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  1. This Guide To FAFSA If You Have Undocumented Parents Is Great, Though It Might Be Too Late For Many This Year
  2. Ed Tech Digest
  3. Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
  4. Oscar Night Is On March 15th! Here’s A Collection Of All My Movie-Related “Best” Lists
  5. So Cool! Stephen King Is Offering Nine-Day Writing Residencies To K-12 Teachers & Retired Teachers
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This Guide To FAFSA If You Have Undocumented Parents Is Great, Though It Might Be Too Late For Many This Year

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Completing the FAFSA is stressful for students, and it’s been particularly stressful since Trump came into office for students with parents who are undocumented.

Many have already submitted it, but if you haven’t done so yet and you have an undocumented parent, you’ll want to read this extremely helpful guide, Undocumented Parents? Options for the FAFSA, written by .

I’m adding it to The Best Financial Aid Resources For Students Planning To Go To College — Help Me Find More.

     

Ed Tech Digest


 

Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps.

You might also be interested in checking out all my edtech resources.

Here are this week’s choices:

MathQuest has lots of free activities.

Wikiloop is a cool visualization of Wikipedia.

 

Free Google Location Changer lets you get test results from multiple countries. I’m wondering if it could be useful to ELLs searching in their home languages? I’m adding it to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners.

More free coloring pages.

School Voice is a new school/parent communication tool.

The ADHD Experience is supposed to give you a sense of what it’s like to have ADHD. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Walking In Someone Else’s Shoes.

     

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:

Bringing Social Studies to Life With Data is from Edutopia.

I’m adding this tweet to Does Anyone Use “Interleaving” When Teaching ELLs? If So, I’d Love To Hear What You Do:

I’m adding this next tweet to The Best Questions To Use For Class Closing Activities — What Are Yours?:

I’m adding this tweet to The Best Resources On Reading Fluency (Including How To Measure It):

I’m adding this post to The Best Apps, Online Tools & Other Resources For Math:

Wrote a post about pedagogy for all the math freaks out there. pershmail.substack.com/p/practice-s…

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— Michael Pershan (@mpershan.bsky.social) August 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM

     

Oscar Night Is On March 15th! Here’s A Collection Of All My Movie-Related “Best” Lists

 

The Academy Awards is coming up, and I thought it would be a good time to bring together all of my movie-related “Best” lists:

The Best Sites Offering Free Lesson Plans For Movies

The Best Scenes From (& Spoofs Of) “It’s A Wonderful Life”

The Best Places To Learn About (And View Video Clips Of) Teachers In The Movies

The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL

The Best Funny Movie/TV Clips Of Bad Teachers

The Best Video Clips & Full-Length Movies For Helping To Teach Persuasive Techniques (Help Me Find More)

The Best Movies For IB Theory Of Knowledge Classes – What Are Your Suggestions?

The Best Tools For Creating “Word Frequency Charts” For Books, Articles & Movies

The Best Places To Find Theatrical Movies On Science, Math & History

The Best Movie Scenes To Use For English-Language Development

The Best Examples Of Turning Problems Into Opportunities — Help Me Find More

The Best Places To Create Funny Subtitles For Silent Movies

The Best Movie Scenes, Stories, & Quotations About “Transfer Of Learning” – Help Me Find More!

The Best Movie Scenes For Halloween

The Best Sites That Use Movie Trailers To Teach English

The Best Movie/TV Scenes Demonstrating Metacognition – Help Me Find More

The Best TV/Movie Scenes Demonstrating A “Growth Mindset” – Help Me Find More

The Best TV/Movie Scenes Showing Good & Bad Classroom Discussions

The Best Videos Showing “Thinking Outside The Box” — Help Me Find More

The Best Video Clips On The Benefits Of Writing Well — Help Me Find More

The Best Teaching Resources For The Movie, “Coco”

The Best Resources For Teaching About The Black Panther Movie

The Best Resources – Critical & Positive – For Teaching With “Moana”

THE BEST FUN VIDEOS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN 2018 – PART TWO

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2018 – So Far

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2017 – Part Two

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2017 – So Far

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2016 – Part Two

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2016 – So Far

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2015 – Part Two

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2015 – So Far

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2014 – Part Two

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2014 – Part One

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2013 – Part Two

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2013 — So Far

The Best Funny Videos Showing The Importance Of Being Bilingual Or Multilingual — Part One

The Best Pink Panther Fight Scenes For English Language Learners

The Best Videos Illustrating Qualities Of A Successful Language Learner

The Best Sports Videos To Use With English Language Learners

The Best Video Clips Of Sneaky Critters

The Best Videos Showing “Thinking Outside The Box” — Help Me Find More

The Best Fun Videos To Teach Language Conventions — Help Me Find More

The Best Funny Videos To Help Teach Grammar – Help Me Find More

The Best Christmas Videos For English Language Learners – Help Me Find More

The Best Random Acts Of Kindness Videos

The Best “Around The World” Videos

The Best Videos Showing The Importance Of Asking Good Questions.

The Best Videos To Help Students Visualize Success

The Best Videos & Articles Where Athletes Explain How Reading & Writing Well Has Helped Their Career – Help Me Find More

The Best Posts & Videos On “Hope” — Help Me Find More

The Best Music Videos Of “What A Wonderful World”

The Best Videos For Teaching & Learning About Figurative Language

The Best Videos About The Importance Of Practice – Help Me Find More

A Very Beginning List Of “Best” Videos Using Emotion To Manipulate – Please Suggest More

The Best Videos For Educators In 2018 – Part Two

The Best Videos For Educators In 2018 – So Far

The Best Videos For Educators In 2017 – So Far

The Best Videos For Educators In 2016 – Part Two

The Best Videos For Educators In 2016 – So Far

The Best Videos For Educators In 2015 – Part Two

The Best Videos For Educators In 2015 – So Far

The Best Videos For Educators In 2014 – Part Two

The Best Videos For Educators In 2014 – So Far

The “All-Time” Best Videos For Educators

The Best Videos For Educators In 2013 – Part Two

The Best Videos For Educators In 2012 — Part Two

The Best Videos For Educators In 2012 — Part One

The Best Videos For Educators In 2011

Part Two Of The Best Videos For Educators — 2010

The Best Video Clips Showing That Working Together Can Help You Accomplish More Than Working Alone – Help Me Find More

The Best Teacher Resources For “TED Talks” (& Similar Presentations)

The Best Resources On Ferdinand The Bull

The Best Video Clips Showing Examples Of Bad & Good Listening – Contribute More!

THE BEST FUN VIDEOS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN 2019 – PART ONE

BEST VIDEOS FOR EDUCATORS IN 2019 – PART ONE

THE BEST FUN VIDEOS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN 2019 – PART TWO

BEST VIDEOS FOR EDUCATORS IN 2019 – PART TWO

THE FOUR BEST TOOLS FOR TAKING EXISTING VIDEOS & MAKING THEM INTERACTIVE FOR ONLINE LEARNING

THE BEST FUN VIDEOS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN 2020 – PART ONE

BEST VIDEOS FOR EDUCATORS IN 2020 – PART ONE

THE BEST FUN VIDEOS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN 2020 – PART TWO

THE BEST VIDEOS FOR EDUCATORS IN 2020 – PART TWO

THE BEST FUN VIDEOS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN 2021 – PART ONE

BEST VIDEOS FOR EDUCATORS IN 2021 – PART ONE

BEST VIDEOS FOR EDUCATORS IN 2021 – PART TWO

THE BEST FUN VIDEOS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN 2021 – PART TWO

THE FOUR BEST TOOLS FOR TAKING EXISTING VIDEOS & MAKING THEM INTERACTIVE FOR ONLINE LEARNING

MAYBE – OR MAYBE NOT – THE BEST TOOLS FOR CREATING YOUR OWN TEACHING VIDEOS

Here Are Video Clips For New SEL Lessons – Help Me Find More

Best Videos For Educators In 2022 – Part One

The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2022 – Part One

THE BEST MOVIES TO SHOW ELL NEWCOMERS – CONTRIBUTE YOUR OWN SUGGESTIONS!

And here are some useful non-Best-list posts:

Great Clip From “Lady Bird” On A Growth Mindset

Here Are Video Clips For New SEL Lessons – Help Me Find More

USING “A MILLION MILES AWAY” AS AN SEL OPPORTUNITY

     

So Cool! Stephen King Is Offering Nine-Day Writing Residencies To K-12 Teachers & Retired Teachers

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Thanks to Michael Pershan, I learned about nine-day writing residencies in Maine that Stephen King is offering to K-12 teachers and retired teachers.

Check it out!

     

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