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 my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.

These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly “Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.

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):

• New Online U.S. History Game Goes Online Today
• I Didn’t Know That “The Language Guide” Had Interactive Exercises
• “Let’s Play ‘History As A List’” Is A Fascinating Idea
• “You Are Your Words”
• “Describe What It Means To Be A Great Teacher In Six Words”
• Who Is Saul Alinsky?
• “What Was There” Is A Neat Look At The Past
• “The Five-by-Five Approach to Differentiation Success”
• “Simple Booklet” Back Online
• My Ed Week Teacher Column & Article On Differentiation
• If You Like Libraries, You’ll Love This Video!
• Data Gone Wild
• 2Lingual Could Be A Very Useful Search Engine
• The Right (& Wrong) Ways To Get Student Feedback On Our Teaching
• Banning Books In Tucson
• Some New Social Media Guides
• What Books Do At Night When We’re Not Looking
• Highlights Of Twitter Chat With Daniel Pink
• My Guest NY Times Column Today — “Helping Students Motivate Themselves”
• “clubEFL” Is A Fantastic Site For EFL/ESL Teachers & Students
• “let some of the players with lower batting averages go”
• Hot Spot Interview — Report From Russia
• “This is, quite possibly, the best New York Times correction in history”
• My Most Popular Ed Week Teacher Advice Columns In 2011
• I Gotta’ Wonder Why Obama Talks So Much More About South Korean Schools Than Ones In Finland…
• Here’s Another Reason Why We Need To Be Data-Informed & Not Data-Driven
• Wow! “Lessons On American Presidents” Is A Great New Site
• My New Huffington Post Piece
• Standardized Testing & Creative Thinking
• This Is A Good Example Of Being A Bad Instructional Coach
• The “Three Good Things Exercise”
• “Ways To Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process”

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 my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.

These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly “Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.

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):

• “Speak And Spell” Looks Like An Excellent New Site
• Videos Of Students Celebrating Making Mistakes
• You Can Watch A Recording Of My Webinar (& Download Hand-Outs)
• “Classroom Management Suggestions — Part Three”
• Amazing Listening Exercises For ELL’s
• Hilarious Video!
• Oxford Owl Is Great For Reading & Math
• CNN’s “Explain It To Me” Videos Are Great!
• I Like This Interpretation Of “The Hawthorne Effect”
• BBC Learning For Adults Is A Treasure Trove
• NEA Announces “New Action Agenda”
• Sorry, Professors: Deliberate Practice Matters
• “Several Classroom Management Suggestions — Part One”
• “We Should Celebrate Mistakes”
• “How a Few Bad Apples Ruin Everything”
• Create A Fake Conversation With Siri
• I Love This Article! “The 5 Best Toys of All Time”
• The Best (and Worst) Education News of 2011
• There Are Now 816 “The Best…” Lists
• “Several Ways Teachers Can Create A Supportive Environment For Each Other”
• Sage Life Advice — Via David Brooks?
• Thoughts On Today’s NY Times Column By Carol Dweck
• What Was The Best Education-Related Book You Read This Year?

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 my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.

These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly “Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.

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):

• “Icarus & School Reform”

• “Reading fiction can strengthen your social ties & even change your personality”

• “Loose Leaves” Is Another Easy Way to Write Online — Without Registration

• Interview Of The Month — Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

• Moonwalking Birds Video

• Excellent New Edutopia Resource On Brain-Based Learning

• What Can We Learn About Classroom Management From Abraham Lincoln?

• “Useful Charts”

• Want To Join My Students In Redesigning Their Report Card?

• I Like “Themeefy”

• “When Students Focus On Tests, They Are Not Taking The Time To Think About Why They Are Learning”

• Reminder About Free Resources From My “Helping Students Motivate Themselves” Book

• “Several Ways To Tell The Difference Between Good & Bad Education Research”

• “Parent Trigger R.I.P.”

• Another Amazing Video Taken From The International Space Station

• “How Does Our Brain Learn New Information?”

• Ask A Question, Any Question, About Education…

• Most Big Cable Companies Agree To Provide Low-Cost Internet To Low-Income Students

• “Several Ways To Teach Critical Thinking Skills”

• A “Must-Read” Column On Educational Technology

• “How Many Slaves Work For You?”

• “APPitic” Looks Impressive

• Amazing Bird Formations

• I Like “Reading Bear”

• Book Trailers From My Class

• 25th Edition of EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival Just Published!

• “Can Teachers Be Friends With Students Using Social Media?”

• An Effective Five-Minute Lesson On Metacognition

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 my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.

These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly “Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.

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):

• This Is The Best Lesson Plan On Punctuation I’ve Ever Read

• Interview Of The Month — Larry Cuban

• Wow, Storify Has Just Made Some Great Changes!

• “Part Two — Can Teachers Be Friends With Students?”

• Empedia

• “Response: Can Teachers Be Friends With Students? — Part One”

• Very Thoughtful Report On Issues Around Teacher Seniority

• More Research Showing Why Inductive Learning Works

• Daniel Pink On Grades, Autonomy & Inquiry

• Easily Create Animations With “Disapainted”

• This Will Be A GREAT Project For ELL Students!

• “Why schools should not grade character traits”

• “SAS Curriculum Pathways” Looks Like A Winner

• “Criminal Penguins”

• “Several Ways To Respond To “Unpredictable” Student Behavior”

• Uh Oh, Harvard Goal Study Is An “Urban Legend”

• “In giving up a little control, Jobs found a lot more power”

• “The Benjamin Franklin Effect” In The Classroom

• “Standardized Test Critiques & Potential Alternatives”

• Another Fun Video For ESL/EFL

• “Ways The “Next Generation” Of Standardized Tests Should Treat ELL’s”

• “Live Minutes” Looks Like A Nice Collaborative Tool

• A Fun Video For English Practice

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 my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.

These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly “Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.

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):

• “Several Ways To Help Students Develop Self-Control”

• My Entire U.S. History Curriculum Online

• Sock Puppet Lollapalooza!

• Thoora Looks Good

• Great Resources For English Language Learners In Content Classes

• “Draw A Stickman” & Make Him Come To Life

• Chart on “Respecting Teachers” vs “Blaming Teachers”

• Simple, Great Chart To Show To All Students

• “Teach With, Not ‘To” The Test”

• Teachers & Parents Can Make A Difference With The “Little Things”

• Teens, Their Brains, & Working In Groups

• The School Reform Equivalent Of Playing “Mary Had A Little Lamb” With A Stradivarius

• Tons Of Free Resources From My Books

• What Are The Most “Engaging” Education Blogs, According To PostRank?

• “Thoughts On Grade Level Retention & Social Promotion”

• “Study Ladder” Looks Great!

• “Jeez, What Was Ron Clark Thinking?”

• Is A Noun More Powerful Than A Verb?

• Make Your Own “Dilbert” Comic Strip

• “Response: The Best Ways To Use Tech In The Classroom”

• This Is My Simple Three-Day Lesson On 9/11 — Can You Help Me Make It Better?

• This Is Why I’m Careful About Finding The Sources Of Quotations

• “Stories Unbound”

• But Will Secretary Duncan Listen To Her?

• A Must-See Site For Social Studies Teachers

• Interview With Superintendent Pam Moran On Instructional Coaching

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 back issues of those newsletters here and my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.

These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly “Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.

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):

• A Must-See Site For Social Studies Teachers

• 24th Edition of EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival Just Published

• Several Ways To Help Students Become Better Listeners

• Is This The Most Important Research Study Of The Year? Maybe

• My Newest Piece In The Washington Post

• “Dr. King Was A Man Who Never Met A Stranger”

• “Book Club It” Lets You Easily Create Online Book Discussion Groups

• This Is Why Our School is “Data-Informed” & Not “Data-Driven”

• “Response: Several Ways To ‘Motivate’ The Unmotivated To Learn”

• Shoutomatic Looks Good For Speaking Practice

• “Teacher Home Visits Are Important, But The Post’s Jay Mathews Misses The Point”

• The Picture Word Inductive Model In Science & Social Studies

• “Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength”

• “Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching”

• How Incentives Can Be Productive (But Not In The Way You Might Think)

• Motivation & Rewards

• “Channel.Me” Is Great For Website Annotation

• Nice Computer Tutorials In English And Spanish

• This Looks Cool — A Site Where Only Students Can Create Slideshows

• Wow! “Curiosity” From The Discovery Channel Looks Fantastic!

• Viewbix Lets You Make Easy “Interactive” Videos, But Is It Useful In The Classroom?

• Nice Civil War Simulation

• Self-Control & Working Memory

• “The Best Of Educational Leadership”

• More Info On Comcast’s Internet Service For Low-Income Students

• Learning Inductively Works…

• Answers To “What Are You Going To Do Differently Next Year?”

• “Conversations With The Earth” Is An Impressive New Smithsonian Site

• What Are Free Online Math Sites That Let Teachers Register “Classrooms” For Their Students?

As regular readers know, I post a list of my choices for the best posts from this blog at the end of each month. Up until a year ago, in addition to making a separate post about them, I manually added them to a page on my blog called Websites Of The Month.

For the past year, though, I’ve been taking a shortcut and just making the monthly posts available in a blog category I call “Top Ten” and not manually moving them over to the Websites of the Month blog page.

For some reason, though, there’s been a problem with some of those monthly compilations over the past year and the links in them may, or may not, work. If you’re searching through them and having some difficulties, the alternative is to look at the archives of my free monthly email newsletter. I also post my “best” choices there, and the links there all work.

I hope this post is not as confusing as I fear…

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 back issues of those newsletters here and my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.

These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly “Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.

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):

• New Study Says Ten Percent Of Committed Believers Is The “Tipping Point” — I’m Not Convinced
• What Are Good Inexpensive (& Simple!) Classroom Technology Tools?
• “Go Animate” & “Domo Animate” Update
• Summarizing Books In One Picture
• Interview Of The Month — Bill Ferriter
• The Art And Value Of Compromise
• What A Great Video To Get Students To Think More Carefully About Their Writing…
• Could This Put The Final Nail In Merit Pay’s Coffin? (We Can Only Hope)
• “You Are Not An Equation” (And Neither Are Your Students)
• Collective Punishment In The Classroom
• What Should Teachers Be Doing During Student “Free Voluntary Reading” Time?
• Really Impressive “State Of The Internet 2011″ Interactive Infographic
• Emphasizing Pride, Not Shame, In Classroom Management
• How My Theory Of Knowledge Students Evaluated The Class & Me This Past Year
• The People Who Want To Get Rid Of Tenure & Say Teacher Experience Isn’t That Important Should Read This Interview
• Learn English & Gain A 25% Salary Increase
• Contribute A Post To The Next ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival
• If This Isn’t A Great Reason To Do Teacher Action Research And/Or To Write A Blog, I Don’t Know What Is…
• Slidestaxx Is A New Tool For Online Slideshows
• Whenever You’re Tempted To Use Punishment As A Classroom Management Tool, Remember This Comic Strip
• “Not everything that matters can be measured”
• Knovio Makes Creating An Audio/Visual Web Presentation As Easy As Pie
• Here’s A Comic Strip To Help Teach The Concept Of “Confirmation Bias”
• New Education Data Source From ProPublica
• Video Book Trailers
• “If Students Believe That A Teacher Has Taught Them Everything, They Will Be Less Motivated To Explore”

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 back issues of those newsletters here and my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.

These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly “Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.

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):

• Wow, This Is Really Useful: A Bloom’s Taxonomy For Student Reflection

• “Best picks for 21st century teaching and learning”

• I Don’t Like “Accountability”

• Have Some Time This Summer? Here Are 7,000 TEDx Videos You Can Watch

• New Study Says Freedom & Autonomy More Important Than Money (& Classroom Incentives?)

• Using Storify For “Poverty Matters When…”

• Becoming What We Read

• eBook Version of “Helping Students Motivate Themselves” Now Available

• Recording Now Available Of “Helping Students Motivate Themselves” Interview

• Follow-Up To “How My Ninth-Grade English Classes Evaluated Me This Year”

• Excellent Resources For Beginning & Intermediate English Language Learners

• How My Ninth-Grade English Classes Evaluated Me This Year

• This Seems Like A Pretty Easy Way To Practice Speaking….

• What Do Immigrants Bring With Them?

• Making Book Trailers With Fotobabble

• You Can Continue To Make Music With Les Paul’s Google Doodle Beyond Yesterday…

• A Couple Of Useful Bloom’s Taxonomy Videos

• Dan Ariely On Pay For Performance

• My New Piece At Huffington Post

• This Is Such A Useful “How To” Video On Creating “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories

• Here’s A Video On Self-Control I’m Showing My Students First Thing Next Week

• The Best Short Summary I’ve Seen Of Daniel Pink’s Book, “Drive”

• I Think educaplay Is A Winner!

• Shortcuts, School Reform & Private Foundation

• “Carrots and sticks: Procrastination fix?”

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 back issues of those newsletters here and my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.

These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly “Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.

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):

1. Videos On Making Good PowerPoint Presentations

2. What I’m Teaching Next School Year

3. Extraordinary “What If?” Student Project

4. What Does Learning From Mistakes Do To Your Brain?

5. “Many great innovators asked better questions than everyone else…”

6. What A Great Way To Get Comments On Student Blogs!

7. Might Some School Reformers Have Anything In Common With The Bahraini Monarchy?

8. “Turn-O-Phrase” Is A Fun Word Game For ELL’s

9. David Pogue’s “Big Book of Basic Technology Knowledge”

10. Wow, This Is A “Must-Read” Article On The Brain & Learning!

11. “Democracy Kids” Looks Very Accessible

12. Interesting “Take” On Why We Need Immigrants

13. Do Students Think Learning About Bloom’s Taxonomy Is Useful?

14. New Study Says Homework Has No Impact…Except In Math

15. Yale Makes 260,000 Images Available Online — With No Limitations On Their Usage

16. Surprise, Surprise! Study Says Cooperative Learning Is More Effective Than Lectures

17. “Relevance” & Student Learning

18. “Science On The Simpsons”

19. Wow! Web Doc Looks Really Neat!

20. Now, This Video Could Be A Fun Way To Introduce Personification

21. “Write About A Success That One Of Your Ancestors Had”

22. Why Is It Important For Students To Learn About Bloom’s Taxonomy?

23. “Print Friendly” Is A Good Tool For Printing Out Webpages

24. AOL Starts Super-Simple Video Chat Rooms

25. Interview Of The Month: James Farmer, Founder Of Edublogs

26. Wow! These Are Wild Visualizations Of Colors Across Cultures

27. “Lyrics Gaps” Is A Good Tool For ELL’s

28. My New Ed Week Article: “Finishing The Year Strong”

29. The Most Effective Thing I’ve Done To Prepare Students For Standardized Tests

30. “Involvement or Engagement?”

31. “What Can You Do To Stay Positive During The Last Seven Weeks Of School?”

32. Twenty-Third Edition Of The ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival Posted!