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Here’s The Cover Of Our Next Book: The Third Edition Of “The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide”
This third edition, with several new chapters and completely revised “old” ones, is scheduled to come out next July, though I’d bet it’s published sometime in June. You can click on “Auto Buy” on Amazon, but the pre-order button won’t be there until January – I’m not sure the difference between the two. You access a zillion free resources from the first two editions of the book here.      Sentences Of The Week geralt / Pixabay
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: The aging brain may be undergoing a remarkable transformation rather than simply losing its abilities, shifting its focus from remembering details to understanding the bigger picture. Scientists suggest this change could be an evolutionary adaptation that helps older adults develop wisdom and share decades of knowledge with younger generations. As usual, those who argue for larger class sizes never have to teach them. See The Best Resources For Learning About How Class Size Does Matter One concrete starting point: end every meeting by naming one thing that happened in someone’s classroom that week worth thinking about together next time. When I asked Mayer if it’s somewhat depressing to imagine a frictionless future when birthday celebrations, holiday gifts and family vacations are planned by A.I., she seemed caught off guard. “I haven’t really thought that through,” she said. “The powerful can kill one, two, or even one hundred roses. But they will never stop the arrival of spring.” According to education policy researcher Chad Aldeman‘s analysis of federal data a few years ago, about 46,000 special ed teachers leave public schools every year, while teacher preparation programs train fewer than 30,000 annually to replace those teachers. My hot teacher take of the day: if student “voice and choice” never inconveniences you, it’s probably not true agency. Children do not need to be the target of enforcement to be harmed by it. Witnessing it, or fearing it, is enough. See The “Best” Resources For Learning How Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Causing Student Trauma AND Reduced School Enrollment In international comparisons, U.S. students are negative outliers in self-reported well-being and time spent on screens. We have to ask ourselves whether the efficient pursuit of improved performance on tests is actually what we want for our children, particularly those who already experience barriers to success due to classism, racism, and white flight.
 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: 8 Ways to Squeeze Writing Instruction Into a Few Minutes is from Cult of Pedagogy. What is background knowledge in reading? is from Teach Learn Grow. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The Importance Of Prior Knowledge (& How To Activate It). I’m adding this post to The Best Resources On Student Agency & How To Encourage It: Teaching CER in Middle School Science With a 5-Day Structure is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Scaffolded Writing Frames For Students. Designing the Ideal Classroom Space is from Edutopia.
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I’ve just mailed out the November issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter. It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here. Of course, you can also join the tens of thousands of others who subscribe to this blog daily: 7 WAYS YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE TO MY DAILY BLOG POSTS FOR FREE  “The Myths and Realities of Culturally Responsive Teaching”The Myths and Realities of Culturally Responsive Teaching is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. It’s time to stop thinking of culturally responsive practices as one more item on the to-do list. Here are some excerpts:
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