geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING (& SHOWING) WHAT SCHOOLS LOOK LIKE DURING THE PANDEMIC (you might also be interested in SCHOOLS WENT REMOTE A YEAR AGO – HERE ARE MY CHOICES FOR THE BEST PIECES WRITTEN ABOUT SCHOOL REOPENING SINCE THEN): The outlook is brighter for the US on Covid-19. It’s why school life may return to almost-normal in the fall is from CNN. Her

geralt / Pixabay As regular readers know, I’ve begun posting mid-year “Best” lists. Here are the ones I’ve posted so far, and will continue adding them here. There should be about twenty or twenty-five when I’m done. You can see all the “Best” lists from previous years here . 2021’S BEST POSTS FROM THIS BLOG – SO FAR! THE BEST TWENTY WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION IN 2021 – PART ONE THE BEST

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 FOURTE

Tumisu / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING (& SHOWING) WHAT SCHOOLS LOOK LIKE DURING THE PANDEMIC (you might also be interested in SCHOOLS WENT REMOTE A YEAR AGO – HERE ARE MY CHOICES FOR THE BEST PIECES WRITTEN ABOUT SCHOOL REOPENING SINCE THEN): Schools Are Deciding What The New CDC Mask Guidelines Mean For The Classroom is from NPR. Can schools require coronavirus vac

My mid-year “Best” list posts continue… I use short, funny video clips a lot when I’m teaching ELLs, and you can read in detail about how I use them in The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them) . In short, there are many ways to use them that promote speaking, listening, writing and reading (including having students describe – in writing and verbally – a chronological desc

Learning For Justice (formerly known as Teaching Tolerance) has a nice resources called “Moment.” Every weekly moment (they have an impressive archive) “contains critical materials to address what’s happening in the classroom – and the culture – right now. ” I’m adding it to The Best Resources & Ideas For Teaching About Current Events .

From The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC): It has been 100 years since the thriving African American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, suffered the deadliest racial massacre in U.S. history. While the precise number of lives lost remains unknown, we know that on May 31 and June 1, 1921, mobs of white residents destroyed more than 35 blocks of Greenwood and

RonPorter / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING (& SHOWING) WHAT SCHOOLS LOOK LIKE DURING THE PANDEMIC (you might also be interested in SCHOOLS WENT REMOTE A YEAR AGO – HERE ARE MY CHOICES FOR THE BEST PIECES WRITTEN ABOUT SCHOOL REOPENING SINCE THEN): Migrant Education Teams Face Challenges To Get Children Back Into Schools is from NPR. Why Some Families Still Prefer Remo

Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. Of course, this is a crazy time for “classroom” instruction…. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2020 – PART TWO . Here are this week’s picks: Here’s why students don’t revise what they write – and why they should is f

geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change : A Guide For Kids About Climate Change is from The NY Times. Visualised: glaciers then and now is from The Guardian.

It continues to be time for mid-year “Best” lists. Now it’s time for the Best Videos For Educators. You can see all my previous “Best” lists related to videos and movies (and there are a lot since I’ve doing this since 2007) here. Note that they’re also continually revised and updated. Here are my picks from the first half of 2021: Google Doodle celebrates Teacher Appreciation Week earlier this m

ijmaki / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING (& SHOWING) WHAT SCHOOLS LOOK LIKE DURING THE PANDEMIC (you might also be interested in SCHOOLS WENT REMOTE A YEAR AGO – HERE ARE MY CHOICES FOR THE BEST PIECES WRITTEN ABOUT SCHOOL REOPENING SINCE THEN): How many high school students will come back in the fall? Dismal return rate raises alarms is from The L.A. Times. We recentl

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’m adding these new resources to various “Best” lists. You can find links to all of those many lists that relate to race and racism at “Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Teaching & Learning About Race & Racism: Some conservatives have been attacking Critical Race Theory AND The 1619 Project. Here are some good commentaries on what’s going on: EXPLAINED: The Truth About Critical Race Theory

is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Five educators and authors discuss ways to cultivate students asking questions, including through “question-storming.” Here are some excerpts:

Another day, another mid-year “Best” list. Now, it’s time for research studies. You can see all previous editions of this list, as well as all my ed research related “best” lists, here . Here are my choices for the past six months: UNSURPRISING STATISTIC OF THE DAY: MORE TEACHERS ARE CONSIDERING LEAVING THE PROFESSION DO STUDENTS VIEW “FORMALLY DRESSED” TEACHERS AS HAVING MORE EXPERTISE? WHAT A G

MIH83 / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING (& SHOWING) WHAT SCHOOLS LOOK LIKE DURING THE PANDEMIC (you might also be interested in SCHOOLS WENT REMOTE A YEAR AGO – HERE ARE MY CHOICES FOR THE BEST PIECES WRITTEN ABOUT SCHOOL REOPENING SINCE THEN): Only 7% of LAUSD high school students return to reopened campuses, far less than expected is from The L.A. Times. Can schools

It continues to be time for mid-year “Best” lists. You can see all my previous Online Learning Games “Best” lists (and there are a lot since I’ve doing this since 2007) here. Note that they’re also continually revised and updated. Here are my picks from the first part of 2021: I’ve Begun Having Students Play This Game In My Concurrent Classroom & It’s Been Working Well! IThrive Games looks like i

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: The Weak Case for Grit app

(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

Here are new resources I’m either adding to The Best Sites For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month or to TERRIBLE STATISTIC OF THE DAY: 3,800 “HATE INCIDENTS” AGAINST ASIANS DURING PANDEMIC , which is where you’ll find specific materials about battling Asian-American hate: A guide to combating anti-Asian racism — from relationships to the workplace is from NBC News. What’s Missing from Classroo

Free-Photos / Pixabay What are the favorite pop songs you use with ELL Newcomers? Pop songs are obviously more engaging to older students than the typical simple English songs that work with younger ones. The problem is that, though it is fairly easy to find pop songs with choruses that work with Newcomers, it’s not so easy to find full songs that are accessble. Mine are: Hello, Goodbye You Are S

10 Strategies for Encouraging Students to Ask Questions is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Four educators share ways to encourage students to ask questions, including the “Notice & Wonder” routine. Here are some excerpts:

maxmann / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING (& SHOWING) WHAT SCHOOLS LOOK LIKE DURING THE PANDEMIC (you might also be interested in SCHOOLS WENT REMOTE A YEAR AGO – HERE ARE MY CHOICES FOR THE BEST PIECES WRITTEN ABOUT SCHOOL REOPENING SINCE THEN): How To Use Summer to Close Student Learning Gaps is from The Teaching Channel. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR THINK

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 ! ; The “Best Of The Best” Resources To Support Teachers Deali

Ten 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 we

OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay May 31st is World No Tobacco Day . You might be interested in The Best Sites For ELL’s To Learn About The Dangers Of Smoking .

niekverlaan / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING (& SHOWING) WHAT SCHOOLS LOOK LIKE DURING THE PANDEMIC (you might also be interested in SCHOOLS WENT REMOTE A YEAR AGO – HERE ARE MY CHOICES FOR THE BEST PIECES WRITTEN ABOUT SCHOOL REOPENING SINCE THEN): Schools Are Open, but Many Families Remain Hesitant to Return is from The NY Times. California high schoolers are saying

I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 22,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). You might also be interested in MY MOST POPULAR PINS OF 2020 Here

As regular readers know, for the past thirteen years I’ve been publishing about twenty-five different bi-annual lists highlighting the best educational resources around (along with tons of other “Best” lists). You can see them all here. It takes a lot of time to compile those lists, so I now do them every six months. I’m starting off by focusing on Web 2.0 tools. It’s possible that a few of these

I’ve been sharing an infographic or two each week, and you can find previous ones here . You might also be interested in all my “Best” lists on infographics Here’s my latest pick, Timeline:Key Events in U.S. History that Defined Generations , from Visual Capitalist. You can find more information on it – and