“Five Teacher-Recommended Strategies to Support Students With Learning Differences”Five Teacher-Recommended Strategies to Support Students With Learning Differences is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Three science educators share their favorite instructional strategies, including incorporating a sense of play in their classes. Here are some excerpts:
Three New Resources About Historic Mapscarloslorite / Pixabay Here are three new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About Historic Maps : Historical Maps from Around the World is from Google Earth. 6 of the World’s Oldest Maps is from Discover. Story Maps from the Library of Congress don’t exactly fit in with the other links on the “Best” list, but it’s close enough. Here’s how they describe it: Story Maps at the Library of Cong
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
Friday’s Articles & Videos On School Reopeningsandremsantana / Pixabay Here are today’s additions to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic : Texas School Administrators Go Door To Door To Bring Students Back To The Classroom is from NPR. Confusion over mask mandate for California schools sparks tension between districts and parents is from Ed Source. As new school year looms, debates over mask mandat
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 seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here ): California Will Launch The Nation’s Largest Free Student Lunch Program is from NPR. The short- and long-run impacts of secondary school absences is a new research paper. Why a new law requiring Asian American history in schools
Check Out Two-Hundred Of My Ten-Minute BAM Radio Shows & Look For A New Season To Begin In September!Regular readers know that I host a ten-minute BAM! Radio show that accompanies many of my Education Week columns. I’ve been doing it for many years, and you can find two-hundred of them at All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions . I’m planning on beginning a new season in September, so you can look forward to many new episodes!
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
Hmong-American Sunisa Lee Wins The Gold!What a feat! Sunisa Lee Is Representing America in the Tokyo Olympics—and a Community America Left Behind is a new TIME article worth reading, and you can learn more about her at my previous post, SUNISA LEE, HMONG-AMERICAN GYMNAST, GOING TO THE OLYMPICS! Suni Lee’s family after winning gold in the all-around competition Priceless. (via @Gia_Vang ) pic.twitter.com/eTmrxCKqP4 — Bleacher Report (@B
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. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2021 – PART ONE . Here are this week’s picks: Grades Have Huge Impact, But Are They Effective? is from MindShift. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Grading Practices . What is fo
I’m Planning To Use These Four Online Tools When I Teach Government To ELLs Next Year – Do You Have Other Suggestions?Clker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay I’ll be teaching Government and Economics to ELLs for the first time this coming school year. Yesterday, I shared some online tools I was considering using for economics. Here are the ones I’ll considering using for Government – let me know what you think and what I’m missing: Brainpop iCivics USA Learns USA Hello ReadWorks Newsela
July’s Most Popular PostsAs regular readers know, at the end of each week I share the five most popular posts from the previous seven days. I thought people might find it interesting to see a list of the ten most popular posts from the previous thirty days. You might also be interested in IT’S THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BLOG – HERE ARE THE FORTY ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR POSTS . Not to mention THE TWENTY MOST POPULAR
Another Day, Another Lamentation About Learning LossThe NY Times published a piece on “learning loss” today headlined The Pandemic Hurt These Students the Most . Fortunately, the article also included some pushback on the narrative (see textbox above) and this line: Contrary to images conjured by phrases like “learning loss,” almost all students made gains during the pandemic, just at a slower rate than normal. Listen, I don’t dispute that some st
“Q&A Collections: Implementing the Common Core”Q&A Collections: Implementing the Common Core is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Ten years of posts sharing lots of advice and experiences related to applying the Common Core State Standards. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
Infographic: “How Indigenous Are Countries in the Americas?”dlewisnash / Pixabay I’m adding this new infographic to The Best Sites For International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People : You will find more infographics at Statista
I’d Like To Use One Of These Online Economics Self-Paced Programs With ELLs – Do You Have Recommendations About Which Ones Are Best?Peggy_Marco / Pixabay I’d like to use an online economics/financial literacy tool with my English Language Learner students this fall. There are several self-paced free programs that I’ve had listed for awhile at The Best Sites For Learning Economics & Practical Money Skills , but I haven’t checked them out recently. If I have to, of course, I’ll carefully revisit them all to determine which one
This Is A Very Good Piece On Simon Biles & The Shortcomings Of The “Grit” ConceptI suspect the vast majority of us applaud Simon Biles for putting her well-being ahead of anyone’s expectations of what she should be doing. Slate just published a good piece headlined How Parents Should Talk to Their Kids About Simone Biles . It’s a good reflection on the limitations of the concept of “grit” and how to make sure it isn’t used to harm. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Lear
CDC Now Recommends Everybody In Schools Use Masks – Will States Listen?The CDC made a good move today, and you can read about it in The Washington Post article, CDC to urge vaccinated people to resume wearing masks indoors in some circumstances as delta variant spreads . The big question, of course, is if people will pay attention. A number of states have said schools cannot require masks (see STATISTIC OF THE DAY: MANY DISTRICTS MAKING MASKS OPTIONAL – WHAT COULD G
Guest Post “Labor-Based Grading For A More Just classroom”Editor’s Note: Last year I published two popular posts by my colleague Kara Synhorst: GUEST POST: “LABOR-BASED GRADING: THE EXPERIMENT” AN EARLY HOLIDAY GIFT TO FANS OF “LABOR-BASED GRADING” My colleague Antoine Germany has contributed this new “companion” post…. Antoine Germany is a teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif., and chair of its English Department. I can recall a s
The Anniversary Of The Hiroshima & Nagasaki Atomic Bombings Are Coming Up – Here are Teaching & Learning ResourcesTGrand / Pixabay Hiroshima was bombed on August 6th and Nagasaki on August 9th. If you in school and teaching about these tragedies, you might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About The Atomic Bombings Of Japan . You might also find this useful: The Best Sites For Learning About Nuclear Weapons
July’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,266 Of Them!Prawny / Pixabay Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,266 of them categorized here ): A BEGINNING LIST OF RESOURCES FOR SUPPORTING EDUCATORS TEACHING ENGLISH INTERNATIONALLY (OR WANTING TO) THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING HOW TO USE THE LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE APPROACH RESOURCES FOR H
