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The Best Resources For Teaching & Learning About The 2026 World Cup RosZie / Pixabay
The tournament will take place from June 11 to July 19 of this year, and I thought I’d get a head start on putting together related resources. I’ll obviously be adding to it as time progresses. I’ll begin with relevant ones from these previous World Cup “Best” lists: THE BEST SITES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE 2022 WORLD CUP IN QATAR The Best Sites For Learning About The 2018 World Cup In Russia The Best Sites For Learning About The 2014 World Cup In Brazil The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup
Here are links useful for this year’s World Cup:   I’ve published two posts at The New York Times for English Language Learners that focus on soccer: one on Lionel Messi and the other on a Mexican girls soccer team. Learn about synonyms and the World Cup in my third New York Times post for English Language Learners on soccer. Of course, there’s the official World Cup site. A Brief History Of The World Cup is a TIME Slideshow. Here are three interactives from The Guardian: The World Cup’s top 100 footballers of all time – interactive World Cup kits through the ages – interactive guide How to teach … the World Cup 2014 is a treasure trove from The Guardian that has resources and ideas applicable to this year’s event. Photos: The World’s Game is from the NY Times. 10 things non-soccer fans need to know about the World Cup is from Vox. HOW WE PLAY THE GAME is a NY Times interactive. Stop the Ball is a fun interactive from The New York Times. Battle Cries is a wonderful interactive from The NY Times. The split-second psychology of football is from The BBC. The Clubs That Connect The World Cup is a NY Times interactive. Watch the Most Beautiful Free Kicks in World Cup History is from Slate. How We Play The Game is another neat interactive from the NY Times.     
Photos: Soccer Fields Around the World is from The Atlantic.
Though these lessons were designed for the last World Cup, most of the ideas can be applied to this one, too:
Why the World Cup Needs Music is from The NY Times.   All Eyes On the World Cup is a photo gallery from The Boston Globe.  
  
 
The making of a World Cup kit is from The Washington Post. Both of these infographics are from Visual Capitalist:
 The World Cup as Teachable Moment? How One Teacher Approached It is from Ed Week. For Teachers: Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022 Lesson Plan
  In Miami, soccer balls are turned into one-of-a-kind art as World Cup nears is from The Associated Press. 
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I’ve just mailed out the June 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  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: But teaching someone to read and building a world where they can do so are different problems. Throwing our phones in the lake can’t bring about that world, but designing the conditions for reading will. Mostly Adrian just asked them to call him by his last name — a solution some schools around the state have used rather than deadnaming, calling a transgender person by the name they no longer use. Chalkbeat analysis shows half of America’s largest school districts face cuts or deficits this year. Researchers found that some Michigan schools appear to be substantially better than others at getting students to show up, and identified one intervention — frequent home visits to families whose children are absent from class — that was used more often by schools making a difference. See The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits A trauma-informed educator’s job is not to try to solve all the problems of the world, but to help our students carry it, even if just a little. See “Best” Lists Of The Week: Responding To Student Trauma Just like chatbots, AI-detection tools have become effective enough for widespread use, but not reliable enough to fully trust. That’s a fifth lesson: Grass-roots organizations that have little or no connection to electoral politics — in the United States, that might be the networks formed by the No Kings rallies, ICE-resistance groups and so on — can matter as much as or more than those already focused on winning votes. See The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change Snapchat sent phone alerts to adolescents during school hours, urging them to share what was going on in their classrooms. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves. Across a range of faiths, people tended to support public education for all students, including undocumented immigrants. See THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE PLYLER DECISION NOW THAT RIGHT-WINGERS ARE PLANNING A PUSH TO MAKE MIGRANT CHILDREN PAY TO ATTEND SCHOOL In Texas, 365 of the state’s 1,207 school districts and charters have opted to use the reading and language arts portion of Bluebonnet Learning, the state-approved curriculum that includes religious stories and mostly Christian references to religion. Among educators in urban districts, 81% reported student anxiety or fear in the spring, up from 66% last fall, and 59% reported reduced student attendance this spring, up from 43% in the fall. See The Best Resources To Support Schools, Teachers, Students & Families In The Face Of Trump’s Deportation Threats For those seeking to rethink the high school, ignoring earlier reformers’ efforts is worse than burying one’s head in the sand.
 Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
Eight years ago I began this 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. You might also be interested in all my Best lists on teaching ELLs. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In addition, look for our latest book on teaching ELLs, The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0. Here are this week’s choices: U.S. Citizenship Test Questions and Answers is from Boundless. I’m adding it to The Best Websites For Learning About Civic Participation & Citizenship. ELL students can watch these videos and then talk/write about what they saw:  
I’m adding this post to The Best Resources On ESL/EFL/ELL Error Correction:
I’m adding this tweet to The Best Resources For Learning The Advantages To Being Bilingual:
ELL students can watch these videos and then talk/write about what they saw:   Students Need Anchors When They Read. How to Make Them Stick is from Ed Week. What AI earbuds can’t replace: The value of learning another language is from The Conversation. Informal Emails: Collaborative Writing with Personality Adjectives and Advice Structures is from Blog de Cristina. From Exposure to Ownership: Deep Processing Techniques That Make Vocabulary Last is from The Language Gym. Schools Turn to AI Translation Tools to Support English Learners is from Ed Surge.  Research Studies Of The Week Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature. You can see all my “Best” lists related to education research here. Here are some new useful studies (and related resources): Why Hasn’t Tutoring Been More Effective? is from Ed Week.
How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers is from Science Daily. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Understanding “Personalized Learning”
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