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- Here Is Who I Recommend You Follow On Twitter
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- No, L.A. School Reformers, Grit Does Not Equal Giving Students Rewards & Being Data-Driven
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This Week's "Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn't" — November (Part Two) I have a huge backlog of resources that I've been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a few and list them here with a minimal description. It forces me to look through these older links, and help me organize them for my own use. I hope others will find them helpful, too. These are resources that I didn't include in my "Best Tweets" feature because I had planned to post about them, or because I didn't even get around to sending a tweet sharing them. Here are This Week's "Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn't": 5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles About Asking Good Questions. For Teachers, Wired Classrooms Pose New Management Concerns is from Education Week. Here’s a Thanksgiving vocabulary quiz from Rene Maufroid. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn & Teach About Thanksgiving. Skills Practice | Writing Effective Openings is an exceptional lesson plan at The New York Times Learning Network. I’m adding it to The Best Websites For K-12 Writing Instruction/Reinforcement. Increasing Student Engagement By Grading Backwards is from TeachThought. I’m not that thrilled with the idea that it suggests — I think it promotes extrinsic motivation even more than the typical grading system. However, it is an innovative concept. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Grading Practices. 5 Point Free Assessment Strategies is from A Fine Balance. I’m adding it to that same grading practice list. In Defense of Food Stamps is from, of all places, The Wall Street Journal. How I Talk to My High-School Students About the Internet is from The Atlantic. Simple ways to differentiate materials for mixed level classes is an excellent post by Rachael Roberts. It’s focused on language teaching, but the ideas can be applied to any class. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Differentiating Instruction. Accurately Defining Formative Assessment is from Teach Learn Grow. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Formative Assessment. Why teach math? is by David Wees.     
November's Infographics & Interactives Galore — Part TwoThere are just so many good infographics and interactives out there that I've begun a new semi-regular feature called "Infographics & Interactives Galore." You can see others at A Collection Of "The Best…" Lists On Infographics and by searching "infographics" on this blog. I'll still be publishing separate posts to individually highlight especially useful infographics and interactives, but you'll find others in this regular feature. Here goes: An interactive migration map of the United States is Boston Globe article about this fascinating county-by-county migration interactive. Superstorm Sandy: One year later is an interactive from The Associated Press. I’m adding it to A Beginning List Of The Best Online Resources About Hurricane Sandy. Here’s a great new infographic version of Pixar’s rules for storytelling that was co-designed by TED Talks. I’m adding it to The Best Digital (& Non-Digital) Storytelling Resources. I’m adding this next infographic to The Best Sites To Learn About The Internet:  I’m adding this infographic that contains important advice about why to be wary of infographics to A Collection Of "The Best…" Lists On Infographics:  Bullying In The NFL and in Schools Here are some new additions to A Very, Very Beginning List Of The Best Resources On Bullying: Raiders Quarterback Applauds Bullied Dolphins Player For 'Standing Up And Being A Man' is from ThinkProgress. The Stanford Prison And Why The Miami Dolphins Weren’t Just “Boys Being Boys” is from Forbes. If a 6'5, 312-pound Miami Dolphin can be bullied… is from The Washington Post. 
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Good Articles & Posts On Education Policy Here are some recent useful articles and posts on educational policy issues: The New York Performance Standards Consortium has been recognized by The American Federation of Teachers by its prize for Solution-Driven Unionism. I’m adding it to The Best Articles Describing Alternatives To High-Stakes Testing. I’m adding this next series of Ed Week articles on The Gates Foundation to The Best Resources For Learning About The Role Of Private Foundations In Education Policy: Teacher ‘Voice’ Amplified by Series of Gates Grants is from Education Week. Gates Foundation Places Big Bet on Teacher Agenda is from Education Week. Follow the Money: Gates Giving for Its Teacher Agenda is an infographic from Education Week. ‘Effective Teaching’ Study Seen as Influential, and Faulty is from Education Week. I’m adding it to A Beginning List Of The Best Posts On Gates' Final MET "Effective Teaching" Report. In Public Education, Edge Still Goes to Rich is from The New York Times. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning That Money Does Matter For Schools. Funding for L.A. Unified’s iPad program uncertain after three years is from The Los Angeles Times. I’m adding it to A Very Beginning List Of The Best Articles On The iPad Debacle In Los Angeles Schools.  Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL I've started a somewhat regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention: CLEAR at Michigan State University has just unveiled a great collection of language-teaching videos. You can read more about it here. I’m adding it to The Best Online Videos Showing ESL/EFL Teachers In The Classroom. Here are two other video collections I’m adding to that same list: Video Series Playlist: English Language Learners is from The Teaching Channel and has an accompanying blog post. Classroom Video Modules comes from Colorin Colorado. Chants for Enhancement Activities is a blog with…chants for ELLs. I’m adding it to The Best Sites (& Videos) For Learning About Jazz Chants. Learning to Speak Brazinglish is from The New York Times. Ed. Dept. Still Seeking Input on English-Learner Programs is from Education Week. 5 steps to using self-assessment in the classroom is by Adam Simpson. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Effective Student & Teacher Assessments. Kate Kinsella has a collection of hand-outs to assist in academic language instruction. I’m adding it to The Best Websites For Developing Academic English Skills & Vocabulary. Here’s a list of recommended videos from EFL Classroom 2.0. Adam Simpson has created this video presentation on “The five most important trends in ELT”: Drama Sites and Ideas for EFL, ESL Classrooms is from A Journey In TEFL. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Using Drama In The Classroom.
The English Effect is a special project of the British Council to encourage English language learning. Here’s a nice video they developed: 
Here Is Who I Recommend You Follow On Twitter Over the years, I’ve posted two “Best” lists for who I recommend people follow on Twitter: The Best Twitterers For Sharing Resource Links The Fifteen "Twitterers" Whose Tweets I Read First Many, if not most, of those recommendations still hold true. However, here is “latest and greatest” list of my recommendations that I’ve collected in a Storify. I’ll also be adding to it over the coming months:  The Best Online Resources For Learning About The Gettysburg Address November 19th will mark the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln delivering The Gettysburg Address. You might also be interested in: The Best Sites For Learning About The Battle Of Gettysburg The Best Sites For Learning About The American Civil War The Best Resources About President's Day Here are my choices for The Best Online Resources For Learning About The Gettysburg Address: I’ve got to start off with the Smithsonian’s terrific interactive on the Address. Here are a series of exercises perfect for English Language Learners. The History Channel has a number of accessible resources. Lincoln’s 272 Words, A Model Of Brevity For Modern Times is from NPR. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library is sponsoring a contest for students to write their own 272 word address. Learn about it here. Thinkfinity has a lesson on the Address.  “Using ‘Self-Compassion’ to Recover From a Bad Day”Using ‘Self-Compassion’ to Recover From a Bad Day is the last post in my Education Week Teacher series on recovering from a bad day in the classroom. Educators Amy Benjamin and Dina Strasser, and many readers, post their thoughts.  No, L.A. School Reformers, Grit Does Not Equal Giving Students Rewards & Being Data-Driven Anyone who has read my blog or my books knows that I’m a big supporter of Social Emotional Learning, including helping students develop “grit” (see The Best Resources For Learning About The Importance Of "Grit" and the grit lessons and strategies in my books). I’ve also been critical of “school reformers” who try to hijack Social Emotional Learning to further objectives that I don’t believe are helpful to our schools (see my Washington Post piece, Why schools should not grade character traits, and New Research Shows Why Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and Character Education Are Not Enough. The latest example of grit “manipulation” is a new report from an L.A. school reform group issuing a report titled True Grit: The game-changing factors and people lifting school performance in LAUSD. Though there are a few good ideas in it, much of the report emphasizes very un-gritty ideas like giving students and teachers rewards and being data-driven through “dynamic data” (see The Best Resources Showing Why We Need To Be "Data-Informed" & Not "Data-Driven"). According to the report, building grit is a hodgepodge of scores of different ideas that support the group’s school reform agenda. Uh, no. Helping our students develop grit involves encouraging them to identify their own goals, providing them materials to learn the research behind grit and how it can be useful to them in achieving those goals, and offering support so they can develop the intrinsic motivation to hang in there when they going gets rough or to have the informed judgment necessary to know when to adjust those goals. Jeez, sometimes it seems to me that as soon as some “school reformers” hear about a good idea, they want to take it, manipulate it to their own ends, and crush the life out of it (see Gates Foundation Minimizing Great Tools For Helping Teachers Improve Their Craft and Videotaping teachers the right way (not the Gates way) ). You can read more about it at The Hechinger Report.  | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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