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My Best Posts That Appeared In June
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): Jalen Brunson On The Role Of Failure In Achieving Success Useful Lessons For Teaching About Native American Boarding Schools Yet Another Study Finds That “Controlling Teachers” Are Not The Best Ones Four Interactive Maps Highlighting Books With Authors Or Plots From Each Country The “Situation-Behavior-Impact” Feedback Model Could Be Useful In The Classroom Here’s What A Recent Meta-Analysis On Reading Instruction Found “Kids Tales” Looks Like A Good Free Site For Beginning Readers Video: Official World Cup Song Would Be Great For ELLs – & All Other Students, Too! This Short Piece On Student Engagement Is Worth Reading & Would Be Worth A Faculty Discussion No, Virginia, Banning Student Cellphones Is Not A Magical Solution, But It Can’t Hurt Google Is Getting Closer & Closer To Star Trek’s Universal Translator & It Upped Its Game Today I Like These Strategies For Dealing With AI When Students Are Writing Essays Does History “Rhyme” For Student Test Scores As It Does For Many Other Events District Superintendents, Principals & Teachers Might Want To Consider Emulating Coach Mike Brown Wemby’s Post-Game Interview Is Made-To-Order For An SEL Lesson I Had Thought My Wearing Ties Everyday Helped Students; Research Says It Helped Me, Too Our Next Book, “The Better Teacher’s Toolbox,” Will Be Out Next Month! “Cool History Games” Is A Nice Collection Of … History Games “My AI Toolkit: Studio” Is An Exceptional Resource For ELL Teachers “Students Don’t Want to Read? Try Graphic Novels, Teachers Advise” “Immigrant Student Enrollment Is Falling. How Should Schools Respond?” “Student Agency Inspires Learning. Here Are 8 Ways to Foster It”      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: To be Black and fight for America is to know that America may not fight for you. “The real Luddites are anti-technology being used to exploit people. A Luddite asks: ‘What are the implications of this technology? How is it going to impact society?'” Anytime someone tries to tell you that “we just can’t afford” to do something in education – make tuition free or make classes smaller or put more teachers in special education classrooms or provide real, material resources for families – you are welcome to point to this whole “AI” tomfoolery and ask why we think we can afford that. You cannot accountability-pressure your way to better educational outcomes when chronic absenteeism has skyrocketed, misbehavior is common, students are disengaged and skeptical that school prepares them for the lives they want to lead, and teachers feel not just tired but stripped of the professional trust that makes the work meaningful. California’s public schools have been shrinking for nearly a decade, and new research suggests the decline is in large part fueled by a drop in the number of multilingual students in the state’s schools One of the most important interruptions you can make in someone’s day is to catch them doing something well and then tell them. How likely is it that students can skip a four-year degree and make a good living or achieve “economic mobility?” The short answer is it’s certainly possible, but the odds are stacked against workers without degrees. See The Best Resources For Showing Students Why They Should Continue Their Academic Career The AI didn’t break our pedagogy; it merely revealed that the pedagogy was already broken. In the first nine months of 2025, ICE operations led to at least 668,000 lost jobs across 86 US metropolitan areas. According to George Orwell, there’s a simple reason authoritarian cultural campaigns can’t last: They assume that history can be “created rather than learned,” he wrote in a 1947 Atlantic essay, and this produces superficial literature, unstable and fleeting. See THE BEST – & MOST INTERESTING – RESOURCES FOR STUDYING HISTORY Gallup polling shows that most Americans now feel the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be disappointed with how the U.S. has turned out, a substantial increase from 25 years ago. See The Best Resources For Helping Teach About The 250th Anniversary Of The American Revolution According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the total hours worked by U.S. teachers each year is approximately 1,900—more than teachers in any other country except Chile, where the average is 1,971. The core intellectual work of teaching is noticing why a child’s understanding breaks down and then knowing what to do. For a generation, the reform coalition took its validation from economists and accountability metrics, while treating parents, students and communities as mere functionaries rather than partners in a shared civic enterprise.
 The Fourth Of July Is Coming Up – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources Free-Photos / Pixabay
July 4th is coming up! You might be interested in The Best Websites For Learning About The Fourth Of July.
 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: How Schools Can Help Students Moderate Their Social Media Use (DOWNLOADABLE) is from Education Week. Remote For Slides lets multiple people advance a Google Slides show, great for when you’re doing a webinar on Zoom with multiple panelists. The Classroom Tech Backlash (Ruth Reader) appeared in Larry Cuban’s blog.
Virtual Vacation takes on on lots of virtual tours around the world. I’m adding it THE BEST TOOLS FOR TAKING STUDENTS “AROUND THE WORLD” Sentence Shuffler does what it says. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Creating Sentence Scrambles.  This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom geralt / Pixabay
At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM:
A GUIDE TO AI IN SCHOOLS: Perspectives for the Perplexed is from MIT, and Tony Vincent has set it up in NotebookLM if you don’t want to read the whole thing. Yourscape uses AI to create Escape Rooms. I’ve written in the past how I use these to help teach English (see Using Online “Point-And-Click Escape The Room” Games With ELLs; Another Gift From My Peer Tutors: Video Game Walkthroughs That Are Great For ELLs; and This Is Pretty Creative: Using Online “Escape The Room” Games To Teaching Scientific Reasoning. Piperead is an AI-powered book recommendation tool that seems a lot better than others I’ve seen. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Get Blog, Website, , Book, Movie, & Music Recommendations. TubeTranscript provides a…transcript of any YouTube video. Unlike most similar tools, this one breaks it into segments which makes it more readable. InfoGenie uses AI to create infographics. I’m adding it to The Best AI Tools For Creating Visuals & Infographics. Check out Free AI Tools for Everything.
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