Larry Ferlazzo's Monthly Website Newsletter - April, 2018

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March’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 1,882 Of Them

Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,882 of them categorized here):

A Collection Of “Best” Lists Related To Schools, Students & The Fight Against Gun Violence

The Best Sites Offering Free Lesson Plans For Movies

Revised & Updated: Useful Resources For Learning About Race & Racism

The Best Commentaries On The Huge New Study On Race, Inequality & Gender

The Best Resources For Learning About “The March For Our Lives”

“Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Reading Instruction

March 21st Is The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – Here Are Related Resources

The Best Resources For Learning About The National Student Walkout On March 14th

“Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Writing Instruction

A Compilation Of Resources To Support Student Organizing

“Best” Lists Of The Week: Online Learning Games

The Best Resources For Learning About – & Supporting – The West Virginia Teachers

The Oscars Are Awarded This Sunday – Here Are All My “Best” Lists Related To Movies

“Best” Lists Of The Week: Useful Multilingual Resources

Six “Best” Lists Related To The Gun Control Debate

My Favorite Posts That Appeared In March 

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 in recognition of this blog’s eleventh anniversary this past February.

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:

“‘A Powerful Purpose Propels Effective Student Collaboration’”

Three Videos Of English Language Learners Giving Advice To Teachers

Shocker: Study Finds That Low-Income Students Tend To Have Less Agency Than Those Coming From Higher-Income Families

Best Article Ever To Have Students Read About Cellphones!

“How Smart Do You Make Others Around You?” Has Been A Useful Question For Me To Ask In Class

We Need To Talk More About Schools As Mediating Institutions

Video: Our Webinar On Equitable Grading For ELLs

Statistic Of The Day: Suspension Numbers For African-American Students

Video: Saturday Night Live Spoofs Betsy DeVos 60 Minutes Interview

My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On “Smart Tips for Working with Substitute Teachers”

“A Warm-Up ‘Mindset’ Helps Students & Teachers”

Very Useful Twitter List For ELL/ESL/ELT Educators

Study Finds That Principals Can Influence Student Learning Best By – Wait For It – Supporting Teacher Leadership

Anchor Launches A Neat & Easy Way To Create Videos Highlighting Text

This Is So Cool! OK Go Teams Up With Google & Creates Classroom Materials For Their Videos

“Active Listening: Using Times Videos, Podcasts and Articles to Practice a Key Skill”

Guest Post: Here’s The Lesson We’re Doing Prior To The Student Walkout

List Of Knowledge Questions My TOK Students Are Using This Year For Their Oral Presentations

“Teachers Unions ‘Must Claim the Mantle of Educational Leadership’”

“Iris.ia” Seems Like A Very Useful Research Tool

Guest Post: Professional Development in Education – Involving Everyone

“Timelinely” Lets You Easily Create Annotated & Interactive Videos

Take Two: Revised My TOK Oral Presentation Materials AGAIN

Everything You Wanted To Know About The Adolescent Brain But Were Afraid To Ask

Learning About Scientific Discovery In Theory Of Knowledge Class

New Meta-Analysis Identifies Instructional Strategies To Help Struggling Adolescent Readers

“Social Studies is ‘About Creating Skilled Inquirers’”

You Can “Digitize” Your Student Hand-Outs & Worksheets With “PairPrep”

“Free Rice” Vocabulary Game Lets Teachers Create Virtual Classrooms

Results Just Unveiled Of Big New Growth Mindset Study Co-Authored By A Ton Of Well-Known SEL Researchers

“Helping Students ‘get Into History’”

Useful Resources On Using Tech With Students

With Google’s New “Songmaker,” You Can Easily Create…Songs

Intriguing New Study On “Student Engagement” & How To Define It

New Study Documents The Benefits To School That Are Obvious To Us, But Maybe Not So Obvious To Our Students

March’s Most Popular Posts

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 Eleventh Anniversary Of This Blog: What Have Been My Most Popular Posts? (Part One) and Part Two: Eleventh Anniversary Of This Blog – What Have Been My Most Popular Posts?

Here are this month’s most popular posts:

  1. The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games
  2. Best Article Ever To Have Students Read About Cellphones!
  3. The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom
  4. The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them)
  5. The Best Places To Get The “Same” Text Written For Different “Levels”
  6. The Best Resources For Teaching About The Black Panther Movie
  7. The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”)
  8. You Can “Digitize” Your Student Hand-Outs & Worksheets With “PairPrep”
  9. Video: Betsy DeVos Interviewed On 60 Minutes
  10. The Best Teaching Resources For The Movie, “Coco”

 
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