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Here are the latest updates for woowonenature@gmail.com "Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day..." - 7 new articles Video: ELL Geography Students Using Academic Language To Describe Climate In Their Home Countries Zing! Lets Students Read & Annotate Tons Of Books For Free Quotes Of The Day On The Perils Of Being Data-Driven “‘Building School 2.0′: An Interview With Chris Lehmann & Zac Chase” The Best Resources To Help School Counselors Assist ELLs – Please Suggest More New Survey On High School Drop-Outs Is Depressing, If Accurate “37 maps that explain how America is a nation of immigrants” PLUS Special Quote Of The Day More Recent Articles Search Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... Prior Mailing Archive Video: ELL Geography Students Using Academic Language To Describe Climate In Their Home Countries In our ELL Geography class, we’re learning about climate. After we studied in our textbooks the factors that influence climate (apart from human-made climate change – that comes next), students created a poster describing the seasons in their home countries, including academic language they used when reading the textbook. Next, they presented them to their advanced group of students. Finally, we used my favorite iPhone app, Shadow Puppet, to photograph the poster and record students recording what they wrote. We only had time to record three students on Friday. We’ll finish the rest on Monday. Then, we’ll show it to my entire ELL Geography class (the advanced group did this project — the Beginner and Intermediate groups will do it next, with assistance from the more Advanced students). It’s also posted on our class blog. Take a look:        • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Zing! Lets Students Read & Annotate Tons Of Books For Free Thanks to the great Richard Byrne, I just learned about a new site called Zing! It has thousands of free Ebooks that students can read, and it also lets them easily annotate them — without requiring any downloads. Most of the books don’t seem to have an audio option, but it still has a nice collection of those that do. Of course, books with audio narration are ideal for English Language Learners. Teachers can create virtual classrooms though, as Richard notes, the process is a little time-intensive. It would be nice if they didn’t require as much information on each students as they do in order for a teacher to add a student to their classroom. Even better, it would be great if they allowed students to just use a code given to them by their teacher so they can sign-up for themselves (other similar sites have that feature). But they are new, so I assume they’ll be making those kinds of changes over time. Their selection of books really stands-out right now, and their annotation process is easy-as-pie, so it’s really worth looking into it despite my minor complaints. I’m adding this site to The Best Sites That Students Can Use Independently And Let Teachers Check On Progress.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Quotes Of The Day On The Perils Of Being Data-Driven The Best Resources Showing Why We Need To Be "Data-Informed" & Not "Data-Driven" is one of my more popular “Best” lists. Today, Ted Appel, our former principal who is now in charge of professional and leadership development for our district, shared a NY Times article that is more fodder for that list. It’s headlined College Rankings Fail to Measure the Influence of the Institution and discusses the recently released College Scoreboard from the Obama administration. Here are two excerpts:      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • “‘Building School 2.0′: An Interview With Chris Lehmann & Zac Chase” ‘Building School 2.0′: An Interview With Chris Lehmann & Zac Chase is my latest post at Education Week Teacher. Here are a couple of excerpts:      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • The Best Resources To Help School Counselors Assist ELLs – Please Suggest More © 2008 istolethetv, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Our upcoming book, Navigating The Common Core With English Language Learners, will include a chapter on school counselors and teachers working with ELLs as a team. Here are some additional related resources — please contribute more! A Teacher-Counselor Partnership Is ‘Essential’ For Student Success is an Ed Week series I published last year. Award-Winning School Counselors Discuss Transition to the Common Core is from Learning First. Common Core State Standards: Essential Information for School Counselors Catching Character: What We're Leaving Out of Common Core Implementation is from Learning First. ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success 5 Ways to Partner With Your School Counselor on the Common Core is from Edutopia.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • New Survey On High School Drop-Outs Is Depressing, If Accurate Thanks to Kelly Gallagher, I learned about a brand-new report from America’s Promise Alliance on the reasons why students drop-out of high school. They surveyed 2,000 students who took at least one semester off from school. Tech Insider took the information and created a chart of the results (their chart is more accessible than the one in the report itself). You can see the entire chart here, and I’ve done a screenshot of the reasons that were at the top. This is Kelly’s analysis of it: Schools have direct influence in 3 of the top 4 reasons kids drop out of school. — Kelly Gallagher (@KellyGToGo) October 3, 2015 I would add that it actually seems like schools are the primary influence on five of the top seven reasons. I’m no statistician, and would love to hear from someone who is and who can comment on the methodology used in this survey. In a quick Internet search, it appears that a study done in 1993 is often quoted as a source for listing the reasons behind dropping out of school. In that study, four of the top nine reasons were school related. A lot of food for thought here, especially for those of us who teach in high school….      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • “37 maps that explain how America is a nation of immigrants” PLUS Special Quote Of The Day 37 maps that explain how America is a nation of immigrants is a great collection from Vox. On top of that, there is an interesting and long (probably too long) article in the Atlantic titled Should Immigration Require Assimilation? that is worth at least skimming. Here’s how it ends: I’m adding both to The Best Sites For Learning About Immigration In The United States.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles October's (2015) Best Tweets — Part One The Best Articles & Posts On Arne Duncan's Resignation – Help Me Collect More Yosemite Is 125 Years Old Today – Here Are Related Resources

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