8-25-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL:

“Personal Writing Based on The Times’s Sunday Routine Series” Is A Nice Idea From The Learning Network

Reader Idea | Personal Writing Based on The Times’s Sunday Routine Series is a very useful post at The New York Times Learning Network. It’s a simple teacher-suggested lesson plan that includes some very useful student hand-outs that is particularly timely at the beginning of the school year. I obviously didn’t write it but, for now (until I create another “Best” list), I’ll be adding it to My Be

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2min

“Leap.it” Could Be A Useful Search Engine For English Language Learners

Leap.it is a new search engine that portrays search results in a visually attractive way (see the above image and compare it to the image below from Google searching the same topic: Christopher Columbus). I don’t really understand how — apart from the display — that it’s different from Google or Bing, but TechCruch explains it in this post, though after reading it I still don’t have a clue what t

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12min hide  //  save

The 51st Anniversary Of The March On Washington Is Thursday– Here Are Related Resources

© 2013 John Flannery, Flickr | CC-BY-ND | via Wylio August 28th is the anniversary of the March On Washington. You might be interested in The Best Resources About The March On Washington.

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12min 

Just Sent-Out Free Email Newsletter

I’ve just mailed out the June issue of my simple free monthly email newsletter. It has over 2,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here.

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August’s “The Best” Lists — There Are Now 1,341 Of Them!

Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,341 of them categorized here): The Best Resources For World Humanitarian Day The Best Resources For Learning About The Rosetta Mission “The Best Advice On Engaging Parents At The Beginning Of The School Year” “My Best Posts On ‘Conditional Cash Transfers’” How Many Of Our Students Feel This Way? (Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 7h 

August’s Best Posts From This Blog

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). Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this pas

by Larry Ferlazzo / 7h

8-24-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Friday & Sat. (2nd Wk) Tweets About #Ferguson #MichaelBrown[View the story "Friday & Sat. (2nd Wk) Tweets About #Ferguson #MichaelBrown" on Storify]by Larry Ferlazzo / 9h Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 8-23-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLarry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL

by mike simpson / 8h 

8-25-14 Curmudgucation

CURMUDGUCATION:

ACT Report Finds ACT Really Important

Okay kids. Here's today's lesson in critical thinking (which, as you may have heard, is built right into the heart and sinew of the Common Core).When a business releases a study showing the importance and effectiveness of that business's product, is there a possibility that the study might be aimed at something other than Telling the Whole Truth?The folks at ACT must be really sweating these days.

by Peter Greene / 8min 

8-24-14 Curmudgucation Week

CURMUDGUCATION: Objectivity Is a UnicornObjectivity is a unicorn. It's inspiring to believe in, pretty to create pictures of. Some folks love the idea of objectivity so much that they dress up horses or try their hand at photoshop. But at the end of the day, it doesn't actually exist.Nevertheless, we continue to enshrine the idea of objectivity in places where it does not exist. Writers have repea

by mike simpson / 8h 

8-25-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School:

NYSED Looks To Make 40% of APPR Evaluations Based On State Tests

The APPR teacher evaluation system in New York is split so that 60% is based on "subjective" measures like classroom observations and (in some districts) student surveys while the other 40% is based on "student performance."The "student performance" APPR component is divided into 20% that is based on state tests and 20% that is based on "local assessments."T

by reality-based edu... / 10min 

8-24-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Daily News: Cuomo Not Much National Stature For White House RunFrom the Daily News: While Cuomo publicly dismisses talk of a candidacy, his people have hardly discouraged such speculation. A 2016 scenario goes like this: Hillary Clinton chooses not to run, blowing the Democratic field open. The problem for Cuomo, party activists and Democratic insiders say, is that he has do

by mike simpson / 8h 

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 8-25-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:

A Clockwork iPad: FROM THE INTERSECTION OF BALDERDASH AND IMPLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY

in which smf of 4LAKids comments upon this morning’s L.A. Times article: LAUSD OFFICIALS HAD CLOSE TIES WITH APPLE, PEARSON EXECS, RECORDS SHOW | http://bit.ly/1rvapUU Monday, 25 August, 2014   From The Times   In one email, from May 24, 2012, then-Deputy Supt. Jaime Aquino seems to strategize with higher-ups from Pearson, an international

by smf / 17min 

iPadGate: LAUSD OFFICIALS HAD CLOSE TIES WITH APPLE, PEARSON EXECS, RECORDS SHOW

L.A. Unified officials and Apple and Pearson execs began discussing a computer effort two years before it was put out for bid By Howard Blume . LA Times | http://lat.ms/YVaYKR Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy's relationship with executives raises new questions about the iPad bidding process (Associated Press) Aug 24, 2014  ::  Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy and his chief

by smf / 29min 

iPADDED IN LAUSD: The smoking gun of the done deal. What’s next?

by smf for 4LAKidsNews | Monday morning, 25 August 2014 The following graphic is from reporter Annie Gilbertson of KPCC’s recent revelations – posted already on KPCC’s website and on these pages. original graphic from KPCC Obviously the next move is with the Board of Education. Time is of the essence; this  has the appearance  of a criminal matter and despite the niceties of  Brown Act the

by smf / 16min 

LAUSD’s iPad project: HOW IT STARTED …BEFORE THE BIDDING BEGAN

by Annie Gilbertson KPCC 89.3 Pass/Fail | http://bit.ly/1pXVT5u Walking in the street while texting: Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy checks his phone outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, before the verdict in a lawsuit on teacher tenure. Damian Dovarganes/AP August 25, 2014 5am ::  Superintendent John Deasy was a year into his tenure at the Los Angeles

by smf / 5min 

DEASY PLANNING TO HIRE HIS OWN ‘LIASON’ FOR MiSiS PROJECT + smf’s 2¢

Deasy says the person he will hire  will report directly to him and will not require board approval. When does it all end? by Vanessa Romo in LA School Report | http://bit.ly/1t5D2b8 August 21, 2014 4:31 pm  ::   As LA Unified teachers continue their complaints about the district’s new student data management program, MiSiS, Superintendent John Deasy said today he plans to hire an independent

by smf / 5h  

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 8-24-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Voices from the field: The MiSiS CRISIS + smf’s 2¢The Associated Administrators of Los Angeles Weekly Update | Week of August 25, 2014 | http://bit.ly/1ojn9Go 21 August 2014  ::  On August 12, 2014, LAUSD opened the school year using a new student information system, MiSiS (My Integrated Student Information System). The result has been chaos at secondar

by mike simpson / 8h 

8-25-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

Hemlock on the Rocks:

Jefferson High Students Stage Walkout Over LAUSD Computer System « CBS Los Angeles

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/08/25/jefferson-high-students-stage-walkout-over-lausd-computer-system-glitch/ Jefferson High Students Stage Walkout Over LAUSD Computer System August 25, 2014 2:28 PM View Comments

by Rene Diedrich / 3min hide  //  save

LAUSD Chief: One Bad Apple? | Bill Carroll on KFI AM 640

LAUSD Chief: One Bad Apple? | Bill Carroll on KFI AM 640

by Rene Diedrich / 13min 

New Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District superintendent likes challenges

http://www.whittierdailynews.com/general-news/20090726/new-norwalk-la-mirada-unified-school-district-superintendent-likes-challenges

by Rene Diedrich / 14min 

Frustrated Teachers on Film

by Rene Diedrich / 18min 

OOOPS, DEASY DID IT AGAIN! THE MISIS MESS HAS Happened Before....

MiSiS: VOICES FROM THE FIELD AALA has received many emails and calls from secondary administrators concerned with the myriad MiSiS mishaps they experienced as they opened the school year. The MiSiS crisis has dramatically increased the workload of administrators who have spent many evenings and weekends trying to make the system work on behalf of students. Here are a few of their concerns.“

by Rene Diedrich / 26min hide  //  save

LACOE WANTS TO KNOW THE RATIONALE FOR $700 million on English Learners and Foster Kids

ED NOTES: I DOUBT THAT THEY PLAN TO SPEND IT ON TEACHERS . In an Aug. 13 letter to the school board president, the chief financial officer of the Los Angeles County’s Office of Education asked district officials to provide their “rationale” in listing $700 million as being spent on children who are poor, English learners or foster kids. Out of 80 school districts in Los Angeles County, the

by Rene Diedrich / 1h 

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: LAUSD’s iPad project: HOW IT STARTED …BEFORE THE B...

..4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: LAUSD’s iPad project: HOW IT STARTED …BEFORE THE B...: by Annie Gilbertson KPCC 89.3 CHECK OUT THE FUKL STORY BY CLICKING THE LINK ABOVE!

by Rene Diedrich / 2min 

New York Times Reports on Duncan’s Retreat from Test-Based Evaluations of Teachers | Diane Ravitch's blog

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The Violence and Hatred of Common Core Fanatics | Crazy Crawfish's Blog

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by Rene Diedrich / 43min 

LA Schools, Apple and Common Core Publisher Duck Conflicts Report

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/08/24/LA-Schools-Apple-and-Common-Core-Publisher-Duck-Conflicts-Report#comments Despite opposition by parents and teachers to the Pearson Education Corporation's Common Core curriculum, conflicts of interest may explain why the Los Angeles School

by Rene Diedrich / 2h 

YESTERDAY

True Grit, Social Emotional Learning and Purloined Language Perverted by LA School Reform by Larry F.

Anyone who has read my blog or my books knows that I'm a big supporter of Social Emotional Learning, including helping students develop "grit" (see The Best Resources For Learning About The Importance Of "Grit" and the grit lessons and strategies in my books). I've also been critical of "school reformers" who try to hijack Social Emotional

by Rene Diedrich / 7h 

8-24-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

Hemlock on the Rocks: Pictures Sent From PhotoPad by ZAGGby Rene Diedrich / 9h hide  //  save8-23-14 Hemlock on the RocksHemlock on the Rocks: “Reframing” California Common Core for a Better Public SaleWordPress.com deutsch29 posted: "The Frameworks Institute is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the images of other nonprofits with the goal of hooking the publicby Rene Diedrich / 3h L.A. Now

by mike simpson / 8h 

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES:

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Atty. Gen. Holder meets with students from St. Louis Community College

Eric Holder

“History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.” -- New Republic

 Lesley McSpadden (Michael Brown's mother)

“We couldn’t even see him. They wouldn’t even let us go see him. They just left him out there, four and a half hours, with no answers. Wouldn’t nobody tell us nothing.” -- N.Y. Times

Tyona Fields 

“I’m praying to God we can get these kids in school because kids have been out too long,” said Tyona Fields, one of the cafeteria workers at Griffith Elementary School. School is scheduled to start next Monday.-- N.Y. Times

Rahm EmanuelMike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES: