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This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here):
A snapshot of America’s schools: Trends and global comparisons is from Brookings. 
With House Likely to Flip, Democrats Look to Stop Education Dept. Dismantling is from The 74.
     Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
Ten 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: Title III State Profiles is from NCELA.
Karaoke Lover could come in very handy to teachers who use songs in their teaching. I’m adding it to The Best Online Karaoke Sites For English Language Learners. Photo Grid Collage lets you do what it says – for free. I talk in The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons about I use collages in class. ELL students can watch this video and talk/write about what they saw:   The Best Resources On Helping Students Create “Struggle Stories” & Variations Of Them Leo_Romero / Pixabay
When I was teaching, I always liked doing a lesson to help students write struggle stories – personal experiences where they change the narrative about problems they faced into ones of success (I have a full lesson plan about it in my book, The Student Motivation Handbook). There are a number of online resources about this kind of thing, and variations of it. I thought readers would find it helpful if I brought them all together: What it means to have a Jalen Brunson mindset is from The Athletic. A Look Back: The Power Of Stories The Best Examples Of Turning Problems Into Opportunities — Help Me Find More “Islands Of Competence” Seems Like A Good Framework To Encourage Student Self-Motivation A Look Back: Student-Written Growth Mindset Stories Helping Students Create “Public Narratives” Reframing the Narrative is a series of what looks to me like some decent inquiry-based social studies units. Check them out here. How to Reframe Struggle Stories as Inspiration Stories in Your Personal Statement is from ProFellow.  “What ‘Sold a Story’ Misses About Direct Instruction”What ‘Sold a Story’ Misses About Direct Instruction is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. A veteran educator takes issue with Emily Hanford’s stance on a contentious instructional system. Here are some excerpts:
 Use AI To Create Parallel Text For ELLs
“Parallel text” – where one column is in English and the other column has the same words in the students’ home language – can be a very helpful strategy for both making texts accessible and for helping language acquisition. There are many online tools that offer these kinds of texts, and you can find them at THE BEST TOOLS THAT SHOW “PARALLEL TEXT” – SAME SENTENCES TRANSLATED INTO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES SIDE-BY-SIDE. Educators can also have an AI chatbot create their own. The image at the top of this blog post is an example of one ChatGPT created in response to this prompt: Create a short summary of the three branches of government in language accessible to an English Language Learner. Create it in two columns – one in English and then the other in Spanish, having the exact words on the Spanish side parallel to English side. I’d certainly use this if I was still in the classroom!
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