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Reminder – Join Us In A Short & Free Webinar On June 1st About Supporting ELLsClassroom 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: 10 Timeless Ways to Capture Attention and Engage Learners is from AJ Juliani. 13 Super-Quick Formative Assessments is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Formative Assessment.
     “12 Ways Administrators Can Support Teachers”12 Ways Administrators Can Support Teachers is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. Principals show they value well-being through leading by example. Here are some excerpts:
 George Floyd Was Murdered Six Years Ago On May 25th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
George Floyd was murdered six years ago. It was terrible, and Mr. Floyd was just one of many African-Americans who have been the victim of police violence. You might be interested in: HELPFUL RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT GEORGE FLOYD’S DEATH CLASSROOM LESSON IDEAS TO DISCUSS THE CHAUVIN VERDICT – PLEASE SUGGEST MORE New & Revised: A Collection Of Advice On Talking To Students About Race & Racism RESOURCES FOR TALKING WITH STUDENTS ABOUT THE BUFFALO MURDERS & “GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY” FOUR VIDEOS OFFERING REFLECTIONS FOUR YEARS AFTER GEORGE FLOYD’S MURDER
 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: When you got in trouble at Success or you’re trying to talk to a teacher to change a grade or why you were late to class, it’s never a conversation. It’s a monologue. As a businessperson-turned-teacher, I can’t emphasize enough that to talk of a “learning recession” in public schools is to beckon to the ideology of the free market and business methods that cannot be sensibly applied to K-12 schooling. See The Best Posts & Articles Explaining Why Schools Should Not Be Run Like Businesses Akwesasne Mohawk children, were being confined by special education teachers in wooden boxes. Students Haven’t Lost Focus. They’ve Lost the Reason to Care. The problem is not that motivation leads to achievement or that achievement leads to motivation. The research literature increasingly suggests that both processes influence each other continuously. The Trump administration, however, has shown nothing but contempt for the patient work of building durable power based on consensus, preferring the blitzkrieg of violence. Its choice to close the Office of English Language Acquisition is best understood, then, as another textbook case of the administration vowing to address a problem by trying less hard to solve it. A widely discussed working paper put out by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in 2024 warned of a worst-case scenario in which an abrupt fifteen-per-cent enrollment drop could lead to the closures of up to eighty colleges and universities, with the most pain being felt at small, regional private schools. Taking a broad view, it’s possible to argue that Britain won the American Revolutionary War. Immigration enforcement actions can lead to sustained increases in absenteeism among immigrant students, according to a new working paper from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. “Talent is not enough,” he said. “You need to put in the work, too.
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