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Q&A Collections: Facing Gender Challenges in Education is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts sharing advice on Facing Gender Challenges in Education (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:

The great Carol Salva interviewed all of us who were authors or editors of books in “Toolbox” series. You can listen to it here , as well as read some of her commentary about them. I’m adding the link to the post where you can find zillions of free resources from the books!

I don’t think teachers will have many issue – if any – with the speech Joe Biden gave to the National Education Association today. You read a summary of it here at Ed Week ; find a complete transcript of his remarks here ; and watch a video of it below. Yes, words are cheap. But, really, how can any teacher not believe that Biden will be a thousand times better for education than Donald Trump?

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 . I’ve previously shared that we’re doing a series of ELL professional development sessions involving every teacher at our school (see Could This Be A Good Template For Just About A

My latest ten-minute BAM Radio Show is on Three Ways to Work More Effectively With Teacher’s Aides During Online Learning . I’m joined in the discussion by Michele Morgan and Rita Platt, who have also contributed written commentaries to my Ed Week Teacher column. I’m adding this show to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions .

Alexas_Fotos / Pixabay This is how NASA describes this new video: As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around the Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years. This information has enabled countless new

Five Good Reasons and Five Great Ways to Teach With Music is the topic of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show. I’m joined by Denise Facey, Alycia Owen, Jennifer Schwanke, Rachelle Dene Poth and Sara Lev, who have also contributed written commentaries to my Ed Week Teacher column. I’m adding this show to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions .

I have other videos of Frederick Douglass’ famous speech at The Best Websites For Learning About The Fourth Of July , but this new one from NPR is definitely unique. You can also read his speech here.

Q&A Collections: Implementing the Common Core is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts sharing advice on Implementing the Common Core (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt:

geralt / Pixabay The United Nations has declared July 11th to be World Population Day . You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About Our World’s Population Of 7 Billion .

Wokandapix / Pixabay TIME Magazine often asks a bunch of historians questions like “Who were the most influential Americans?” or “Who were the 100 most significant figures in history?” You can find links to all them at The Best “Lists Of Lists” Of Influential People, Events & Ideas . I use them as models when I have my students answer similar questions in class. Today, TIME shared the answers to

Maklay62 / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : NYC schools will reopen in the fall, the mayor says. The governor says not so fast is from CNN. Government should treat the need to reopen schools as an emergency. is from The NY Times. How schools across the globe are reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic is from Ed Source. Why a Pe

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 . Tumisu / Pixabay Yesterday, I shared my predictions of what the next school year might look like (see It’s Going To Be A New Classroom World In The Fall – Here Is What I Think It

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 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO. A

August will mark one-hundred years since the passage of the 19th Amendment. There will be lots of new resources coming online between now and then like today’s NY Times article, My _____ Was a Suffragist. I’ll be adding many to The Best Resources For Learning About Women’s Suffrage .

If we high school teachers weren’t feeling bad enough thinking about what the fall might bring, a new study from UNESCO may make us all feel worse. Ed Week’s article about it, Part of Global Trend, 1 in 3 U.S. High Schoolers Felt Disconnected From School Before Pandemic , provides a good summary, and the textbox at the top of this blog highlights the “lowlight” of it. I think it’s a safe bet that

Q&A Collections: Student Motivation & Social-Emotional Learning is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts sharing advice on Student Motivation & Social-Emotional Learning (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:

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 . The Impact of Peer Assessment on Academic Performance: A Meta-analysis of Control Group Studies is a new meta-analysis on peer assessment, and it’s not behind a paywall. I’ve shar

diapicard / Pixabay As you may know, I’ve been doing a very popular teacher advice column in Education Week for ten years. It’s set up so readers send in questions to me, and then I invite guests to contribution 300- or 400-word responses, as well as printing shorter reader comments. In addition to directly inviting scores of educators I know to respond to those questions, I always put out an ann

geralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the July issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter . It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here . Of course, you can also join the eighteen thousand others who subscribe to this blog daily. Here Are 8 Ways You Can Subscribe For Free…

As regular readers know, at the end of each week I share the five most popular posts from the previous seven days. I thought people might find it interesting to see a list of the ten most popular posts from the previous thirty days. You might also be interested in It’s The Thirteenth Anniversary Of This Blog – Here Are The Forty All-Time Most Popular Posts. Not to mention THE MOST POPULAR POSTS F

Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,180 of them categorized here ): THE BEST FUN VIDEOS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN 2020 – PART ONE THE BEST ONLINE LEARNING GAMES – 2020 (PART ONE) THE BEST SCIENCE SITES OF 2020 – PART ONE VISUAL COLLECTIONS OF PROTESTS ABOUT GEORGE FLOYD, POLICE VIOLENCE & RACISM TEACHING RESOURCES ABOUT IF POLICE SHOUL

July 1st is Canada Day : On July 1, 1867, the nation was officially born when the Constitution Act joined three provinces into one country: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Canada province, which then split into Ontario and Quebec. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About Canada .

In not-shocking news to every teacher, a new study of results from the international PISA tests find that the more decision-making power teachers have, the greater increase in student academic achievement (see School Governance and Student Achievement: Cross-National Evidence From the 2015 PISA ). Of course, this common sense approach reflects the value of “subsidiarity,” which means that the peo

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 . The Effects of Writing on Learning in Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics: A Meta-Analysis is a new study by Steve Graham, , Sharlene A. Kiuhara, and Meade MacKay. The quote

Q&A Collections: Best Ways to End the School Year is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. I know the timing is a bit odd, but during each summer I update thematic compilations including nine-year’s of Ed Week Teacher columns. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:

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 ). You can also see my all-time favorites here . I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series reviewing old favorite

uwekern / Pixabay Many – if not most – school districts are considering having students come to physical class just two days a week and, in that way, have a small enough number of students so that social distancing can be maintained. But which schedule is best for students – consecutive or alternate days? I asked that question of two highly regarded education researchers, Justin Reich and Matthew

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

merkure / Pixabay July 4th is coming up! You might be interested in The Best Websites For Learning About The Fourth Of July .

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 students, has been released (it actually happened two months ago, but it was news to me): What should you expect from this free program? A personal welcome video from Lin-Manuel

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 ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this w

geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Many Students Will Be in Classrooms Only Part of the Week This Fall is from The NY Times. The future of the coronavirus recovery runs through the classroom is from NBC News. As America struggles to reopen schools and offices, how to clean coronavirus from the air is from The Washington P

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 . Google has added what they call “Interpreter Mode” to the mobile Google Assistant app. Download the free app, say something like “Be my Spanish translator,” and it will automatica

MintBlack4u / Pixabay The Brainwaves Video Anthology is an impressive collection of short videos where retired educator Bob Greenberg interviews teachers around the world. Here’s a new short one of my talking about “Teaching in the Pandemic”:

Q&A Collections: Best Ways to Begin the School Year is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts sharing advice on how to begin a school year (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:

PatternPictures / Pixabay This Social Studies Compendium Is a Keeper is the headline of a new book review written by Sarah Cooper for Middleweb. She reviews “The Social Studies Teacher’s Toolbox,” one of the new books in the ‘Toolbox” series that Katie Hull and I have edited. I’m adding it to the post where you can find lots of links to free resources from all the Toolbox books!

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 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO. A

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 . If you’d like to see another series of motivation videos we did related to distance learning, check them out here . mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Education Week published four short vi

I’m adding this first video from Edutopia to New & Revised: The Best Resources For Understanding Why We Need More Teachers Of Color : I’m adding this new video from the BBC to Helpful Resources For Teaching About George Floyd’s Death : I’m adding this next video from Vox to Useful Resources For Teaching & Learning What “Defund The Police” Means : Google just published this video today:

I’m adding this new video from last night’s Stephen Colbert’s show to New & Revised: Resources To Help Us Predominantly White Teachers To Reflect On How Race Influences Our Work :

High-Interest Books & Giving Students Time to Read & Talk About Them in School is the headline at my latest Education Week Teacher column. Three teachers offer their recommendations of high-interest books for students to