SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS UPDATE 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

SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... 

The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Excellent Book Review For “The Social Studies Teacher’s Toolbox”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 9h

PatternPictures / Pixabay This Social Studies Compendium Is a Keeper is the headline of a new book review written by Sarah Cooper for Middleweb. She reviews “The Social Studies Teacher’s Toolbox,” one of the new books in the ‘Toolbox” series that Katie Hull and I have edited. I’m adding it to the post where you can find lots of links to free resources from all the Toolbox books!

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

by Larry Ferlazzo / 9h

BiljaST / Pixabay Six 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. A

A Look Back: Here Are Our Four Ed Week Videos On Student Motivation!

by Larry Ferlazzo / 9h

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 . If you’d like to see another series of motivation videos we did related to distance learning, check them out here . mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Education Week published four short vi

Four New & Useful Videos About Race & Racism

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

I’m adding this first video from Edutopia to New & Revised: The Best Resources For Understanding Why We Need More Teachers Of Color : I’m adding this new video from the BBC to Helpful Resources For Teaching About George Floyd’s Death : I’m adding this next video from Vox to Useful Resources For Teaching & Learning What “Defund The Police” Means : Google just published this video today:

Video: Stephen Colbert’s Show Last Night – “Dr. Ibram X. Kendi: Creating A More Equitable Society Is In White Americans’ Self Interest”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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:

JUN 25

A Look Back: Studies Find That Teachers Analyzing Data Is No Help To Students If It Doesn’t Result In Different Instructional Practices

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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

This Is The Best One-Minute Video I’ve Seen For A Long Time: “Jason Reynolds on what it means to be antiracist”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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 :

Micro-Versions of Folktales – Galore!

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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

Video: Could Creating “Friction” Help Us White Teachers Combat Our Implicit Biases?

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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

New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “First person vs. Second person vs. Third person”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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:

Most Popular Posts Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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

The Importance Of Saying “Enslaved Person” & “Enslaver”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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

Five New Resources For Teaching About Racist Monuments

35by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

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'”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

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 that represent “a wide range of experiences.” Here are some excerpts:

JUN 24

A Look Back: New Curriculum For Teaching Online Information Literacy Looks Fantastic!

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

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 . pixel2013 / Pixabay The Stanford History Education Group is on a bunch of “Best” lists, including The Best Places To Find Free (And Good) Lesson Plans On The Internet . They offer

Every Teacher Who Has Ever Felt Pressured To Present “Both Sides” Of An Event Or Belief Should Read This Article

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

Some believe that it’s important for teachers to provide complete “objectivity” in the classroom, and treat both sides of events and beliefs equally. I believe that it is important to understand both sides of issues – as the old community organizing adage goes, “we live in the world as it is, not as we would like it to be.” So, understanding different perspectives is important for a variety of re

Three Important Resources On Reopening Schools In The Fall

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

Wokandapix / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Considerations for Reopening Pennsylvania Schools is very impressive and applicable everywhere. In California budget deal, no cuts for K-12 but billions in late payments to schools is from Ed Source and, near the end, talks about important elements for California schools. Planning Yo

Today’s “Must-Read” – “What Is Owed” By Nikole Hannah-Jones

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitizer Prize winner and author/organizer of the The 1619 Project (see USEFUL RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRINGING ENSLAVED AFRICANS TO AMERICA ), has just written an important piece headlined “What Is Owed.” I’m adding it to: A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT REPARATIONS THE BEST RESOURCES DEMONSTRATING THE WEALTH GAP BETWE

“Representation Matters in Classroom Libraries”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

Representation Matters in Classroom Libraries is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four teachers discuss specific titles, and common elements, in books that students find popular, including the importance of being able to see themselves in the characters. Here are some excerpts:

JUN 23

Study Finds What All Teachers Know – Interrupting Class Is Bad For Everybody!

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

The Hidden Cost of Classroom Interruptions is an accessible write-up of a new study by Matthew A. Kraft. It just appeared in ASCD Educational Leadership. It points out what we teachers know – classroom interruptions don’t help anybody. **HALF** of all brief external interruptions we observed led to longer disruptions to learning. Our observational data suggest some interruptions, and the disrupti

A Look Back: Project Zero’s “Thinking Routines Tool” Is An Excellent Resource

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

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 . I’ve written many posts and shared many links about Project Zero’s Thinking Routines (I’ll list a number of them at the end of this post). I don’t know if they recently redesigned

The VERY BEST Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures In 2020 – Part One

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

I’m continuing with my mid-year “Best” list posts… I’m adding this post to All 2020 Mid-Year “Best” Lists In One Place! I have sixteen – count ’em, 16 – separate “Best” lists about the school closure crisis, and you can find them all here . Included among them is The “Best Of The Best” Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures list, but even that is pretty darn long. So, I though

My Most Popular Pins Of 2020 – Part One

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

kirstyfields / Pixabay My mid-year “Best” list posts continue… I’m adding this post to All 2020 Mid-Year “Best” Lists In One Place! I have “pinned” nearly 22,000 educational resources on my Pinterest boards that I have not shared on this blog. Here are the most popular ones for this year (the most popular is the first one):

Ed Tech Digest

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

Nine 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 2020 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this w

“Q&A Collections: Classroom-Management Advice”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

Q&A Collections: Classroom-Management Advice is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts sharing classroom-management advice (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here are two excerpts:

JUN 22

Pins Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

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

New PBS NewsHour Video Segment: “Past pandemics have reshaped society. Will coronavirus do the same?”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

leo2014 / Pixabay I’m adding this new video to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS :

A Look Back: Study Finds That Mentoring A Student Teacher Makes The Supervisor A More Effective Teacher

46by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

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 . Wokandapix / Pixabay A new study on student teaching ( Exploring the Impact of Student Teaching Apprenticeships on Student Achievement and Mentor Teachers ) found two important re

The Best Social Emotional Learning Resources Of 2020 – Part One

27by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

My mid-year “Best” list posts continue… I’m adding this post to All 2020 Mid-Year “Best” Lists In One Place! I publish a regular series called SEL Weekly Update , and I thought it would useful to readers and to me to review them and highlight the ones I think are the best of the year. You might also be interested in “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources . All my “Best” lis

The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture Is On June 26th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

The United Nations has declared June 26th to be the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. You might be interested in The Best Sites Sites For Discussing The Morality of Torture .

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2020 – Part One

39by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

My mid-year “Best” list posts continue… I’m adding this post to All 2020 Mid-Year “Best” Lists In One Place! I use short, funny video clips a lot when I’m teaching ELLs, and you can read in detail about how I use them in The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them) . In short, there are many ways to use them that promote speaking, listening, writing and reading (including havi

Video: “Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

geralt / Pixabay I’m adding this new video to The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change . You can see all the data appearing in the video here .

Video: Disney Releases “Hamilton” Trailer Prior To July 3rd Release

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

Disney+ will be premiering a showing of “Hamilton” with the original cast on July 3rd, and they just released this trailer for it. You might be interested in The Best Teaching/Learning Resources On The Musical, “Hamilton”

“Q&A Collections: School Closures & the Coronavirus Crisis”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

Q&A Collections: School Closures & the Coronavirus Crisis is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Sixty posts – including commentaries, videos and infographics – are listed, with practical advice for teachers dealing with remote teaching now and in the future. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:

JUN 21

A Look Back: The Headlines You See About NAEP Scores Don’t Tell The Whole Story….

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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 . geralt / Pixabay Scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress came out today (Editor’s Note: this original post appeared several months ago), and lots of people, as

The Best Ed Tech Resources Of 2020 – Part One

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

My mid-year “Best” list posts continue… I’m adding this post to All 2020 Mid-Year “Best” Lists In One Place! I publish a regular series called Ed Tech Digest , and I thought it would useful to readers and to me to review them and highlight the ones I think are the best of the year. You can see previous editions of this list, along with all the “Best” lists related to ed tech, here . Here are my c

New PBS NewsHour Video Segment: “Parents fear anti-Asian racism as schools mull reopening”

21by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

GDJ / Pixabay I’m adding tonight’s PBS NewsHour segment to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS :

“Sexual Harassment & Assault in Schools”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

Sexual Harassment & Assault in Schools is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Six educators share stories of sexual harassment at school and offer recommendation of how teachers can respond to it, including through educating themselves and students alike. Here are some excerpts: I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Teaching About Sexual Harassment .

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

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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 ): Netflix’s billionaire founder is secretly building a luxury retreat for teachers in rural Colorado is from Vox. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The Role Of Private Foundations In Education Po

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

BiljaST / Pixabay Six 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. A

JUN 20

A Look Back: Every School District Staffperson In Charge Of Curriculum Adoption Should Read This Piece Explaining Why We Teachers Tend To Not Use The Materials

20by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

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 . Dylan Wiliam shared an incredibly important piece on Twitter explaining how Districts screw-up adopting materials, including technology. To start off with, here are a couple of tw

Professor Placed On Leave After Asking Student To “Anglicize” His Name – Come On, People! Just Learn To Pronounce Names!

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

Professor who told student to ‘anglicize’ her name placed on leave is the headline of an NBC News article. Come on, educators, just learn to correctly pronounce students’ names. Some might be difficult for us, but we’ve all done harder things. You might be interested in The Best Resources On The Importance Of Correctly Pronouncing Student Names .

The Best Science Sites Of 2020 – Part One

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

It’s time for another “Best” list! I’ll be adding this list to I’m adding this post to All 2020 Mid-Year “Best” Lists In One Place! You can see all previous editions of this Science list, along with other Science-related “Best” lists, here (Best lists on Planets & Space are here ). Let me know what I’m missing…: THE BEST VIDEOS FOR TEACHING & LEARNING ABOUT – YES – “POOP” Passport To Mars is a ga

Today Is World Refugee Day – Here Are Four New Related Videos

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

Here are new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day :

A Look Back: According To New Research, Rita Pierson Was More Right Than Not When She Said, “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.”

20by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

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 . Many teachers 

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