Do You Want to Be an Administrator or Stay in the Classroom? is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. It's a question that many teachers ask themselves during their careers. Here are some excerpts:
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  1. “Do You Want to Be an Administrator or Stay in the Classroom?”
  2. November Is Native American Heritage Month – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
  3. My Best Posts That Appeared In October
  4. Nov. 5th Is “World Tsunami Awareness Day” – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
  5. “Classroom Routines Can Bolster Student Agency. Here’s How”
  6. More Recent Articles

“Do You Want to Be an Administrator or Stay in the Classroom?”

Do You Want to Be an Administrator or Stay in the Classroom? is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns.

It’s a question that many teachers ask themselves during their careers.

Here are some excerpts:

     

November Is Native American Heritage Month – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

 

November is Native American Heritage Month in the United States.

I don’t have a specific “Best” list for the month.

However, I have many related resources at:

The Best Sites For International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People

The Best Online Resources About Christopher Columbus (& ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’)

The Best Resources For Teaching & Learning About The Standing Rock Protests

A Beginning List Of The Best Folklore & Myth Sites

The Best Resources For Learning About The Code Talkers

Many resources sharing the perspectives of Native Americans are included in The Best Sites To Teach and Learn About Thanksgiving.

A BEGINNING LIST OF RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT RACIST MASCOTS

RESOURCES ON CHALLENGES NATIVE AMERICANS FACE IN SCHOOLS

     

My Best Posts That Appeared In October

 

I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here).

You can also see my all-time favorites here. I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series reviewing old favorites, too.

Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this past month (not in any order of preference) – also note that I group many updates on the Trump administration’s current attack on education and democracy in weekly posts you can find here):

This Piece On How Lack Of Agency Is Driving American Politics Is Very Relevant To American Classrooms

This Is The Best Piece I’ve Seen About How School’s Should Respond To This Year’s PISA Results

It Seems To Me That Anyone Who Says They Are “Data-Driven” Should Read This Article

The NY Times Asked 30 Researchers (Two-Thirds Who Had Never Taught In A K-12 Classroom) How To Improve Schools. Here Are My 12 Different Low-Cost Suggestions

Video: “Reading the World”: New Film Spotlights Paulo Freire’s Radical Literacy Experiment in 1960s Brazil

This Is The Most Interesting Piece About Education Research That I’ve Read In A Long Time

Increased Lighting Is To Improved Public Safety As [Blank] Is To Improved Student Learning

This Might Be The Best Video About Motivation That’s Available To Show To Students

Study Found That Requiring Later Start Times For High School & Middle School Seems To Have Worked

This Quotation Highlights The Main Reason I Think I Was Successful Doing Visualization With Students

“Civics For All,” A NYC Schools Program, Is An Amazing Resource

This Is A Great Older Reggie Miller Commercial On The Power Of Reading

New SEL Meta-Analysis Finds That SEL Improves “Prosocial Behavior” AND That Less Is More

AI Is Making The Student Motivation Challenge More Visible – Here Are Some Effective Strategies For Creating The Conditions Where Motivation Can Flourish

This Is Extraordinarily Excellent Advice On How To Use AI For Written Translation To Non-English-Speaking Parents/Guardians

I Think This Strategy Of “Waterfall Reading” Can Help Promote Reading Fluency At Any Level

“Rethinking ‘What Works’ in Education”

“Your Students Are Stressed. You Can Help Them”

You Should Turn Students Into Detectives. Here’s How

“Toss That Notion. Educators Reflect on Their Changing Beliefs”

“How Teachers Handle Frustration and Anger”

 

     

Nov. 5th Is “World Tsunami Awareness Day” – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

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The United Nations has declared November 5th to be World Tsunami Awareness Day.

You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About Tsunamis.

 

     

“Classroom Routines Can Bolster Student Agency. Here’s How”

Classroom Routines Can Bolster Student Agency. Here’s How is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns.

Four educators share how to build predictable daily structures—and why you should.

Here are some excerpts:

     

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