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!
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
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
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:
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 that represent “a wide range of experiences.” 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 . 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
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
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
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 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:
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
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
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
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):
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 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:
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
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
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 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 .
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
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 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:
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
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
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 .
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
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
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 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 .
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
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
