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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).

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):

I’ll Be Presenting At San Francisco “Learning & The Brain” Conference — Here Are Supporting Resources

‘Character Should Be An Integrated Element Of Education’

Here’s My Teacher Model For Instagram Video “Book Trailers” Students Will Be Making

It’s That Time Of Year Again: Here’s How My Ninth-Graders Evaluated The Class & Me

The Power Of A Phone Call Home

Testing On The Brain

From The Archives: “Five ways to get kids to want to read and write”

BBC Launches Exhaustive Interactive World War I Resource

“The Education Department’s strange new report on teaching”

Funny Video: Do We Teach Like Dogs Or Like Cats?

Home Culture Presentations With English Language Learners

New US Dept. of Ed Finds That “Less Effective Teaching” Responsible For 2-4 Percent Of Achievement Gap

“Keys To Parent Engagement – Relationships, Climate, Communication”

You Can Read About An Excellent ELL Speaking Activity At My New British Council Blog

Two Must-Visit Resources: 40 More Maps AND 40 Charts “That Explain The World”

From The Archives: “Positive, Not Punitive, Classroom Management Tips”

More “What If?” History Projects — Plus, What Students Thought Of Them….

NEA Announces Online Lesson Project

“Parents Can Teach Educators ‘Lessons About Learning and Life’”

TED Talks Unveils TED-Ed Clubs For Students

My New BAM! Radio Show Is On The Air & First Episode Is On “Flipping” Classrooms

My Latest NY Times Post: Learning Prepositions & Using Badly Translated Signs For Language Learning

Resources From All My Blogs

This Translator Map Is A Cool Way To Teach European Geography & More

From The Archives: “Cultivating Student Leadership”

“Parent Engagement Requires ‘Trust, Not Blame’”

Gates Foundation Makes Its Move In California — And It Looks Like Somebody Is Giving Them Good Advice

From The Archives: “Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching”

“Listening To Parents With Our Heads And Hearts”

Must-Read Article About A Must-Read Study: “Can Upward Mobility Cost You Your Health?”

earning About Tamales, Holiday Food Traditions & Three Kings Day

Interesting Infographic: “The Most Important Developments In Human History”

From The Archives: “Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, Say, and Do”

Here’s What I’m Having My ELL Geography Students Do As Their Semester “Final”

From The Archives: The Best Post I’ve Ever Written…

“Gibbon” Is An Easy Tool For Creating Internet Scavenger Hunts

“Simon’s Cat” Videos Are Perfect For English Language Learners

Yay! PBS Unveils Third In Series Of Best Online U.S. History Games Out There

‘Flipped Learning Makes Teachers More Valuable’

My “Nine educated education predictions for 2014!” Published At Wash. Post — Here Are Some Additions

“What school reformers can learn from Pope Francis”

From The Archives: “The best kind of teacher evaluation”