Friday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopeningsmohamed_hassan / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL (you might also be interested in SCHOOLS WENT REMOTE A YEAR AGO – HERE ARE MY CHOICES FOR THE BEST PIECES WRITTEN ABOUT SCHOOL REOPENING SINCE THEN): L.A. secondary school students face mostly online classes even when they return to campus is from The L.A. Times. The Superintendent
How My ELL History Students Have Evaluated Our Class – And Me!As regular readers know, at various times during the school year I have my students complete anonymous evaluations of our classes. I advise them that I always make the results public – to blog readers and to our administrators. Sometimes that commitment results in unexpected situations, like the year The Washington Post picked up on one of my blog posts and published an article with this headline
Most Popular Posts Of The WeekI’m making a change in the content of the regular feature. In addition to sharing the top five posts that have received the most “hits” in the preceding seven days (though they may have originally been published on an earlier date), I will also include the top five posts that have actually appeared in the past week. Often, these are different posts. You might also be interested in IT’S THE FOURTE
Wash. Post Publishes Most Useful Article Yet On Unaccompanied Minors CrisisI’ve been posting a lot recently about the rising numbers of unaccompanied minors entering the United States (see WOW STATISTIC OF THE DAY: 117,000 UNACCOMPANIED EXPECTED THIS YEAR and SHOULD SCHOOLS START PREPARING FOR A WAVE OF UNACCOMPANIED MINOR REFUGEES?). The Washington Post has just published THE article on what’s going on: Hundreds of minors are crossing the border each day without their
March 14th Is Pi Day – Here Are A Bunch Of Useful Videosgeralt / Pixabay Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th. You might be interested in THE BEST VIDEOS FOR CELEBRATING PI DAY .
A Beginning List Of Resources On Supporting Our Students As We Make Baby Steps Towards Returning To A Post-Pandemic ClassroomClker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay We’re moving from full-time distance learning to concurrent/hybrid in May and, with luck, we may get back to something that might approach “normal” in the fall. Since half of our high school student body is sixteen or older (and eligible for the vaccine) and – theoretically, at least – all of our students’ families would have been eligible for the vaccine by the
Schools Went Remote A Year Ago – Here Are My Choices For The Best Pieces Written About School Reopening Since Thenqimono / Pixabay What a year it’s been! It’s been twelve months since that fateful day when our physical school closed down, and we’ve been full-time distance learning since that day (we’re going back hybrid/concurrent shortly). I’ve obviously been posting continuously about how we’ve all been handling it (see Best Lists Of The Week: Teaching Online Amid School Closures ). Education journalist Al
Thursday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopeningssahinsezerdincer / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : LA reopening deal ends California’s biggest schools standoff is from Politico. L.A. schools could reopen starting in mid-April under deal with teachers is from The L.A. Times. Resources for Reopening Schools is a great new resource from The Learning Policy Institute. Slowly, Mo
Statistics Of The Day: Here Are Details On Education Funding In The New Stimulus PackageThe American Rescue Plan has been passed, and Congress approves massive infusion of funds for schools, and high-poverty districts will get the mos t, a new article in Chalkbeat, provides the best narrative description of what it means for schools. The Congressional Research Service has provided a detailed report about how much is going to each state for what exact education purpose. I know quite
It’s A Miracle! Kahoot Now Can Show Questions On The Same Screen As The AnswersI know tons of educators have been enthusiastically endorsing Kahoot for years. From my perspective, it’s been okay, but I’ve always thought it was weird that it didn’t show the questions on the same screen as the answers. It moved from being weird in my mind to not making any sense at all over the past year when, in order to use it, students had to split their screens. Though the Quizizz interfa
Actively Learn Upgrades All Teachers To “Prime” Through June 30thActively Learn is an excellent tool used by many teachers, and offers a free plan that many of us use. Its Prime plan, though, is much, much better, but a bit pricey. And pretty much the only way you can access it is if you can convince your school or district to ante up for it. Today, though, Actively Learn announced that all free accounts will be upgraded to Prime from March 15th to June 30th.
Learn About Electronic Music & Create Some Yourself With New Google ToolGoogle has just announced a new exhibition at Google Arts and Culture called Music, Makers & Machines: A Brief History of Electronic Music. A particularly neat part of it is a tool that lets you create your own electronic
