Three Infographics Of The Week: On The Ocean, Wildfires & Climate Change200degrees / Pixabay I’ve been sharing an infographic or two each week, and you can find previous ones here . You might also be interested in all my “Best” lists on infographics. Here are three this week: Beneath the blue: dive into a dazzling ocean under threat – interactive is from The Guardian. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Oceans . The age of the “megafire” is
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
The Best Social Emotional Learning Resources Of 2021 – Part OneMy mid-year “Best” list posts continue… I’m adding this post to All 2021 Mid-Year “Best” Lists 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 “Best” lis
Lesson Plans For Juneteenthwynpnt / Pixabay There are a ton of resources at The Best Resources For Learning About Juneteenth , including many lesson plans. Especially at this time of the year, I doubt if any teachers really have the energy to create something from scratch, so here are a few more resources offering additional ready-to-use classroom lessons: Lesson Plan: History of Juneteenth and why it’s set to become a nat
Pins Of The WeekI’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 22,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). You might also be interested in MY MOST POPULAR PINS OF 2020 Here
SEL Weekly UpdateI’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: A Writing Exercise That He
A Beginning List Of The Best Resources On Learning About Leadership – Share Your Owngeralt / Pixabay I’ve periodically shared posts on leadership and the qualities of good leadership, along with The Best Posts, Articles & Videos On “Teacher Leadership” — Contribute More! I thought it would be useful to bring those together in one “Best” list, and begin to add other related resources: No, The Dancing Guy Does Not Teach The Best Leadership Lessons A Look Back: “A Community Organiz
Five New Resources About Juneteenthwynpnt / Pixabay Here are four new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Juneteenth : Juneteenth Challenges A Narrative About America’s History is from Five Thirty Eight. Biden signs into law bill establishing Juneteenth as federal holiday is from NBC News. One Woman’s Decades-Long Fight To Make Juneteenth A U.S. Holiday is from NPR.
Our School Year Ended Todaygeralt / Pixabay I did a countdown on Twitter over the past twenty-four hours: Tomorrow is the last day of a very long school year pic.twitter.com/r8ghpoEYRu — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 16, 2021 I love teaching & am committed to my students AND I am VERY happy that today is the last day of the longest school year ever pic.twitter.com/Glpl0ch379 — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 17
End-Of-Year Student Evaluations Of Our Classes – Part One: Theory Of KnowledgeAs regular readers know, I have students complete anonymous class evaluations at various times of the year. One of the ways I try to communicate to them how serious I take them is by committing to sharing the results with school administrators and posting them here on my blog – warts and all. I never know where that can lead – like the year The Washington Post picked up my post and republished it
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy IssuesHere are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in THE BEST ARTICLES, VIDEOS & POSTS ON EDUCATION POLICY IN 2019 – PART TWO ): A Fading Coal County Bets on Schools, but There’s One Big Hitch is from The NY Times. Rich Schools, Poor Schools and a Biden Plan is from The NY Times. California’s biggest teacher union votes to defend Gov. Gavin
The Best Tools For Making Online Interactive Worksheetsgeralt / Pixabay It’s safe to say that creating online worksheets are not the ideal educational way to use tech during “normal” times but, as we have all learned during the past fifteen months, many of us have found them very useful in remote and concurrent teaching. And, I suspect, many of us might be continuing to use them at times in the future, mainly as homework. Here are a few tools for cre
“Artvee” Is An Amazing Search Engine For Millions Of Public Domain Images From Museums Around The WorldArtvee lets you search millions of public domain images from over forty major museums located around the world – and use them wherever and however you see fit! You can read more about it at Open Culture’s post, Download Great Works of Art from 40+ Museums Worldwide: Explore Artvee, the New Art Search Engine. I’m adding this info to: The Best Ways For Students To Create Their Own Online Art Collec
Ed Tech DigestTen 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 2021 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this we
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELLBiljaST / 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 2020. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In additi
Understatement Of The Year: Distrust Of District Leadership By Teachers “May” Linger Post-PandemicEd Source has an important article headlined Teachers report spring school reopenings were exhausting and unproductive. It’s based on a survey of California teachers but, based on my numerous conversations with teachers around the United States, the results reflect educator feelings nationally. There is no “may” about it – the pandemic has made transparent the lack of skilled leadership present a
New TED-Ed Video & Lesson Is On “The History of Toilets”jarmoluk / Pixabay The latest TED-Ed video and lesson is on “The History of Toilets.” I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About World Toilet Day & The Issue Of Public Sanitation In The Third World .
“Students Reimagine Education”Students Reimagine Education is the headline of my latest Education Week column, which is a guest post by Boston teacher Neema Avashia. The main features students are looking for are relevancy and supportive relationships. Here are some excerpts:
You Can Now Listen To My Classroom Q & A Podcasts On Spotify!Many – though not all – of my Classroom Q & A columns at Education Week are accompanied by a ten-minute BAM! podcast. There are now about two-hundred of them, which you can find at All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions . They have been available at a bunch of places, including iTunes, and now you can also listen to them on Spotify . The next season will begin in September!
Class Size Reduction Is About More Than Just Increasing Test ScoresI’m embarrassed to say that I had never heard of Edmund Gordon before reading today’s Washington Post piece, At 100 years old, Edmund Gordon thinks the key to schooling starts at home. Here’s how the interviewer describes him: A respected scholar, a founding father of the Head Start preschool program and expert on educational testing, Gordon has been called the premier Black psychologist of his g
