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 2021 – PART ONE. Finally, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources . Here are this week’s picks: Best way to avoid procrast
A Look Back: New Study Finds A Specific Form Of “Collaboration” Gets The Best ResultsThis blog has gained many new readers over the past year. Because of that, I thought it might be worth sharing a daily “A Look Back” where I share a best post from the past fourteen years. You can also see all of my choices for “Best” posts here . This post appeared in August, 2018. I’ve written extensively in some of my books about the difference between cooperative learning and collaborative le
Christmas, Hanukkah, & Kwanzaa Are All Coming Up – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resourcesmonicore / Pixabay It’s that time of year… You might be interested in The Best Places To Learn About Christmas, Hanukkah, & Kwanzaa (I just did my annual cleaning out of dead links).
Best Videos For Educators In 2021 – Part TwoIt continues to be time for end-of-year “Best” lists. Now it’s time for the Best Videos For Educators. You can see all my previous “Best” lists related to videos and movies (and there are a lot since I’ve doing this since 2007) here. Note that they’re also continually revised and updated. Here are my picks from the second half of 2021: I’m adding this tweeted video to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST
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
Meme Of The Week: Teachers As “Two Guys On A Bus”I’ve been making a fair number of school-related memes lately, and you can see them all at The Best Tools For Making Internet ” Memes . Here’s my latest, and you can make your own here .
A Look Back: “Giving Thanks: Eleven Key People Who Changed My Professional Career(s) — For The Better!”© 2012 Hey Paul Studios , Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio (Editor’s Note: I originally shared a version of this piece in 2014, and thought it would be appropriate to re-post it today) One of my favorite bloggers – Alexander Russo — wrote an excellent post several years ago titled Giving Thanks: 6 Key Moments That Changed My Post-Grad School Career . It’s inspired me to do something similar: 1. The lat
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
Video: “Nikole Hannah-Jones: ‘1619 tells you more about this country than 1776 does’”mmi9 / Pixabay A book about The 1619 Project was published earlier this month (see AMAZING EDUCATION SITE FOR THE 1619 PROJECT UNVEILED! ) and much has been written about it. This ABC interview with its creator and co-author, Nikole Hannah-Jones, provides a good overview of the book and project, including a discussion of the inaccurate criticism it has received. You might also be interested in US
A Look Back: Google’s “Interpreter Mode” Makes It Easier For Teachers & Parents To Talk If They Don’t Speak Each Other’s LanguagesI thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from the past. You can see the entire collection of best posts from the past thirteen years here . Google has added what they call “Interpreter Mode” to the mobile Google Assistant app. Download the free app, say something like “Be my Spanish translator,” and it will automatically translate in wr
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 ): School closures haunt Democrats as frustrated parents cast their votes is from Yahoo News. It’s an interesting analysis of the Virginia election. However, based on other reports (see POLL SAYS U.S. PARENTS ARE SATISFIED WITH TH
New Teaching & Learning Resources Offering Native American Perspectives On ThanksgivingHere are new additions to The Best Sites To Teach and Learn About Thanksgiving : What Thanksgiving Means Today to the Native American Tribe That Fed the Pilgrims is from TIME. Here are Thanksgiving resources from The National Museum of the American Indian. 6 Things Every Non-Native Should Do On Thanksgiving is from HuffPost. The story of the first Thanksgiving, as most Americans have been taught
“World AIDS Day” Is On December 1st – Here Are Teaching & Learning ResourcesGDJ / Pixabay The United Nations has declared December 1st to be World AIDS Day . You might be interested in The Best Web Resources For Learning About HIV & AIDS .
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
A Look Back: “Data-Driven” Versus “Data-Informed”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 . I published this post in 2009, and it received a lot of positive feedback. I later dramatically expanded on the topic in my The Best Resources Showing Why We Need To Be “Data-Informed” & Not “Data-Driven” list. Two very talented educat
I Suspect Students Would Be Interested In Tonight’s Launch Of An Asteroid Hunter/DeflectorI suspect many students have seen movies about a killer asteroid headed to earth. Tonight, NASA is launching a rocket that will test a planetary defense against them. The Washington Post has published an interactive about it , and here’s a video with more info:
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
2021’s Best Posts From This Blog – Part TwoTwice each year, I post my favorite posts that appeared in during the previous six months. This post is for my favorites from the second half of 2021. You can see my favorites from the first half of the year at 2021’S BEST POSTS FROM THIS BLOG – SO FAR! You can see my choices for each of the past thirteen years here. And you can also see a list of my My All-Time Favorite Posts! Here are my choice
My Two VERY Popular Gratitude Lessons – One For ELLs, Another For More English-Proficient StudentsNOTE: I’m republishing this post from 2017 since both of these lessons are extremely popular this week, and thought new readers might want to hear about them. (Editor’s Note: I originally published this post in 2015) I’ve previously posted about A Simple & Effective Classroom Lesson On Gratitude , one that I’ve done with my mainstream and Advanced ELL classes. I’m modifying it this year for my Lo
