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:
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 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 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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’ 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:
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
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 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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
