As Education Week put it this week: “Chicago education officials …approved the largest-scale, single-year closure of public schools of any major school system in the nation, approving the shuttering of 49 elementary schools that are located mostly on Read More......

Every month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I’ve already shared in earlier posts several … Continue reading Read More......

Teacher A said to teacher B, “We teachers should form ourselves continuously. Think of studying, participating in forums in the Web, reading contributions of other teachers, sharing experiences, revising things, having an open mind, being flexible, recycling Read More......

I’ve posted about issues related to incorrectly attributed quotations on The Best Places To Find Quotations On The Web. Here’s a related video: Read More......

According with pedagogue Víctor García Hoz La educación ha de formar al hombre para que sea capaz de aceptar cualquier situación real, cumplir con sus obligaciones y tener iniciativa . (page 94). I try a translation in English: Education must form the Read More......

Teacher A said to teacher B, “You have got to apply to your life all the things that are included in this blog: optimism, love of benevolence at home, etc. Otherwise all you say in this blog would be not coherent. So, struggle to be a better person. Oh, Read More......

I’m adding this infographic from the US Census to The Best Websites For Learning About Memorial Day: Source: census.gov via Larry on Pinterest Read More......

Are You a Goat or a Tiger? is the recounting by Marvin Marshall, a great advocate and thinker of positive classroom management strategies, of what is apparently an Asian folktale. It’s definitely worth a read. In addition, a free PDF … Continue reading Read More......

Here are a couple of new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Tornadoes: Tornadoes: The Power to Destroy Everything infographic by acoleman26. The Associated Press has a useful interactive on tornadoes. Read More......

Soo Meta lets you combine segments of videos, text, tweets and images into one presentation. One nice feature is that you can easily grab those items off the Web through a simple search option (though, for me, the image search … Continue reading → Read More......

Teacher B said to teacher A, “We teachers of modern languages need to have some feedback from our students. There are various ways to obtain the necessary feedback. For instance, you present one grammar point. After doing so, ask your students questions Read More......

Teacher A said to teacher B, “We’ve got to be careful. I mean, if a student behaves bad or gets low grades, and we accuse him always about those points, he could become the same bad student, and we could be doing him harm. Therefore, we’ve got to tell Read More......

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Interactive lesson Interactive lesson to revise summer activities by clicking on the correct verb. Multiple choice 16 slides. Aims: - teach and revise and practice vocabulary on summer verbs; - teach and revise and practice grammatical construction "to Read More......

I’m adding these infographics to A Very, Very Beginning List Of The Best Resources On Bullying: Student Bullying infographic The Truth About Bullying infographic by iLanskiii. Zero Tolerance: Stopping Student Bullying infographic Read More......

This past weekend, Michelle Obama spoke at graduation of Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School in Nashville. You can read the transcript of her entire speech here and watch it here. However, I want to focus on the few … Continue reading → Read More......

Here are a couple of new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About The 10,000 Hour Rule & Deliberate Practice: 10,000 Hours May Not Make a Master After All is from TIME. The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or … Continue reading → Read More......

Google has just unveiled “Top Charts,” which show the top things that people are searching for in multiple categories. Here are a couple of examples: You can read more about it at TechCrunch. I periodically post “most popular” lists of … Continue reading Read More......

Sue Waters over at Edublogs is doing their annual State of Educational Use of Blogs 2013 Survey. It’s a simple survey that can be completed quickly, and the results are always interesting! Here’s how Sue introduces it: How educators use … Continue reading Read More......

Teachers: Heroes in a crisis–but otherwise under fire is a great article from MSNBC. Here’s an excerpt: I’m adding it to Teachers Putting Children First In Oklahoma. Read More......