Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2022 – PART ONE. Here are this week’s picks: This week @MarcusLuther6 wrote about why creating multiple exemplars as a teacher can be so impactful: https://t.co/7SfTkrrzzt — The Broken Copier (@thebrokencopier) March 29, 2023 Connecting High School Science to Sociocultural Issues is from Edutopia. Thank you all for the This I Believe mentor text suggestions. Here is the ..read more

(I’m republishing posts on my My All-Time Favorite Posts list. This one appeared in 2019. You can see them all here.)   mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Earlier this summer, I was asked to share advice to the over two hundred students entering the Sacramento State University teacher credentialing program. I shared one thing: Use inquiry, not judgment. I told them that they might very well see a number of actions taken by their supervising teacher in the classroom that they thought were the wrong move. However, instead of immediately rushing to judgment – whether in their head or out loud, I sug ..read more

  Backdrop hosts a number of free, and cool, geography games, including ones that show you paintings and you have to identify on a map what location is depicted in them. Its sister site, TripGeo, also hosts some more straightforward geography games. I’m adding them to . Thanks to Google Maps Mania for the tip ..read more

OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay   The United Nations has declared April 25th to be World Malaria Day. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About World Malaria Day ..read more

  This series used to be called “The Most Popular Posts Of The Week.” However, Google has changed their analytics program and, for the life of me, I can’t seem to figure out how to transition to it. And, since the popularity of posts has never affected what I post in the least, I figure now I’ll just list my choices for the best posts that have appeared here in the past week (or two). You might also be interested in IT’S THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BLOG – HERE ARE THE FORTY ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR POSTS and MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE POSTS (2023 EDITION!). Here are my choices for the ..read more

So Much Research, So Little Time for Teachers to Put It Into Practice is the headline of one of my latest Ed Week columns. Education research is voluminous, but teachers often aren’t shown how to adapt the findings into their practice. Here are some excerpts ..read more

What Are the Biggest Policy Challenges Facing Schools? is the headline of my one of my recent Education Week columns. State legislatures, without the necessary educational expertise, wield the power to manipulate knowledge and rewrite history. Here are some excerpts ..read more

geralt / Pixabay   What teacher among us has not at some time experienced very challenging classroom management issues with certain students? Though I feel I’m an excellent teacher in most areas, including classroom management, I still experience these kinds of challenges. I have found, though, one strategy that almost always improves the situation – sometimes just in the short term, though often for the long term. It’s actually a strategy with two-steps. First, I need to find ten or minutes to talk with the student one-on-one.  Most of the time, that means doing a “walk-and-talk ..read more

Lolame / Pixabay   Today, The Washington Post published a feature that lets you create a sort of version of blackout poetry. Blackout poetry is when you “blackout” large portions of an article’s text and just leave the words you want in your poem. The Post’s interactive lets you choose words from an article and create a poem. I’m adding it to .   ..read more

  Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2021 – PART ONE, as well as checking out all my edtech resources. Here are this week’s choices: Canva’s Charts App: Easily Design Beautiful Charts and Graphs is from TechNotes. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING HOW TO USE CANVA. Easily create list ..read more