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/2021/01/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos.html

SEL Weekly Update

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

I’ve recently begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists. You might also be interested in THE BEST SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES OF 2020 – PART TWO. Finally, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources . Here are this week’s picks: This Year, Try Downsizing

Monday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : The pandemic has made the ‘unseen’ dysfunctionality of the leadership of many school districts’ ‘seen’ https://t.co/AGKnz1c4KI — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) January 3, 2021 When will teachers get vaccinated? Some already have — but most are nervously waiting. is from The Washington P

Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

(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

A Look Back: “What I Cannot Create, I Do Not Understand”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

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 . www_slon_pics / Pixabay “What I Cannot Create, I Do Not Understand” That’s what was on Nobel-Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman’s blackboard when he died . I found this image in an article at Scientific American titled Hunters of

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

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

‘I No Longer Give Grades on Student Writing Assignments, and It’s the Best Thing Ever!’

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Five educators share how they have helped students motivate themselves to revise their writing. Here are some excerpts:

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Is On Jan. 18th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

28by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

WikiImages / Pixabay Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be celebrated on January 18th this year. You might be interested in The Best Websites For Learning About Martin Luther King, Jr .

Most Popular Posts Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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

Sunday’s Must-Read Articles & Must-Watch Videos On School Reopenings

20by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Memed_Nurrohmad / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Schools in India have been closed since March. The costs to children are mounting. is from The Washington Post. 4) Given this evidence, I think we need to rethink school reopenings until we get this new B117 variant strain under control. We need every teacher and school worker (

A Look Back: Here’s My Chapter On Elements Of A Successful Lesson, Along With Student Hand-Outs THEY Use To Teach

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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 2015. Kidaha / 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’ve previously posted

“substack” Looks Like An Easy Way To Create Email Newsletters

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

I had heard a little about substack , but didn’t really have any idea about what it was until I read this week’s New Yorker article headlined Is Substack the Media Future We Want? I thought it was a pretty interesting article, and it’s not very long. It’s easy to use it substack to “monetize” an email newsletter by charging for a subscription, but it appears just as easy to create a free one. I’m

Saturday’s Must-Read Articles & Must-Watch Videos on School Reopenings

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

congerdesign / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : What Gov. Newsom’s $2 billion school reopening plan means for Sacramento-area districts is from The Sacramento Bee. Covid fears spark revolt by unions over return to school in England is from The Guardian. Ministers urged to close all schools in England for two weeks is from The Gu

This Would Be An Interesting Social Studies Assignment: Choose The Best & Worst Years In History

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

johnhain / Pixabay In my ELL World and U.S. History classes, I’ll often have students do projects where they have to identify who they think were the most influential figures, or the most important events (of course, they have to back-up their claims with evidence). I use materials from The Best “Lists Of Lists” Of Influential People, Events & Ideas as models. I’ve recently seen pieces arguing ab

Ed Tech Digest

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

Nine 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 2020 – PART TWO , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this w

I Created My Own News Aggregator With AllTop – You Can Use Mine Or Create Your Own

31by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

AllTop has been around awhile. It’s a “news aggregator” – it identifies a number of topics and then creates pages on them with updated stories from different sites specializing in those topics. The stories are updated by RSS feeds which, prior to the advent of social media ten years ago, which was the way a ton of people consumed Web content. It’s still around, and many of us use feed readers lik

A Look Back: Classroom Management Strategy: “Sometimes The Only Thing Worse Than Losing A Fight Is Winning One”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

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

Video: “What is a Map?”

21by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

MabelAmber / Pixabay I’ve previously shared about a new Geography video series Crash Course started last month. I thought this episode in particular would be useful:

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CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: So I Guess This Is A New Year Edition (1/3)

CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: So I Guess This Is A New Year Edition (1/3) 

So I Guess This Is A New Year Edition

 I'm not sure I've ever felt less enamored of our habit of celebrating the passing of an arbitrary line in the sand that we drew ourselves, but it's not the most terrible human activity, either, so carry on. Also cross your fingers and say a prayer for everyone going back to school tomorrow. In the meantime, here's some reading from the week.

The Bloom's Deception  

Greg Ashman challenges some common thoughts about the beloved taxonomy. Are higher orders really more important?

Remember This Year

Audrey Watters does a version of her annual review of the year piece, pulling no punches as always, and reminding us about ed tech amnesia.

An Idiot's Guide To the Philosophy of Education (Part 3)

Othmar's Trombone has been quiet for a while, but this week he popped back up continuing his series of irreverent looks at key philosophers of education, so here you go.

Yes, Virginia

This is a cool little piece about the annually celebrated girl who wrote That Letter and received That Reply. Turns out she grew up to be a teacher.

Pandemic Offers Opportunity to Reduce Standardized Testing  

That Josh Starr, CEO of PDK International, would write this piece is not exactly surprising, but that Education Next, the mouthpiece of the Fordham Institution axis of reformsterdom, would run it suggests that something's in the air right now. Let's hope. Also, add this to your bookmarked lists of good arguments for suspending testing.

The critical story of the "science of reading" and why its narrow plotline is putting our children and schools at risk.

The National Council of Teachers of English offers an excellent critique of the highly-popular-among-people-who-don't-actually-teach science of reading movement.

Penn State Hockey: Gadowsky away from family since July

My nephew is a sports writer specializing in Penn State sports. Here's a different kind of covid piece, about the university's hockey coach, who has sacrificed being with his own family in order to do the coaching job. One more cost of getting sports running so other folks can feel normal.

Trump's school choice executive order

The indispensable Mercedes Schneider explains why we don't have to give that EO another thought.

The President's executive order is vaporware

Here's a guest post on the reformy Jay Greene's blog, also explaining why we don't have to give that EO another thought. 

Amplify and iReady Claim Kindergarten and First Grade Reading Loss. Guess why.

Is it any wonder that much of the chicken littling about learning loss is coming from folks who hope to make a bundle "fixing" it? Nancy Bailey breaks down some of the baloney being sliced up.

St. Louis Public Education Theft Continues

Thomas Ultican looks in detail at the steady dismantling of St. Louis schools and where the situation stands currently.

Why the academic achievement gap is a racist idea.

This piece from Ibram X. Kendi ran back in 2016, but it poped up again this week and it is well worth a reread.

And finally, this tweet just made me laugh this week. If you don't get it, I can't help you.

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AND DON'T FORGET PETER GREENE ON FORBES CLICK HERE 

Here’s What Needs To Be Done To Rebuild K-12 Education In This Country - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2020/12/19/heres-what-needs-to-be-done-to-rebuild-k-12-education-in-this-country/?sh=4b50ef0c3a1c by @palan57 on @forbes

Why A Classroom Connection Matters For The Department Of Education - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2020/12/22/why-a-classroom-connection-matters-for-the-department-of-education/?sh=5ac0d40b1407 by @palan57 on @forbes

The New York Times Adds One Plus One And Gets Three

88by Peter Greene / 3h

You might have been excited yesterday if you saw a New York Times editorial board headline talking about " The Wreckage Betsy DeVos Leaves Behind " and thought that maybe, for a change, the greyest lady was going to stands up for public education. But then you read it. Sigh. There is much that they get right. They open by noting that the department has not just failed, but refused to lead, during

Why Students Should Learn To Use Tech Tools

by Peter Greene / 1d

Because some day you might be involved in a national-level effort to overthrow the results of an election, and you might have to file a legal document like this one... I really wanted to save this somewhere so that I could pull it out as an example some day, because this is just a special kind of awesome.

Another Round Of Teacher Bashing

69by Peter Greene / 2d

Remember back in the spring (approximately ten years ago in 2020 time), when teachers were hailed as heroes for their tenacity and adaptability? Actually, if you're teacher, what you probably remember is hearing that for what often comes next. And sure enough, here we are. The attitude bubbles up in lots of outlets, sometimes snide and subvocalized, and sometimes right up in your face. A perfect

Schools And Social Capital

by Peter Greene / 4d

I'm in the middle of reading Robert Putnam's new book ( The Upswin g ) which has gotten me to thinking about his previous work, Our Kids . What has struck me in particular about the latter is his writing about social capital and

Trump Issues School Vouchers Via Executive Order

1Kby Peter Greene / 5d

Monday the White House (if Donald Trump wrote this thing, then I'm the Queen of Rumania) issued an executive order "expanding educational opportunity school choice" to create "Emergency Learning Scholarships for Students." It instructs the Secretary of Health and Human Services ( that would be Alex Azar ) to use funds from the Community Services Block Grant program top provide "emergency learning

Democrats Need A New Theory Of Action

95by Peter Greene / 6d

For four years, Democrats have had a fairly simple theory of action when it came to education. Something along the lines of "Good lord, a crazy lady just came into our china shop riding a bull, waving around a flamethrower, and dragging a shark with a head-mounted laser beam; we have to stop her from destroying the place (while pretending that we have a bull and a shark in the back just like hers

ICYMI: Christmas Recovery Edition (12/27)

by Peter Greene / 7d

We're getting there, and by "there" I mean into whatever future we're about to build in the new year. In the meantime, here's this week's reading list. The Attack on Dr. Jill Biden Is Cloaked Hatred of Teachers and Public Ed While folks have been compiling lists if bad Wall Street Journal takes in 2020, the Epstein hit piece is often overlooked--but it was bad. Nancy Bailey pushes back. (Ye

No Test In 2021 (A BS Test Reader)

74by Peter Greene / 8d

Among the many things that the new secretary of education really needs to do upon taking office, a big simple one is this--cancel the Big Standardized Test for 2021. I've been banging the "Get Rid of the BS Test" for years, but all the reasons it's a lousy, toxic, destructive-and-not-even-useful force in education are amplified a hundred-fold by our current pandemess. Many wise folks have pointed

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