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

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Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

The latest news and resources in education since 2007

“Q&A Collections: Student Voices”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4h

Q&A Collections: Student Voices is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts featuring commentaries written by students (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:

YESTERDAY

New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “What makes volcanoes erupt?”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

Pexels / Pixabay I’m adding this new TED-Ed lesson and video to The Best Sites For Learning About Volcanoes :

Tuesday’s Three Must-Watch/Must-Read Videos & Articles About School Reopening Plans

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

paulbr75 / Pixabay The roller coaster ride continues. Here are Tuesday’s additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : DeVos Abandons a Lifetime of Local Advocacy to Demand Schools Reopen is from The NY Times. I hope our district can do something like this: California district designs novel plan to boost remote learning with in-person ‘student support hubs

New Resources To Help Us Understand All The New TOK Curriculum Changes

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

geralt / Pixabay I’m in the final week of an International Baccalaureate online course to review all the new changes to the Theory of Knowledge class, and my head is spinning a bit. Here are some new additions to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE NEW THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE SYLLABUS : Mr. Hoyes TOK Website TOK Resource The Oxford University Press has two videos you can watch, though you have

A Look Back: Implicit Bias Training Doesn’t Seem To Work – So What Should Teachers & Others Do, Instead?

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

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 . In the wake of recent murders of Black citizens, like George Floyd, and subsequent protests, there has been a lot of attention being paid to the concept of implicit bias and how t

Latest Update On Reopening Sacramento Schools

by Larry Ferlazzo / 17h

OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay The Sacramento Bee has just published California school districts announce fall closures. Will Sacramento schools be next? , and that gives the most recent update about where we are on reopening. For what it’s worth, here are my observations that appear in the article: Luther Burbank High School teacher Larry Ferlazzo said teachers want to return to their classrooms,

Reopening Schools Is Analogous To The Research Finding That The Greatest Influence On Student Achievement Is Outside School

by Larry Ferlazzo / 18h

So much of the discussion about school reopening has been on safety procedures in school – masks, social distancing, temperature checks, cleaning, etc. I understand that is important and support – and have participated – in those talks. Of course, the primary determining factor about if schools will be able to open will be the rate of community spread of COVID-19. Just as over two-thirds of the f

Los Angeles and San Diego School Districts Announce They Are Starting The School Year All Online

by Larry Ferlazzo / 21h

I’m adding this info to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Los Angeles and San Diego Schools to Go Online-Only in The Fall L.A. Unified will not reopen campuses for start of school year amid coronavirus spike So many districts in CA have been making the same announcement over past few days. . @officialSCUSD should work w/ unions 2 make similar announcement now so

The Publisher Of Our Next Book Has Agreed To Let Us Release Our Chapter On ELLs & Distance Learning Early & For Free

by Larry Ferlazzo / 23h

Katie Hull and I are working hard on the second edition of The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide, the first book we wrote as a team. We think it’s a great book, and we’re keeping most of what’s in the first edition. In addition to minor changes, though, we are adding content to double the size of the book. In addition to writing new chapters ourselves, we’ll be including new ones from other great

“Five Ways to Use Music in Lessons”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Five Ways to Use Music in Lessons is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Five educators share ways to use music in lessons across the curriculum, including for textual analysis and to help create a 

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