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I am going to sit in on the brief Board "special meeting" today on the
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attached ...
The Super 20
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What follows are thumbnail sketches of the 20 applicants who want to be the
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Please watch this episode of “The Daily Show,” which aired on April 15. Jon
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The three girls were in a sort of irritable stew. They were bickering with
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Bibliography for History Posts on This Blog
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I remember when school reformers insisted the biggest problem
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[Header Panel from Tales of Suspense (v1) 57; Don Heck, artist] After
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“We’re from where we’re from,” she says back. “Scars are part of the deal,
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Charlamagne The God did a stint on The Daily Show, and got a whole lot of
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Jobs’ Reading Scam
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By Thomas Ultican 4/10/2024 Laurene Powell Jobs controls Amplify, a
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As parents, students, and teachers lined the gallery with signs calling for
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In February 2023, former Louisiana state superintendent John White’s wife,
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American students are skipping school in record numbers, a crisis that is
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As I considered writing this blog, I did not want to write a piece that
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and for...
Why Do My Groceries Cost So Much?
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Giant corporations and billionaires want to keep their taxes low and the
prices we pay high. That’s why they want Trump back in office. In 2004, I
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Critical Race Theory Is About You, and All of Us
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Recently, Christina Cross, a Black woman sociologist at Harvard, found her
work at the crosshairs of the same person who brought us the bastardization
of...
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Julian Vasquez Heilig and Laura Dinehart join Dr. Tim to discuss how
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A nest egg. A rainy day fund. A reserve. Back up. We all have some, or
would like some. In case things go sideways, a way to pay some bills in the
meantime...
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“Gentle parenting” seems to be based on sound child psychology principles,
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Let’s recall just how bad a president Trump was!
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For the record, concerning Covid:, this is from Quora: ———- President Trump
tweeted that 17,000 people died from Swine Flu under Obama. How does this
compa...
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It is time to open the ballot sitting on my kitchen counter. Only, the more
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A Change of Plans
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Last September, in a piece titled Where We Expect To Retire, I informed
folks that we were planning to move to Kendal Crosslands Communities, the
Crossla...
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Words of wisdom appropriate to our time. …from George Washington, America’s
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In 2020, I was approached by Deborah Meier and Jane Andrais and I decided
we should document the story of Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS).
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2023 In Review And What’s To Come In 2024
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2023 is almost complete and it was a busy, challenging, rewarding, and fun
year. The news of the world was sometimes too much to watch. Countries were
dest...
Volunteer in 2024
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Be the change, volunteer and make the difference! Let’s face it, the world
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Well, this is the first anniversary of the introduction of Generative AI in
the form of ChatGPT to the world of education. Before it was a week old,
over o...
Lying Liars of the NYC DOE
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The APPR travails continue.
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The best reason to vote no on this contract is this: UFT Unity* lied* to us
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In this article, we will explore the powerful use of metaphors in Martin
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Testimony to the CPS Truancy Task Force
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I prepared testimony for one of two public hearings held by the Chicago
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She spends so much time on her outward appearance. There is never a hair
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THERE IS A TEACHER SHORTAGE. And just to be sure you understand, it’s not
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teachers cer...
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*Defeating the Purpose of Education*
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prepare children for a good and productive life. ...
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There is a teacher shortage.And just to be sure you understand, it's not
that teachers don't want to teach.It's not that there aren't enough
teachers certi...
Abortion: Only For Those Who Need It!
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NOTE: This post contains my opinions on Catholicism based on my experiences
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Breaking News: Dateline February 4, 2022 - Parents in Dimwitty, Alabama
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with...
On the Edge of Silence
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“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the
fundamen...
Have You Heard Has a New Website
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TweetHave You Heard has a new website. Visit us at
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I've moved. Follow me at Substack
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Aspiring Teachers Get New Help Paying For College
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GA run-offs need your help!
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Extremely important. Volunteer if you can. Thank you if you are already
doing so. Out of state opportunities here: Ralph …
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The Threat of Integration
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I have lived in the same house in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles
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We fight for a democracy worthy of us all!
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The nation stands at a crossroads, said NEA President Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa
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it’s up...
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The United States began to form after the rebellion against the King of
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to the in...
A Fundamental Redesign of Our Schools
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I climbed the hill leading up to one of my favorite coffee shops in Seattle
this morning to enjoy a coffee while taking in a phenomenal view of the
city o...
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I am the son of Chaz and like to inform you that he passed away this
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*Sent to US News. They just informed me that they no longer publish
letters to the editor. *
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Here you go: A ‘Disturbing’ Assessment: Sagging Reading Scores,
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A new Commissioner will have as much impact on our state ed system as a new
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The World According to Michelle Rhee
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The men behind the curtain fashioning the brave new world of corporate run
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Today I sent in a second letter to refuse PARCC/CMAS for my son, Luke. The
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Six 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, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2019 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Yo
Motivate Your Kid by Having Them Imagine the Future is a Lifehacker article discussing research that would be useful for us all to remember: Researchers presented 150 children, ages 6 to 9, with three skill-based games and told them they would be tested on one of them. Half were asked to imagine how they would feel if they were successful on the future test, while the other half were simply asked
Ramdlon / Pixabay This is a new video from Insider that explains Pixar’s storytelling technique, which holds insights for any student or adult writer. Unfortunately, there’s a very short clip of John Lasseter near the beginning and, if I was going to show this to students, it might provide an opportunity to discuss his sexual misconduct issues and examining if art can be separated from the artist
This blog has recently gained many new readers. Because of that, I thought it might be worth sharing a “A Look Back” where I periodically share my favorite from the past twelve years. You can also see all of my choices for “Best” posts here . This post appeared earlier this year. 3dman_eu / Pixabay Thanks to Rebecca Marsick , Maggie B. Roberts and @ShawnaCoppola, today I learned about Thinkalong
ninocare / Pixabay I’ve previously shared a number of resources about the importance of diverse books for our students. As Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop has written : “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has
geralt / Pixabay I’ve previously shared a fair amount about the concept of loss-aversion (see The Best Posts On “Loss Aversion” & Schools ), and they’ve primarily been critical “takes.” Loss aversion is basically the idea that we can get more motivated by the potential of losing something more than by the prospect of gaining something. This new video, though, makes some interesting points about r
This blog has recently gained many new readers. Because of that, I thought it might be worth sharing a “A Look Back” where I periodically share my favorite from the past twelve years. You can also see all of my choices for “Best” posts here . This post appeared earlier this year. Merio / Pixabay I’ve previously shared posts about specific writing units I do with ELLs (and non-ELLs) that have shar
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 18,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). You might also be interested in My Seven Most Popular Pins In 2018
The U.S. women beat Sweden this afternoon. This quote come from today’s story by the Associated Press, Press isn’t dwelling on past miss against Sweden. I’m adding it to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures .
Kolibri is a learning app designed to be used off-line in under-resources areas of the world. I don’t quite understand completely how it works but, apparently, they are able to make the size of the files particularly small. Their learning content looks great, and a fair amount of it is new to me and would be very accessible to English Language Learners (for example, I had never heard of the Hello
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 BEST WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION IN 2019 – PART ONE). I also sometimes include tech tools or articles about them that might not exactly fit the definition of Web 2.0. You might also be interested in: THE 56 B
geralt / Pixabay I’m adding this new infographic to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day : You will find more infographics at Statista Here’s some accompanying text: Turkey hosts the most refugees of any country worldwide with 3.7 million in total at the end of 2018, ahead of Pakistan (1.4 million) and Uganda (1.2 million). As a share of the population, however, Lebanon hosts the m
What Are the Biggest Mistakes Made in Math Instruction? is the new question-of-the-week at my Ed Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave responses in the comments sections there or here…
I’m continuing with mid-year “Best” lists. I use short, funny video clips a lot when I’m teaching ELLs, and you can read in detail about how I use them in The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them) . In short, there are many ways to use them that promote speaking, listening, writing and reading (including having students describe – in writing and verbally – a chronological d
Today’s House hearing on Reparations was an historical event. I’ll be adding these resources to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT REPARATIONS : Read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Testimony on Reparations is from The Atlantic. What Americans Need to Know About Reparations Ahead of This Week’s Big Hearing is from Slate. Reparations Are Rare in America, but They Have Been Paid Before is
aitoff / Pixabay Edublogs is the best blog platform out there, but it’s not perfect. This blog has periodically been off-line for ten minutes at a time over the past few days. I’m sure they’ll figure it out soon. However, in the meantime, if you come here and find it’s off-line, just wait a few minutes and return – it’ll be up and available again!
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 TWELFT
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 2018 – PART TWO ):’ 6 Steps to Equitable Data Analysis is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Resources Showing Why We Need To Be “Data-Informed” & Not “Data-Driven” Student Outcomes: Does More Money Really Matter? is from Ed We
On the eve of World Refugee Day ( see The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day ), the United Nations has announced the number of refugees in the world is the highest in UN history (see NPR’s story, Nearly 71 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide In 2018, U.N. Report Says and the NY Times article, Number of People Fleeing Conflict Is Highest Since World War II, U.N. Says ). Accord
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think is new, very long, and somewhat rambling article in The Atlantic. Nevertheless, it contains some interesting data (and non-data) suggesting that unlike most professions, those who are teachers ten to improve as we age. I’ve previously shared similar research in The Best Articles For Helping To Understand Both Why Teacher Tenure Is I
Administrators Shouldn’t Try ‘Too Many Initiatives’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. A five-part series on mistakes made by school administrators is wrapped-up with commentaries from Dr. Lynell Powell, Stuart Ablon, Alisha Pollastri, Diane Mora and many comments from readers. Here are some excerpts:
A big new study was released today examining the role of teacher expectations on student educational achievement. It’s titled Teacher Expectations Matter , and was authored by Nicholas W. Papageorge, Seth Gershenson and Kyung Min Kang. Unfortunately, it’s behind a paywall. I was able to read the entire study, though, and thought this was a key paragraph: In summary, our findings show that expecta
President Trump announced that mass deportations of families would begin next week (see Trump vows mass immigration arrests, removals of ‘millions of illegal aliens’ starting next week ). When will this insanity stop? You might find these resources helpful: The Best Practical Resources For Helping Teachers, Students & Families Respond To Immigration Challenges “Give me your tired, your poor, your
Google has released their third online Carmen Sandiego game. This one is called The Keys To The Kremlin Caper . A video preview is embedded below. Here are posts about the previous two games: “WHERE ON GOOGLE EARTH IS CARMEN SANDIEGO?” IS A NEAT NEW GEOGRAPHY GAME GOOGLE SHARES A SECOND ONLINE CARMEN SANDIEGO GAME
Administrators Can’t Lead From ‘the Confines of Their Office’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Julie Hasson, Ryan Huels, David Bosso, Cindy Terebush and Kelly Wickham Hurst contribute their thoughts on administrators and the mistakes they make. Here are some excerpts:
BiljaST / Pixabay Five years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in The Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of ELLs In 2018 – So Far and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2018 – PART TWO . A
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 BEST RESOURCES ON CLASS INSTRUCTION IN 2019 – PART ONE. Here are this week’s picks: Supporting Students with Adverse Childhood Experiences is the theme of the summer issue of the American Educator. I’m adding it to T
geralt / Pixabay There was a “hiccup” in the Edublogs blogging platform last Thursday night, and that caused Feedblitz to temporarily stop sending blog posts by email until now. They say it’s fixed, so you should be receiving email updates regularly again. Here are links to the posts you might have missed: WOW! “GENIAL.LY” HAS DEVELOPED INTO AN AMAZING MULTI-PURPOSE TOOL! “THE MOST POPULAR CLASSR
Every few months, I reprint this post so that new subscribers learn about these resources. I have many free resources, including excerpts and student hand-outs, available from all my books. Clicking on the covers will lead you to them. Look for a fourth book in my student motivation series (out in 2022) and a second edition of The ESL/ELL Teachers Survival Guide (out in 2021), along with three bo
Author Interview: ‘Teaching Science to English Learners’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Stephen Fleenor agreed to answer a few questions about his new book, “Teaching Science to English Learners,” written with Tina Beene. Here are some excerpts: I’m adding this post to The Best Resources For Teaching The Next Generation Science Standards To English Language Lea
Genial.ly made it on The Fifty Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2016 as a new tool for creating infographics. Now, as you can see from the image at the top of this post, the site – which is FREE to use – lets you create an amazing array of interactive tools, including games, quizzes, annotated photos, and presentations – just to name a few. In addition to it being on The Best Resources
The Most Popular Classroom Q&A Posts This School Year is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. It includes the… most popular Classroom Q&A posts published during this past school year. Here’s an excerpts from one of them: I’m adding this list to All Mid-Year “Best Of 2019” Lists In One Place!
I’m continuing with mid-year “Best” lists. I’m adding this list to All Mid-Year “Best Of 2019” Lists In One Place! You can see all previous editions of this list, as well as all my ed research related “best” lists, here . Here are my choices for the past six months: NEW STUDY SUPPORTS OLD FACT: GOING TO COLLEGE PAYS-OFF NEW STUDY FINDS THAT THINKING WE MIGHT KNOW SOMETHING, BUT THEN DISCOVERING W
Mojpe / Pixabay Editor’s Note: Guest Post: What ELLs Taught Our School In A Week-Long Empathy Project is a very popular post by Pam Buric, the writer of today’s post, about an annual project students do at our school – ELLs write about their lives and share them face-to-face with other students. That post includes a detailed explanation of the process, including downloadable student hand-outs and
bohed / Pixabay Yesterday, I posted about a brief hiccup in the Edublogs platform on Thursday night (see If You Subscribe To This Blog, You Might Have Missed Yesterday’s Posts – Here They Are ), which caused a problem with both my blog and its RSS feed. Everything is back to normal now on this blog. However, this problem apparently caused a problem for Feedblitz, which sends daily emails with my
Six 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, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2019 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Yo
Each year, I re-post my favorite blog posts, and then collect the links into one. This post is for my favorites from the first six months of 2019. You can see my choices for each of the past twelve years here. And you can also see a list of my My All-Time Favorite Posts! I’ve also been highlighting some of the “best-of-the-best” in the “A Look Back” series. I’m adding this list to All Mid-Year “B
It was a rough night for the Golden State Warriors and their fans (including me!), but, boy, I don’t think it’s possible to be more gracious and reflective than Stephen Curry was in the face of defeat. What a quote to use with students to teach resiliency! I’m adding this post to The Best Ways To Use Stephen Curry & The Warriors For Teaching Social Emotional Learning Skills .
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 mig
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 18,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). You might also be interested in My Seven Most Popular Pins In 2018
cripi / Pixabay Edublogs is great, and the best platform out there for blogs. However, even they sometimes have technical problems. Yesterday, this blog was off-line for a short time, and both the RSS and Feedlblitz “feeds” were temporarily disrupted. This means that you might have received all the new posts if you are one of the 17,000 readers who subscribe via those methods. So, in case you mis
Here’s another mid-year“Best” list… I’m adding this post to All Mid-Year “Best Of 2019” Lists In One Place! Six years ago I began publishing a regular Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week post. You can see all my “Best” lists on instructional strategies here. Here are my choices from the past few months: Brain – Book – Buddy: A Strategy for Assessment is from The Effortful Educator. I’m ad
HeteroSapiens / Pixabay The National Sound Library of Mexico has discovered what they believe may be the only voice recording of Frida Kahlo. You can listen to here (and read more about it, as well as read an English translation, at The NY Times article, You Know Frida Kahlo’s Face. Now You Can (Probably) Hear Her Voice ): In some ways, it reminds me of when they found the only video of Anne Fran
As regular readers know, I’ve begun posting my mid-year “Best Of 2019” lists. I’ve got a lot more to go, but thought it might be useful to create this compilation post and keep on adding to it as new ones appear. You might also be interested in ALL MY END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2018 IN ONE PLACE! Here are the mid-year 2019 lists I’ve shared so far: THE BEST WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION IN
It continues to be time for mid-year “Best” lists. The first was THE BEST WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION IN 2019 – PART ONE . The second was The Best Social Studies Websites – 2019 (Part One) . Third was The Best Online Learning Games – 2019 (Part One) . Fourth was Best Videos For Educators In 2019 – Part One . I publish a regular series called Ed Tech Digest , and I thought it would useful t
Wokandapix / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST WAYS TO SUPPORT LGBTQ STUDENTS : New Survey Finds Suicide Is a Major Risk for LGBTQ Youth is from Slate. Supporting LGBTQ Students in Elementary School is from Edutopia. When kids use their preferred pronoun, they have 35% fewer suicidal thoughts, 65% fewer suicide attempts & 71% fewer depression symptoms. @GLSEN found more than 2/3 of LGBTQ
geralt / Pixabay Earlier today, I posted WHAT I WANT TO DO BETTER NEXT SCHOOL YEAR – HOW ABOUT YOU? A few hours later, I realized that I had omitted another of important change I want to make – shake up how I have students read our History textbook. All-too-often, the sequence is that I pre-teach key words, students then read in pairs, taking turns reading each paragraph aloud, circling new words
‘Principals Shouldn’t Be Lonely’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Jen Schwanke, Dr. Jenny Grant Rankin, Harvey Alvy, Michael Haggen, James Erekson, Michael D. Toth write about their experiences working as, or with, school administrators. Here are some excerpts:
aburak / Pixabay Google Arts & Culture has just unveiled an online exhibit about Anne Frank and her home (it would be her birthday today). It’s pretty impressive – and complete. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About Anne Frank .
Prawny / Pixabay We’re on the last two day of our school year, and I thought it would be a good time to reflect (as I do every year) about how it went and what I want to do differently next year. I invite you to do the same in the comments section. Overall, it’s been a pretty good year. Our pilot Long Term English Language Learner support class was an experiment that seems to have been successful
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 TWELFT
It’s no secret that research has consistently found that going to college pays off income-wise (see The Best Resources For Showing Students Why They Should Continue Their Academic Career ). A new study has just come out with the same finding, and you can read all about it at Is College Worth It? Yes . I’ll add it to it the same list.
Author Interview: ‘The Aspiring Principal’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Baruti K. Kafele agreed to answer questions about his book, “The Aspiring Principal: 50 Critical Questions for New and Future School Leaders.” Here are some excerpts:
Letterbox is a free game that follows the common structure of providing several letter and then challenges the player to create words out of them in a short period of time. Letterbox’s twist, though, is that it provides a url address for you to share so that you can play with your friends, which can work quite well in a classroom. I’m adding it to The Best Online Games Students Can Play In Privat
June 26th Is “United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.” I recently updated The Best Sites Sites For Discussing The Morality of Torture .
I’m adding these new resources to various “Best” lists. You can find links to all of those many lists that relate to race and racism at “Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Teaching & Learning About Race & Racism: Calling attention to gender bias dramatically changes course evaluations is from Eureka Alert. I wonder if research finds similar conclusions on race? Speaking of which, check out th
GDJ / Pixabay The new TED-Ed lesson and video is on “How close are we to eradicating HIV?” I’m adding it to The Best Web Resources For Learning About HIV & AIDS .
“The Biggest Mistake by Administrators ‘Is Putting Tasks Before People'” is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Dr. PJ Caposey, Sarah Said, Amy Fast, Andrew Miller, Anthony Kim, and Edward Cosentino share their observations on mistakes administrators make and how to avoid them. Here are some excerpts:
Education Isn’t Enough is useful article in The Atlantic. It makes many excellent points. However, it does have a big blindspot – the author omits any discussion of the role of racism in inequality. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Why Improving Education Is Not THE Answer To Poverty & Inequality .
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay PERTS (Project for Education Research that Scales) is comprised of just about every major researcher doing work on Social Emotional Learning. They offer two free online programs for teachers to use with students – one to measure and encourage student engagement, and the other to do the same with developing a growth mindset. I’m not that familiar with the student enga
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. You might also be interested in The Best Social Emotional Learning Resources Of 2018 – So Far. Finally, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources . Here are this week’s picks: Want Teachers to Motivate Th
Common Administrator Mistakes & What to Do Instead is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, commentaries from Anne Vilen, Marcy Webb, Dr. Jason Kotch, Roxanna Elden, Baruti Kafele and Dr. Manuel Rustin “kick-off” this five-part series on administrator’s mistakes. Here are some excerpts:
BiljaST / Pixabay Five years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in The Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of ELLs In 2018 – So Far and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2018 – PART TWO . A
Pexels / Pixabay First You Make The Maps is well-done interactive showing – and discussing the importance – of multiple early maps. It’s from Lapham’s Quarterly. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Historic Maps .
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 2018 – PART TWO ):’ 5 MISTAKES MACKENZIE BEZOS AND OTHER MEGA-DONORS SHOULD AVOID is from Wired. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The Role Of Private Foundations In Education Policy . Chicago’s Urban Prep Academ
My latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show is on “The Mistakes We Made in Teaching Math and What We Learned.” I’m joined in the discussion by Beth Brady, Bobson Wong, and Elissa Scillieri, Ed.D, who have also all contributed written commentaries to my Education Week Teacher column. You can also now listen to the show on Google Play and Stitcher , in addition to iTunes. I’m adding this show to All My BA
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from the San Francisco public TV station to The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More :
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 BEST RESOURCES ON CLASS INSTRUCTION IN 2018 – PART TWO. Here are this week’s picks: Oxplore is a project of Oxford. It identifies “big” questions, and provides videos and articles students can use to explore as they
Free-Photos / Pixabay June 14th is celebrated as Flag Day in the United States. To quote from Wikipedia : In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened that day by resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About Flag Day .