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’ve decided to share an article I wrote for The New York Times Learning Network a several years ago called English Language Learners and the Power of Personal Stories . Here’s an excerpt:
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: How to Be Happy is from The
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 ): What Students Are Saying About How to Improve American Education is from The New York Times. What Research Tells Us about Poor Attendance at School is from The American Educator. I’m adding it to The Best Resources
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 . You might also be interested in MY MOST POPULAR TWEETS IN 2019 – PART TWO. I don’t w
My latest ten-minute BAM! radio show is on strategies for supporting English Language Learners . I’m joined in the conversation by Antoinette Perez, Tabitha Pacheco, and Aubrey Yeh, who have also all contributed written commentaries to my Education Week Teacher column. I’m I’m adding this show to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions . You might also be interested in the article I aut
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
geralt / Pixabay I’ve always found that doing a lesson on New Year’s resolutions has been helpful for my classes when we return from Winter Break. You might find The Best Ways To Help Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Succeed useful.
harshahars / Pixabay There are many different ways you can subscribe to this blog for free. If you want to join the eighteen thousand people who receive daily posts, you can: Subscribe by a RSS Reader . One popular RSS Readers is Feedly (though there are many others). You can read about Feedly in this New York Times guide . Probably about 15,000 people read this blog through the RSS feed. Subscri
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: How Other Countries Handle Impeachments, And What The U.S. Can Learn From Them is from NPR. I’m adding it to THE BEST TEACHING &
ivanovgood / Pixabay A teacher assesses the past decade in K-12 education — and makes 9 predictions for the 2020s is the headline of my latest piece for The Washington Post. By the way, you can see over two-hundred articles I’ve written over the years here , as well as checking out The Seventeen Best Articles I’ve Written About Education.
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
It seems like everybody’s doing “decade-in-review” posts (see The Best “Decade In Review” Compilations) . In fact, The Washington Post will be publishing my own review of the decade’s big education news in the next day-or-two, as well as my predictions for the next ten years. In the meantime, I thought readers might be interested in seeing my blog’s most popular posts from this past decade. Note
Juhele / Pixabay The terrible Indian Ocean tsunami struck on this day fifteen years ago. You might be interested in The Best Resources To Learn About The Indian Ocean Tsunami (On Its Five-Year Anniversary) , which also has resources that were created on its tenth anniversary. Today marks 1⃣5⃣ years since the Indian Ocean tsunami struck. On a partnership with @UNDRR_AsiaPac @UNESCAP @UNESCO & @WMO
We Need to Help ‘Students Recognize the Brilliance They Already Have’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Ten educators wrap up a five-part series on ways to look for the positive, instead of the negative, in students, so they can change their own mindsets about the children’s abilities as well as their students’. Here are some excerpts:
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.
Six years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “” 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 also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2019 – PART TWO , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this we
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change : Climate Change Education is a middle and high school climate change curriculum from Stanford. The American Educator has an issue on climate change . Students want climate change lessons. Schools aren’t ready is from The L.A. Times.
yabayee / Pixabay This is supposed to be a Christmas ad, but I think it’s good to show anytime and have English Language Learners write and say what happens in it:
240173 / Pixabay Google has just released this short Santa Claus video that English Language Learners can watch, and then talk/write about what happened in it. I’m adding it to The Best Christmas Videos For English Language Learners – Help Me Find More .
geralt / Pixabay Done! Here are all twenty-eight annual “Best” lists for 2019. I’ll probably be adding new resources to some of them, but there won’t be any new “Best” list for this year. You can see the annual Best lists for the past twelve years here. This year’s picks are: THE BEST THIRTY-FIVE WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION IN 2019 . The Best Social Studies Websites – 2019 (Part Two) Best
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the January issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter . It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here . Of course, you can also join the eighteen thousand others who subscribe to this blog daily. Here Are 8 Ways You Can Subscribe For Free…
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,123 of them categorized here ): A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST “TEST-PREP” IDEAS FOR CALIFORNIA’S ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING SCIENCE TO ELLS – PLEASE CONTRIBUTE MORE! THE BEST VIDEOS FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE DANGERS OF VAPING THE BEST COLLECTIONS OF INFOGRAPHICS, CHARTS & MAPS –
I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here ). You can also see my all-time favorites here . I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series reviewing old favorite
As regular readers know, at the end of each week I share the five most popular posts from the previous seven days. I thought people might find it interesting to see a list of the ten most popular posts from the previous thirty days. You might also be interested in IT’S THE TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BLOG – HERE ARE THE FORTY ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR POSTS. Not to mention THE MOST POPULAR POSTS FROM
Here are three Holiday Gifts To Readers (that I give every year!): First, He understood not only what we did but what we were supposed to do is from The Los Angeles Times, and I think it’s the best newspaper story ever written about Christmas. Second, here’s one of my favorite education-related videos. It’s a great example of differentiated instruction. In the video, some ducklings were able to g
Look at ‘What’s Strong, Not What’s Wrong’ With Our Students is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Ten educators explore how to emphasize student “assets” instead of their “deficits” in order to help students better engage in their education and improve their academic outcomes. Here are some excerpts:
PhotoMIX-Company / Pixabay I’m beginning to create my annual list of recommended people to follow on Twitter. I’ll be gradually adding to it over the next week. It’s not designed to be all-inclusive – just a beginning one. I’m adding this list to I’m adding list list to ALL MY 2019 “BEST” LISTS IN ONE PLACE! Here it goes: Re-upping this in case you missed it, AND adding @MrsSaid17 , who should ha
Six years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “” 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 also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2019 – PART TWO , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this we
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.
