9-15-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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

Two New Sesame Street Videos On Social Emotional Learning

© 2011 MadAdminSkillz, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Sesame Street has been sharing a series of videos on Social Emotional Learning skills, and you can see their previous ones on self-control at The Best Posts About Helping Students Develop Their Capacity For Self-Control. I think they’ve been pretty good, and my high school students enjoy watching them as a reinforcing/reminder activity after we’ve

8 by Larry Ferlazzo / 44min 

Research Studies Of The Week

I 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 mi

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MOOC’s For English Language Learners & Teachers

© 2012 AJ Cann, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio MOOC’s seem to be growing in popularity, even with their well-documented challenges (see The Best Posts & Articles On MOOC’s). There are also popular ones for English Language Learners and ELL teachers. The British Council has 100,000 students in their recently-opened MOOC for English Language Learners. Here are some articles about it: Online Engli

13 by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h 

YESTERDAY

This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Ed Policy Posts — Part Two

© 2012 firedoglakedotcom, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Usually, I just post one “round-up” of ed policy posts and article each week, but I’ve got a backlog. So here’s Part Two: How to Diversify Teaching is from The New York Times. Common Core: yes or no? A debate. appeared in The Washington Post. I’m adding it to The Best Articles Sharing Concerns About Common Core Standards. Focus on teacher ten

6 by Larry Ferlazzo / 10h 

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

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “Teachers Should Dress As Students’ Advocate, Not ‘Peer’”Teachers Should Dress As Students’ Advocate, Not ‘Peer’ is my latest Education Week Teacher post. In Part One of a two-part series, four educators – Roxanna Elden, Renee Moore, Jane Fung, and Rebecca Mieliwocki – share their thoughts on how teachers should dress. I’m

by mike simpson / 5h 

The Answer Sheet 9-15-14

Answer Sheet:

The Washington Post’s Constitution Day quiz

Sept. 17 is Constitution Day, celebrating the document that is at the foundation of the United States of America. Take this quiz to see how much you know about the Constitution.  

3 by Valerie Strauss / 1h 

A warning to U.S. about ‘educational authoritarianism’ — from a Chinese scholar

Yong Zhao is a respected education scholar who has been a fierce critic of high-stakes standardized testing, both in China and the United States. Zhao, the presidential chair and director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the University of Oregon’s College of Education,  has written a new book entited “Who’s Afraid of […]

1 by Valerie Strauss / 15min 

How one middle school handled 136 unruly students

Normandy Middle School in north St. Louis — a few miles away from Ferguson, where the August killing of a black teenager by a white police officer sparked civil unrest — has been the worst-performing district in Missouri for several years. As a result, the state took over the Normandy School District, replaced 45 percent of […]

1 by Valerie Strauss / 6min 

How to get girls more interested in STEM subjects

Why are girls underrepresented in STEM classes and careers? What can be done about it? Author Annie Murphy Paul   discusses that in this post. She is a contributing writer  for Time magazine, writes a weekly column about learning for Time.com, blogs about learning for a number of websites and contributes to various publications.  She is […]

5 by Valerie Strauss / 34min

The Answer Sheet 9-14-14

Answer Sheet: Common Core: yes or no? A debate.Embrace the Common Core State Standards? Do not embrace the Common Core? That was the question in New York when four people — two for embracing and two against — participated in a recent debate about the controversial initiative. The  event was sponsored by an organization called Intelligence Squared U.S., which offers forums for debates […]3 by Valer

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

9-15-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum:

Director McLaren Op-Ed

Recently I learned that Director Marty McLaren had written an op-ed for the Seattle Times about the good things and hard work happening in Seattle Schools. According to McLaren, the Times encouraged her to edit her op-ed and resubmit it (which she did) but then the Times declined to print it.They then published the editorial about SPS and its leadership (and egging on the Mayor and the City Counci

by Melissa Westbrook / 1h 

Florida drops test after kindergarten teacher took public stand against it

Last week I published a highly popular post that included a letter that kindergarten teacher Susan Bowles of Lawton Chiles Elementary School in Gainesville, Fla., posted on Facebook telling parents that she was refusing to administer the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading, or FAIR. She explained what she said were serious problems with administering […]

37 by Valerie Strauss / 26min 

Seattle Schools This Week

Tuesday, September 16thAudit&Finance Committee Quarterly Audit Meeting, 4:30-6:30 pm.  Agenda not yet available.As Charlie noted elsewhere, this is the meeting where staff has to report back on various issues raised.  I am hoping to see Director Carr hold some feet to the fire but we'll just have to see.Wednesday, September 17thSchool Board Meeting starting at 4:15 pm.  Agenda I am aware that

by Melissa Westbrook / 13min 

Title IX Work List from SPS

Here's a link to the current status of Title IX work as presented to the Board Audit and Finance Committee on August 19.A number of the action items on this list are familiar to those of us who have read lists of action items before. Of course the expected completion dates have all been pushed out later. I can't help noticing that a number of the "next action" dates fall before the meeti

by Charlie Mas / 1min 

Monday! Let Senator Murray know you value Student Data Privacy

The Senate HELP (Health Education Labor and Pensions committee) is negotiating over the re-authorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act.  We were told that there are Democrats on the committee who are pushing for relaxing limits on access to personal student data, and are saying that researchers should be able to obtain open-ended access to complete student data sets– and that they shouldn’t

3 by Melissa Westbrook / 7h  

9-14-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools UpdatesTweet from the district about priorities for 2014-2015:During a retreat today, the School Board picked its top governance priorities for the 2014-15 school year: bell times analysis, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), special education and stewardship of resources/internal controls.First, shouldn't these "priorities" have been

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

US Senate Looking To Open Access to Student Data – Call To Action | Missouri Education Watchdog

US Senate Looking To Open Access to Student Data – Call To Action | Missouri Education Watchdog:

US Senate Looking To Open Access to Student Data – Call To Action

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Important News In From the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy

RIGHT NOW, the Senate HELP (Health Education Labor and Pensions committee) is negotiating  the re-authorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act.  Some members of the committee are pushing for relaxing limits on access to personal student data, saying that researchers should be able to obtain open-ended access to complete student data sets– and that they shouldn’t have to even specify which specific student level data they want for what purposes.

We are urging all parents/advocates to call their Senators in DC ASAP and if possible on Monday morning– ESPECIALLY if your Senator is on the HELP committee (listed with links to their contact info below) and especially the Democrats, and ask to speak to their education staffers with the following message:

As regards the Education Sciences Reform Act, student data used by researchers should be de-identified and anonymized to the extent possible.  In NO case should any researcher obtain open-ended access to personally identifiable student data without parental consent.  There must be strict oversight and protocols, and the researcher must explain exactly what type of personal data they need for what particular purpose and why it is absolutely necessary to complete their analysis and why this could not be achieved with anonymized data.

If you have more time to talk, you can point out that there have been more than 700 reported breaches of personal data from educational institutions since 2005 according to  http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach  .

You can also point out that the NCES has said that Fair Information Practices require that only personal information that is directly relevant and necessary for the specified purpose should be collected and/or shared.

PURPOSE SPECIFICATION— specifically articulating the authority that permits the collection of personally identifiable information and specifically articulating the purpose or purposes for which the personally identifiable information is intended to be used

DATA MINIMIZATION AND RETENTION— only collecting personally identifiable information that is directly relevant and necessary to accomplish the specified purpose(s). Only retaining personally identifiable information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the specified purpose(s)

USE LIMITATION— using personally identifiable information solely for the purpose(s) specified in the public notice. Sharing information should be for a purpose compatible with the purpose for which the information was collected

It is especially important that parents/advocates who live in the states represented by Democrats on the HELP committee call on Monday.

Senate HELP Committee

Democrats by Rank

Tom Harkin (IA)
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)
Patty Murray (WA)
Bernard Sanders (I) (VT)
Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA)
Kay R. Hagan (NC)
Al Franken (MN)
Michael F. Bennet (CO)
Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)
Tammy Baldwin (WI)
Christopher S. Murphy (CT)
Elizabeth Warren (MA)

Republicans by Rank

Lamar Alexander (TN)
Michael B. Enzi (WY)
Richard Burr (NC)
Johnny Isakson (GA)
Rand Paul (KY)
Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
Pat Roberts (KS)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Mark Kirk (IL)
Tim Scott (SC)

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Anne Gassel

Is a stay at home mom of two children in the public school system in the St. Louis area. She has been writing on MEW since 2012 and has been a citizen lobbyist on Common Core since 2013. In the summer she works with a group to provide Vacation Liberty School for middle schoolers to understand our country's founding principles of personal and economic freedom. Some day she would like to see a national Hippocratic oath for educators "I will remember that there is art to teaching as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the policies of those above me and the findings of data mining ventures."

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