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My Best Posts That Appeared In August
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): Great Summary Of Research On Writing Instruction Would Be A Good Focus For Professional Development Third Edition Of “The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide” Is Done & Will Be Out Early Next Year! Review Of Research Suggests Reciprocal Teaching Could Be Best Strategy For Older Readers Excellent Series Of Reflective Questions For Students & Teachers Alike I TRY To Keep On Top Of English Language Learner Research In These Four Ways Classroom Before The First Day Of School Though, This Time, It’s My Grandson’s! Yet Another Study Finds That Human Connection & Relationships Are Key In Schooling “Teachers as Improvisers” Is A Post Worth Reading Two New, Important, & Useful Documents On Student Motivation Join Me At A Free Sept. 29th Webinar On Supporting ELL Students’ Sense Of Belonging As Educators Warned Years Ago, Lots Of Teachers Are Leaving The Classroom Amazing Interactive Compares 2,300 “Essential English Vocabular Words” From 1953 To Now “Finlingo” MIGHT Be A Decent Option For A Financial Literacy Program “Is Teaching an Art or a Science?” “How Has the ‘Science of Reading’ Impacted English Learners?” “School Superintendents, Don’t Neglect Any of Your Stakeholders” “From the Mouths of Teachers: Sage Advice in Six Words or Less” “Relationships With Students Can Go Wrong. How Teachers Can Right Them”
     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: Boomerang lets you transfer large files. I’m adding it to THE BEST TOOLS FOR SENDING LARGE FILES. American Prairie Live offers webcams from different…prairies. I’m adding it to The Best “Sound Maps” & Webcams For Teaching Geography. Obooko offers a zillion free ebooks. I’m adding this post to The Best Posts & Articles Highlighting Why We Need To Be Very Careful Around Ed Tech:
I’m adding this video to A Beginning List Of The Best Resources For Learning About Google Classroom (which has to be completely updated and revised when I have time)   Today Is International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances – Check Out The Music Video “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” CDD20 / Pixabay
Here’s how Playing For Change introduces this video: We are proud to share our new Song Around The World, “I Still Haven’t Found What I´m Looking For,” by U2, to send a message to the relatives of missing people in the world: you are not alone in the search of your loved ones. This is a joint project by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Playing For Change in honor of the International Day of the Disappeared. This video features over 40 extraordinary musicians from 13 countries who played several instruments and combined their magnificent voices. In the world, each day, dozens of people disappear for diverse causes related to armed conflicts, violence, natural disasters and on the migration route, among others. Some of their families have had no news of their missing loved ones for more than 20 years. Together, and through music, we would like to express our solidarity to those who are facing the profound and universal feeling of losing a loved one. The families of missing people will not stop searching, nor will we stop helping them. 
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I don’t think you’re going to find a better short-and-sweet summary of the research on writing instruction than Ed Research For Action’s EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES FOR TEACHING WRITING IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL. In two-and-a-half pages, it reviews, with lots of linked citations: Why does writing matter for secondary students? Evidence-Based Practices Practices To Avoid
If I was still in the classroom, I’d propose to my colleagues that we spend an hour reviewing and discussing it. I’m adding it to THE BEST REVIEWS OF WHAT RESEARCH SAYS ABOUT EFFECTIVE WRITING INSTRUCTION.  More Recent Articles
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