Here are links to articles I’ve written:

• Building Cathedrals In The ESL Classroom
• Computers & Community Organizing in the ESL Classroom
• Computers, Relationships And English Language Learners
• Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There
• Family Literacy, Computers and ESL
• Favorite Education Game Sites
• Free Education Newsletters
• Games Students Can Play
• Home Computers & English Language Learning
• Keeping Up-To-Date On Web Resources
• More Free Email Newsletters
• Pointing & Clicking For ESL: Using Video Games To Promote English Language Development
• Samuel L. Jackson, My ESL Students And Me
• Shaking Up The ESL Classroom
• Teaching Is Organizing (Or Should Be)
• The Positive Impact Of English Language Learners At An Urban School
• What Do You Do In The Computer Lab?
• A “Good” Class Gone “Bad”…And Back To “Good” Again
• Online Learning Leverages Literacy To ELL Families
• Teaching Secrets: The Last Day Of School (free registration required to read)
• Parent Involvement Or Parent Engagement?
• Teaching Secrets: How to Use Leftover Class Time Wisely (free registration required to read)
• Teaching Secrets: Going Home (free registration required to read)
• ELL 2.0: How To Make The Most Of The Web (free registration required to read)
• “Family Literacy, English Language Learners, and Parent Engagement”
• A Few Ways To Motivate Teachers To Use Tech
• Giving Classrooms A Purpose
• Getting English-Language Learners to Thrive
• English Language Learners And The Power Of Personal Stories (The New York Times)
• Home Visits And Hope For The Future
• What Are Your New School-Year Resolutions?
• The best kind of teacher evaluation (The Washington Post)
• How To Give Classrooms A Mission (The Washington Post)
• Why Paying Parents To Attend School Events Is Wrong (Washington Post)
• Private Foundations Have a Place (& Have To Be Kept In Their Place)
• Teacher Eyes On The Wrong Prize?
• Let’s Do Less ‘Fire, Ready, Aim’
• The importance of being unprincipled
• Being ‘Transactional’ Versus Being ‘Transformational’ in Schools
• School Librarians And English Language Learners
• Looking Beyond The Simple School Fix (reprinted in Washington Post as Teachers: What we need to do to fix schools
• What Do School Reform Technocrats and Failed Urban Renewal Schemes Have in Common?
• The Parent Trigger Doesn’t Help Schools Or Parents
• Gates Foundation Minimizing Great Tools For Helping Teachers Improve Their Craft
• The Best (and Worst) Education News of 2010
• Education-Related Predictions for 2011
• Videotaping teachers the right way (not the Gates way)
• Freire’s Learning Sequence
• Using Visuals To Teach Text (podcast & transcript)
• Super Book Of Web Tools For Educators (ESL chapter written by me)
• Five Questions For Diane Ravitch
• 4 Concerns About Michelle Rhee
• What ‘Star Wars’ Can Teach Educators About Parent Engagement
• 5 Questions for an Exceptional Principal
• The Michigan Fish Test and school reform
• Helping Students Motivate Themselves
• Helping Students Motivate Themselves (Washington Post version)
• Involvement or Engagement?
• “Finishing the School Year Strong”
• Shortcuts, School Reform and Private Foundations
• Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching
• What’s really wrong with ‘parent trigger’ laws
• Why schools should not grade character traits
• Icarus & School Reform
• The Best (and Worst) Education News of 2011
• Education-Related Predictions for 2012 (Huffington Post)
• 10 education predictions for 2012 (Washington Post)
• Helping Students Motivate Themselves (New York Times)
• The Five By Five Approach To Differentiation Success
• Cultivating Student Leadership