I’m adding this new video from last night’s Stephen Colbert’s show to New & Revised: Resources To Help Us Predominantly White Teachers To Reflect On How Race Influences Our Work :
High-Interest Books & Giving Students Time to Read & Talk About Them in School is the headline at my latest Education Week Teacher column. Three teachers offer their recommendations of high-interest books for students to read, including for English-learners. Here are some excerpts:
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from the first half of this year. You can see the entire collection of best posts from the past thirteen years here . 200degrees / Pixabay I shared the information in this post earlier this week at my weekly Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week post . Today, though, I shared it with my col
viarami / Pixabay I’m adding this new video to New & Revised: Resources To Help Us Predominantly White Teachers To Reflect On How Race Influences Our Work :
I’ve previously written about Laura Gibbs’ great work in “Drabbles” Are Cool Writing Assignments – Here Are A Ton Of Models . One of the assignments she gives to her students is to write microfiction “drabbles” (no more than 100 words) from folktales. At that previous post you can see the actual assignment she gives students. She’s actually begun putting the versions that she writes into eBook fo
Last week, I posted Implicit Bias Training Doesn’t Seem To Work – So What Should Teachers & Others Do, Instead? It examined the ineffectiveness of implicit bias trainings, and explored some possible alternatives. This TED-Talk just came out “How racial bias works — and how to disrupt it | Jennifer L. Eberhardt” and offers another idea (you can find the transcript at that link). She talks about cr
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay This new TED-Ed video and lesson is a decent tool to use with students when teaching the difference between first, second and third person:
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
I, along with many other educators, have used the words “slaves” and “slave-owner” for many years when teaching history. Over the past year, I’ve begun using the words “enslaved person” or “enslaved people,” instead. However, until hearing Nikole Hannah-Jones talk on NPR yesterday I hadn’t though of changing “slave-owner” to “enslaver” – though I should have. I’m adding this post to New & Revised
Here are new additions to The Best Resources For Teaching About Confederate Monuments (that list contains many resources connected to other racist monuments around the world, too, along with posts about racist names of places): Protests target Spanish colonial statues that ‘celebrate genocide’ in US west is from The Guardian. What persuades white Southerners to remove Confederate flags and monume
Students Like Books ‘That Help Them Feel Seen, Heard, & Valued’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators share their – and their students’ – favorite books, including song picture books and ones focusing on SEL skills, as well as emphasizing the importance of ones
