A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

A VERY BUSY DAY

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Video: Stephen Colbert’s Show Last Night – “Dr. Ibram X. Kendi: Creating A More Equitable Society Is In White Americans’ Self Interest”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5h

I’m adding this new video from last night’s Stephen Colbert’s show to New & Revised: Resources To Help Us Predominantly White Teachers To Reflect On How Race Influences Our Work :

“High-Interest Books & Giving Students Time to Read & Talk About Them in School”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5h

High-Interest Books & Giving Students Time to Read & Talk About Them in School is the headline at my latest Education Week Teacher column. Three teachers offer their recommendations of high-interest books for students to read, including for English-learners. Here are some excerpts:

A Look Back: Studies Find That Teachers Analyzing Data Is No Help To Students If It Doesn’t Result In Different Instructional Practices

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from the first half of this year. You can see the entire collection of best posts from the past thirteen years here . 200degrees / Pixabay I shared the information in this post earlier this week at my weekly Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week post . Today, though, I shared it with my col

This Is The Best One-Minute Video I’ve Seen For A Long Time: “Jason Reynolds on what it means to be antiracist”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

viarami / Pixabay I’m adding this new video to New & Revised: Resources To Help Us Predominantly White Teachers To Reflect On How Race Influences Our Work :

Micro-Versions of Folktales – Galore!

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

I’ve previously written about Laura Gibbs’ great work in “Drabbles” Are Cool Writing Assignments – Here Are A Ton Of Models . One of the assignments she gives to her students is to write microfiction “drabbles” (no more than 100 words) from folktales. At that previous post you can see the actual assignment she gives students. She’s actually begun putting the versions that she writes into eBook fo

Video: Could Creating “Friction” Help Us White Teachers Combat Our Implicit Biases?

by Larry Ferlazzo / 23h

Last week, I posted Implicit Bias Training Doesn’t Seem To Work – So What Should Teachers & Others Do, Instead? It examined the ineffectiveness of implicit bias trainings, and explored some possible alternatives. This TED-Talk just came out “How racial bias works — and how to disrupt it | Jennifer L. Eberhardt” and offers another idea (you can find the transcript at that link). She talks about cr

New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “First person vs. Second person vs. Third person”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 23h

OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay This new TED-Ed video and lesson is a decent tool to use with students when teaching the difference between first, second and third person:

Most Popular Posts Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

I’m making a change in the content of the regular feature. In addition to sharing the top five posts that have received the most “hits” in the preceding seven days (though they may have originally been published on an earlier date), I will also include the top five posts that have actually appeared in the past week. Often, these are different posts. You might also be interested in IT’S THE THIRTE

The Importance Of Saying “Enslaved Person” & “Enslaver”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

I, along with many other educators, have used the words “slaves” and “slave-owner” for many years when teaching history. Over the past year, I’ve begun using the words “enslaved person” or “enslaved people,” instead. However, until hearing Nikole Hannah-Jones talk on NPR yesterday I hadn’t though of changing “slave-owner” to “enslaver” – though I should have. I’m adding this post to New & Revised

Five New Resources For Teaching About Racist Monuments

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Here are new additions to The Best Resources For Teaching About Confederate Monuments (that list contains many resources connected to other racist monuments around the world, too, along with posts about racist names of places): Protests target Spanish colonial statues that ‘celebrate genocide’ in US west is from The Guardian. What persuades white Southerners to remove Confederate flags and monume

“Students Like Books ‘That Help Them Feel Seen, Heard, & Valued'”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Students Like Books ‘That Help Them Feel Seen, Heard, & Valued’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators share their – and their students’ – favorite books, including song picture books and ones focusing on SEL skills, as well as emphasizing the importance of ones 

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Schools Need $245 Billion From Federal Government to Reopen Safely | Education News | US News

Schools Need $245 Billion From Federal Government to Reopen Safely | Education News | US News

Schools Need $245 Billion to Reopen Safely, State Education Chiefs Estimate
The cost estimate is the biggest yet from a national education organization.

SCHOOLS WILL NEED AS much as $245 billion in additional federal support to safely reopen in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a new estimate from the Council of Chief State School Officers shows.

The cost estimate – the biggest yet from a national education organization – represents a sobering recognition from red and blue states alike that a major federal bailout is needed in order to reopen for 55 million children whose schools shuttered in March

"While the amount of federal funding that is necessary to successfully and safely reopen schools and keep K-12 education budgets whole in the coming year is substantial, it is an essential investment in the nation's ongoing economic recovery and future competitiveness," Carissa Moffat Miller, CCSSO executive director, wrote in a letter sent Tuesday to Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, who requested the estimate earlier this month.

"As long as our K-12 school buildings remain closed, our country's economy cannot get back up and running and our economy will continue to suffer trillion-dollar losses," she wrote. "At the same time, we must address the significant academic and social-emotional impacts on students throughout this crisis and help them overcome the considerable learning loss and trauma they have experienced if we are ever to ensure a thriving economy in the years to come."

The estimate concludes that states need an additional $158 billion to $245 billion in federal assistance over the next two years. The financial analysis takes into account costs associated with operating remote and in-person instruction, addressing students' academic learning loss,CONTINUE READING: Schools Need $245 Billion From Federal Government to Reopen Safely | Education News | US News

Grassroots Partners are Making #PoliceFreeSchools a Reality. | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Grassroots Partners are Making #PoliceFreeSchools a Reality. | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Grassroots Partners are Making #PoliceFreeSchools a Reality.

Demonstrations across the U.S. over the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and so many others who have died at the hands of police brutality have further exposed our deeply racist and oppressive police system. The weight of this moment, created by a tidal wave of organizing and mobilization, has forced public school leaders to reevaluate the presence of police in public schools.

The issue around school policing has a disproportionate effect on students of color. Our students and young people cannot feel safe or effectively learn if they are forced to interact with a system of policing that views them as a threat. Black and Latino students are more likely to have police officers in their schools, increasing the likelihood of arrest. Students, organizers, advocates and community leaders across the Opportunity to Learn Network have a common message: Police do not belong in schools.

Schott grantee partner, the Alliance for Quality Education, has been at the frontlines of the fight for Police Free Schools for several years. Their organizing and advocacy efforts are aimed at ensuring a high quality public education for all students in New York State. AQE has most recently called on New York City Mayor de Blasio and New York State governor Cuomo to immediately remove police from New York City’s schools, as well as cut $1 billion from the NYPD budget to invest in education and youth services, as a first step in community reparation. As Maria Bautista, AQE’s described in an interview with Spectrum New York News, "We're talking about schools that are predominantly poor. So this conversation about police-free schools is happening in school districts that are being racially profiled."

Additionally, on June 16, the contract between the police and the Rochester City Schools district was ended, removing police CONTINUE READING: Grassroots Partners are Making #PoliceFreeSchools a Reality. | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Monuments of Honor, Monuments of Shame – radical eyes for equity

Monuments of Honor, Monuments of Shame – radical eyes for equity

Monuments of Honor, Monuments of Shame

Gun advocates often proclaim that guns don’t kill people, but that people kill people. Of course, this has a kernel of truth to it while also glossing over the inherent violent potential in those guns.

That sort of truth can also be applied to any published text.

The enslavement of Black people in the U.S. was supported by citing Biblical passages among, for example, Southern Baptists.

In other words, meaning tends to be less objectively in any object and more so in the intent of those imposing meaning on that thing.

With the election of Donald Trump as the U.S. president, many in the country became more ad more concerned about the possibility of fascism and totalitarianism coming to a free people grown lazy in their consumerism.

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and George Orwell’s 1984 saw a surge in popularity among those troubled by Trump and his supporters.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, however, the U.S. is now facing another CONTINUE READING: Monuments of Honor, Monuments of Shame – radical eyes for equity

What Teachers Are Worth - Teacher Habits

What Teachers Are Worth - Teacher Habits

What Teachers Are Worth

My childhood ended on the afternoon I tried to sell a Tony Fernandez rookie card. Dad had driven me to the next town over because I was hoping to complete a set of 1985 Topps baseball cards. I was six short, and in those pre-Internet days, the only way to get your hands on missing singles was to trade for them or buy them. I was going to buy mine and Dad, to his credit, had elected to not intervene. This was my ballgame.

I had a stack of cards to sell, the idea being I’d make five or six bucks unloading a pile of unwanted duplicates and then turn around and buy the ones I needed with the cash. I’d done the math. Any card collector of the era either had Beckett Baseball Card Monthly prices memorized or carried around the most recent volume. Beckett said my Tony Fernandez was worth 50 cents. So I started by offering him up.

The owner of the store, a gruff middle-aged fellow with a bushy mustache who stood opposite me behind a display case of Mantles, Koufaxes, and a Tom Brunanski I coveted, peered down at the rangy CONTINUE READING: What Teachers Are Worth - Teacher Habits

Oakland Schools Police Department abolished unanimously – Raw Story

Oakland Schools Police Department abolished unanimously – Raw Story

Oakland Schools Police Department abolished unanimously

The George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department passes the school board unanimously in a Wednesday vote.

Board president Jody London reportedly said that the district is conducting negotiations with police unions, which “will result in new roles to cultivate a positive culture and climate,” said reporter Ashley McBride.

“What’s about to go down in the safety plan is really safety around the mental health of students and racial and implicit bias,” said board director Roseann Torres, explaining it was just a first step to a new public safety plan.

Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell noted that having police in schools is ultimately part of a much larger issue.

“If we’re going to make progress, it’s not enough to merely remove the symptom. We have to transform the underlying conditions in the school system,” said Johnson-Trammell, according to McBride’s tweets.

See the thread here. Oakland Schools Police Department abolished unanimously – Raw Story