The media is awash today with reports on test results from millions of students that suggest that so-called “learning loss” wasn’t that bad because of school closes last spring. The best article of the bunch to read about it is clearly from Chalkbeat: Did students fall behind this spring? Yes, but not as much as feared, new data shows. As annoying as I find people who say “I told you so,” I will
Rosa Parks was arrested 65 years ago. You might be interested in Best Resources For Teaching About Rosa Parks & 60th Anniversary Of The Montgomery Bus Boycott . Police complaint against Rosa Parks 65 years ago today—“Did refuse to take a seat assigned to her race”—Montgomery, Alabama: pic.twitter.com/l3KQyaW0p9 — Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 1, 2020
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Why School Districts Are Bringing Back Younger Children First is from The NY Times. On Pandemic Schooling, de Blasio Is Actually Leading is from The NY Times.
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 . Many teachers have seen the late Rita Pierson’s great TED Talk and, if you haven’t, it’s embedded at the bottom of this post. Perhaps the most quoted line from the video is “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.” Plenty of rese
Homegrounds / Pixabay This is a good video synopsis of the book, The Power of Habit , by Charles Duhigg. It has lots of relevance for teachers. In fact, it has so much relevance that Mr. Duhigg wrote a guest post at my Education Week Teacher blog titled Several Ways We Can Help Students Develop Good Habits .
The cognitive challenges of effective teaching by Stephen Chew and William Cerbin is one of the best and most practical research studies anyone in education is going to find. Unfortunately, it’s behind a paywall, but there are a variety of ways to still gain access to it (see The Best Tools For Academic Research ). They lay-out a list of key challenges facing teachers, and then offer a number of
Teaching In The Pandemic: ‘This is Not Sustainable is an excellent article that teachers everywhere will say, “Yes, that’s how I’m feeling.” The question is, of course, “Will district and public officials listen?”
