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:
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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 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
