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PBS News Hour Video: “Seattle teachers end school-delaying strike”
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You Can Now Pre-Order Our Book, “Navigating The Common Core With ELLs”
Global Collaboration Day Takes Place On Sept. 17th – Here Are Related Resources
The Best Online Tools For Comparing The Physical Sizes Of Different Countries
This Is Pretty Creative: Using Online “Escape The Room” Games To Teaching Scientific Reasoning
New StoryCorps Video Is A Good Intro If Students Are Going To Use The App For Interviews
New OECD Report Is Not An Indictment Of Ed Tech – It’s Really An Indictment Of Unilateralism & Professional Development
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PBS News Hour Video: “Seattle teachers end school-delaying strike”

The PBS News Hour aired this segment today:

Read more about the agreement at NPR, Seattle Teachers Reach Tentative Agreement With District After Strike.

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SEL Weekly Update

10 Growth Mindset Statements from Flickr via Wylio

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:

Getting real about grit: 6 things every teacher needs to know is by Angela Watson. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The Importance Of "Grit".

When Pupils Talk in Absolutes: Understanding Mindset though Self-Narrative is by Sarah Donarski. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A "Growth Mindset."

I’m going to add this Teaching Channel video to the same list:

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You Can Now Pre-Order Our Book, “Navigating The Common Core With ELLs”

That was quick – Katie Hull Sypnieski and I literally submitted the final 120,000 word manuscript to the publisher for our book, Navigating the Common Core with English Language Learners: Developing Higher-Order Thinking Skills, last night and it showed-up available on Amazon today for pre-order!

Jossey-Bass says it will be published in March of next year.

You can read more about the book here.

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Global Collaboration Day Takes Place On Sept. 17th – Here Are Related Resources

Lots of educational groups have come together to organize a first “Global Collaboration Day” to take place on September 17th.

You can learn all about it at the Global Collaboration Day website.

Here’s how they describe it:

Students, teachers, and organizations will celebrate global collaboration on September 17th! On this day (and beyond), experienced global educators and professionals will host connective projects and events and invite public participation. The primary goals of this whole day event are to demonstrate the power of global connectivity in classrooms, schools, institutions of informal learning and universities around the world, and to introduce others to the tools, resources and projects that are available to educators today.

You might also be interested in The Best Ways To Find Other Classes For Joint Online Projects.

And if you have an English class outside of the United States and would like to do a project with my English Language Learners, check out my invitation: Links To The Joint Projects My ELL Geography Class Did With Classes Around The World – Want To Join Us This Year?

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The Best Online Tools For Comparing The Physical Sizes Of Different Countries

Last week I published a popular post titled "The True Size Of" Is A Must-Use Site In Every Geography Class about a new site that lets you easily compare – accurately – the sizes of different countries.

Reader John Padula then left a comment mentioning that there were also two similar sites, so I thought a short “Best” list would be in order.

“If It Were My Home” is a site that I’ve previously written about:

"If It Were My Home" is a neat interactive that compares the standard of living in the United States to any other country of your choice. The site also has some other neat features.

I realized that it allowed you to compare statistics, but I didn’t realize, as John wrote, “if you allow it to determine your location, superimposes any region right on top of where you are.

He also wrote about a site that was completely new to me called Comparea.

You might also be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About The World's Different Cultures.

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This Is Pretty Creative: Using Online “Escape The Room” Games To Teaching Scientific Reasoning

As regular readers know, I’m a fan of using online Escape The Room games as language-development exercises for English Language Learners. You can see articles I’ve written about it, as well as links to some of my favorite games, here.

I’ve even posted about an online tool that lets you create your own Escape The Room games.

I hadn’t thought these games could have any other academic purpose.

Until now.

Kelly Tenkely wrote a post about how one Escape The Room game called Scientific Detectives: Training Room Escape is used to teach scientific reasoning.

I think it’s pretty ingenious, especially if it’s paired with students creating their own using the game-creator I mentioned earlier in this post.

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New StoryCorps Video Is A Good Intro If Students Are Going To Use The App For Interviews

I’ve previously posted about the big initiative StoryCorps is doing this fall to encourage high school students to interview an older person, and I’ve also posted about their fabulous smartphone app for use in those kinds of interviews.

This new StoryCorps animated video would be a nice introduction to the project:

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New OECD Report Is Not An Indictment Of Ed Tech – It’s Really An Indictment Of Unilateralism & Professional Development

The media is awash today in headlines about a new report finding that, as the BBC headline says, Computers ‘do not improve’ pupil results.

I don’t think the report really holds any surprises — District’s getting seduced by shiny new toys without input from teachers and without adequate accompanying professional development appears to be the rule rather than the exception here in the U.S (see A Very Beginning List Of The Best Articles On The iPad Debacle In Los Angeles Schools) and I’d be surprised if it was any different in most other countries.

Until school leaders (including people in the U.S. Department of Education) get serious about teacher collaboration and professional development (see The Best Resources On Professional Development For Teachers — Help Me Find More), we certainly won’t see any changes in these kind of research findings.

You can read more about the new report at:

Why access to computers won't automatically boost children's grades is from The Conversation.

The surprising thing about schools with lots of technology is from The LA Times.

Video: Too much technology ‘could lower school results’ is from the BBC.

The problem with one of the biggest changes happening at schools today is from The Washington Post.