Minneapolis Teachers Are Still On Strike – Will We Be Next In Sacramento?OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Minneapolis teachers remain on strike today . Here in Sacramento today, over 95% of teachers AND classified staff (about 95% of the entire Sacramento City Unified School District’s workforce) voted to go on strike if the district leadership doesn’t make substantial changes in how it’s operating, including providing adequate staff support for students. Their ability t
March 25th Is “International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade” – Here Are Teaching ResourcesEngin_Akyurt / Pixabay[/caption] The United Nations has declared March 25th to be the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. You might be interested in USEFUL RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRINGING ENSLAVED AFRICANS TO AMERICA .
A Look Back: 20 Tools For Creating Online “Corkboards/Bulletin Boards”I’m continuing my “A Look Back” series by looking at past “Best” lists and updating them. PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay I originally posted The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”) in 2011, and have been regularly revising and updating it. It has consistently been one of my most popular posts over the years. The post includes sites like Padlet , Popplet , Idea Flip , and seven
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 2021. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In additi
New Resources For Teaching About The Russia/Ukraine War – Everyday!andriish22 / Pixabay Just a reminder that I usually add one-to-three new teaching resources everyday to The Best Teaching & Learning Resources About The Russia/Ukraine Conflict. Let me know what you think I’m missing!
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: Setting Up a Disability-Inclusive Curriculum is from Edutopia. Looking at Data Through an Equity Lens comes from ASCD Educational Leaders
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 ): Because some districts, like our own in Sacramento, have unskilled leadership —— Layoff notices are back in some California school districts in a year of plenty: How come? https://t.co/UwNSPCC3WI via @edsource — Larry Ferlazzo
Research Studies Of The WeekI often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature . By the way, you mig
A Look Back: 37 Tools For Creating Online Learning GamesI’m continuing my “A Look Back” series by looking at past “Best” lists and updating them. ExplorerBob / Pixabay I originally published The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games in 20o8, and have been revising and updating it ever since that time. It has consistently been the most popular post on my blog. You can learn about Class Tools , Philologus, Jeopardy Labs , educaplay , and thir
Friday’s New Articles & Tweets About 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: Too Many Americans Don’t Understand What Happens in Their Schools is from The NY Times. Though the headline says our district has lifted the mas
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
A Look Back: I Created My Own News Aggregator With AllTop – You Can Use Mine Or Create Your Own(I’ve been sharing past posts for new readers to see. This one originally appeared in early 2021.) AllTop has been around awhile. It’s a “news aggregator” – it identifies a number of topics and then creates pages on them with updated stories from different sites specializing in those topics. The stories are updated by RSS feeds which, prior to the advent of social media ten years ago, which was t
March 25th Is “International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade” – Here Are Teaching Resourcesorythys / Pixabay The United Nations has declared March 25th to be the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. You might be interested in USEFUL RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRINGING ENSLAVED AFRICANS TO AMERICA .
Four Videos About Florida’s Ridiculous “Don’t Say Gay” BillOpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay The awful “Don’t Say Gay” bill has passed the Florida Legislature and been sent to the Governor. Here are some videos about it (you might also want to check out THE BEST WAYS TO SUPPORT LGBTQ STUDENTS ):
Depressing Statistic Of The Day: BIG Disappointment In Title 1 FundingPresident Biden had said he wanted to triple funding for Title 1 schools. Today, he settled for a six percent increase. It was great he got so much money to schools during the pandemic. But that was all temporary. We’ll probably be better off in California because of Prop 98, which requires that a certain percentage of the state budget has to be spent on K-12 schools, and because of the Local Con
Google’s New “Aloud” Tool Could Be A Huge Asset To Teachers Who Want To Make Their Content Accessible To ELLsToday, Google unveiled a new tool called Aloud . If you create a video in one language, you just upload the text narration and Aloud will “dub” your video in one of several languages (and they plan on adding more). So, according to Google, it would be simple for a teacher who creates their own videos in English to make others dubbed in the home language of ELL students. Just as many content teach
Study Finds That Remote Teaching Wasn’t Necessarily Prime Challenge Affecting Student Learning – Everything Else Probably WasDistance learning has justifiably received a ton of criticism over the past two years, from me, included. In-person teaching and learning is clearly better for students, families and teachers. But, most of us teachers tried really, really hard to do a good job at remote learning, as did most students. A new study shows that it paid off – most students learning remotely advanced academically as mu
The Coolest Video You’ll See Today: “Endurance: Shackleton’s ship found 107 years after sinking in Antarctic”SarahNic / Pixabay They just found The Endurance! Read about it at Lost in 1915, Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance found off coast of Antarctica . And, watch this amazing video: Read more about Shackleton’s exploration here .
“It’s Time to Debunk the Myths About Standardized Tests”It’s Time to Debunk the Myths About Standardized Tests is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Professional learning communities can help crack the code to measuring a student’s success. Here are some excerpts:
A Look Back: Eight Ways To Easily Create Online TimelinesI’m continuing my “A Look Back” series by looking at past “Best” lists and updating them. mohamed_hassan / Pixabay I originally posted The Best Tools For Making Online Timelines in 2008, and have been revising and updating it regularly since that time. There are now at least eight useful tools there, including TimeToast , Knightlab Timeline , Time.Graphics , and five more. You’ll also find some o
