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 ): It’s Time to Dump Deficit-Based Data is from Education Post. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Understanding How To Interpret Education Research . Florida says it’s ending year-end, high-stakes standardized testing. Here’
Tuesday’s New Articles On School ReopeningsClker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay Ordinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic . However, that list is just getting too massive. So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here: New York City can proceed with vaccine mandate for educators and staff, judges ruled. is from The NY Times. S
Guess What Language Is Being Spoken In “Ling Your Language” GameIn the Ling Your Language game, you listen to a short snippet of someone speaking and then guess what language is being spoken. You can also learn more about that particular language. It would be more useful in the classroom if it also showed a map demonstrating where each language was primarily spoken, but I guess you can’t you have everything…
Just Sent-Out Free Monthly Email Newslettergeralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the October issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter . It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here . Of course, you can also join the eighteen thousand others who subscribe to this blog daily. Here Are 8 Ways You Can Subscribe For Free…
CNN Video: “How do the 1918 and Covid-19 pandemics compare?”7089643 / Pixabay I’m adding this new CNN video to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS :
Are Schools Overlooking An Obvious Strategy They Can Implement Immediately To Accelerate Learning? Peer Tutors!geralt / Pixabay Though I think the “learning loss” narrative is generally harmful and overblown (see Trying To Bring Research, Sanity, Teacher Expertise & Student Voice To The “Learning Loss” Discussion ), I do think it’s accurate to say that some of our most vulnerable students (including English Language Learners) did not learn as much in the academic realm over the past eighteen months as the
My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On The Long-Term Effects Of The Pandemic On Our StudentsWhat Is the Long Term Impact of the Pandemic on Students and How Can We Help Today? is the topic of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show. I’m joined in the conversation by Michelle Shory, Caitlin O’Connor, and Amber Chandler, who have all contributed written commentaries to my Ed Week column . I’m adding it to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions .
World Teachers Day Is Coming Up – Here Are A Ton Of Related Resources12019 / Pixabay World Teachers Day, held annually on October 5th since 1994 – when it was created by UNESCO – celebrates teachers worldwide (in the United States, National Teacher Day is Tuesday in the first full week of May). You might be interested in The Best Resources To Learn About World Teachers Day.
It’s Banned Books Week – Here Are Teaching & Learning ResourcesIt’s Banned Books Week ! You might be interested in The Best Resources For Banned Books Week .
“‘Futures Thinking’ Can Help Schools Plan for the Next Pandemic”‘Futures Thinking’ Can Help Schools Plan for the Next Pandemic is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Here are some excerpts:
My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On Mistakes Districts Have Made During The PandemicMy latest ten-minute BAM! Radio show is on mistakes districts have made during the pandemic and what they – and we – can learn from them. I’m joined in the discussion by Altagracia (Grace) H. Delgado, PJ Caposey, Selena A. Carrión and Marci Harvey, who have all also contributed written commentaries to my Ed Week column. I’m adding it to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions .
New Edutopia Video: “Finishing Class Strong with Optimistic Closures”MemoryCatcher / Pixabay I’m adding this new Edutopia video to The Best Questions To Use For Class Closing Activities — What Are Yours?
Sunday’s New Articles On School ReopeningsOrdinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic . However, that list is just getting too massive. So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here: ‘I Need an Army’: Across America, Schools Cram for Their Covid Tests is from The NY Times. Schools in England struggling to stay open amid soari
My Favorite Posts That Appeared In SeptemberI regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here ). You can also see my all-time favorites here . I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series reviewing old favorite
A Look Back: According To New Research, Rita Pierson Was More Right Than Not When She Said, “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.”I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . Many teachers have seen the late Rita Pierson’s great TED Talk and, if you haven’t, it’s embedded at the bottom of this post. Perhaps the most quoted line from the video is “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.” Plenty of rese
A Look Back – This May Have Potential: Teachers Doing Low-Stakes Observations Of Their Colleagues Resulted In Improvements For BothI thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . geralt / Pixabay A new study in secondary schools found that teachers observing their colleagues two-or-three times and providing feedback using one-half of what lots of educators tell me is a ridiculously complex Danielson rubric resu
California Eliminates Word “Alien” From State LawsCalifornia Gov. Newsom signs law to replace term ‘alien’ with ‘noncitizen’ or ‘immigrant’ is new article from NBC News. As I indicated in an earlier post about similar changes to federal law , more substantial changes to support immigrants is needed, but words do matter. And our Governor and state legislature have also made many concrete changes to support help immigrants, including providing hea
