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THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... 
The latest news and resources in education since 2007

“Teach Math in Ways That Are ‘Proactive’ & Not ‘Reactive’”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 8h

Teach Math in Ways That Are ‘Proactive’ & Not ‘Reactive’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Eleven educators share their ideas on how to promote culturally responsive teaching in mathematics. Here are some excerpts:

Saturday’s Must-Read Articles About School Reopenings

by Larry Ferlazzo / 8h

sonja_paetow / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : California teachers unions mobilize against Democratic school reopening bill is from Politico. How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America’s Most Elite Suburbs Apart is from Slate. Inside One N.Y.C. School That Reopened During the Pandemic is from The NY Times. ‘Not s

“Distance learning and English Language Learners” Is My New British Council Post

by Larry Ferlazzo / 9h

Distance learning and English Language Learners is the headline of my latest British Council post. It includes a slideshow I used at a recent professional development session, along with a video of a student panel that spoke at the same training. You can see all thirty of my previous British Council posts here .

TIME Magazine Begins Video Series On “The History You Didn’t Learn”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 9h

TIME Magazine has begun an interesting video series. Here’s how they describe it: ‘Tis the season for a much-deserved holiday school break. In recent years, there have been efforts to rethink how American History is taught to K-12 students. While President Trump’s call for “patriotic education” earlier this fall reflects the resistance to such initiatives, it’s clear from ongoing racial justice p

A Look Back: My Growth Mindset Lessons Usually Go Well, But What I Did Today Was The Best Yet (Student Hand-Outs Included)

by Larry Ferlazzo / 9h

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 . This post originally appeared in 2017. I’ve done a variety of different types of lessons over the years about a growth mindset, and you can see most of them at The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A “Growth Mindset” – alo

DEC 17

“Twelve Ways to Make Math More Culturally Responsive”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Twelve Ways to Make Math More Culturally Responsive is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators share ideas for using culturally responsive teaching in math class, including by helping students make community connections. Here are some excerpts:

Great Free Professional Development For ELL Teachers Is Now Available – The Electronic Village Online

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

geralt / Pixabay Every year about this time, I publish a post advertising the best free professional development for teachers of English Language Learners — The Electronic Village Online : For five weeks in January and February, TESOL experts and participants from around the world engage in collaborative online discussions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. These

Friday’s Must-Read Articles & Must-Watch Videos On School Reopenings

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : When Will It Be Like 2019 Again? is from The NY Times. One-third of Chicago students opt for in-person learning, but students are disproportionately white is from Chalkbeat. Staggered return for England’s secondary schools next term is from The BBC. Evidence of learning loss

The Best Collections Of Infographics, Charts & Maps – 2020

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

I’ll obviously be adding many more resources to this list next week when a lot more collections are posted around the web, but figured I’d get a head start today. You can see all previous annual editions of this list, along with many other infographic-related resources, here . I’m adding list list to ALL END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2020 IN ONE . Here they are: The Year in Review: 2020 in 20 Visu

A Look Back: Leading With Inquiry, Not Judgment

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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 . This post originally appeared in 2018. mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Earlier this summer, I was asked to share advice to the over two hundred students entering the Sacramento State University teacher credentialing program. I shared one thin

All The “Best” Lists Posted Here In 2020

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Here’s another end-of-year “Best” list that I’ll be adding this list to I’m adding this post to ALL END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2020 IN ONE PLACE! You might also be interested in THREE ACCESSIBLE WAYS TO SEARCH FOR & FIND MY “BEST” LISTS. Here are all the “Best” lists I’ve published this year (so far): THE BEST RESOURCES TO HELP EDUCATORS TEACH ELL NEWCOMERS THE BEST TOOLS THAT SHOW “PARALLEL TE

Biden Wants Most Schools To Reopen By May 1st – Here’s Why I Think That Would Be Great Timing IF It Can Be Done Safely

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Biden says schools should reopen within first 100 days in call with governors is the headline of an Associated Press story today. If teachers got vaccinated, and school districts got their act together to ensure safe conditions for staff and students, I think this would be great timing. Here’s an excerpt from one of my Edutopia articles, Finishing The School Year Strong (which was reprinted from

Depressing Statistics Of The Day: Many Of Our Students’ Families Are In Economic Trouble

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Just as I was reading The Washington Post article headlined Nearly 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since the summer , this next report came out: BREAKING: 1.4 million Americans filed *new* unemployment claims last week — the highest level in weeks. Rising layoffs are an alarm bell that Congress needs to pass more stimulus. Overall, 20.6 million Americans are on unemployment aid as we

The Wright Brothers Made Their First Flight On This Day 117 Years Ago – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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

I Think This Quote Describes The Essence Of Effective Community Organizing AND Effective Teaching

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

Nsé Ufot, the CEO of The New Georgia Project, was interviewed by CBS News yesterday, and the entire interview is embedded below. She begins the interview with a description of the essence of effective community organizing (having had a nineteen-year career as an organizer prior to becoming a teacher allows me to make that judgment). Changing the word “organizers” to “teachers” and then “act of vo

DEC 16

Guest Post: “Labor-Based Grading: The Experiment”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

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

The Best Education “Year-In-Review” Posts & Articles For 2020

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

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

Thursday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

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

A Look Back: Being A Mentor At Our School May Have Resulted In Improved Grades For The…Mentors

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

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

New Meta-Analysis Highlight “Establish-Maintain-Restore” As Most Effective Teacher-Student Relationship Strategy

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

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

“As Santa” Lets ELLs – & Everybody Else – Have A “Conversation” With Him

24by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

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 people saying it’s now taking the site a very long time to create them. Maybe it was just a temporary glitch. An alternative Santa activity

DEC 15

“Eight Strategies for Engaging in Culturally Relevant Teaching”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

Eight Strategies for Engaging in Culturally Relevant Teaching is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Mariana Souto-Manning answers questions about her book, “No More Culturally Irrelevant Teaching,” in the final post of a two-part series. Here are some excerpts:

New PBS NewsHour Video Segment: “Childhood trauma impacts millions of Americans, and it’s having devastating consequences”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

jarmoluk / Pixabay Here’s how the PBS NewsHour introduces tonight’s video: Childhood trauma impacts millions of Americans, and its consequences can be devastating. Those experiencing high levels of trauma can see dramatically lower life expectancies, and the CDC estimates it accounts for billions of dollars in healthcare costs and lost productivity. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports as part

SEL Weekly Update

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

I’ve recently begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists. You might also be interested in THE BEST SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES OF 2020 – PART TWO. Finally, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources . Here are this week’s picks: Connecting SEL to Academic

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

20by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

BiljaST / Pixabay Six years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO. A

Ed Tech Digest

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

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 some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2020 – PART TWO , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this w

A Beginning List Of Resources For Teaching About Racist Mascots

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

GDJ / Pixabay I have had these resources included in another list, New & Revised: The Best Resources I’ve Used In Lessons About Race & Racism , and had been meaning to start its own one. The Cleveland Indians decision to change its name reminded me about it, so here’s a beginning list that will grow rapidly – feel free to make suggestions! Here’s what I have so far: A Super-Simple, Step-by-Step G

DEC 14

Infographic: “Mapping The World’s Refugee Population”

27by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

Peggy_Marco / Pixabay I’m adding this new infographic to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day : You will find more infographics at Statista

Tuesday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

fas / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Schools Will Close in Germany as Cases Surge is from The NY Times. We need a Marshall Plan for our schools. And we need it now. appeared in The Washington Post. Districts Were Trending Toward Reopening. That All Changed One Week in November. is from EdSurge. Covid: heads call for all lesson

“Author Interview: ‘No More Culturally Irrelevant Teaching’”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

Author Interview: ‘No More Culturally Irrelevant Teaching’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Mariana Souto-Manning discusses her book, which highlights designing spaces where BIPOC students feel, see, and experience belonging. Here are some excerpts:

A Look Back: The Lessons Our ELL Students Taught Their Schoolmates – Downloadable Book Included!

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

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 . Mojpe / Pixabay Editor’s Note: Guest Post: What ELLs Taught Our School In A Week-Long Empathy Project is a very popular post by Pam Buric, the writer of today’s post, about an annual project students do at our school – ELLs write about

No Surprise: Teachers In High-Poverty Schools Get Penalized When Observed For Evaluation Purposes

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

It will come as no surprise to many teachers in low-income communities that when they are observed for evaluation purposes, they are often penalized for conditions beyond their control. And it will not come as any additional surprise that African American teachers are the ones who suffer the most because of it. You can read more about the new study reaching these conclusions – as well as seeing l

Education Week Unveils Major New Redesign

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

Education Week unveiled its major new redesign today , and it definitely looks different. It’s definitely much better in many ways from its previous one, which was stuck in the 1990’s. It will also take long-time readers (like me) awhile to get used to My Classroom Q&A column is still alive and kicking, and can be found at its usual url address , though it, too, looks very different. No new conte

DEC 13

Sandy Hook Massacre Happened Eight Years Ago – Here Are Related Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

December 14th is always a sad day. You can find many related resources at NOT VERY “BEST” LISTS OF THE WEEK: GUN VIOLENCE .

The Award For The Most Insulting, Dehumanizing & Obnoxious Education Quote Of The Year Goes To…..

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

This quotation is from the leader of CREDO , a pro-charter organization with a dubious reputation in the education world, certainly will not help improve it. It’s from today’s USA Today article, Students are falling behind in online school. Where’s the COVID-19 ‘disaster plan’ to catch them up?

The Best Annual Reviews Of Education Research – 2020

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

Free-Photos / Pixabay Here’s another post I’m adding to ALL END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2020 IN ONE PLACE! You can see all my ed research related “best” lists here . The ed research review list is always pretty short – every year it includes the one I post, Edutopia’s, Chalkbeat’s and the one from The Hechinger Report. I’m publishing this post when only mine and Edutopia’s are available, but wil

The Best Social Emotional Learning Resources Of 2020 – Part Two

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

My end-of-year “Best” list posts continue… I’m adding this post to ALL END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2020 IN ONE PLACE! I publish a regular series called SEL Weekly Update , and I thought it would useful to readers and to me to review them and highlight the ones I think are the best of the year. You might also be interested in “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources . All my

A Look Back: Responding To Racist “Go Back To Your Country” Trope

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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 . So many of our students have had to deal with taunts of “Go back to your country” over the years, and President Trump is doing his best to ensure it goes on for a long time to come. Hate Crimes In U.S. Increased By 17 Percent last year

Ella Baker Was Born On This Day In 1903 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

22by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

Madhana_gopal / Pixabay Famed Civil Rights organizer Ella Baker was born on December 13th 1903. You might be interested in my previous post, JOE BIDEN BEGAN HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH QUOTING ELLA BAKER – HERE ARE RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT HER. Ella Baker was beyond brilliant as an organizer and tactician. What I admire most in her was her profound commitment to people by listening to them and invi

DEC 12

My Twelve Favorite BAM! Radio Shows Of The Year – 2020

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

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

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

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”

23by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

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

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

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

21by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

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

by Larry Ferlazzo / 7d

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

by Larry Ferlazzo / 7d

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 (Civil War, Woman’s Suffrage, etc.) chockful of interactives, including e

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