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January 2012 - Posts
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David Deubelbeiss has just posted The 26th EFL / ESL / ELL Blog Carnival! Bloggers from all around the world have contributed posts connected to the theme of “fun.” It’s a month late this time because of technical issues with … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s a video I’m adding to The Best Resources For Groundhog Day: Read More...
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Holly Epstein Ojalvo at The New York Times Learning Network shared this video on Twitter today. Watch it for enjoyment, or show it to a class of English Language Learners so they can recount in sequence what they saw: Read More...
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12 Great Visualizations That Made History is a very creative collection from Visually. You might also be interested in The Best Infographics Of 2011. Read More...
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Several Ways To Apply Social-Emotional Learning Strategies In The Classroom is my newest post over at Education Week Teacher. Hope you find it useful…. Read More...
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In my book English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work, I talk a lot about looking at English Language Learners through the lens of “assets” instead of “deficits.” Their stories and experiences, even tragic ones, are examples of “assets” Read More...
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Choruzz lets you — without needing to register — search for music videos and create a playlist of them. You’re then given a unique url address for your list that you can share. It’s very easy to use, and it … Continue reading → Read More...
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Every month I make a short list 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. Now and then, in order to make it … Continue reading → Read More...
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One of my favorite experiences in class each year are the two periods each week in the second semester of my IB Theory of Knowledge class when small student groups prepare and then teach a lesson to another group. We … Continue reading → Read More...
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February 2nd is Groundhog Day, and I’ve just updated The Best Resources For Groundhog Day. Additional suggestions are welcome. Read More...
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This is the second in a series of recapping student evaluations of my classes this past semester. You can find all these reviews and more at My Best Posts On Students Evaluating Classes (And Teachers). This post covers my double-period … Continue reading Read More...
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SpeakPipe provides you with a widget to install on your blog or website that lets readers send you an audio message of up to five minutes in length. The message goes to your Speakpipe inbox, and you receive an email … Continue reading → Read More...
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Every January 30th is officially Fred Korematsu Day in California. Here’s some background on it from YES Magazine: In 1942, 23 year-old shipyard welder Fred Korematsu refused to join over 120,000 West Coast Japanese Americans who were rounded up and … Read More...
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My wife and I are headed to Denver later this week where I’ll be leading a couple of workshops at the Colorado Council International Reading Association Conference. I’ve set up a simple wiki with resources for the workshops. According to … Continue reading Read More...
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Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted in late December and January (you can see all 853 of them categorized here): The Best Summify & Paper.li’s On ESL/EFL/ELL — January, 2012 The Best Online “Explainer” Tools … Continue reading Read More...
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How could I not share this video of a snoring mouse? Read More...
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Flight To Freedom is a new online game about the Underground Railroad that came online today. You have to register to play (it’s easy to do so), and it’s designed in the “choose your own adventure” genre. It’s part of … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are two new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The Northern Lights: The Sky Is on Fire! Your Complete Visual Guide to the Northern Lights is from The Atlantic. New Aurora Pictures: Solar Storms Trigger Northern Lights … Continue reading Read More...
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Many teachers of English Language Learners know about The Language Guide, which is an excellent picture dictionary on the Web that has audio, too (it also has versions for other languages). I’ve used it for years, but didn’t realize until … Continue reading Read More...
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It can sometimes be useful to be able to embed a document so it can be easily read and shared on a blog or website. There are many simple tools that make this possible, and I thought I’d create a … Continue reading → Read More...
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Let’s Play ‘History As A List’ by Robert Krulwich is a very interesting post over at NPR. In it, he gives various examples of describing history as a…list. Here is one example: * stone * bronze * iron * plastic … Continue reading → Read More...
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Google+ is now open to anyone age thirteen and above, which should make it a more viable tool for use in schools. You can learn more about it at Google+ Is Now Open To Teens, Offers New Safety Features over … Continue reading → Read More...
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How Can We Apply Social-Emotional Learning Strategies In The Classroom? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave responses there or here…. Read More...
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Paul Cancellieri, a National Board Certified Science teacher in North Carolina, was kind enough to write a very positive review of my last book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves. Thanks, Paul. Now that my next book, The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Read More...
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Here are some videos I’m adding to The Best Sites For Learning About The Northern Lights: Read More...
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I’ve got to say that I have not been overly-impressed with the most of the commentaries I’ve seen today on President Obama’s call last night to have states require students to stay in school until they’re eighteen. It seems pretty … Continue reading Read More...
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A solar storm is happening, and it’s resulting in a light show in some parts of the earth. Here are new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The Northern Lights: Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth is … Continue reading → Read More...
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As regular readers know, I have students anonymously evaluate the class, my teaching, and reflect on their own contributions at the end of each semester. In addition to sharing in writing, students discuss their thoughts with each other and we … Continue Read More...
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I wrote an article titled “Icarus and School Reform” for The TCRecord, and it’s available free through tomorrow. Then it goes behind a paywall. It might be worth a look… Read More...
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Here are some visualizations/infographics on President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address. I’m adding them to The Best (& Most Intriguing) Resources For Learning About The State Of The Union Message: Breaking down the State of the Union 2012 … Continue Read More...
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The issue of teachers using social media with students is an on-going question that been receiving a lot attention recently. This is just the beginning of a “The Best…” list on the topic, and I hope readers will suggest additional … Continue reading Read More...
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There are going to be three guests of the Obama’s at tonight’s State Of The Union address that have been invited specifically for their interest in education. I’m reprinting their descriptions from the White House press release in italics, along … Continue Read More...
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More Ways To Differentiate Instruction — Part Two is my newest post at Education Week Teacher. All feedback is welcome. Read More...
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Check This is an easy way to create a web page without having to register, and it lets you copy and paste images, too. It’s an excellent tool to use for students to publish their work. It’s also very, very … Continue reading → Read More...
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ScholarPro is a new site that matches students with scholarships. You can apply for them at the site itself. Now, it seems to only have scholarships in California, but is supposed to expand its offerings. I’d be interested in hearing … Continue reading Read More...
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Music Shake lets you create….musical tracks quite easily, which you can then embed or post a link to it. You can do those things for free. However, you have to pay if you want to download your music for use … Continue reading → Read More...
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Ruby Payne is a popular consultant to school districts around the United States and, perhaps, the world. I have major concerns about her “deficit” view of low-income students and their families — it smacks of a “blaming the victim” mentality. … Continue Read More...
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Here are even more additions to The Best Resources For Chinese New Year: Year of the Dragon is a slideshow from The LA Times. Lunar New Year 2012 is a Boston Globe slideshow. Chinese Lunar New Year 2012 is a … Continue reading → Read More...
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Today is National Handwriting Day, sponsored — interestingly — by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association. I’ve made some new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Handwriting & Learning. Read More...
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President Obama is giving the “State of the Union” address this week. You might be interested in The Best (& Most Intriguing) Resources For Learning About The State Of The Union Message. Read More...
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on January 27th. It marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. The United States officially commemorates the Holocaust during Days of Remembrance, which is held Read More...
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You Are Your Words is a web tool from the American Heritage Dictionary that lets you upload your picture, upload something you’ve written, and then combines the two to use the words to create a new picture of you. No … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ll be writing a post soon in my Education Week Teacher column about Social Emotional Learning (SEL) (sometimes referred to as “character” education) soon, and thought it would be useful to develop a “The Best…” list on the topic. Here … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are a number of recent good posts and articles on school policy issues: Opinion: Creating teacher evaluations systems Californians can believe in appeared in the San Jose Mercury News. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About … Continue Read More...
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Here’s a beautiful time lapse video of Yosemite National Park. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Yosemite & Other U.S. National Parks: Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo. Thanks to Brain Pickings for the tip. Read More...
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I’ve previously posted about (and added some to various “The Best…” lists) several different free classroom guides published by Edutopia. You can now find them all in one place at Free Classroom Guides and Educational Downloads for 2012. Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Chinese New Year: The Year Of The Dragon is a TIME slideshow. In pictures: Chinese New Year is from The BBC. Read More...
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I guess it’s a “storifying” weekend for me…. Michelle Rhee’s organization, StudentsFirst, is sponsoring a contest to “describe what it means to be a great teacher in six words.” Educators on Twitter who have a decidedly different vision of teaching … Read More...
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Summify and paper.li let users create daily summaries of blog posts and tweets they read on a particular topic (and there may very well be others). Two days ago, Twitter bought Summify, and it appears that they will be shutting … Continue reading → Read More...
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Newt Gingrich is continuing to attack President Obama by tying him to Saul Alinsky, the person who is considered by many to be the father of modern-day community organizing (and who died forty years ago). Gingrich’s victory speech tonight in … Continue Read More...
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As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of Rethinking Schools, the periodical published near my old high school in Milwaukee. They’re not too popular in some parts of Tucson, Arizona, though. As I posted last week in Banning Books … Continue reading → Read More...
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What Was There lets you search for any place in the world and then shows you images of “what was there” a long time ago using a Google Maps street view. You can upload photos, too. I’m adding it to … Continue reading → Read More...
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The late columnist William Safire composed a list of 36 hilarious, and useful, grammar guidelines, which he called the “Fumblerules of Grammar. You can see them all here, and it’s definitely worth a look. Here’s a sample: Remember to never … Continue Read More...
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“70 Interesting Ways To Use An iPad In Your Classroom” is the newest — at least, to me it’s the newest — in Tom Barrett’s great Interesting Ways series. You can find all of Tom’s “Interesting Ways” here, and that … Continue reading → Read More...
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On the same day as Diane Ravitch’s speech here in Sacramento, several organizations, including including Accomplished California Teachers & The Center For Teaching Quality (two organizations in which I participate) sponsored a Sacramento event on teacher Read More...
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I just came home from a great speech given by Diane Ravitch tonight here in Sacramento. Here’s a Storify I made of tweets from the event: [View the story "Diane Ravitch Speaks In Sacramento!" on Storify] Read More...
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January 26th is Australia Day. I’ve just revised and updated The Best Sites To Learn About Australia. Read More...
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Here are some good recent posts and articles on school reform-related issues: What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success is from The Atlantic. I’m adding it to The Best Resources To Learn About Finland’s Education System. Forging ahead Read More...
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Good Intentions Ease Pain, Add to Pleasure is the title of a report on a new study that finds — unsurprising, it would seem to me — that the people’s intentions affect how others perceive their actions: “The results confirm … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s a link where you can read our new article, “The Five-by-Five Approach to Differentiation Success,” at Ed Week Teacher without having to register. All feedback is welcome. Read More...
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Here is a portion of California Governor Jerry Brown’s “State of the State” address today that dealt with schools: Given the cutbacks to education in recent years, it is imperative that California devote more tax dollars to this most basic … Continue Read More...
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David B. Cohen sent out a tweet this morning: Sahlberg has high opinion of this week’s @DanRatherReport for good report on Finnish education — David B. Cohen (@CohenD) January 18, 2012 So I went to check out Dan Rather Reports’ … Continue reading → Read More...
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Simple Booklet, a very easy tool to create online “books” without registering, is now back online. It hadn’t been working the last few times I checked it and its creator — Middlespot — has closed its excellent excellent search engine. … Continue reading Read More...
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Organizers Say 1 Million Signed Petition to Recall Wisconsin Governor is the headline from today’s New York Times article on the effort. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Attacks On Teachers & Other Public Sector Workers … Continue Read More...
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Just a few miles from our school, Governor Jerry Brown is expected to call tomorrow for less state testing. Here’s an excerpt from a Sacramento Bee story today: Gov. Jerry Brown will call for less statewide testing and expanding classroom … Continue reading Read More...
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I guess it’s differentiation week for me! My teacher advice column at Education Week Teacher is titled Several Ways To Differentiate Instruction and features guest responses from Carol Tomlinson and Rick Wormeli. That’s a pretty powerful combination! Read More...
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Here are two Rube Goldberg machines built by Target. I especially like the second one focusing on fresh food — it’s ideal for reinforcing vocabulary with English Language Learners (show the video and have students identify what they are seeing): … Continue Read More...
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There are now over 840 “The Best…” lists, categorized by subject area. You can find them all here. Even though they are categorized, I believe the best way to search through them is by using Control and then F on … Continue reading → Read More...
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ShortForm lets you grab videos from YouTube, Vimeo and Hulu to create your own video “channel” that can also be embedded. In addition, you can create live events where videos can be shown to an audience. You can read more … Continue reading → Read More...
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Oolone is a new search engine that shows you large images of search results instead of text. Those kinds of visual results have obvious advantages for English Language Learners. There are other search engines the provide similar results, including Google Read More...
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Bill Moyers’ new show made its debut this past weekend, and it looks like it’s going to be a winner. The first episode was on economic inequality. Here’s how it’s described: Bill Moyers explores how America’s vast inequality didn’t just … Continue reading Read More...
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Here’s a fun combination of library scenes from movies and TV shows: Thanks to Kathy Kaldenberg for the tip on Twitter. Read More...
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Here are even more new additions to The Best Websites For Learning About Martin Luther King: A new online project has “digitize” 200,000 items related to King and has now gone “live.” You can visit the site here, and read … Continue reading → Read More...
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There’s a lot of controversy about the recent teacher effectiveness study highlighted on the front page of The New York Times a week ago. You can read all about it at The Best Posts On The NY Times-Featured Teacher Effectiveness … Continue reading → Read More...
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Today is Martin Luther King Day in the United States, and you can find tons of related resources at The Best Websites For Learning About Martin Luther King. You can also find a summary of his comments on education at … Continue reading → Read More...
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‘Data room’ keeps teachers, students focused on goals – Houston Chronicle via kwout Check-out the entire article to see the dangers of being data-driven, instead of being data-informed. Now, read the story of Fresno teacher Judith Pansarosa: Several years Read More...
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I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are two new excellent additions to The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites: Mrs. Haquet’s Interactive Vocabulary Exercises Mrs. Haquet’s Interactive Books Read More...
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2Lingual is a bilingual search engine. You type in your search term and then choose two languages. Search results will show-up side-by-side in both languages. It could come in very handy for English Language Learners in content classes, as well … Continue Read More...
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The Expat Explorer is a pretty accessible interactive that’s designed to show you which countries are the friendliest in the world. An added resource is that Sean Banville at Breaking News English has put together a lesson plan that goes … Continue reading Read More...
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(This is a bit of a meandering post — Sorry) As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of having students provide formal written feedback (and oral) on my teaching (see My Best Posts On Students Evaluating Classes (And Teachers) … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are some new resources I’ve added to The Best Websites For Learning About Martin Luther King: tes, a British-based site for teachers, has some good lesson resources on King. CNN has a ton of great videos. Click “CNN Videos.” … Continue reading → Read More...
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Yes, you read the title of this post correctly — it’s sharing posts and articles explaining why we like lists. And, as a prolific list-maker (there are now 840 categorized “The Best…” lists), I thought this might be an interesting, … Continue reading Read More...
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Scientific American posted this video with a short analysis. I don’t know about you, but I was amazed by it. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Animals. Read More...
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It was bad enough that the state of Arizona forced the Tucson School District to end their ethnic studies classes (which had 700 students enrolled). Now, “Salon” reports that the District is taking it a step further and banning certain … Continue reading Read More...
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I just updated The Best Resources For Creating Infographics. Additional suggestions are welcome…. Read More...
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Diane Ravitch is coming to speak in Sacramento on January 20th! You can contact the Sacramento City Teachers Association or your own Local for tickets. I’ve written a lot about Diane over the years, but I thought I’d have my … Continue reading → Read More...
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There have recently been quite a few good posts and articles on school reform issues. They include: Research Suggests Teach For America Does Not Belong in Huntsville from Living In Dialogue at Ed Week. I’m adding it to The Best … Continue reading → Read More...
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What Are The Best Ways To Differentiate Instruction? is the “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher blog. Please share your responses there or, if you prefer, in the comments section of this post. Read More...
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Here are some recent additions to various “The Best….” lists related to social media: A Beginner’s Guide to Twitter is from Read Write Web. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Beginning To Learn What Twitter Is All About. … Continue reading → Read More...
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In this video, Willow The Dog demonstrates the value of perseverance. I’m adding it to The Best Videos Illustrating Qualities Of A Successful Language Learner. Read More...
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This is the first post in a weekly or bi-weekly series I’ll be publishing regularly. It will share a few posts from around the Web related to ESL or EFL that have caught my attention: stuck in a lift is … Continue reading → Read More...
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Ways To Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process is the title of my newest Education Week Teacher column. You might want to check it out… Read More...
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I’ve just completely revised Not The “Best,” But A List… Of Online Video Editors. Any additional suggestions are welcome. Read More...
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As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of Daniel Pink’s work. Tonight, there was an #HRBookchat with him, and I created a “Storify” highlighting what I thought were key comments that were made (of course, it was particularly nice … Continue reading → Read More...
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The New York Times published a guest post I wrote today, Helping Students Motivate Themselves. You might want to take a look…. Read More...
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My colleague Katie Hull-Sypnieski is leading a February 1st Education Week Webinar on differentiating instruction, and I would strongly encourage people to participate. Katie’s the best teacher I’ve ever seen…. In addition, Katie and I have co-authored Read More...
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clubEFL has fantastic resources for EFL/ESL students and teachers, including: * A Picture Dictionary and a Talking Dictionary. These stand out particularly for all the additional interactive reinforcement activities they include. I’m adding them to The Read More...
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Here are a few recent good posts and articles on school reform issues: Here are two new additions to The Best Posts On The NY Times-Featured Teacher Effectiveness Study: Quick impressions on Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff is by Sherman Dorn. … Continue Read More...
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Boy oh boy, yesterday was sure a “one-two” punch on teachers with the Gates report and the front page New York Times story on the Chetty, Friedman & Rockoff (CFR) study. Here are my choices for The Best Posts On … Continue reading → Read More...
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A number of news sites have regular features called something like “explainer” or “explain it to me” where they provide — in either video or text — short explanations about current events or answers to reader/viewer questions. Here are my … Continue reading Read More...
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Even Hobbits Support Teachers Making Home Visits! is the newest post at my other blog, Engaging Parents In School. It might be worth a look… Read More...
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Yesterday, I wrote a post (see “The message is to fire people sooner rather than later”) commenting on the big (non peer reviewed) study featured in The New York Times about the long-term impact on students of having “high value … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve previously written about how I use online video games as a language-development activity for my ELL students. Here are two new games, along with links to their walkthroughs (instructions on how to complete the game), that look good. Be … Continue Read More...
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Boy, The New York Times sure gave me a bunch of additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Rube Goldberg Machines today. They have a feature article on a man who designs them, and interactive feature on one of … Continue reading → Read More...
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The Gates’ funded Measures Of Effective Teaching released their latest studies today. There have been a few posts about it, and I’m sure there will be many more. I thought I’d get a hard start on collecting them in one … Continue reading → Read More...
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The headline for this post is from a researcher quoted in today’s front page article in The New York Times headlined Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain. Here are some quotes from this ringing endorsement of using value-added … Continue reading Read More...
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I wrote a post earlier today about the new Gates Foundation-funded report on teacher evaluation. Here was a great response to it from United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten in The Washington Post: Randi Weingarten, president of the American Read More...
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PhotoPin is new search engine for Creative Commons images. It has a very nice interface, and I especially like it because you not only get the photos, but it also gives you the exact attribution to copy and paste. I’m … Continue reading → Read More...
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Measures of Effective Teaching, the huge Gates Foundation-funded research project on teacher evaluation, just released their latest report this week. They actually released two of them: Gathering Feedback For Teaching: Policy and Practice Brief Gathering Read More...
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The Albert Shanker Institute has just released a report titled “Does Money Matter In Education?” You can read an accompanying blog post about it here, and a commentary in The Washington Post here. I’m adding these resources to The Best … Continue reading Read More...
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I’ve written quite a bit about our school’s efforts, other similar programs, and new national initiatives to get Internet access and computers into the homes of low-income students and their families (see The Best Resources For Learning About Schools Read More...
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Last year, I began a new regular interview series. There are always lots of “hot spots” around the world — places where there are natural disasters, political upheavals, etc. And English teachers can be found in most of those places. … Continue reading Read More...
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In case you haven’t heard, Pinterest is the hot new social media site of the moment. It’s not even open to the general public yet, and you have to request an invitation. I’m not entirely convinced the Web needs yet … Continue reading → Read More...
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Just in case you haven’t seen this great video yet, I decided to embed it here. Here’s how The Atlantic describes it: Abandoning a successful business career, Kien Lam quit his job and spent a year traveling around the world, … Continue reading → Read More...
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How Do We Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your responses either there or in the comments section here. Read More...
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I’ve just updated The Best Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S. To 100 People. It’s a pretty interesting list. Additional suggestions are welcome. Read More...
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The title of this blog post is how Kerri Hicks described this New York Times correction. I learned about it through Ira Socol, who accurately described it as “Pure Gold.” I’m not sure if the image will come through on … Continue reading → Read More...
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As regular readers know, I write a teacher advice column for Education Week Teacher. People submit education-related questions — on the practical aspects of teaching in the classroom, on policy issues, you name it — and I invite guests and … Continue Read More...
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Australia Day, celebrating the founding of the colony, is coming up in that country and I have a related “The Best…” list — The Best Sites To Learn About Australia. Darcy Moore suggested I add some resources that offer a … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve just updated The Best Websites For Learning About Martin Luther King. Additional suggestions are welcome… Read More...
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Kl1P lets you create a webpage without any registration required. You can paste text or images into it, and is a great way to publish student work — you get a custom url address for your page and can paste … Continue reading → Read More...
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As I posted last week, the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival that was going to be posted on January 1st is now going to be published on February 1st. The previously announced schedule for the rest of the year should be fine, … Continue reading → Read More...
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I just posted The Ten Most Popular “Classroom Q & A Posts” Of 2011 over at my Education Week Teacher column. There are some pretty decent ones in there — if I say so myself Read More...
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“Indeed, Mr. Obama cites [South Korea President] Mr. Lee’s views on education in virtually every speech he gives these days, including one in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, holding up the hard-working Asian country as an example of what the United States … Continue Read More...
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I wouldn’t say “Poor baby,” but this Zits comic strip is a reminder that sometimes when our students are not acting the way we’d like them to, the best thing to do is acknowledge what they’re feeling. I generally say … Continue reading → Read More...
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20+ Free Professional Development Opportunities for 2012 is a great post from Shelly Terrell. She’s created a list of free high-quality online training available to educators — some them one-time only and some of them on-going. You’ll certainly want to Read More...
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Today through January 8th you can register for any of several excellent online ESL/EFL workshops. The annual TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2012, A Project of TESOL’s CALL Interest Section, starts this month. It has some amazing weekly trainings Read More...
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