many lists that relate to race and racism at “Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Teaching & Learning About Race & Racism: In Virginia, Sacagawea Gets Her Own Statue is from NPR. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Teaching About Confederate Monuments . How Charlottesville’s Echoes Forced New Zealand
Sambeetarts / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Teaching & Learning Resources About Impeachment : How Did Framers Of The Constitution Come Up With ‘High Crimes And Misdemeanors’? is from NPR. What we know and don’t know about how a Senate impeachment trial will work is from The Washington Post.
I’ve recently begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists. You might also be interested in THE BEST SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES OF 2019 – PART TWO Finally, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources . Here are this week’s picks: Students Who Can Manage The
We Must ‘See Our Students as Asset-Filled Beings’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Adeyemi Stembridge, Ph.D., Dr. Larry J. Walker, Carmen Nguyen, Julie Jee, Shawna Coppola, Kevin Parr, and Andrew Sharos share ideas on how we can focus on the assets, instead of the “deficits,” of our students. Here are some excerpts:
Here’s another year-end “Best” list, and I’m adding it to All My 2019 “Best” Lists In One Place! It’s starting off as a small one, but will certainly expand as January 1st gets closer – many education journals will develop their own and I’ll add them here. I’ve added some education-related “decade-in-review” pieces to THE BEST “DECADE IN REVIEW” COMPILATIONS . Here they are: I’ve got to start off
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in THE BEST ARTICLES, VIDEOS & POSTS ON EDUCATION POLICY IN 2019 – PART TWO ): ‘To embrace charter schools in 2020 is to embrace Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump,’ says black scholar who once led charters is by Andre Perry. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles Analyzing Charter Schools . The p
BiljaST / Pixabay Five years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO.
Each year I invite readers to share their favorite education-related book of the year. Feel free to add yours in the comments section! You can see previous lists here: The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2018 The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2017 The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2016 The Best Education-Related
dbderuiter / Pixabay Here are three new education-related additions to The Best “Decade In Review” Compilations: 10 pieces of education journalism that defined the past decade is from Alexander Russo. Timeline: How Teaching Has
