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

Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007 - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2020/12/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos_12.html

The Wright Brothers Made Their First Flight On This Day 117 Years Ago – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

WikiImages / Pixabay This is the anniversary of the Wright Brother’s first flight. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About Flight . On this day 117 years ago: the Wright Brothers made the first sustained, powered flight in the Wright Flyer. #WrightBrothersDay #AviationHistory pic.twitter.com/GMCOHxZx3f — The FAA (@FAANews) December 17, 2020

I Think This Quote Describes The Essence Of Effective Community Organizing AND Effective Teaching

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4h

Nsé Ufot, the CEO of The New Georgia Project, was interviewed by CBS News yesterday, and the entire interview is embedded below. She begins the interview with a description of the essence of effective community organizing (having had a nineteen-year career as an organizer prior to becoming a teacher allows me to make that judgment). Changing the word “organizers” to “teachers” and then “act of vo

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Guest Post: “Labor-Based Grading: The Experiment”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

Editor’s Note: My colleague Kara Synhorst is trying something very interesting this school year, and agreed to write a guest post about it. Kara Synhorst teaches IB Language and Literature and IB Theory of Knowledge at Luther Burbank High in Sacramento, CA. For several years, I’ve been doing reading to educate myself on anti-racist work. When our English department read about labor-based grading

The Best Education “Year-In-Review” Posts & Articles For 2020

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

Here’s another year-end “Best” list, and I’m adding it to ALL END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2020 IN ONE PLACE! It’s starting off as a small one, but will certainly expand as January 1st gets closer – many education journals will develop their own and I’ll add them here. Here they are: The positively worst and best education news of 2020 — as viewed by a teacher is the Washington Post headline feat

Thursday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : If Teachers Get the Vaccine Quickly, Can Students Get Back to School? is from The NY Times. Long Beach schools push back reopening to March, citing rise in COVID-19 cases is from The L.A. Times. ‘Game changer’ Covid tests for secondary schools in January is from The BBC. Huge gaps in cla

A Look Back: Being A Mentor At Our School May Have Resulted In Improved Grades For The…Mentors

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

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 . OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Last week, I posted Another Study Finds That Student Mentors Giving Advice Helps THEM Do Better , which described an interesting study that was a also a little weird – the “mentors” didn’t actually mentor

New Meta-Analysis Highlight “Establish-Maintain-Restore” As Most Effective Teacher-Student Relationship Strategy

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

I wrote about about the “establish-maintain-restore” strategy for relationship building last year (see This Article Is One Of The Best Pieces I’ve Read On Classroom Management ). Now, a new meta-analysis of teacher-student relationship building strategies has highlighted it as one of the most effective – if not the most effective – techniques that are being used today. It’s behind a paywall, but

“As Santa” Lets ELLs – & Everybody Else – Have A “Conversation” With Him

by Larry Ferlazzo / 15h

Free-Photos / Pixabay Earlier this month, I shared HERE’S A MESSAGE FROM SANTA TO YOU, & YOUR ELL STUDENTS CAN EASILY CREATE THEIR OWN! It’s a cool tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to create messages from Santa. Unfortunately, I’ve heard from one or two peop

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