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- My Best Posts That Appeared In December
- All My Ed-Related End-Of-Year 2025 “Best” Lists In One Place!
- Students Creating New Year’s Resolutions Can Be Great Lessons & Here Are Tons Of Ideas
- I’m Pretty Surprised That Sal Khan Wrote This Op Ed, & Even More Surprised The NY Times Published It
- Join Me On Jan. 13th When I Moderate A Panel Discussion On How To Handle Reduced Newcomer Enrollment
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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):
You Can Now Pre-Order Our Next Book, “The Better Teacher’s Toolbox,” On Amazon!
“Larry Ferlazzo’s 10 Education Predictions for 2026”
Lots Of Good Zero-Prep Activities For The ELL Classroom
Groups Of Students Can Create Music Together At “Make-A-Beat”
Small Slights Matter – This Workplace Research Has SO Much Relevance To The Classroom
“Mock Talk” Looks Like A Good – And Free – Tool Where ELLs Can Practice Speaking
New (& Veteran) Superintendents Could Do Far Worse Than Reading This Article
With “Learn Everything,” Google Strikes Out Again In Trying To Make AI Useful
Globy Compares Countries’ Data & Shows Visual Results
“Talk To Dai” Seems Like A Decent AI-Powered Language Learning Tool, & It’s Free (At Least, For Now)
“ICE Turns North Carolina Schools ‘Upside Down’”
“Learn About America” Is A New & Useful (& Free) Social Studies Site
I REALLY Think Secondary ELL Teachers Should Consider Radically Restructuring Classes, But I’m Not Sure If They Are
It Seems To Me That These Survey Results Indicate That A Fair Number Of Teachers May Be In The Wrong Profession
Here’s The Video & Resource List From Our Webinar On Assisting Content Teachers To Work With ELLs
“1 Challenge, 2 Challenge, 3 Challenge, 4, Teachers Have Many, Many More …”
Check Out Google’s “Language Explorer”
Genes Are Not THE Predeterminant To How Smart You Are
“Practical Tips for Creating a Safe and Supportive Space for Students”
Maybe More Experienced Teachers Can Afford To Be Less “Data-Driven”?
Google Unveils Advance That Brings Us Closer To Star Trek’s “Universal Translator”
Compare The Sizes Of Living Things At “Size Of Life”
Do We Need More Metaphors When Organizing For Education & Political Change?
I Really Like This Strategy For Talking With People You Disagree With
The “Youth Media Challenge Showcase” Is A Great Authentic Audience For Student Work
Take A Look At What This Former NBA Player Says About Metrics & See If It Also Relates To Schools
Not Good Statistic Of The Day: Most Teachers Take Second Jobs
“‘Schools Cannot Afford to Ignore Race and Identity’”
“TrueSize.net” Compares The Size Of Countries & Also Historical Empires
NPR Announces Special Student Podcast Challenge On The 250th Anniversary Of The United States
“Hello Nabu” Looks Like One Of The Best Free AI-Powered Language Learning Tools That I’ve Seen So Far
No Shocker To Teachers, But New Study Finds SEL Helps Students’ Academic Achievement
Must-Watch PBS NewsHour Video: “A Brief But Spectacular take on connecting through reading”
I’m Pretty Surprised That Sal Kahn Wrote This Op Ed, & Even More Surprised The NY Times Published It
Though I’ve never been a big fan of Khan Academy (see The Best Posts About The Khan Academy), I do know many teachers and students have found it helpful and, for that, I applaud Sal Khan.
There are a number of things, though, that I don’t applaud him for, including his pronouncements about Artificial Intelligence (see AI Can Be Helpful To Teachers But, Despite What Sal Khan Says, It Will Not Be “the biggest Positive Transformation That Education Has Ever Seen” and Videos: “60 Minutes” Does An Infomercial For Sal Kahn & AI).
His op ed in today’s NY Times, The 1 Percent Solution to the Looming A.I. Job Crisis, though, appears to be his worst contribution to the AI public discussion.
I’m going to summarize it here in my own words and, I kid you not, I am very confident that it is an accurate description:
AI is going to result in the loss of many jobs. Because of that, AI companies should donate one percent of their profits to a nonprofit organization to coordinate online job training to retrain those displaced workers so they can get new jobs. This will take care of the problem.
He doesn’t say who that nonprofit should be, and who should be providing the online job training, but I think you and I can make a pretty good guess about who he has in mind.
On so many levels, this op ed continues Kahn’s commitment to magical thinking about everything and anything related to AI.
Here’s my idea: How about we regulate and tax the hell out of tech companies and, I don’t know, provide most of those funds to existing community colleges, universities, and nonprofit job training agencies with track records, along with increasing unemployment benefits to laid-off workers?
As regular readers know, I’ve been posting my concerns about the Trump’s administration’s impact on ELL student enrollment.
At Carol Salva’s invitation, I’ll be moderating a discussion on this topic sponsored by the National Association of English Learner Program Administrators (NAELPA) on January 13th.
Here’s how they describe it:
What should program leaders do as the number of immigrant students decreases? Award-winning educator, Larry Ferlazzo, will interview a panel who will offer insight on programming and funding. Participants will leave with practical resources they can use immediately to respond to this current trend.
You can register here.
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