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

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

The Best Photos — In The World?

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 7 hours ago

Smithsonian Magazine just announced the fifty finalists in their annual photo competition. You can see the finalists, and the winners from their previous nine years, here. You can also see a related photo gallery created by the Boston Globe’s Big … Continue reading →

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 7 hours ago

I’ve recently started a regular feature where I share a few posts from around the Web related to ESL or EFL that have caught my attention: Reuters Video: Aesop’s fable brought to life by clever crows is a video and … Continue reading →

Do You Advocate For English Language Learners?

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 8 hours ago

A colleague of mine, Diane Staehr Fenner, is working on a project related to advocacy for ELs. She is interested in hearing from teachers and administrators across the country who advocate for their school’s English learners so that the students … Continue reading →

Can An Educator’s Clothes Affect How He/She Teaches?

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 9 hours ago

I’ve previously posted on the topic of teacher’s attire (see A Question On Teacher Attire). In that post, I wrote about how I have worn a tie and sport coat every day I have taught (except for when we’ve gone … Continue reading →

My Class Had A Very Musical Thursday Today….

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 9 hours ago

A few times each year, I bring my Beginning and Intermediate English Language Learner students to music and art classes at our school. Since most have to take extra periods of English during their high school career, they don’t have … Continue reading →

Send An Online Video Message With Vsnap

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 10 hours ago

Vsnap lets you send a sixty second online video message very easily. Free registration is required. I’ve taken the opportunity to completely revise The Best Applications For Sending Online Video Messages.

Vocre Might Be A Very Useful Translation App

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 10 hours ago

Vocre is a free iPhone app that TechCrunch describes like this: It’s almost magical how Vocre works; Speak into the app while your iPhone is vertical, flip the phone horizontal and the phone’s accelerometer cues the app to translate and … Continue reading →

“Socrates Fails Teacher Evaluation”

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 23 hours ago

“Socrates Fails Teacher Evaluation” is a great post by Heidi_Hayes_Jacobs. It’s a must-read. Here’s how she ends it: The results were posted in the Agora for all to see the quality and performance of their teacher. Socrates failed. He simply … Continue reading →

The 27th Edition Of ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival Is Up!

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago

Adam Simpson has just posted the 27th Edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival! It’s filled with excellent posts where teachers are describes lessons when their students were in the state of “flow” — when they were completely absorbed in what … Continue reading →

Research Studies Of The Week

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago

I often write about research studies from various field 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 … Continue reading →

The Three Little Pigs,,,,If The Story Took Place Today

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago

In my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves, I have a very extensive lesson plan on Bloom’s Taxonomy (it’s one of my favorites and, but the way, I’ll be sharing it at Eye On Education’s online conference in March). The lesson … Continue reading →

“What Is Rigor?”

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago

What Is Rigor? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to contribute your thoughts there or here….

“Camera Awesome” Looks Like A Useful iPhone App

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago

The Wall Street Journal just gave Camera Awesome an incredibly positive review, and this free iPhone app became available yesterday for download. It looks very impressive. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Beginning iPhone Users Like Me.

Using Community Organizing To Teach Reading

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago

Get Organized Around Assets is the title of my article in the March issue of ASCD’s Educational Leadership. It’s subtitled: The steps community organizers use to help change people’s lives can help teachers improve English language learners’ reading. I’ve also … Continue reading →

The Best Resources For Learning About Leap Year

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago

I’m a little late to the “party” on this one, but if you can’t use it now, at least you’ll have it around four years from now Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learing About Leap Year: … Continue reading →

Photo Galleries Of The Week

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 2 days ago

Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called slideshows. To do it in a little more … Continue reading →

“Old Maps Online” Is Probably The Best Place To Find Historical Maps

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 2 days ago

Old Maps Online lets you type in a location and then it will search through collections of historical maps throughout the world to show you a variety of them for that area. Its interface and accessibility are superb. I’m adding … Continue reading →

Lots Of New Pinterest Resources

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 2 days ago

Here are the newest additions to The Best Guides To Figuring Out Pinterest: Your Pinterest cheat sheet is from Salon. How to Stay Safe on Pinterest is from Read Write Web. Everything Pinterest and Tumblr Users Need To Know About … Continue reading →

“In Focus” Lets You Highlight Sections Of Webpages

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 2 days ago

In Focus lets you, without any registration required, literally “highlight” a section of any webpage and provides a unique url address linking to it. It’s very familiar to CiteBite. The primary difference between the two is that with CiteBite, you … Continue reading →

Today’s Best Posts On What’s Happening In NYC

Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 2 days ago

Here are the newest additions to The Best Posts & Articles About The New York Court Decision Releasing Teacher Ratings: Big Apple’s Rotten Ratings is by David B. Cohen. Applying a Precise Label to a Rough Number is by Michael … Continue reading →

Steinberg back with API alternative | Thoughts on Public Education

Steinberg back with API alternative | Thoughts on Public Education:

Steinberg back with API alternative - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

Rebuffed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year, Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is back with another academic accountability bill, this time giving the governor lots of latitude to help redefine how to measure schools’ performance. SB 1458 needs to be vague, because, at this point, no one but Brown professes to know what he [...]

PTA is mobilizing for $10 billion fundraiser: Our Children, Our Future - by Carol Kocivar

by Carol Kocivar

In towns and cities throughout California, something quite remarkable is happening. Parents and family members are organizing for the largest PTA fundraiser ever. They are not selling gift wrap or candy or washing cars. They are organizing to support the Our Children, Our Future education initiative for the November ballot. This measure will raise $10 billion [...]

Cutting it close to a quorum - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

State Board of Education President Michael Kirst had better hope that Caitlin Snell, the student representative on the Board, doesn’t have any big exams next week at Point Loma High in San Diego. With three openings now on the 11-member board, he may need her presence, if not her vote. With four days before the Board [...]

Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss. « Fred Klonsky

Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss. « Fred Klonsky:

Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss.

by Fred Klonsky

Today is Dr. Seuss’ birthday. The NEA initiated Read Across America to mark the occasion. This week my kindergarten and first grade students made Cat in the Hat hats in preparation. And I got to share my favorite Dr. Seuss book. His last. Hooray for Diffendoofer Day.

“All schools for miles and miles around
Must take a special test,
To see who’s learning such and such -
To see which school’s the best.
If our small school does not do well,
Then it will be torn down,
And you will have to go to school
In dreary Flobbertown.”

NYC Educator: Christopher and the Measure of a Teacher

NYC Educator: Christopher and the Measure of a Teacher:

Christopher and the Measure of a Teacher

by NYC Educator

-by special guest blogger Citizen Doe

The release of Teacher Data Reports in NYC has focused attention on evaluating teachers with the use of numbers derived from complicated algorithms that are said to measure the “value” teachers “add” to their students. These algorithms pivot on the use of student test scores.

Numbers do tell stories, and the public is being told that it can trust the story these numbers will tell about public school teachers, and that these numbers provide a scientific “measure” of the

The Educated Reporter: When States Cut Education Funding, Parents Pay the Price

The Educated Reporter: When States Cut Education Funding, Parents Pay the Price:

When States Cut Education Funding, Parents Pay the Price

by Emily Richmond

The Occupy Education movement is in full swing across the country, with protestors holding walkouts and sit-ins at public colleges and universities, and demanding funding be restored from preschool through graduate school.

The budget cuts have been particularly deep in California, where students are worried about the potential long-term damage to the extensive network of public colleges and universities, as well as the short-term effect on their own opportunities. While higher education is taking center stage in the protests, there's little question that California's budget crisis has had a brutal impact on school funding at all levels.

My sister's family lives in a bucolic Northern California neighborhood, replete with biking trails and an extensive network of parks and public libraries. Despite such evidence of a relatively solvent and engaged community, the

Florida Republican’s Creepy Adoration for Charter Schools Reaches New Low With Ammendment to Exempt Them From SB 736 | Scathing Purple Musings

Florida Republican’s Creepy Adoration for Charter Schools Reaches New Low With Ammendment to Exempt Them From SB 736 | Scathing Purple Musings:

Florida Republican’s Creepy Adoration for Charter Schools Reaches New Low With Ammendment to Exempt Them From SB 736

by Bob Sikes

From Leslie Postal in the Orlando Sentinel:

Charter schools would be exempt from some sections of Florida’s sweeping teacher merit-pay law under a bill the Florida House is considering.

Critics call the proposal hypocritical.

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Janet Adkins, R-Fernandina Beach, said today that her intent was not to “lessen standards” for charter schools and that she would submit an amendment Friday to clarify that.

Her initial proposal is included in an amendment to her multi-purpose bill, HB 903, that expands the law on charter schools — public schools run by private groups and freed from many school rules.

That amendment would exempt charter schools from having to submit new teacher evaluation

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Student killed at privatized CPS school

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Student killed at privatized CPS school:

Student killed at privatized CPS school

by Mike Klonsky

Chris Wormley

Students at a therapeutic day school on Chicago's far south side have returned to class, one day after one of their classmates, Chris Wormley, 17, was stabbed to death in an attack in the school's entryway. Another student who intervened and tried to stop the attack, was also stabbed and is expected to recover.

Questions are now being raised about conditions in an around the school, AMI Kids Infinity High School, formerly a Chicago public school, Las Casas Occupational High School, which was ordered closed in 2009, despite community protests. The school was then handed over to a private, Florida-

hctiB G: #*@*%^#*@*%^!!: Schools Edition: The Application | The G Bitch Spot

hctiB G: #*@*%^#*@*%^!!: Schools Edition: The Application | The G Bitch Spot:

hctiB G: #*@*%^#*@*%^!!: Schools Edition: The Application

Posted on March 2, 2012 by G Bitch

The OneApp is not the first manifestation of a “single” application. Just the most recent version.

originally posted March 2, 2008

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This is The Application:

Not an all-in-one application but one form you can use to apply to “most” RSD, OPSB and various charter schools. Unless the school you want to apply to has a different idea about the form, process and deadlines and you make the right decision (as pointed out byJeffrey and many others):

More than 33,000 children attend 79 New Orleans public schools, a mix of charter and traditional campuses. Officials characterize the common application process as a way to give parents more choice and access to schools, providing that parents are familiar with the choices.

The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education passed a