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January’s “The Best…” Lists – There Are Now 1,257 Of Them!
Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,257 of them categorized here):
The Best Sites For Learning About The International Space Station
The Best Sites For Learning About South Africa
A Beginning List Of The Best Resources On California’s Drought
The Best Fun Sesame Street Songs — Contribute Your Own!
The Best Resources On California Court Case Attacking Teacher’s Rights
The Best Videos Documenting The History Of The English Language
“My Best Posts On The Harlem Children’s Zone & Other ‘Promise Zones’”
“The Best Articles Questioning The View That Single Parents Are A Problem”
The Best Posts & Videos On “Hope” — Help Me Find More
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In 2013
The Best Resources For Identifying Qualities Needed In Order To Be “Successful”
The Best Ways To Receive Questions Electronically While Leading A Workshop
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).
Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this past month (not in any order of preference):
‘Character Should Be An Integrated Element Of Education’
Here’s My Teacher Model For Instagram Video “Book Trailers” Students Will Be Making
It’s That Time Of Year Again: Here’s How My Ninth-Graders Evaluated The Class & Me
The Power Of A Phone Call Home
From The Archives: “Five ways to get kids to want to read and write”
BBC Launches Exhaustive Interactive World War I Resource
“The Education Department’s strange new report on teaching”
Funny Video: Do We Teach Like Dogs Or Like Cats?
Home Culture Presentations With English Language Learners
“Keys To Parent Engagement – Relationships, Climate, Communication”
You Can Read About An Excellent ELL Speaking Activity At My New British Council Blog
Two Must-Visit Resources: 40 More Maps AND 40 Charts “That Explain The World”
From The Archives: “Positive, Not Punitive, Classroom Management Tips”
More “What If?” History Projects — Plus, What Students Thought Of Them….
NEA Announces Online Lesson Project
“Parents Can Teach Educators ‘Lessons About Learning and Life’”
TED Talks Unveils TED-Ed Clubs For Students
My New BAM! Radio Show Is On The Air & First Episode Is On “Flipping” Classrooms
My Latest NY Times Post: Learning Prepositions & Using Badly Translated Signs For Language Learning
This Translator Map Is A Cool Way To Teach European Geography & More
From The Archives: “Cultivating Student Leadership”
“Parent Engagement Requires ‘Trust, Not Blame’”
From The Archives: “Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching”
“Listening To Parents With Our Heads And Hearts”
Must-Read Article About A Must-Read Study: “Can Upward Mobility Cost You Your Health?”
earning About Tamales, Holiday Food Traditions & Three Kings Day
Interesting Infographic: “The Most Important Developments In Human History”
From The Archives: “Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, Say, and Do”
Here’s What I’m Having My ELL Geography Students Do As Their Semester “Final”
From The Archives: The Best Post I’ve Ever Written…
“Gibbon” Is An Easy Tool For Creating Internet Scavenger Hunts
“Simon’s Cat” Videos Are Perfect For English Language Learners
Yay! PBS Unveils Third In Series Of Best Online U.S. History Games Out There
‘Flipped Learning Makes Teachers More Valuable’
My “Nine educated education predictions for 2014!” Published At Wash. Post — Here Are Some Additions
“What school reformers can learn from Pope Francis”
From The Archives: “The best kind of teacher evaluation”
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