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Monday, December 21, 2020

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


My Most Popular Tweets Of The Year
PhotoMIX-Company / Pixabay Here’s one of my final “Best” of 2020 posts…. The first post is my most popular one, and it goes from there. I’m adding this post to ALL END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2020 IN ONE PLACE!: I get frustrated when I see school boards who continue to meet in Zoom vote to open schools, journalists who continue to work from home demand that schools open & college professors who
“12 Strategies for Encouraging Students to Want to Revise Their Writing”
12 Strategies for Encouraging Students to Want to Revise Their Writing is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators share suggestions for creating the classroom conditions in which students want to make revisions to their writing. Here are some excerpts:
A Look Back: KQED Interviews Me About Saul Alinsky & His Connection To Teaching
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 . This post originally appeared in 2016. Two days after Ben Carson suggested that Saul Alinsky was, and Hillary Clinton is, a devil worshiper , the KQED Mindshift blog published an interview with me about how I apply his work in the clas
Recommendations For Who To Follow On Twitter In 2021
joshborup / Pixabay Here’s the latest addition to ALL END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2020 IN ONE PLACE!: Off-and-on over the next few days I'll be sharing recommendations for people & organizations to follow here on Twitter. I'll collect them all in one post on my blog. — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) December 20, 2020 If you are interested in getting the latest education news, journalists to fol
Congress Agrees On New Stimulus Package Including Billions For K-12 Schools
PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay Congressional and Trump Administration negotiators just agreed to a deal on a new federal stimulus package . They’ll vote on it Monday. Here are some tweets with the details: I wonder how many schools will be open in 2021. | "The agreement provides $82 billion in funding for colleges and schools, including support for HVAC repair and replacement to mitigate virus tr
CDC Says All Teachers Should Be Able To Be Vaccinated By End Of February – I’ll Believe It When I See It
The NY Times just published Frontline Workers and People Over 74 Should Get Shots Next, CDC Panel Says . It says that teachers are in the next priority group and….. Together, the two groups the committee voted to prioritize on Sunday number about 51 million people; federal health officials have estimated that there should be enough vaccine supply to inoculate all of them before the end of Februar
Personal Reflections On My 2020 Professional Experiences
photosforyou / Pixabay I thought some readers might find it interesting, and I thought it would be a useful reflection exercise for me, if I reflected on my work around education over the past twelve months AND my hopes and concerns for 2021 (those 2021 thoughts will appear in a future post) I’ve 

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