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...

The latest news and resources in education since 2007

“Five Ways to Use Music in Lessons”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

Five Ways to Use Music in Lessons is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Five educators share ways to use music in lessons across the curriculum, including for textual analysis and to help create a positive classroom culture. Here are some excerpts:

Monday’s “Must Read” Articles About School Reopening Plans For The Fall

by Larry Ferlazzo / 10h

OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Every day, a new school district in Northern California is announcing they are going to full remote teaching in the fall. I suspect that similar announcements will be happening in other states, including Florida. It’s still unclear what’s going to happen in Sacramento. I’ve previously shared my own ideas about what I think would be good to happen (see FOR WHAT IT’S W

Pins Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 22,000 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 MOST POPULAR PINS OF 2020 – PAR

Ed Tech Digest

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

Nine years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “” 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 2020 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this w

A Look Back: A Reminder Why It’s Important To Have Students Repeat Words – & Read Text – Out Loud

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

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 . When teaching English Language Learners, many – if not most – of us have students repeat newly-learned words chorally. It encourages shy students to practice pronunciation and dev

If You Are Wondering Why Teachers Have No Confidence In Betsy DeVos, Watch This CNN Video

300+by Larry Ferlazzo / 21h

OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Watch this full interview that Dan Bash did with Betsy DeVos this morning. No commentary is needed….

Four Pandemic Resources Useful For When We’re Teaching About It

by Larry Ferlazzo / 23h

geralt / Pixabay Here are four new additions to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS : How 2020 Remapped Your Worlds is from Bloomberg and is a good lesson idea – have students draw maps of how “their” world looks right now. How a History Textbook Would Describe 2020 So Far is another good lesson idea – have students write what they think a chapter in a future

Today’s Four Articles About School Reopening That Are Worth Your Time

25by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Skitterphoto / Pixabay The media blitz about school reopening continues. Here are four from the past twenty-four hours that are worth a read. I’m adding these to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : How to Reopen Schools: What Science and Other Countries Teach Us is from The NY Times. Trump Threatens to Turn Pandemic Schooling Into a Culture War is also from The NY

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New CNN Video: “Leader of teachers union: DeVos has done nothing for teachers last few weeks”

31by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Wokandapix / Pixabay Check out today’s CNN interview with Randi Weingarten from the AFT:

What Are Examples Of Student Projects That Improved Communities

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Here’s the next question-of-the-week at my Ed Week Teacher column: What are examples of projects your students have done to improve their community and how (and why) did you encourage them? You can send me your responses here or leave a comment on this post. Thanks!

A Look Back: Here Are Hundreds Of Free Downloadable Student Handouts From The Math, Science & Social Studies Teachers’ Toolboxes

43by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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 . As regular readers know, three books following the format of our ELL Teacher’s Toolbox , and which Katie Hull and I edited , just came out (clicking on the covers below will lead

Five New Videos About The Present “Racial Reckoning”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Here are some new videos I’m adding to various “Best” lists… I’m adding this first video to The Best Explanations For Why You Shouldn’t Say “All Lives Matter” : I’m adding these next two videos to HELPFUL RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT GEORGE FLOYD’S DEATH : I’m adding this next video to New & Revised: Resources To Help Us Predominantly White Teachers To Reflect On How Race Influences Our Work : An

Today’s Five Articles Worth Reading About School Reopening Plans In The Fall

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Dyadya_Lyosha / Pixabay The massive media coverage continues about school reopening plans. Here are my choices for the top four that have appeared over the past twenty-four hours. I’m adding these to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Reopened schools in Europe and Asia have largely avoided coronavirus outbreaks. They have lessons for the U.S. is from The Washingt

“Q&A Collections: Using Tech With Students”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

Q&A Collections: Using Tech With Students is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts sharing advice on Using Tech With Students (from the past nine years!) are described and 

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