GLady / Pixabay Millions of Muslims make the annual pilgrimage, called the Hajj, to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Because the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar based on the motion of the moon, the time of the Hajj is different time each year in terms of the Gregorian calendar. It begins in late July this year, but Saudi Arabia to hold ‘very limited’ Hajj due to coronavirus . You might be interested i
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to public education today, which you can read about in Chalkbeat’s article, Supreme Court hands victory to voucher advocates, including DeVos, in Montana case. You can read a lot more about this case at THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT CASE THAT COULD ALLOW PUBLIC FUNDING FOR RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS . You might also be interested in The Best Resourc
Over the years, I’ve shared many articles and video clips about Civil Rights organizer and Congressman John Lewis. A new documentary about him is premiering on July 3rd, and it looks fantastic (you can read one review here ). It will be streaming on all the major platforms. Here’s the trailer:
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
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from the first half of this year. You can see the entire collection of best posts from the past thirteen years here . Discussions of “intent” versus “impact” often related to issues of race and racism, but they also need to happen in many other areas. The Mindset Scholars Network just showed that
PDPics / Pixabay The latest TED-Ed video is on Noam Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar. You might also be interested in The Best Videos Documenting The History Of The English Language .
Editor’s Note: After I posted Implicit Bias Training Doesn’t Seem To Work – So What Should Teachers & Others Do, Instead? , I invited my colleague Antoine Germany to share his thoughts. Antoine Germany is a teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif., and chair of its English Department: In the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the nation has undergone a reck
Strategies for Grading ELLs in Content Classes is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Five educators share suggestions for grading English-language learners in “mainstream” content classes, including emphasizing formative assessments and separating language proficiency from content knowledge. Here are some excerpts: I’m adding it to The Best Resources On “Differentiated Gradi
I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from the first half of this year. You can see the entire collection of best posts from the past thirteen years here . In a new survey by Yale of 21,000 U.S. high school students, most said they were either “tired, stressed or bored” at school. You can read about it at: Students’ feelings about hi
Alexas_Fotos / Pixabay I, and every other teacher, has begun to prepare for various alternatives of what the fall might look like (see THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL ). I think I’m well on my way towards getting a handle on a lot of teaching tools and strategies I can use if we are on an all remote teaching or hybrid system (see THE BEST ONLINE TOOLS FOR REMOTE
Wokandapix / Pixabay I have a number of regular weekly features (see HERE IS A LIST (WITH LINKS) OF ALL MY REGULAR WEEKLY FEATURES ). This is a relatively new addition to that list. Some of these resources will be added to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions ! and the best will go to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To
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 ONE. Finally, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources . Here are this week’s picks: What is ‘self-nudging’? A
We’re all looking forward the July 3rd premiere of the Hamilton move on July 3rd! I just learned that the EduHam at Home program, a free version of the program the show and the Gilder Lehrman Institute does in-person with
