Awaix_Mughal / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : The Digital Divide Starts With a Laptop Shortage is from The NY Times. Sure, send our kids back to unsafe schools, even though it isn’t ‘in the best interest of anyone’ is from The Washington Post. In-person classes, Internet snafus, melancholy hallways: This is what teaching in a
waldryano / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from Vox to Shocking – NOT! New Study Finds Educators Tend To Discipline Black Students More Harshly Than White Students . You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING HOW BLACK GIRLS ARE TREATED UNFAIRLY & WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT .
My end-of-the-year “Best” list posts continue… 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 having students describe – in writing and verbally – a chronologic
is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators push back against the admonition to “keep politics out of the classroom” by, among other things, explaining that schools are part of a broader political system. Here are some excerpts:
Clker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay I have over 2,100 frequently revised and updated “Best” lists on just about every subject imaginable, and you can find them listed three different ways in three different places (see Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists ). I’m starting to publish a series where each day I will highlight the “Best” lists in a separate category. Today, it’s o
I’m not quite sure when Zoom added this feature, but you can now enable automatic subtitling in English when you’re in a video conference using the tool. Avriel Ogawa, a very talented colleague, shared these instructions today: Go to settings on the navigation bar on the left of the screen. Scroll down to In Meeting Advanced Then, scroll down to Closed Captioning and toggle it on Be sure to check
I’m adding these new resources to The Best Resources For Teaching About Confederate Monuments : Confronting History, Transforming Monuments is from Facing History. As challenges to Confederate monuments and other controversial memorials gain momentum, the Mellon Foundation will spend $250 million to support the creation of new American monuments and consider relocating or reimagining existing one
stevepb / Pixabay I have over 2,100 frequently revised and updated “Best” lists on just about every subject imaginable, and you can find them listed three different ways in three different places (see Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists ). I’m starting to publish a series where each day I will highlight the “Best” lists in a separate category. Today, it’s on Health Issues:
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : A shortage of teachers and Covid-19 create a perfect storm for the education system is from CNBC. CDC: Almost all of the US kids and teens who’ve died from COVID-19 were Hispanic or Black is from Business Insider. Parents Hustling To Adapt After New York City Closes Schools In Some Areas
I’m continuing with my end-of-year “Best” list posts… You might also be interested in The VERY BEST Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures In 2020 – Part One , along with all my closure-related “Best” lists here . Here they are: Here’s Our Chapter On Distance Learning With ELLs & It’s Free To Download (No Registration Required!) HERE ARE DETAILED – & TENTATIVE – DISTANCE LEARN
It’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the United States today, also known as Columbus Day. I have over 2,100 frequently revised and updated “Best” lists on just about every subject imaginable, and you can find them listed three different ways in three different places (see Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists ). Here are the ones I have related to Indigenous Peoples: The Best Onli
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. Of course, this is a crazy time for “classroom” instruction…. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2020 – PART ONE. Here are this week’s picks: IB has created something called a Webliography, which are basically lessons
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
