The next ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival will be published on July 1st with the theme: Possible Futures: The future vision of all kinds of English Language Education.

Sharon Turner will be hosting it, and she’s posted more information at her blog.

You can submit your post by June 15th directly to Sharon at sharonzspace@gmail.com .

Dani Lyra recently published an excellent Blog Carnival highlighting contributions on these two themes:

Critical Thinking and EFL/ESL

Using Technology to Raise Cultural Awareness

Let me know if you might be interested in hosting future editions.

You can see all the previous editions of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival here.

Edublogs is inviting educators to take a short State of Educational Use of Blogs 2012 Survey.

It doesn’t matter what blogging platform you use, and it seems to me that survey results could be very helpful and interesting.

It only takes a couple of minutes to complete.

I gave my other blog, Engaging Parents In School, a new look.

All feedback is welcome.

Dani Lyra has posted specific info on the upcoming May 1st Edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival!

It will have two themes:

Critical Thinking and EFL/ESL

Using Technology to Raise Cultural Awareness

You can read more details at her post.

Either post your submissions at her Carnival post, or you can send them to me.

Adam Simpson posted the 27th Edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival. It’s filled with excellent posts where teachers are describes lessons when their students were in the state of “flow” — when they were completely absorbed in what they were doing.

Sharon Turner will be the host for the July 1st edition.

Let me know if you might be interested in hosting future editions.

You can see all the previous editions of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival here.

The March 1st edition will be hosted by Adam Simpson. You can read about his plans for it at his post, Introducing the 27th Blog Carnival. Instead of using the submission form we’ve used in the past, just send the link to your post directly to him or to me.

Here’s what Adam is using as his theme:

What I’m looking for in your entries for the next blog carnival are those moments in your class when the students were utterly absorbed by the task in which they were involved.

Dani Lyra will be hosting the May 1st edition.

Sharon Turner will be the host for the July 1st edition.

Let me know if you might be interested in hosting future editions.

You can see all the previous editions of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival here.

David Deubelbeiss has posted the last Carnival, The 26th EFL / ESL / ELL Blog Carnival.

My Teacher Leaders Network David B. Cohen has just published an interview with me over at the Accomplished California Teachers blog. You might find it useful/interesting. Here’s one short excerpt:

My greatest cause for concern is seeing so many so-called “reformers” — an enormous number of them having little or no direct experience in the classroom — wanting to push non-evidence based changes on our students and us teachers.  We are not test tubes to be experimented on….

And, if you’re interested, I’m adding it to A List of Interviews With…Me.

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Feedblitz generally does a good job delivering daily updates of posts from this blog, but many subscribers didn’t receive one on Sunday.

If you didn’t get one, you might want to check the blog directly to see some posts you missed. Quite a few new ones appeared on Saturday. Sorry for the technology snafu.

How Do We Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column.

Feel free to leave your responses either there or in the comments section here.

As I posted last week, the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival that was going to be posted on January 1st is now going to be published on February 1st. The previously announced schedule for the rest of the year should be fine, though.

We’ve received all the submissions that have come in so far. However, the Blog Carnival site we’ve been using for the past few years seems to be acting a bit strangely these days.

So, if you have a post you’d like to still submit to this Carnival — remember, the theme is “Fun!” — please submit it by using either David Deubelbeiss’ contact form or mine.

The next EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival will be posted on January 1st, so there are only a few days left to contribute a post! David Deubelbeiss from EFL Classroom 2.0 will be the host. This is how David describes the theme:

The theme for this blog carnival is FUN. Submit any blog post, past or present, that really exhibits the power and potential of FUN in the classroom.

He’s got some interesting plans for the Carnival, and you can read about them here.

You can contribute a post to it by using this easy submission form. If the form does not work for some reason, you can send the link to me via my Contact Form. You can also communicate directly with David.

Berni Wall published the 25th Edition of EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival. She asked for teachers to contribute the most popular posts from their blogs and, boy, did she get them. It’s filled with gems!

The March 1st edition will be hosted by Adam Simpson. You can read about his plans for it at his post, No, don’t stop the carnival.

Dani Lyra will be hosting the May 1st edition.

Let me know if you might be interested in hosting future editions.

You can see all the previous editions of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival here.

Though I’ll still be publishing daily posts, I’ll be taking a bit of a break over the next couple of weeks.

School’s out this Friday, and I have some book projects and articles to finish, not to mention taking a little family time.

I hope your holiday break is restful and fun!

The winners of the Edublog Awards were announced tonight, and you can see a full list here.

It’s an impressive group! Many are new to me, so I’ll certainly be checking-out quite a few of them over the coming weeks….

Congratulations to all the winners, to everyone who made the “short lists” and to all nominees!

Classroom Management Suggestions — Part Three is the title of my new post at Education Week Teacher.

I think readers might find it useful.

Voting in the Edublog Awards is open until the end of Tuesday but, more importantly, the Edublog Awards Live Online Ceremony is taking place on December 14th at 4:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.

You can get all the details here.

I look forward to it each year because it’s a lot of fun to connect simultaneously with so many people whose tweets and blogs I read.

Unfortunately, because of a prior commitment, this year I’ll only be online for the first twenty minutes. I’d encourage you to check it out!

And, if you’re still interested in voting and are interested in seeing who I nominated, you can read this prior post.

I just realized that my Education Week Teacher blog, Classroom Q & A With Larry Ferlazzo, made the short list of nominees for The Best New Blog category of the Edublog Awards.

There are a lot of great-looking new blogs on the list worth checking-out.

Voting for mine is fine, but leaving an education related question in the comments section that I can answer there is even better!