9-17-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL:

An ESL Teacher’s Good Friend –”America’s Funniest Home Videos” — Turns 25

American’s Funniest Home Videos, whose DVD collections have been a great tool in my English Language Learner classes, is turning twenty-five years old, and The New York Times is marking the occasion with a lengthy article, A Generation of Unintended Laughs: ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ Turns 25. The program, which now also has a very popular YouTube channel is a great source of videos to use

5 by Larry Ferlazzo / 13min hide  //  save

Our School’s Writing Assessment For Some Students With Special Needs

© 2011 Vassilis, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio I’ve shared many writing prompts that I use in my classes (see My Best Posts On Writing Instruction). Included in that “Best” list is a very popular post by my colleague and English Department leader Lara Hoekstra. In it, she describes a pretty sophisticated fall and spring writing assessment process we use with all of the students at our school. Stud

4 by Larry Ferlazzo / 13min 

“What Books Should Teachers Read?”

What Books Should Teachers Read? is the latest question-of-the-week at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your suggestions there or in the comments section of this blog.

3 by Larry Ferlazzo / 18min 

My BAM! Radio Show “Kicks-Off” A New Season With Episode On Teacher Attire

My weekly ten-minute BAM! Radio Show has just kicked-off a new season with an episode where educators Renee Moore and Roxanna Elden discuss how gender, class and race relate to the question of teacher attire. You can also listen to the previous twenty-one episodes at the same link.

5 by Larry Ferlazzo / 18min 

Search For Historical Word Use In Movies With “Bookworm”

I’ve previously written about several web tools that let you search for word usage in various places — books, the NY Times, Yelp — and then chart them out over the years. You can read about all of them here. There’s a new addition to that list — Bookworm. Despite its name, it focuses on word use in the movies, and operates in a similar fashion to the other sites I mentioned. Type in a word or phr

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“More Advice On Teacher Attire”

More Advice On Teacher Attire is Part Two in my Ed Week series on….teacher attire. In it, educator Robyn R. Jackson shares her thoughts – particularly for women educators. I’m also publishing comments from many, many readers.

3 by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h 

9-16-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: A comic that perfectly demonstrates the potential downside of tech in the classroomI’m adding this Frazz comic strip to The Best Posts & Articles Highlighting Why We Need To Be Very Careful Around Ed Tech:3 by Larry Ferlazzo / 15min hide  //  saveTwo New iPad Resources That Look IntriguingHere are two new intriguing res

1 by mike simpson / 6h 

9-17-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:

Susan Sadlowski-Garza.

Mr. Klonsky, I hope this email finds you well. I know we have been in the same room on several occasions and I am a avid reader of your blog. My father, Ed Sadlowski, was recently mentioned in your blog. I showed it to him and he said it was nonsense that we was mentioned in the same sentence as Hampton, Studs, etc. Nonetheless, he and I were flattered to say the least. I am not sure if you heard

8 by Fred Klonsky / 44min 

Biss and Manar want schools to make do with less. SB16.

Skokie District 65 Superintendent Paul Goren. 40% of his students are low-income. SB 16 will cause his district to lose money. When our chapter of IEA Retired (S.O.R.E.) attends politicians town hall meetings Harriet calls them field trips. Or when we hold a soup kitchen outside pension thief Robyn Gabel’s office? A Field trip. When we confronted State Senator Dan Biss at his Skokie district offi

1 by Fred Klonsky / 32min 

Hooray for cartoonists.

Dykes to Watch Out For cartoonist Alison Bechdel won the MacCarthur Award this morning. Hooray for cartoonists.

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Leadership.

3 by Fred Klonsky / 2h 

9-16-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: S.O.R.E. field trip. Town Hall with Senators Biss and Manar on school funding, Special Needs.Illinois State Senators Dan Biss and Andy Manar. Members of our retired IEA chapter are concerned about our pensions. Not just our pensions. We are concerned about the preservation of public schools. That mean

3 by mike simpson / 7h 

9-17-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online:

An ICEer Comments on the Sharpton March

Judging an organization's commitment to social justice on the basis of how they stand on a demo called by one of the most dishonest people on the face of the earth is absurd... A member of ICEWith lots of back and forth inside MORE over MORE's ambiguity on the Eric Garner march, one of the founders of ICE, who has not taken part in anything related to MORE, commented off-list on the debate. He was

1 by ed notes online / 0min 

MY TIP and IPC Story - by John Elfrank-Dana

AP: The evaluator chooses if video will be used. (She points out rightly that the UFT gave the discretion of video to the evaluator instead of the evaluated. Way to go Mulgrew!)... JED Another gem from John. Isn't it great to be on F-You time?Warning – Kids don’t try this at your school. This teacher has one year to go before retirement.TIP Responses:AP: Mr. Elfrank-Dana, What are your areas of st

1 by ed notes online / 45min 

9-16-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: A Letter to Janella: Is Bergtraum Special?This is the second time in 4 years this chapter has managed to convince a Chancellor but NOT THEIR OWN UNION, that a principal is abusive... Elfrank-Dana, CL, Murry Bergtraum HSHo hum, par for the course -- the UFT protecting principals over teachers for their pals at the CSA.I love John Elfrank-Dana -- He's so prolific I don't even have t

1 by mike simpson / 1h 

9-17-14 Wait What? - Malloy’s Fundraising Operation – CT Democratic Chair – The pot that called the kettle black

Wait What?:

CT Democratic Chair – The pot that called the kettle black

“The pot calling the kettle black” is an idiom used to claim that a person is guilty of the very thing of which they accuse another. For example, “Oho!” said the pot to the kettle; “You are dirty and ugly and black! Sure no one would think you were metal, Except when you’re given a […] The post CT Democratic Chair – The pot that called the kettle black appeared first on Wait What?.

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Malloy’s Fundraising Operation – “Offensive but not illegal”

As noted earlier this week in Wait, What? post entitled, Three cheers for campaign finance corruption in Connecticut!, Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy and his campaign operation has collected at least $3.5 million for his campaign by directing large campaign contributors to make donations to the Democratic State Central Committees “federal” account.  Much of the money […] The post Malloy’s Fundraisin

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Jumoke Charter School Company back in the news due to missing computers

The disgraced charter school company that got tens of millions of taxpayer dollars thanks to no-bid contracts from the Malloy administration is back in the news. Apparently the constant flow of checks from Commissioner Stefan Pryor’s Department of Education wasn’t enough to appease the charter school company and its management. The Hartford Courant is reporting […] The post Jumoke Charter School C

7 by jonpelto / 3h 

9-16-14 Wait What? - Why Malloy’s (and Foley’s) anti-tax pledge is anti-middle class

Wait What?: Why Malloy’s (and Foley’s) anti-tax pledge is anti-middle classIn a September 3, 2014 Wait, What? post entitled, Foley and Malloy are just plain wrong on taxes, the blog explained that Malloy and Foley are be fiscally irresponsible with their pledge not to propose or raise taxes if they are elected. The article begins with the following; Although Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy is fond […

1 by mike simpson / 7h 

The Answer Sheet 9-17-14

Answer Sheet:

More students are illegally downloading college textbooks for free

It’s hard (if not impossible) to know just how prevalent this practice is, but some college students around the country are uploading their expensive college textbooks onto the Internet so other students can download them for free and avoid the hefty fees that are sometimes more than $200 a book. Voactiv.com has a story titled […]

1 by Valerie Strauss / 0min 

Four Common Core ‘flimflams’

Award-winning Principal Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York was once a supporter of the Common Core but came to be a critic after her state began to implement the initiative. (You can read some of her work on the botched implementation  in New York here,  here, here and here.)  Burris was named […]

400+ by Valerie Strauss / 5h 

The Answer Sheet 9-16-14

Answer Sheet: How Common Core’s recommended books fail children of colorCritics of the Common Core  have questioned a number of different aspects of the standards, including how they were written, whether they are developmentally appropriate and whether too much emphasis has been placed on non-fiction at the cost of literature. Here is a look at an issue that has gotten little attention: How the r

by mike simpson / 7h 

9-17-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

Hemlock on the Rocks:

LAUSD School Police Will Give up Grenade Launchers - COLORLINES

DOOOOONTCHOOOO BELIEVE IT! http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/09/lausd_school_police_will_give_up_grenade_launchers.html LAUSD School Police Will Give up Grenade Launchers a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle Photo: Wikimedia Commons Los Angeles Unified School District police officials announced Tuesday that the agency will return three grenade launchers to the federal governmen

by Rene Diedrich / 46min 

LAUSD Students Stage A Walkout In Classrooms Without Air-Conditioning: LAist

http://laist.com/2014/09/17/lausd_might_have_a_tank.php LAUSD Students Stage A Walkout In Classrooms Without Air-Conditioning Franklin High School (Google Maps) LAUSD might have a tank that was built to fight insurgents in Iraq, but students and teachers are complaining that it doesn't have are functioning air conditioning units in all of its classrooms. The situation reached a breaking point t

by Rene Diedrich / 47min 

LA Times Blames LAUSD School Board for Deasy’s Mistakes | Diane Ravitch's blog

http://dianeravitch.net/2014/09/16/la-times-blames-lausd-school-board-for-deasys-mistakes/ LA Times Blames LAUSD School Board for Deasy's Mistakes Howard Blume of The Los Angeles Times has done a remarkable job of reporting about Superintendent John Deasy's huge problems in managing the school system, the most monumental of them being his decision to borrow from a construction bond issue to buy A

by Rene Diedrich / 2h 

9-16-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

Hemlock on the Rocks: Do You Have VIABLE Complaints Against LAUSD? Check this out ....Teaching Community, Have you filled out your Grand Jury Complaint Form asking for theLos Angeles Grand Jury to investigate Superintendent Deasy forabuse of power ? If not review the forms attached.1) Grand Jury Complaint Example Form with 2nd Page Instructions2) Blank Grand Jury Complaint Form (to be printed out

by mike simpson / 7h