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I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 21,000 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 Here
PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay Emily Francis shared this funny video on Twitter. It’s important to keep our sense of humor in these kinds of situations!
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just sent out ANOTHER special mid-month edition of usual free and simple monthly email newsletter (I emailed one earlier this week). This is the first time in ten years I’ve sent out more than just one newsletter at the end of the month. This special edition is designed to support teachers coping with school closures.It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here
geralt / Pixabay I’m pretty lucky because the last three months of my International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge curriculum is mostly online anyway (an Oral Presentation and essay). You can see it at HERE’S MY ONLINE TEACHING PLAN IF OUR SCHOOL CLOSES DOWN BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS , However, I suspect most TOK teachers don’t have their classes set up that way, and are trying to figure out
kaboompics / Pixabay Though now there is a lot out there on teaching online, I’ll only be sharing ones that I believe should be added to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures . Also, in a day-or-two, start looking for a series of commentaries at my Education Week Teacher column written by teachers explaining how they are managing the transition to onlin
natureaddict / Pixabay Today, two pieces have appeared discussing the possibility of expanded summer school (and the federal government paying for it) this year in an attempt to recover from school closures. Check these out: Using federal stimulus to get schools through the coronavirus crisis: The case for summer school and summer teacher pay is from Brookings. After coronavirus school closings,
geralt / Pixabay As we all try to get our heads around teaching online, I was thinking about teachers who don’t speak the home language of many of their students and the challenges that presents. I speak Spanish, and 90% of my students this year are Spanish-speaking, so it’s not an issue for me. However, when you’re looking at screens and are obviously more limited by what you can do to communica
As regular readers know, I’ve been recruiting teachers from a variety of areas and subjects to write about their experiences moving to online learning (see Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences ). Those commentaries will be appearing in Education Week and/or in this blog and have already begun ( Guest Post
Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences I’ve previously posted about Brainpop’s generous offer to provide free accounts while our schools are closed. Initially, it appeared to me that they were only offering one common sign-in for everyone at a school, and that students would have to email a teacher their te
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
After our Governor said last night that he didn’t expect California schools to reopen this year, I was inundated with panicky text from many of my students. I have been in regular touch with my Beginning ELL students, and this is what I
