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The Tulsa Race Massacre Happened 106 Years Today – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
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The terrible Tulsa Race Massacre happened 106 years ago today. You might be interested in MAY 31ST & JUNE 1ST WERE THE DATES OF THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE – HERE ARE TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES.      May’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,586 Of Them! Prawny / Pixabay
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,586 of them categorized here – you might also want to check out THREE ACCESSIBLE WAYS TO SEARCH FOR & FIND MY “BEST” LISTS). Here are the lists from this month: The Best Free Sites For YOUNG ELL Beginners The Best Resources Highlighting What English Language Learner Students Want From Their Teachers The “Best” Resources For Learning About The “Dogme” Approach To English Language Teaching The Best Online Learning Games & Apps For Toddlers (Though Only For Very, Very Limited Times) The Best Resources On Using Metaphors For Change The Best Resources For Using “Vision Boards” In Class The Best Instructional Strategies For Social Studies Classes The Best Resources For Teaching About The Supreme Court Ruling Gutting The Voting Rights Act The Best Analyses About The Role Of Ed Tech In Today’s Classrooms  Free Resources From All “My” Books
Every two months, I reprint this post so that new subscribers learn about these resources. I have many free resources, including excerpts and student hand-outs, available from all “my” books (“my” is quotation marks because several are ones I have co-authored or edited). Clicking on the covers will lead you to them. Katie and I have begun work on a new book for both ELL and non-ELL educators. Look for it in Spring, 2027! Coming up with an idea for a book and then getting a contract with a publisher for it is great – up until the time one actually has to write it 🙂
    
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I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful. And they may, or may not, be directly connected to education. I may also include my own comments or related links. This regular post will join my other regular ones on teaching ELLs, education policy, Artificial Intelligence, infographics, and Pinterest highlights, not to mention sharing of my regular Education Week posts. Here are this week’s sentences: Kane doesn’t find a strong correlation between states’ reading gains since 2022 and the number of science-of-reading elements they’ve incorporated. See The Best Resources For Learning About Balanced Literacy & The “Reading Wars” So engagement may not cause a kid to learn more on Tuesday’s quiz. But it may be the reason they show up on Wednesday at all. See The Best Posts & Articles On Student Engagement Combining new and historical survey data stretching back to the 1990s, I find that Democratic voters have become wildly more supportive of teachers unions over the past decade. See The Best Resources For Learning Why Teachers Unions Are Important Perhaps the most striking finding from our survey is how strongly student engagement predicts attendance. Teens who say they care “a lot” about how they do in school miss about 10 fewer days per year than peers who say they care less. See The Best Resources On Student Absenteeism Ante-ChatGPT, more than ninety-eight per cent of all English-language articles being published on the internet were written by humans. By the fall of 2024, machines were writing around half of such articles. “94.7 percent of kids’ books are crud.” Janai Nelson, who as president and director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund argued the Callais case before the Supreme Court, told me that the court had greenlit a sort of wink-and-nod colorblindness, where majority-Black districts are automatically suspect but a legislative body can create voting maps where no Black people are elected, and as long as they do not say they are doing that for racist reasons, the Constitution is fine with that. Like J.R.R. Tolkien’s One Ring, AI convinces many of those who use it that they can control its power properly. But can they? “They are cementing absolute minority control because they do not represent a majority of this country. And when they — if they — get away with the heist, we will be locked out of multiracial democracy for at least a generation.” Now, online classes are a simulacrum of education: the students pretend to learn, and I have to pretend that I am teaching them something. People are sick of being told that these technologies are inevitable, particularly when they can see, because they have experienced, the damage they are causing (all while these technologies are generating the wild profits for a small handful of billionaires). The core spiritual challenge now, Leo writes, is the dehumanization of human beings — by flattening their differences, reducing them to “data and performance,” turning them into means, working endlessly to perfect them. Are they weaving those relationships together or pulling them apart? Resort to real-time translation software and what remains is information, not expression. “The leader knows that people are going to be more likely to be loyal if they don’t have many other career options, so when I say losers, I kind of mean it literally,” she said. It was time that saved me.
 Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
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 can also see all my “Best” lists on instructional strategies here. Here are this week’s picks: Free Decodable Texts for Each Phonics Skill is from Reading Universe. I’m adding it to The Best Articles & Sites For Teachers & Students To Learn About Phonics.
Standards-aligned, Culturally and Linguistically Relevant Open Educational Resources (OER) for New Mexico contains some decent resources. Cold Calling is from DistillED. 3 Ways to Prime Students’ Brains for Achievement is from Edutopia. 6 Ways to Maximize Turn and Talk is from Edutopia. The Claims of Close Reading appeared in The Boston Review. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On “Close Reading” — Help Me Find More. I’m adding this tweet to The Best Posts & Articles About Asking Good Questions — Help Me Find More:
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