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James Baldwin would have been ninety-six years today. You might be interested in JAMES BALDWIN WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1924 – HERE ARE RELATED RESOURCES .
Q&A Collections: Differentiating Instruction is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts on Differentiating Instruction (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : A School Reopens, and the Coronavirus Creeps In is from The NY Times. Equity In Pandemic Schooling N YC Releases Plan For Handling COVID-19 Outbreaks In Schools is from The Gothamist. NEW: Schools in NYC will only reopen IF the city can maintain a test positivity rate below 3 percent, de
Syaibatulhamdi / Pixabay I think this would be a good video to show to students. I’m adding it to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS .
Wokandapix / Pixabay I have a number of regular weekly features (see HERE IS A LIST (WITH LINKS) OF ALL MY REGULAR WEEKLY FEATURES ). This is a relatively new addition to that list. Some of these resources will be added to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions ! and the best will go to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To
StartupStockPhotos / Pixabay I have my IB Theory of Knowledge students make lots of presentations, and I plan to continue that plan during this year of online learning. Most of the time in a physical classroom small groups create posters which they then present in front (of course, sometimes they also use Google Slides). During this year, I’d like to try having them create Pecha Kucha presentatio
geralt / Pixabay The road to a legislative mandated state of California ethnic studies curriculum has been a bit rocky, with a number of objections made to it’s original proposal. You can read about those issues here at an older article from Ed Source . The state took down their initial proposal, but as that article says: The department took down the draft of the model curriculum after the public
The fabulous #EllChat_BkClub just finished a book study of The Science Teacher’s Toolbox , one of the books Katie Hull and I edited, and is now moving on to The Math Teacher’s Toolbox (another one we edited!) and another book, Math For ELLs. Learn all the information you need about t