A Beginning List Of The Best Resources To Support Concurrent/Hybrid TeachingShafin_Protic / Pixabay As I shared yesterday, all the teachers and I believe most of the school-based administrators learned via a presentation at our school board meeting that they want us back in the classroom teaching in early May (see UMM, IT LOOKS LIKE WE MIGHT BE GOING HYBRID SOON….). Since they haven’t begun talking with our union yet, it’s too early to tell if it’s actually going to happ
Monday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopeningsllorcraft / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Guards, Generosity, Patience: A Volunteer Effort To Vaccinate Public School Workers is from NPR. No quick path to reopening L.A. Unified is emerging as school year slips away is from The L.A. Times. Will reserving vaccines for California teachers break school reopening logjam? is from
John Lewis Was Born On This Day In 1940 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources About His LifeJohn Lewis was born on this day in 1940. You might be interested in TERRIBLE NEWS: JOHN LEWIS HAS PASSED – LEARN ABOUT HIS LIFE . John Lewis was born on this day in 1940. We miss his leadership, but we are grateful for his years of activism and the path he and others so clearly charted: a path forward, laid by coalitions of those who kept marching for justice. Rest in power. https://t.co/UzoV9GcB
Video: “Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents – (Part 2)”Tumisu / Pixabay Last month, I shared Video: “Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents.” Here’s Part Two. I’m adding this new video from Wired to The Best “Language Maps” :
Classroom Instruction Resources Of The WeekEach week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. Of course, this is a crazy time for “classroom” instruction…. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2020 – PART TWO . Here are this week’s picks: Tell Me Something Funny is from Character Lab, and reminds us that not only
“Ten Ways to Use Retrieval Practice in the Classroom”is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Five educators explain why and how they use retrieval practice in their classroom. Here are some excerpts: I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Retrieval Practice .
Malcolm X Was Assassinated On This Day Fifty-Six Years Ago – Here Are Teaching & Learning ResourcesOpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Malcolm X was assassinated 56 years ago today. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning & Teaching About Malcolm X . My father in Cairo weeks before he’d be assassinated at age 39. Despite following his every move an FBI informant called him, “a man of high moral character who neither smokes nor drinks.” He spoke truth to power, and we know that tru
Umm, It Looks Like We Might Be Going Hybrid Soon….Our school district hasn’t had any negotiations with our union about it, but it appears we might be shifting from full-time distance learning to a hybrid model pretty soon – at least, according to the presentation made at our local School Board meeting a thirty-six hours ago (as you can see from the slide reproduced at the top of this post). It all has to be negotiated, so who knows if it’s going
Not Necessarily The “Best,” But Some Useful Resources For Teaching About The Mars Rover PerseveranceWikiImages / Pixabay I don’t have time this weekend to pull together an extensive list on NASA’s Perseverance, but I thought I’d share a few that I think are particularly useful. You might also be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About The Mars Rover Curiosity : We all have to start with NASA’s teaching resources themselves: the Perseverance mission main page , collection of images , and
March Is Women’s History Month – Here Are Teaching & Learning ResourcesStockSnap / Pixabay March is Women’s History Month in the United States. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About Women’s History .
