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My Latest Posts

This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom

Sep 20, 2024

At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight...

I Discovered Another Excellent Way To Use AI – To Generate “Jigsaws” For ELLs About Current Events

Sep 20, 2024

I’m a big fan of the Jigsaw instructional strategy (see THE BEST RESOURCES FOR...

The Most Important Studies Showing That VAM For Test Scores Is Not The Be-All, End-All Of Schooling

I’m not a big fan of using Value Added Measurement (VAM) to evaluate teachers (and...

Sept. 27th Is World Tourism Day – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

The United Nations has declared September 27th to be World Tourism Day. You might be...

Infographic: “2023 Was the Warmest Year on Record – by a Record Margin”

I’m adding this infographic to The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change: You will...

Paulo Freire Was Born On This Day In 1921 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

You might be interested in Celebrate What Would Have Been Paulo Freire’s Birthday...

Bribing students: Another ‘magical solution’ that doesn’t work

I’m republishing about fifteen-or-twenty columns/articles I wrote for various publications...

Research Studies Of The Week

I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the...

Merit Pay & “Loss Aversion” Nonsense Studies

I’m republishing about fifteen-or-twenty columns/articles I wrote for various publications...

SEL Weekly Update

I’ve begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social...

Why Teachers – & Everyone Else – Should Ignore The Dancing Guy’s Leadership Advice

Beginning today, I’ll be republishing about fifteen-or-twenty columns/articles I wrote for...

My Books

Practical resource with research-based instructional strategies to support all levels of Social Studies.

Practical resource with research-based instructional strategies to support all levels of English.

Creative instructional techniques to help middle- and high-school teachers develop self-motivated and high-achieving students.

Includes real-life examples of parental involvement initiatives: home visits, the use of technology and more!

Practical resource with research-based instructional strategies to support all levels of Math.

Designed to help teachers implement the Common Core in the ELL Classroom. Sequel to ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide.

Provides research-based instructional techniques which have proven effective with English learners at all proficiency levels.

Insightful research and strategies for helping students want to care more about school and learning with high interest lesson plans.

Practical resource with research-based instructional strategies to support all levels of Science.

Tips for helping students to motivate themselves. Includes steps and lesson plans to help students motivate themselves.

Q&A-style responses to a variety of pressing classroom-management and student-engagement questions.

Provides over 50 original lessons for English Language Learners with a five-step process to increase student achievement.

My Other work

My blog to support and follow-up my Engaging parents in school book.

My Bam Radio show.

My posts for Classroom Q & A with Larry Ferlazzo at Education Week Teacher.

My Teaching English British Council posts.

50 teaching practices divided into four main sections: autonomy, competency, relatedness, and relevance.

My education posts on the Learning Network for the New York Times.