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Sunday, December 13, 2020

A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

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


My Twelve Favorite BAM! Radio Shows Of The Year – 2020
As regular readers know, I’ve been doing a ten-minute radio show for many years that accompanies my Ed Week columns. I probably do about thirty each year, and the total is well beyond two-hundred now. You can see them all at All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions . I’m adding this post to ALL END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2020 IN ONE PLACE! Here are my twelve favorite ones from 2020: Wh
Sunday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings
kalhh / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : With the Virus Surging, Arizona Teachers Protest by Calling In Sick is from The NY Times. 12,000 More White Children Return to N.Y.C. Schools Than Black Children is from The NY Times. The empty gradebook: As students struggle with remote learning, teachers grapple with Fs is from Chalkbea
Interesting Video: “How metaphors shape the way you see the world”
AbsolutVision / Pixabay I thought this was an interesting video from the BBC. You can see many previous metaphor-related posts here .
A Look Back: New Study Finds That Specific Ninth-Grade Intervention Very Effective & It’s Remarkably Similar To What We Do At Our School
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Kunnasberg / Pixabay The American Institutes of Research just released a study finding that a program called Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) was very effective at improving academic progress for ninth-graders and enhancing their
The Twenty Most Popular Posts Of The Year – 2020
This is another addition to ALL END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2020 IN ONE PLACE! Here are the twenty most popular posts that appeared in this blog over the past twelve months: 1. The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games 2. The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”) 3. The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom 4. All my “Best” lists 5
New Site Shares The Stories Of Thousands Who Were Enslaved
Enslaved is an amazing site allow people to learn the stories of hundreds of thousands of people who had been enslaved. You can research names, read short narrative stories , and a lot more at the site. A Smithsonian Magazine article, Who Were America’s Enslaved? A New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers , shares more details. I’m adding this info to: USEFUL RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABO
PBS NewsHour Unveils Exceptional & Interactive Primary Sources Site
The PBS NewsHour has just unveiled a Journalism in Action site: that uses the history of U.S. journalism to teach students media literacy, history and primary source research. It has different sections for different eras/events 

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