Wednesday’s Articles On School ReopeningsMIH83 / Pixabay Here are today’s additions to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic : San Francisco schools will require teachers and other staff to be vaccinated or face weekly testing is from The San Francisco Chronicle. GOP Governors Double Down on Orders Barring Mask Mandates in Schools is from US News. We Studied One Million Students. This Is What W
“Q&A Collections: Using Technology With Students”Q&A Collections: Using Technology With Students is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Ten years of advice on “what and how” to use ed-tech to improve instruction. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
Tuesday’s Articles & Videos On School Reopeningssonja_paetow / Pixabay Here are today’s additions to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic : All Denver teachers, other school staff must get vaccinated per new city order is from Chalkbeat. Amid Delta Variant, School Districts Are Divided Over Mask And Vaccine Mandates is from NPR. As California schools reopen, will there be a surge in independent study
Blocked Video Meme – & How You Can Make Your OwnAs regular readers know, I’ve been on a meme-creating kick. You can see my previous ones at The Best Tools For Making Internet ” Memes.” You can make your own version of this one here .
A Look Back: Five Key Lessons I’ve Learned About Distance Learning This SemesterI thought that new – and long-time – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . I’ll start with my favorites from earlier this year. Wokandapix / Pixabay I have been regularly documenting what’s been working and what hasn’t been working, along with my fears and concerns for the future. Now that the semester is e
Am I The Only One Who Didn’t Know It’s Easy To Copy ALL The Google Classroom Assignments From A Previous Year At One Time?I spent some time today beginning to wrap my head around classes for the next school year (that does not mean I spent time thinking about how to handle the large numbers of students who will likely be in-and-out of quarantine – I’ll hold off thinking about that ). I put out a question on social media asking how it was possible to copy an existing assignment from a previous year’s Google Classroom
A Look Back: I Think This Is A Brilliant Idea For An Opening Class Ritual – Here’s How I’m Modifying It For Distance LearningI thought that new – and long-time – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . I’ll start with my favorites from earlier this year. Earlier today, I read an Edutopia piece headlined A Daily Ritual That Builds Trust and Community Among Students . It was written by teacher Henry Seton. In it, he describes a daily
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
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
Monday’s Articles On School Reopeningstorstensimon / Pixabay Here are today’s additions to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic : Florida OKs school vouchers in districts requiring masks is from The Associated Press. Fears as more children falling ill in latest US Covid surge and school approaches https://t.co/Hb7BPjfB3W — Guardian Education (@GuardianEdu) August 8, 2021 Arkansas Gov. Asa H
A Beginning List To Learn About The 2022 Beijing Winter OlympicsYazanMRihan / Pixabay The Tokyo Summer Olympics ended yesterday (see A Beginning List For Learning About The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics ), and the Winter Olympics will take place six months from now. Quite a few of the resources in the Tokyo “Best” list, primarily the ones about the history of the Olympics, are relevant to the upcoming Winter games. You might also be interested in A Beginning Lis
“Q&A Collections: Cooperative & Collaborative Learning”Q&A Collections: Cooperative & Collaborative Learning is the headline of my latest Education Week column. It includes links to ten year’s of posts on the topic. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
A Look Back: Here Are Six Lesson Plans About Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration PoemI thought that new – and long-time – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . I’ll start with my favorites from earlier this year. Tumisu / Pixabay As everyone knows, Amanda Gorman read an amazing poem today at President Biden’s inauguration. Here are some lesson plans (see the latest one below the video), alo
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
Depressing Statistic Of The Day: One Million Disappeared StudentsThe Kindergarten Exodus is a must-read New York Times article. The question is: How are districts planning on tracking these children down? Unfortunately, I’m pessimistic about the possibilities of success….
Statistic Of The Day: U.S. Way Behind Evacuating Interpreters From AfghanistanU.S. evacuation of Afghans likely to drag on after American troops leave is a new NBC News article detailing the shameful failure of the U.S. in getting interpreters out of Afghanistan. We can only hope our government speed it up to save their lives, and the lives of their families. Many of us will have their children in our classes, and I hope they are not scarred by the experience.
State Of CA Sets-Up Website For Parents & Teachers To Make Safety Complaints, Then Ignores ALL of ThemThanks to my colleague Kara Synhorst, I learned about this new article from the Sacramento NBC affiliate, Thousands of COVID-19 safety complaints by teachers, parents being ignored by state. Here’s why . So, the California State Department of Public Health set up a complaint site but, in response to the article, said it “does not have a responsibility to respond to safety complaints.” Huh?
For What It’s Worth, Here’s A Little Classroom Management Advice From Memohamed_hassan / Pixabay Who would have thought that Bored Panda, of all places, would do a feature on supposed ‘disrespectful’ comments made by students and then ask me for my suggestions on how teachers should respond to them? They did! You can check it out here . I’m adding it to Best Posts On Classroom Management .
