Saturday, September 25, 2021

THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION 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


THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... 
The latest news and resources in education since 2007



Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
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 INSTRUCTION IN 2021 – PART ONE . Here are this week’s picks: 14 Ways to Learn Vocabulary and Explore Language With The New York Times is from The NY Times Learning Network. I’m adding it to The Best
Here Are Step-By-Step Instructions For A Flashcard Activity I Do With My ELL Newcomer Students
ArtsyBeeKids / Pixabay I am a big advocate of creating opportunities for students to teach their classmates (see The Best Posts On Helping Students Teach Their Classmates — Help Me Find More ). I’m lucky this year that I have quite a few peer tutors who can help create those opportunities.. Here are instructions for how they prepare ELL Newcomers to teach others about new vocabulary words and sen
A Look Back: Wow, This Seems Like The Mother Lode Of All Education Research Papers
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 published this one last year. 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 “E
CDC Director Overrules Advisors & Recommends That Teachers Get COVID Vaccine Booster Shots
This was a surprise! After the CDC advisory panel yesterday recommended that health care workers and others not receive COVID vaccine booster shots, the CDC Director just overruled them. You can read about it in The NY Times article, C.D.C. Chief Overrules Agency Panel and Recommends Pfizer-BioNTech Boosters for Workers at Risk . I was literally the first in line at the vaccine clinic our distric

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Most Popular Posts Of The Week
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 FOURTE
Friday’s New Articles & Videos On School Reopenings
Ordinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic . However, that list is just getting too massive. So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here: How Some Schools Are Using Weekly Testing To Keep Kids In Class — And COVID Out is from NPR. For Parents ​of Disabled Children, School Mask Wars
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
BiljaST / Pixabay Six 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 2020. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In additi
Ed Tech Digest
Ten 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 2021 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this we
My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On The Challenges Schools Are Facing This Fall & How To Respond To Them
We Learned a Lot From the Pandemic, How Much Are We Applying As We Return to School? is the topic of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show. I’m joined in the conversation by Dr. Rob S.Harvey, Dr. Helen Vassiliou, and Hilary Kreisberg, who have all also contributed written commentaries to my Ed Week column. I’m adding it to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions .
A Look Back: Leading With Inquiry, Not Judgment
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 2018. mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Earlier this summer, I was asked to share advice to the over two hundred students entering the Sacramento State University teacher credentialing program. I shared one thin
September’s Most Popular Posts
As regular readers know, at the end of each week I share the five most popular posts from the previous seven days. I thought people might find it interesting to see a list of the ten most popular posts from the previous thirty days. You might also be interested in IT’S THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BLOG – HERE ARE THE FORTY ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR POSTS . Not to mention THE TWENTY MOST POPULAR
September’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,272 Of Them!
Prawny / Pixabay Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,272 of them categorized here ): THE BEST RESOURCES ABOUT ACCELERATED LEARNING THE BEST RESOURCES TO HELP PREPARE TUTORS & VOLUNTEERS IN ELL CLASSES – AND, BOY, DO I NEED SUGGESTIONS! A COLLECTION OF THE BEST ADVICE TO TEACHERS ABOUT SUPPORTING AFGHAN REFUGEE STUDENTS

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Here’s The Cover Of Our New Book!
Here’s the cover of the second edition of The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide ! We’ll be submitting the final manuscript within days, and it scheduled to be published in early April of next year, though our books usually come out a bit earlier than the official publication date. You can pre-order it here . I’ve been told that most new editions have about thirty percent new content, and that’s th
Thursday’s New Articles & Videos On School Reopenings
icsilviu / Pixabay Ordinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic . However, that list is just getting too massive. So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here: Florida Makes Quarantine Optional For Students Exposed To COVID-19 is from NPR. Tonight, the Oakland Unified School District
A Look Back: New Study Finds That Specific Ninth-Grade Intervention Very Effective & It’s Remarkably Similar To What We Do At Our School
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 . Kunnasberg / Pixabay The American Institutes of Research just released a study finding that a program called Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) was very effective at improving academic progress for ninth-graders and enhancing their
My Most Popular Tweets Of The Month
PhotoMIX-Company / Pixabay I used to post weekly collections of my best tweets, and used Storify to bring them together. Unfortunately, Storify went under. Fortunately, however, Wakelet was a new tool that was able to import all of a person’s Storifys. So you can see all those previous Twitter “Best” lists here . You might also be interested in MY MOST POPULAR TWEETS OF THE YEAR and RECOMMENDATIO
Pins Of The Week
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 Here
Wednesday’s New Articles On School Reopenings
llorcraft / Pixabay Ordinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic . However, that list is just getting too massive. So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here: More than 100,000 pupils off school in England last week amid Covid surge is from The Guardian. D.C.’s mayor says adults in
Ed Tech Digest
Ten 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 2021 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this we

SEP 21

Biden Administration To Accept More Refugees
The Biden Administration just announced the U.S. would accept more refugees in this coming fiscal year, and you can read more about it at the Washington Post’s article, Biden to raise refugee admissions cap to 125,000 in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 . Speaking of refugees, you might also be interested in today’s Ed Source article, California schools prepare for thousands of Afghan refugee stu
Excellent Collection Of Student-Created Videos Teaching Word Definitions
Kollakolla / Pixabay Each year, I share the winners of The NY Times Learning Network’s contest where students create super-short and creative videos teaching word definitions. You can see them all at The Best Resources For Learning To Use The Video Apps “Vine” & Instagram . In fact, I’m proud to say that they originally used a video one of my student’s created as a model when they kicked-off the

SEP 20

Tuesday’s New Articles & Videos About School Reopenings – Vaccine For Kids Edition
stevepb / Pixabay Ordinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic . However, that list is just getting too massive. So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here: Pfizer says its vaccine is safe for children 5 to 11. Will parents buy in? is from The NY Times. Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine
A Look Back: Classroom Management Strategy: “Sometimes The Only Thing Worse Than Losing A Fight Is Winning One”
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 2013. OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay An old community organizing adage goes like this: “Sometimes the only thing worse than losing a fight is winning one.” In organizing, that can mean your group gave so

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Monday’s New Articles On School Reopenings
Ordinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic . However, that list is just getting too massive. So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here: Sacramento City Unified considering COVID vaccine requirement for students 12 and up is from The Sacramento Bee. A New Covid Testing Model Aims
Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists
(Note: I am going to publish this same post once each month to remind regular readers and inform newer ones about how to access my “Best” lists) As regular readers know, I have about 2,200 categorized and regularly updated “Best” lists. You can find all of them in broad categories here . The link to that page can also be found at the top right of my blog: My Best Of Series I also have them all on
Simple, But Useful, Video Explaining The Difference Between Teaching Grammar Inductively & Deductively
AxxLC / Pixabay As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of inductive teaching and learning (see The Best Resources About Inductive Learning & Teaching ). American English recently published this short animated video explaining the difference between teaching grammar inductively and deductively. It’s a bit simplistic but, if you want to quickly understand the basic difference or help someone else u
“Best Ways for Schools to Prepare for the Next Pandemic”
Best Ways for Schools to Prepare for the Next Pandemic is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Being better connected to families and the community and diversifying the education workforce are some of the ways to be ready. Here are some excerpts:

SEP 18

When Is It Time To Let Students Sleep In Class?
Saydung89 / Pixabay Some teachers let their students sleep in class. Here’s what mental health experts say. is a USA Today article sharing useful advice to teachers. Yes, sometimes the best thing a teacher can do is to let a student sleep – if he/she is clearly stressed or exhausted. In my experience, just making the offer to a student goes a long way to supporting the student, and that, most of
“Grows The Economy Meme” & How To Make Your Own
Here’s my latest meme, and you can create your own here . Our district is trying to reduce our salaries by hundreds of dollars each month through demanding we pay more for health care. Considering the number of teacher vacancies we still have a month into the new school year, I don’t think this kind of move is going to help recruiting….. I’ve been making a fair number of school-related memes late