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April’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 1,556 Of Them

Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,556 of them categorized here):

The Best Teaching & Learning Resources About Harriet Tubman

Part 9 – Best Resources For Learning About Flint Water Crisis

Part 10 – Best Resources For Learning About Flint Water Crisis

The Best Resources For Learning About The Multilingual Education Act Ballot Initiative In California

The Best Ways To Use Stephen Curry & The Warriors For Teaching Social Emotional Learning Skills

The Best Resources For Teaching Shakespeare To English Language Learners

The Best Links For Helping Students Learn How To Write “Leads” or “Ledes”

April’s Top Posts From This Blog

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.

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). There are a lot of them this month:

“What Educators Wish They Knew When They Began Teaching”

This Interactive Could Be The Most Motivating Tool Ever To Help ELLs Improve Pronunciation

Our Book Was Published Today!

Using The “Green Eggs and Ham hypothesis” To Help Students Develop Creativity

Here’s How My Students Taught Their Classmates A Social Studies Unit – Handouts Included

My Latest NY Times Interactive For ELLs Is On Parrots & Pets

“Effective Strategies For ELL Error Correction”

We Did A Great ‘Growth Mindset’ Lesson With Our ELLs This Week – Here’s The Lesson Plan

“Resetting” Classroom Management

Scholastic Runs A Nice Interview With…Me

“Principals ‘Need To Step Back & Forward Through Time’”

My Latest NY Times Post For ELLs Is On The Rio Olympics

“Principals ‘Must be Reflective Daily About the Work’”

New Study Highlights Six Components Of An Effective Apology

“Big Learners” Has Tons Of Free Student Hand-outs Useful For ELLs

Vergara Overturned By Appeals Court!

Quote Of The Day: “Active Learning” In Science (& Other!) Classrooms

“‘Peak’: An Interview With Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool”

Harvard Business Review Criticizes Trump’s Negotiating Skills & Provides Excellent Classroom Management Advice At Same Time

“Assessing Students on ‘What Really Counts’”

“Favorite Travel Destinations” Is The Topic Of My Latest NY Times Interactive For ELLs

No Surprise To Organizers: Two-Way Conversation More Successful Than One-Way Communication In Changing Minds

The British Council Has Excellent Leveled Reading Resources

“Assessments for Today’s Students”

No Surprise – New Study Finds That Explaining Things Helps You Learn

WordSift Is Back & It’s Better Than Ever!

“Working With ‘Difficult’ Students – Part Two”

Kevin Durant On “Hard Work” & How I’m Using It In Class

The Presidential Debates Are The Focus Of My Latest NY Times Interactive For ELLs

This ASCD Article By Dylan Wiliam May Be The Best Article You’ll Ever Read On Giving Students Feedback

“RACE” Looks Like A Useful Writing Strategy

“‘Don’t Fear’ Students Who Challenge Class Chemistry”

“Ofrecer autonomía es clave para desarrollar la motivación”

Teachers, Students & Families Win In Today’s Supreme Court Decision On Friedrichs

Instagram Announces Plan To Increase Videos To One Minute – Great For Teachers, Students & Everybody Else

“One-Sentence Project” Audio Slideshow From My English Language Learner Class

“Favorite Books” Is Topic Of My Latest NY Times Interactive For ELLs

Four New Additions To “The ‘All-Time’ Best Science Sites” List

Angela Duckworth Criticizes Assessing “Character” For Accountability Purposes In NY Times Column

“Differentiating Algebra Instruction”

Another Interesting Finding On The Value Of Having A “Purpose For Learning”

April’s Updated “Best” Lists

I am constantly adding new resources to my over 1,500 categorized “Best Lists.

I also regularly “cull” through the lists to weed-out dead links, but haven’t been very systematic about doing that task.

So, I’ve started to go through them and highlight the ones that I’ve gotten around to completely cleaning-up and revising.

Here are a list of them from this month (you can see previous compilations here):

The Best Sites For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

The Best Videos & Articles Where Athletes Explain How Reading & Writing Well Has Helped Their Career – Help Me Find More

The Best Sites For Learning About Protests In History

The Best Sites To Learn About The Hubble Telescope

The Best Ways To Finish The School Year Strong

The Best Sites For Learning About Earthquakes

The Best Sites To Learn About San Francisco

The Best Resources For Learning About World Malaria Day

The Best Sites For Learning About Leonardo Da Vinci

The Best Sites For Learning About The Titanic

The Best Sites For Learning About Taxes

The Best Sites For Learning About Possible Life On Other Planets

The Best Earth Day Sites

The Best Sites For Learning About Penguins!

The Best Sites To Teach ELL’s About Libraries

The Best Resources For Creating Infographics

The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change

The Best Resources To Remember Dr. Martin Luther King’s Death (& Life)

The Best Sites To Learn About Genocide In Rwanda

The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust

The Best Resources For Learning About Genocide

The “All-Time” Best Science Sites