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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: Research suggests effective SEL for students starts with social and emotional competence in teachers. Schonfeld said common accommodations students with disabilities need in traditional classroom settings are provided to everyone — a key factor in the learner-centered system’s success. I always say good ELL teaching is better for everyone, and it’s probably safe to say the same for instructional strategies that work for students with learning differences. Because of what’s happening at the federal level, people have permission now to kind of get rid of some of the programming that we know supports students and families who are learning English — or multilingual programs where students are learning another language. For every 5% increase in the percentage of students living in poverty, a school had a corresponding 42% increased risk of getting flagged as seriously low-performing (a designation called “comprehensive support and improvement” school under the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, the primary federal school accountability and funding law). Although quality data are sparse, the research that does exist suggests a different narrative—one in which kids are faring better in many ways than those of previous generations. Nearly 7 in 10 middle and high school students say they are concerned that using AI for schoolwork is eroding their critical thinking skills. Dictators, in reality, thrive not on love but on indifference. In the first seven months of his second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace held up, will have roughly doubled by now. “They’re not required to be subject-matter experts in terms of teaching students, because our AI platform is able to provide that tutoring experience,” Price said. “The most important thing that the grownup world can do to protect children’s development in light of ICE surges is to prevent this from happening again.” She has repeatedly defended her advocacy under a simple mantra: “I see all children as precious and equal.” Non-teachers would be amazed at the many decisions secondary school teachers make during their five 50-minute daily lessons or elementary school teachers during their five-hour school day. Minnesota in particular appears to have caught them entirely off guard — a tendency toward docility, it seems, is their base-line assumption about everyone they oppose. A constitutional order ultimately depends less on what judges are willing to say than on what people are willing to do.
     March’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,575 Of Them! Prawny / Pixabay
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,575of them categorized here – you might also want to check out THREE ACCESSIBLE WAYS TO SEARCH FOR & FIND MY “BEST” LISTS). Here are the lists from this month: The Best Resources For Learning About Accents The Best Resources For Teachers, Especially Those Teaching ELLs, To Learn About Google’s NotebookLM The “Best” Ideas For Teaching About The U.S., Israeli/Iran Conflict  The Best Resources For Learning About Accents Pixaline / Pixabay
There’s often unnecessary angst in language education about accents. I’ve shared a lot about it over the years, and thought I’d bring all those posts together in a “best” list: Video: “Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents” Video: “Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents – (Part 2)” Video: “Accent Expert Gives a Tour of North American Accents – (Part 3)” Video: “50 People Show Us Their States’ Accents” You Have An Accent, I Have An Accent, Everybody Has An Accent…. Video: “We stigmatize accents, but language belongs to everyone” Video: “This Map Shows Where American Accents Come From” Second Statistic Of The Day: Many Cartoon Villains Speak in Foreign Accents Video: “What Does Your Accent Say About You?” Video: “Why Do We Have Accents?” Video: “A tour of the British Isles in accents”   “Dulink” Translates Any Article AND They Make It Look Nice
Copy and paste the url address to any article into Dulink, then click the language you want it translated into. It will then produce an attractive version, with all the ads and whatnot stripped out. It’s free, and appears to not have any limits. You have to pay if you want to add audio. It seems to me this might be useful to content teachers who have to translate materials for their English Language Learners. The translated versions will certainly look nicer than using Google Translate and then copy-and-pasting it into a Google Doc. I’m adding this info to The Best Sites For Learning Strategies To Teach ELL’s In Content Classes.  A Good Assignment, With An Important Caveat
Every family has a history. Here’s how to make sure it’s handed down. is a Washington Post article sharing ideas for a good assignment involving students’ families. In many ways, it’s similar to StoryCorps’ The Great Listen (see StoryCorps’ “The Great Listen” Is A Cool Oral History Project For Students). However, if teachers do this kind of activity, they need to recognize that some students might not have access to their families – they might be in foster care, or most of their family members might be in a different country (though, if they regularly FaceTime with them, they could still easily do it), or family members could be incarcerated. So, I think it’s always important to offer students a different option. Perhaps they can research the family of a public figure they admire? I’m adding this info to The Best Student Projects That Need Family Engagement — Contribute Your Lessons!  More Recent Articles
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