This Week With Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

This Week With Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... 

 The latest news and resources in education since 2007

TODAY

Is Your School Closed Because Of COVID-19 & Want To Write A Guest Post About Your Online Teaching Experience?

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

pixelcreatures / Pixabay I’ve been publishing a series of posts to assist teachers who might need to teach online if their schools are closed because of the Coronavirus. You can see them all at The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! I’m now inviting teachers to write guest posts sharing their online teaching experiences i

Guest Post: My School Was Closed Because Of COVID-19 & Here Is A Report About Our Online Teaching

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

Editor’s note: I’ve been publishing a series of posts to assist teachers who might need to teach online if their schools are closed because of the Coronavirus. You can see them all at The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! I’m now inviting teachers to write guest posts sharing their online teaching experiences. Please con

More Tools & Resources To Help With Online Learning If Schools Are Closed

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4h

geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! , where links to all my posts helping educators prepare for online learning can be found: How to Schedule, Host, and Customize Google Hangouts Meet Events is from Richard Byrne. Kahoot! offers free distance learning tools during the coronavi

“Earth Hour” Is On March 28th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4h

Earth Hour is on March 28th this year. On that day, “lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit to actions that go beyond the hour” say the organizers of the annual Earth Hour event.” You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About “Earth Hour”

A Look Back: “Why Viewing Classroom Management as a Mystery Can Be a Good Thing”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4h

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 . In 2015, Routledge published the third book in my student motivation series, Building A Community Of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies To Help Students Thrive In School and Beyond . Education Week published an excerpt from the chapte

More Evidence We Should Encourage Our Students To Pursue Post-Secondary Education

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4h

The New York Times just published How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts , and it shares overwhelming evidence about how important it is to attend college on many different levels. I published a short excerpt at the top of this post, and here’s a complete quote: Other economic research has found that a college degree isn’t simply a marker. Students who attend and graduate from col

If You Are Looking For Professional Development On Teaching ELLs, I Recommend These People To Help

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5h

PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay I often am invited to come to places across the country to provide professional development on teaching English Language Learners, as is my friend and colleague Katie Hull. Very occasionally, we can fit it in – especially if it’s in California – but the vast majority of time we are both too busy with teaching, writing and family (and I’ve got my basketball-playing,

More Tools & Resources To Help With Online Learning If Schools Are Closed

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! , where links to all my posts helping educators prepare for online learning can be found: How to Schedule, Host, and Customize Google Hangouts Meet Events is from Richard Byrne. Kahoot! offers free distance learning tools during the coronavi

“Earth Hour” Is On March 28th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

Earth Hour is on March 28th this year. On that day, “lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit to actions that go beyond the hour” say the organizers of the annual Earth Hour event.” You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About “Earth Hour”

A Look Back: “Why Viewing Classroom Management as a Mystery Can Be a Good Thing”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

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 . In 2015, Routledge published the third book in my student motivation series, Building A Community Of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies To Help Students Thrive In School and Beyond . Education Week published an excerpt from the chapte

More Evidence We Should Encourage Our Students To Pursue Post-Secondary Education

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h

The New York Times just published How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts , and it shares overwhelming evidence about how important it is to attend college on many different levels. I published a short excerpt at the top of this post, and here’s a complete quote: Other economic research has found that a college degree isn’t simply a marker. Students who attend and graduate from col

If You Are Looking For Professional Development On Teaching ELLs, I Recommend These People To Help

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h

PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay I often am invited to come to places across the country to provide professional development on teaching English Language Learners, as is my friend and colleague Katie Hull. Very occasionally, we can fit it in – especially if it’s in California – but the vast majority of time we are both too busy with teaching, writing and family (and I’ve got my basketball-playing,

MAR 05

Ed Tech Digest

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Eight 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

A Look Back: Everything You Wanted To Know About Teaching Inductively, But Were Afraid To Ask

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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 . In the inductive process, students seek patterns and use them to identify their broader meanings and significance. In the deductive process, meanings or rules are given, and students have to then apply them. I’m a big fan of inductive

Cesar Chavez Day Takes Place This Month – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Cesar Chavez Day is recognized as a holiday by eight states in the U.S., and falls on March 31st — his birthday (or a Monday/Friday that is closest to a weekend). You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About Cesar Chavez & The United Farm Workers Union .

Three New Resources To Help Teachers & Schools Prepare For Online Learning (If Necessary Because Of COVID-19)

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Wokandapix / Pixabay As regular readers know, I’ve been sharing resources to help prepare teachers to teach remotely – if necessary. You can see them all at The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! Here are three new resources I’m adding to that list: With school closures, teachers can keep their lessons going remotely is f

Check Out This Fun “Way You Mark The Page You Stopped” Alignment Chart & Make Your Own

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Today, I learned that there is an apparently age-old meme online harking back to Dungeons and Dragons. Here’s the fun one I just saw: chaotic good and chaotic evil pic.twitter.com/QQM5RGYB4u — m (@wingheadd) February 9, 2020 I heard about it via an Atlantic article that was all about that meme, if you can believe it: A Chart to Explain Your Entire Worldview. And, aft

TIME Features “100 Women Of The Year”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

tiburi / Pixabay TIME Magazine has published a new feature called 100 Women of the Year . It includes articles about, and images of, 100 key women throughout history. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Women’s History .

MAR 04

A Look Back: Here’s My Chapter On Elements Of A Successful Lesson, Along With Student Hand-Outs THEY Use To Teach

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

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 . I originally published this post in 2015: I’m a big advocate and practitioner of creating opportunities for students to be teachers (see The Best Posts On Helping Students Teach Their Classmates ). I’ve previously posted about how I sp

Two Good Interactives Showing Ancient Human Migration

47by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

Thanks to Google Maps Mania , I learned about two interactives that map ancient human migration: One is the Human Odyssey Map from the California Academy of Sciences (pictured above). The other is the Map of Human Migration from National Geographic. You might also be interested in The Best Websites For Teaching & Learning About World History .

World Water Day Is On March 22nd – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

36by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

3345408 / Pixabay The United Nations has designated March 22nd as World Water Day. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Teaching & Learning About World Water Day .

Good PBS NewsHour Video Segment Tonight: “How painter Jacob Lawrence reframed early American history with ‘Struggle'”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

Nietjuh / Pixabay The PBS NewsHour describes the segment this way: Amid the McCarthy hearings and the launch of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, painter Jacob Lawrence sought to frame early American history the way he saw it. His ensuing work, the sprawling series “Struggle,” has been reassembled and is now on a national tour, with its first stop at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusett

Statistic Of The Day: 290.5 Million Students Out Of School Because Of COVID-19

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

290 million students out of school due to COVID-19: UNESCO releases first global numbers and mobilizes response is a new alarming report from UNESCO. It’s offering some resources related to Education In Emergencies . I’ve been publishing a series of posts offering support for teachers trying to figure out how to provide remote learning. You can find them at The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online

MAR 03

“Culturally Responsive Instruction Is ‘Not Just About Adding a Hip Hop Song to Your Lesson Hook'”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

Culturally Responsive Instruction Is ‘Not Just About Adding a Hip Hop Song to Your Lesson Hook’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Ten educators offer specific ideas on how to apply culturally responsive pedagogy in schools, including through the use of diverse literature and by inviting students to share their own life experiences. Here are some excerpts:

World Poetry Day Is On March 21st – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

cromaconceptovisual / Pixabay UNESCO has declared March 21st to be World Poetry Day. You might be interested in The Best World Poetry Day Resources – Help Me Find More .

A Look Back: The Importance Of Knowledge Transfer

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

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 . In 2015, Routledge published the third book in my student motivation series, Building A Community Of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies To Help Students Thrive In School and Beyond . The Washington Post published an excerpt from the c

Google Announces That “advanced Hangouts Meet” Features Are Free To Help Schools Affected By The Coronavirus

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

Simon / Pixabay I’ve been publishing a series of posts with resources for schools to develop online learning as they are affected by the Coronavirus. You can see them all at The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! Google just made a new one available. Many schools are using the Google Hangouts Meet tool for virtual classes

Short TED Talk Video: “The secret to giving great feedback”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

geralt / Pixabay This new TED Talk video has some useful points to consider when giving feedback. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning How To Best Give Feedback To Students .

MAR 02

Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

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: Read Inquire Write looks like a great site to support writing in Social Studies classes. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For

Infographic: “Key Numbers Behind The War In Afghanistan”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

ErikaWittlieb / Pixabay The United States and the Taliban have just signed an agreement that might end the Afghanistan War. I thought readers might be interested in this infographic, as well as checking out my regularly updated The Best Sites For Learning About The Afghanistan War . You will find more infographics at Statista

St. Patrick’s Day Is On March 17th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

AnnCarter / Pixabay St. Patrick’s Day is on March 17th. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About St. Patrick’s Day (and April Fool’s Day) .

Gold Mine Of Resources For Educators Preparing For School Closures

80by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

Peggy_Marco / Pixabay As regular readers know, I’ve been publishing a series of posts to help educators at schools prepare for Coronavirus closures (you can see links to all of them at The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! ). EdSurge has just published a great article headlined ‘Students Are Lonely:’ What Happens When Co

MAR 01

Pins Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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

New Resources On Race & Racism

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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: Teaching Black History in Culturally Responsive Ways is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Teach About African-American History . Black History Month: Teaching the Com

“Steps to Make Classrooms More Culturally Responsive”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

Steps to Make Classrooms More Culturally Responsive is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Six educators share specific suggestions on how to make lessons more culturally responsive, including through having teachers assess their own biases and by elevating students’ culture and language. Here are some excerpts:

Most Popular Posts Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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 THIRTE

Pi Day Is On March 14th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

445693 / Pixabay Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14). You might be interested in THE BEST VIDEOS FOR CELEBRATING PI DAY .

Video: John Lewis At 55th Anniversary Of Selma March

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

Today is the 55th anniversary of the Selma march for Civil Rights. Here are some videos about it, including John Lewis speaking and an interview with him. You might also be interested in The Best Resources For Teaching About Selma .

The Hindu Festival Of Holi Begins On March 9th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

murtaza_ali / Pixabay The colorful Hindu Festival of Holi begins on March 9th and ends the following day. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About The Hindu Festival of Holi .

FEB 29

It’s “World Book Day” This Thursday In The United Kingdom – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

Gellinger / Pixabay April 23rd has been declared “World Book Day” by UNESCO, though it’s celebrated on the first Thursday of March in the United Kingdom. You might be interested in The Best Resources For World Book Day — April 23rd or First Thursday Of March (Depending Where You Live).

This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues

20by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

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 ): Is edTPA standing in the way of getting more teachers into classrooms? is from Education Dive. I’m adding it to The Best Advice For Student Teachers & Their Collaborating Teachers . Declining Enrollment in Californ

SEL Weekly Update

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

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: Schools Are Embracing Mindf

A Selection Of Knowledge Questions For This Year’s TOK Oral Presentations

24by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

geralt / Pixabay As I do every year, I thought readers would be interested in some of the Knowledge Questions my TOK students are using for this year’s Oral Presentations. You can see our entire six week Oral Presentation planning schedule here , and here are links to questions from previous years: Review Topics and Primary Knowledge Questions (from 2016 class) Primary Knowledge Questions From 20

New BBC Video: “Leap years and why we need them”

26by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

TheDigitalArtist / Pixabay I’m adding this new BBC video to The Best Resources For Learning About Leap Year :

Online Learning Tools If Schools Are Closed Because Of The Coronavirus – Part FOUR

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

johnhain / Pixabay I’ve been running a series of posts to help me and others prepare for the potential of school closures, as is happening in Asia and in Washington and Oregon ( Coronavirus shuts down two public schools as districts race to contain the spread ). Previous posts in this series have been: The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Mak

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

21by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

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.

The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions!

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

kreatikar / Pixabay I’ve been doing a series of posts on preparing to teach online if closes are closed because of the Coronavirus (see Even More Useful Online Tools If Our Schools Close & We Have To Teach Online (#COVID19) and Here Are Online Tools Some Teachers In Asia Are Using For Remote Learning – Useful To Know In The Face Of #COVID19 ). Those previous posts shared tools to use and how to u

What Another Group Of Our Teachers Learned About Teaching ELLs

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

I’ve been sharing posts about the professional development sessions we’ve been doing with all our teachers on teaching ELLs – because of logistical issues, we need to do similar sessions on five different days. Here are the previous posts in this “series”: Could This Be A Good Template For Just About Any Professional Development Session? Video Of Our ELL Student Panel & Downloadable Hand-Out They

Just Sent-Out Free Monthly Email Newsletter

by Larry Ferlazzo / 7d

geralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the March 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…

February’s Most Popular Posts From This Blog

by Larry Ferlazzo / 7d

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 Thirteenth Anniversary Of This Blog – Here Are The Forty All-Time Most Popular Posts. Not to mention THE MOST POPULAR POSTS F

February’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,134 Of Them!

by Larry Ferlazzo / 7d

Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,134 of them categorized here ): THE BEST SPANISH-LANGUAGE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES FOR 

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