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

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

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

…For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Apollo 11 Launched On This Day In 1969 – Here Are Related Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 41min

Apollo 11 launched on this day in 1969. You might be interested in: The Best Sites To Learn About The Apollo 11 Moon Landing The Best Resources For Learning About Neil Armstrong Today in 1969: #Apollo11 launched on first mission to land humans on the Moon: https://t.co/UkZvAVVet9 pic.twitter.com/0vvlXbvyvU — SmithsonianAirSpace (@airandspace) July 16, 2017

The Best Resources On The Idea Of Evaluating Teacher “Input” Instead Of Student “Output”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 41min

I’ve shared a lot about teacher evaluations, including: The Best Resources For Learning About Effective Student & Teacher Assessments The Best Resources For Learning About The “Value-Added” Approach Towards Teacher Evaluation 

July’s (2017) Best Tweets – Part Three

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

Every month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I’ve already shared in earlier posts several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them. Those are not included again in post. If you don’t use Twitter, you can

Good PSA Video For ELLs & Everyone Else: “No call or text is worth your life”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 7h

This short video on texting moves from funny to tragic pretty quickly, and is accessible to English Language Learners. Having them talk and write about what happened in the funny parts, and then doing the same about the serious message at the end would be a great learning opportunity!

SEL Weekly Update

by Larry Ferlazzo / 7h

I’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: On Campus, Failure Is on the Syllabus is from The New York Times. I’m adding it to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures . Why does bullying cost California schools $276 million every year? is from

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The Best Sites For ELLs To Practice Online Dictation

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

Dictation exercises in class, where English Language Learners need to listen and write down what they hear, is an excellent language-learning practice (you can learn more about these classroom lessons at The Best Resources For Learning How To Use The Dictogloss Strategy With English Language Learners ). I have had online dictation sites on The Best Listening Sites For English Language Learners ,

Guest Post: Award Available For Latinx Educators

by Larry Ferlazzo / 16h

Editor’s Note: I’ve invited two exceptional, Dr. Isabel Baca and Lorena Germán, to write about an exciting opportunity for Latinx teachers and researchers (If you’re not familiar with the term “Latinx,” you can learn about it here . Dr. Isabel Baca is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso and is an active member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCT

This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues

by Larry Ferlazzo / 22h

© 2011 CGP Grey , Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in The Best Articles, Videos & Posts On Education Policy In 2017 – So Far ): Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Ban In Public Schools Goes To Trial is from NPR. I’m adding it to The Best Posts On The Value Of Ethnic Studies Classes – Help Me Find More . Auth

Ed Tech Digest

by Larry Ferlazzo / 23h

© 2009 Niyam Bhushan , Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Three years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech: Why Do Students in Personalized Learning Programs Feel Less Positive About School? is from Ed Tech Strategies

“Q & A Collections: Race & Gender Challenges”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Q & A Collections: Race & Gender Challenges is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. It includes links to all the columns on Race and Gender Challenges from the past six years! Here’s one excerpt:

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This Week In Web 2.0

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

In yet another attempt to get at the enormous backlog I have of sites worth blogging about, I post a regular feature called “The Week In Web 2.0.” (you might also be interested in The Twenty-Five Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2017 – So Far ). I also sometimes include tech tools or articles about them that might not exactly fit the definition of Web 2.0: Richard Byrne shared a good ex

Video: “A fraction of a second that changed the world”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

This is from CNN: In the New Mexico desert just before dawn on July 16th 1945 a chain reaction lasting a fraction of a second would alter the course of human history. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Nuclear Weapons .

Focusing On The Impact Classroom Disruptions Have On Others, Not On The Students Doing The Disrupting

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

As many teachers already know, one of the most effective responses we can make to classroom management problems is by saying: “I’m not feeling respected right now.” Assuming you have good relationships with your students, I’m not really sure if there’s anything better we can say in the moment. Of course, it’s also important for us to follow-up later with the main student or students who appeared

Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

© 1970 Pip R. Lagenta , Flickr | CC-BY-ND | via Wylio Each 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 

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

With A Brooklyn Accent: When Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Swept the Land

With A Brooklyn Accent: When Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Swept the Land:

When Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Swept the Land

During and after World War I, anti-immigrant hysteria swept the nation, focusing largely on Catholic and Jewish immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. Some of the results of that hysteria were:

The Prohibition of alcoholic beverages by Constitutional Amendment

A Red Scare resulting in the jailing and deportation of thousands of immigrant radicals

The resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan as an anti-Catholic, anti-foreign and anti-wet organization as well as an anti-Black one.

The passage of draconian immigration restriction legislation, favoring immigrants from Norther Europe, which restricted total immigration from 1,100,000 in 1919 to under 100,000 by the late 1920's.

The same era also saw pogroms and massacres directed at Black communities in East St Louis Missouri, Elaine Arkansas and Tulsa Oklahoma, including the torching and aerial bombardment of the wealthiest Black community in the nation in Tulsa.

If you want to read a novel which captures the wave of rage and fear sweeping through the nation in that era, read Dennis Lehane's "The Given Day."With A Brooklyn Accent: When Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Swept the Land:

How the Democratic Party Became an Enemy of Public Education - The Crucial Voice of the PeopleThe Crucial Voice of the People

How the Democratic Party Became an Enemy of Public Education - The Crucial Voice of the PeopleThe Crucial Voice of the People:

How the Democratic Party Became an Enemy of Public Education

Perhaps the title “WHO influenced the Democratic Party into becoming an enemy of public education?” would more accurately represent the subject here.

But the reason for the title came from an article in my “To Read” file. “How to Destroy a Public-School System,” a 2014 article, describes a scenario we should all be familiar with by now. Perhaps that is why I had set it aside, thinking I knew it all. I don’t; we don’t.

We know all about —

“the designation of neighborhood schools as ‘failing’ under the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)…” followed by the “turnaround” or take-over by charter schools.

But do we know the depth of the intentional under-funding of public schools in order to create a market for private-sector education reforms?

Private sector — for-profit (like Edison) charter schools or non-profit (like Mastery) charters — it doesn’t matter. They are private entities. And privatization is crushing the chance for more effective public-sector education reform to be utilized.

The private-sector reforms are politically and financially driven. The public has little input or recourse when those reforms are harmful to our schools.

So here’s how it went in Philadelphia as described in 2014.

December 21, 2001, Philadelphia, State takeover of Philly’s schools went into effect … “at the time, the largest experiment in privatization—in the history of US public education. The message was clear: public 

How the Democratic Party Became an Enemy of Public Education - The Crucial Voice of the PeopleThe Crucial Voice of the People:

Editorial Peddles School Privatization Agenda | tultican

Editorial Peddles School Privatization Agenda | tultican:

Editorial Peddles School Privatization Agenda

The San Diego Union editor deserves the bunkum efficiency award for packing so much baloney in a scant four paragraphs. The first sentence of the editorial headlined “Still more bad faith from state ED board” says:

“The State Board of Education’s defining characteristic is its ardent defense of an education establishment more worried about the interests of teachers than students.”

It is true that the education establishment in California does listen to input from teachers and their unions, however, today the establishment is dominated by billionaires like Reed Hasting and Carrie Walton Penner. There are many other establishment powerhouses like the California Charter School Association (CCSA), representatives of the education testing industry and education technology profiteers.

As your newspaper reported, by May, 2016, the CCSA was spending heavily to win seats on the San Diego County Board of Education:

“The political arm of the California Charter Schools Association has spent $220,000 so far on the San Diego County Board of Education election this year, following a difficult period for the independently operated campuses in the region — one that’s been marked by unsuccessful appeals and a string of legal challenges.”

After the recent LA school board election, the LA Times wrote in an article titled “How L.A.’s school board election became the most expensive in U.S. history,”

“It’s an oversimplification to say the outcome was all about money, but charters spent more ($9.7 million compared with $5.2 million), and their candidates finished first in both races on Tuesday’s ballot.”

Clearly these forces for privatizing public schools in California are a significant Editorial Peddles School Privatization Agenda | tultican:

Badass Teachers Association: Personalized Learning Without People – An Education Scam from the 1980s Returns by Steven SInger

Badass Teachers Association: Personalized Learning Without People – An Education Scam from the 1980s Returns by Steven SInger:

Personalized Learning Without People – An Education Scam from the 1980s Returns 

by Steven SInger

Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/14/personalized-learning-without-people-an-education-scam-from-the-1980s-returns/

Sometimes it seems that education policy is nothing but a series of scams and frauds that becomes untenable in one generation only to pop up again 10 or 20 years laterwith a new name.

Take Personalized Learning, the latest digital product from the ed-tech industry to invade your local public school.

It’s cutting edge stuff.

Except that it isn’t.

It’s just the same old correspondence school nonsense of the 1980s thrown onto an iPad or a laptop.

It was crap back then, and it’s crap today.

But it sounds nice.

Personalized Learning.

I like that.

That’s exactly the kind of educational experience I want for my own daughter.

I’d like her schooling to be tailor-made for her. Teach her in a way she can best understand and that will best engage herBadass Teachers Association: Personalized Learning Without People – An Education Scam from the 1980s Returns by Steven SInger: