WikiImages / Pixabay This is the anniversary of the Wright Brother’s first flight. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About Flight . On this day 117 years ago: the Wright Brothers made the first sustained, powered flight in the Wright Flyer. #WrightBrothersDay #AviationHistory pic.twitter.com/GMCOHxZx3f — The FAA (@FAANews) December 17, 2020
Editor’s Note: My colleague Kara Synhorst is trying something very interesting this school year, and agreed to write a guest post about it. Kara Synhorst teaches IB Language and Literature and IB Theory of Knowledge at Luther Burbank High in Sacramento, CA. For several years, I’ve been doing reading to educate myself on anti-racist work. When our English department read about labor-based grading
Here’s another year-end “Best” list, and I’m adding it to ALL END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2020 IN ONE PLACE! It’s starting off as a small one, but will certainly expand as January 1st gets closer – many education journals will develop their own and I’ll add them here. Here they are: The positively worst and best education news of 2020 — as viewed by a teacher is the Washington Post headline feat
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : If Teachers Get the Vaccine Quickly, Can Students Get Back to School? is from The NY Times. Long Beach schools push back reopening to March, citing rise in COVID-19 cases is from The L.A. Times. ‘Game changer’ Covid tests for secondary schools in January is from The BBC. Huge gaps in cla
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 . OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Last week, I posted Another Study Finds That Student Mentors Giving Advice Helps THEM Do Better , which described an interesting study that was a also a little weird – the “mentors” didn’t actually mentor
I wrote about about the “establish-maintain-restore” strategy for relationship building last year (see This Article Is One Of The Best Pieces I’ve Read On Classroom Management ). Now, a new meta-analysis of teacher-student relationship building strategies has highlighted it as one of the most effective – if not the most effective – techniques that are being used today. It’s behind a paywall, but
Free-Photos / Pixabay Earlier this month, I shared HERE’S A MESSAGE FROM SANTA TO YOU, & YOUR ELL STUDENTS CAN EASILY CREATE THEIR OWN! It’s a cool tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to create messages from Santa. Unfortunately, I’ve heard from one or two peop
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