The Free Market In A Small Town
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I live in a small town in a small town region. A little over 6,000 in the
city, somewhere around 50,000 in the county. We're in northwest
Pennsylvania, a...
The US Goverment Murdered the Rosenbergs!
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Mail to: USPardon.Attorney@usdoj.gov Subject: President Biden, right the
historical wrong done to Ethel Rosenberg To the Office of the Pardon
Attorney, Ple...
Signing of the Social Security Fairness Act
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State Superintendent Tony Thurmond celebrates landmark victory to establish
Social Security Fairness Act for educators and public servants.
That Other Day of Infamy
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Today is the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection... There is no
concern over whether Congress will be able to do its job, and not to put
too f...
AI Wants to Help Me Write– But With Disclaimers
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One of the more surprising features added to the WordPress blogging site is
the option for bloggers to access AI (artificial intelligence) to “assist”
with...
The Trump Insurrection of Jan.6.
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Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, marks the fourth anniversary of Donald Trump's
deadly January 6 insurrection.
And Donald Trump—who pledged to pardon the insurr...
The Five Musketeers
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One for all and all for one … and in a modern update, One in Five, a
Texas-based foundation that grew out of the Uvalde tragedy to help patrol
schools and ...
“We Are All Reformers” (Part 2)
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A timeline of laws, events, and key people would show that in the 20th and
21st centuries multiple school reforms occurred again and again touching
student...
A Math Question: the Crazed Carpenter
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Yesterday I heard that a current union activist teacher, math teacher, was
influenced to become a math teacher, in part, from reading this blog. Wow,
even ...
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I used to blog for Education Week—for nine years, in fact. And at the end
of each year, the teacher bloggers were asked to choose our ten best blogs
and po...
Network for Public Education 2025 Conference
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By Thomas Ultican 1/1/2025 I am going to Columbus, Ohio for the 2025 NPE
conference the weekend of April 5 and 6. Since 2015, these conferences have
been a...
Site Index - Updated December 31, 2024
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When I was teaching,
I got tired of hearing how bad American educators were.
*My Promise *
WHEN I STARTED BLOGGING IN 2011, I said I planned to speak ...
Perhaps this is a meaningless ramble
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but I am choosing to reflect on a number of disparate topics that are
currently on my mind. Perhaps I should start by explaining that I have been
at leas...
December Parent Engagement Resources
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Parent involvement in schools ⬆️. 87% of K–12 students from
English-speaking families had parents who reported attending a general
school meeting in 2019, ...
The 2024 NPE “Coal in the Stocking” Awards
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At NPE, we know who is naughty and nice when it comes to supporting our
public schools and their students.
The post The 2024 NPE “Coal in the Stocking” A...
Juntos lo haremos
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En el año que viene, tendremos que tomar decisiones difíciles sobre quienes
queremos ser en cada comunidad y como nación. Ha sido un año muy intenso.
Desde...
WTF, Democratic Caucus?
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Why is the failure of this current budget bill being blamed on Republicans
when almost every single Democrat voted against it? If only half of the
Dems had...
In Memoriam: Nikki Giovanni
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The literary and cultural world has lost an irreplaceable voice with the
passing of Nikki Giovanni. As one of the most celebrated poets and
activists of ou...
Education Has Failed and What Can We Do Next?
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Education has failed to prepare children for the world today. Despite the
increased investment, impactful reforms, hardworking teachers and school
leaders,...
Defining Productivity, Cost, and Efficiency
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Recycled material here… The central problem with US public schools is often
characterized as an efficiency problem. We spend a lot and don’t get much
for i...
Number 18 — A barely-hanging-on Blogoversary
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Blogoversary #18 SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 I started this blog while I was still
teaching, in 2006. I had just begun my 31st year as an educator. Just like
in pre...
Student "Growth" Measures Are STILL Biased
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This caught my attention:
New Jersey school districts may soon be evaluated differently, *with a
greater emphasis on student growth* as compared to stud...
AIN’T IT AWFUL
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As the terrible feelings of dread and angst spread across the world the
great majority of the American people feel powerless before the onslaught
of those ...
The Sky is Falling, or is it?
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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...
Vote NO on the UFT Contract. Here is Why:
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The best reason to vote no on this contract is this: UFT Unity* lied* to us
in 2018. They misrepresented that contract. It was predicated on deals we
wer...
Metaphors in ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech
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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
Public Schools Truancy Task Force, a body mandated by state legislation.
The meetin...
There Is A Teacher Shortage.Not.
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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 cer...
Book Banning Turns to Dick and Jane
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Breaking News: Dateline February 4, 2022 - Parents in Dimwitty, Alabama
have asked the Dimwitty Board of Education to ban the children's primer *Fun
with...
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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archive. And be sure to check out...
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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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[image: colorful classroom pattern]
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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
for over 30 years, where up until now I have had little or no interaction
with th...
We fight for a democracy worthy of us all!
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The nation stands at a crossroads, said NEA President Lily Eskelsen García
in her final keynote address to the 2020 NEA Representative Assembly and
it’s up...
The Passing Of Chaz 1951-2020 Age 69
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I am the son of Chaz and like to inform you that he passed away this
afternoon from the COVID virus. My father passed in peace beside his loved
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The Fight For Our Children
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*The number of suicides among people ages 10 to 24 nationally increased by
56 percent between 2007 and 2017, according to a new federal report showing
the ...
Read to Self: Just a Kid and a Book.
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Date: Monday, January 5, 2020 Place: My classroom Student: Mrs.Mims, could
we start doing Read to Self again because I got this great book for
Christmas an...
Keeping Progressive Schools Alive
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, Happy New Year and a special thanks to those
who respond to past blogs about choice, et al. I always mean to respond to
each c...
Reminiscences
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I just finished dumping the rest of my lesson plans. I guess I held on to
the calculus ones for so long because I spent so much time working on them
an...
Just Asking for some Teachers I know.
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Recently Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers stated, We must … recognize that
part of supporting our kids in the classroom means supporting the educators
who t...
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Bermain judi bola online tentu saja memiliki kesenangannya tersendiri baik
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It first happened to me about ten years ago. I was beginning my third year
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si...
My First and Last Visit to Hudson Yards
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Figuring I did not need to invite any more darkness and vulgarity into my
head than that provided on a daily basis from Trump’s White House, and
after read...
The World According to Michelle Rhee
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The men behind the curtain fashioning the brave new world of corporate run
education in America! Michelle Rhee is the founder of StudentsFirst, The
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It's hard to identify education heroes and sheroes. And perhaps even harder
to pinpoint just whose work is slanted, paid-for and dishonest.
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Originally posted on Wrench in the Gears:
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Starting a new local business in Sacramento is a monumental task, but can
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the loc...
Lesson Plan: Rhyme and Rhythm in Poetry
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I’ve started a recent unit on poetry with my class. I’m not a poet, and I’m
not a poetry fan (I don’t hate it, but I’m a prose gal), so this makes it
harde...
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Betsy Devos has drawn few headlines in recent months, and that is a good
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In their final post to end Bridging Differences' decade-long run, Deborah
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Quick! Get over there! The daily education news roundup and education
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In an odd turn of events, and with little explanation, Michigan Governor
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I’ve been gone a while from the blogging scene. Some of my more regular
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that. Sinc...
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By Michael Stratford | in the Politco Morning Education Report | via email
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Our publisher has just released the Distance Learning chapter from our upcoming book, The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide, 2nd edition . Please remember that is is a draft , so it hasn’t gone through the usual proofreading
Eight Ways to Use Movement in Teaching & Learning is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators share ideas on how to use movement with students, including for learning vocabulary through the use of Total Physical Response. Here are some excerpts:
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Well, that should go smoothly this year https://t.co/36jKcp1RBV — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 24, 2020 Check out today’s article in Chalkbeat, Standardized tests were canceled last school year. Don’t count on that happening again, federal official says . Sure, that’s going to work out well with remote and hybrid learning. And let’s add even more pressure to
I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here ). You can also see my all-time favorites here . I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series reviewing old favorite
Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : When Is It Safe for Schools to Reopen? is from The NY Times. Held back: As parents realize how badly the U.S. botched the next school year, we’re furious is from The Washington Post.
geralt / Pixabay I’ve been sharing tentative distance learning plans for all my classes (see HERE ARE DETAILED – & TENTATIVE – DISTANCE LEARNING PLANS FOR ALL MY FALL CLASSES ) and my last post discussed my IB Theory of Knowledge classes (see NEXT: HERE’S A DISTANCE-LEARNING PLAN FOR MY THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE CLASSES ). That last post discussed my typical lesson plan for the day, along with potentia
mohamed_hassan / Pixabay The New York Times just announced that they are unveiling a new podcast next week called “Nice White Parents.” : “Nice White Parents” is a new podcast from Serial Productions, brought to you by The New York Times, about the 60-year relationship between white parents and the public school down the block. We know that American public schools do not guarantee each child an e
christels / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Reopening Schools Is Way Harder Than It Should Be is from The NY Times. Schools may soon apply for waivers to reopen — but only with union support is from The L.A. Times. Remote Learning? No Thanks. is from The NY Times.
geralt / Pixabay President Trump was successful today in getting the CDC to modify it’s school reopening guidelines. Surprisingly, though it does appear that the changes weren’t as much as many of us feared. Nevertheless, with public confidence in the CDC getting lower by the day , agreeing to any changes that appear to further Trump’s political agenda are likely to result in those perceptions ge
DavidRockDesign / Pixabay As I wrote last week , the publisher of the second edition of The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide , has agreed to release our distance learning chapter early and free-of-charge – and no registration will be required! It’s ready, and will be available first at the VirtuEL website on Saturday morning, where you’ll be able to check out lots of workshops (and a keynote by m
The federal moratorium on eviction expires today (see A federal eviction moratorium ends this week, putting 12 million tenants at risk ). California’s state moratorium ends in September (see Coronavirus CA: Gov. Newsom extends state eviction moratorium through September ). The number of homeless students in the United States last year was estimated to be 1.5 million . Even if “only” five-to-ten p
Wokandapix / Pixabay This week, in an attempt to alleviate some of my many worries about the fall , I wrote up very tentative plans for each of my upcoming fall classes. I want to emphasize the word “tentative.” In fact, I’ve already made changes to them since they were originally published. I still have to write one more post to complete this series but, based on the feedback I’ve received so fa
geralt / Pixabay Two days ago, I posted Okay, Now, Here’s My Tentative Remote Teaching Plan For U.S. History . Yesterday, I shared Updated Distance Learning Plan For My Newcomer/Intermediate ELL Class . Now, it’s time for my last scheduled class: three periods of the International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge course. Yesterday was the last day of a four-week class preparing educators for all
California is short 1 million laptops and hot spots for kids as it prepares online school is from today’s Sacramento Bee, and is not good news. 16.9 million children remain logged out because they don’t have internet at home is a new report released by FutureReady, and is also not good news. It’s going to be a hell of a fall…
Katie Toppel is the founder and coordinator of a fabulous online book study group for teachers of English Language Learners. She makes “sketchnotes” about the different books, and she agreed to let me share a sampling. Enjoy!
Today, Google unveiled “It’s A Wonderful World, ” a Google Arts and Culture selection of the most iconic places to visit around the world. You can read more about it here . In addition, they provide video instructions about how to create a video travelogue showing your own virtual travels throughout the world. Unfortunately, it requires using Google Meet which, for inexplicable reasons, our distr
Ways to ‘Break Down Walls Between Classroom & Community’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Three educators share ways to connect their students to community engagement, including through project-based learning and community-service projects. Here are some excerpts:
geralt / Pixabay The Education Writers Association has just announced 2019 Awards for Education Reporting. Check them all out here and here . You can see their picks from previous years here.
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . I wrote this post in 2013. You might also be interested in The Best Resources On The Value & Practice Of Having Older Students Mentoring Younger Ones . That post includes my latest related post, Here Are The Instructions I Give Mentors
Here are today’s new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : The Latest in School Segregation: Private Pandemic ‘Pods’ is from The NY Times. The huge problem with education ‘pandemic pods’ suddenly popping up is from The Washington Post.
geralt / Pixabay Yesterday, I posted Okay, Now, Here’s My Tentative Remote Teaching Plan For U.S. History . Thinking it through, and writing it out, made me feel a little less worried . Perhaps doing the same for my combination Beginners/Intermediate class will make feel even better. We’ll see. And I’ve still other classes to go, too! But, today is for my ELL class. The fact that things went so w
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Education Week just published a new video Katie Hull and I did with them sharing tips for new teachers entering a remote/hybrid teaching environment this fall. I think veteran teachers might find it helpful too. I’m adding it to my video page , where you can find quite a few other useful ones…
Here are today’s new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : The Urgency Of Reopening Schools Safely is by Linda Darling Hammond. How other countries reopened schools during the pandemic – and what the US can learn from them is from The Conversation. COLUMN: School reopening plans must ensure safety of custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and substit
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
Q&A Collections: Writing Instruction is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts on Writing Instruction (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . In 2015, Routledge published the third book in my student motivation series, Building A Community Of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies To Help Students Thrive In School and Beyond . The Washington Post published an excerpt from the c
Where Lynching Terrorized Black Americans, Corporal Punishment In Schools Lives On in the HuffPost reports on one hell of a study. You might also be interested in: The Best Resources Explaining The GAO Report That Finds Racial Disparities In School Discipline THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING HOW BLACK GIRLS ARE TREATED UNFAIRLY & WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT NEW REPORT SAYS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DOESN’T WORK
What Is the Role of Memorization When Teaching in a Post-Google World is the topic of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show. I’m joined by Blake Harvard, Keisha Rembert and Donna Shrum, who have also contributed written commentaries to my Ed Week Teacher column. I’m adding this show to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions .
Peggy_Marco / Pixabay This week, I have begun trying to get a handle on a plan for remote teaching my classes this year and, as I wrote in The Washington Post yesterday, I have a lot of worries . This is the first of a series of posts where I’ll describe my tentative (and, boy, do I meant tentative ) about my plans for each class. Today, it’s my United States History class for Intermediate and Be
Free-Photos / Pixabay Here are today’s new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : In Defense of Our Teachers is by Dave Grohl (yes, that David Grohl) and appears in The Atlantic. Even where Trump is popular, some school leaders reject his push to reopen schools is from The Washington Post. Florida Teachers Sue To Block School Coronavirus Reopening Mandate
JCamargo / Pixabay Editor’s Note: Yesterday, Kara Synhorst wrote a guest post titled GUEST POST TUTORIAL: CONNECTING GOOGLE CLASSROOM TO YOUR CALENDAR SO STUDENTS CAN MAKE APPOINTMENTS . Here, today, she presents Part Two, where she discusses ways to use the Google Classroom calendar feature. Kara Synhorst teaches IB English and Theory of Knowledge at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento. In
Three Ways to Bring the Classroom to the Community is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four teachers share their strategies to help students improve their communities, including through “Structured Academic Controversies” and “Genius Hours.” Here are some excerpts:
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . I originally published this post in 2014. Photo from Ping Li Lab, Penn State Regular readers of this blog and/or my books are familiar with how I help students see the physical impact learning new things can have on its brains (see The
stevepb / Pixabay The Washington Post republished my post from earlier this morning. You can check out Teacher: Eight concerns about school this fall that are robbing me of sleep .
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by my superteacher colleague Kara Synhorst. I’m adding it to THE BEST ONLINE TOOLS FOR REMOTE TEACHING – SHARE YOUR OWN . Kara Synhorst teaches IB English and Theory of Knowledge at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento. As I’m sure most teachers are, I’m preparing for distance learning. One of Larry Ferlazzo’s posts (see Tools To Use For Students To Set Up
Here are today’s new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : “If You Want Us to Reopen, You Cannot Leave Your House From Now Until September” is from Slate. Some Students Should Go to School, Most Should Stay Home is by Shayla R. Griffin. How to Reopen the Economy Without Killing Teachers and Parents is from The NY Times.
As you know, John Lewis died over the week end (see TERRIBLE NEWS: JOHN LEWIS HAS PASSED – LEARN ABOUT HIS LIFE ). He, among many other accomplishments, was one of the original thirteen “Freedom Riders” who fought racism in public transportation. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About The “Freedom Riders”
TheDigitalArtist / Pixabay With the decision to have most California schools going to full time distancing learning in the fall, we have received the gift of clarity. At the same time, I have begun working up very early in the morning with thoughts running through my mind about how all this is going to work, and what I have to figure out over the next few weeks. I had a pretty positive experience
Q&A Collections: Reading Instruction is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts on Reading Instruction (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
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
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . I originally published this post in 2015: Clker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay I’m a big advocate and practitioner of creating opportunities for students to be teachers (see The Best Posts On Helping Students Teach Their Classmates ). I’
TonW / Pixabay Here are three articles/videos that I think are worth reading by educators. I’m adding them to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Please Don’t Make Me Risk Getting Covid-19 to Teach Your Child appeared in The NY Times. Doing Schoolwork in the Parking Lot Is Not a Solution is from The NY Times. Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Ad
Thanks to Alice Mercer, I learned that Zoom is hosting a free Zoom Academy to learn its ins-and-outs on July 29th and 30th. The second day looks particularly attractive to me because that’s when it appears they will delving into its mechanics. I don’t know about you, but since I’m going to be spending many hours each day on Zoom, I feel like I have to become familiar with everything about it. In
There are lots of studies and articles out their with recommendations about what we should be doing in the classroom. In fact, I’ve collected the best at The “Best” Lists Of Recommendations About What “Effective” Teachers Do . But I recently discovered what might be the “best of the best.” It came out last year, its lead author is Linda Darling Hammond, and the title of the paper is Implications
Now that the state of California has decided most schools are beginning the year with distance learning, my mind is beginning to plan and to race… One question I’m dealing with is how to schedule students for virtual individual meetings. I was disappointed to discover that the Google Classroom calendar doesn’t work for this kind of scheduling, which seems odd to me – I’m sure I’m not the only tea
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 2020. You can see my choices for each of the past thirteen 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. Here are My Favorite Posts In 2020 —
As you probably have heard, this past week most of us here in California finally got some clarity – we’re starting the school year all online. In addition, our district put out a tentative schedule for our online school, though it still has to be negotiated with our union. I decided to put some time into planning wh