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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).

You can also see my all-time favorites 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). There are a lot of them this month:

Download All Lesson Plans & Student Hand-Outs From Our ELLs & Common Core Book – For Free!

What Are Your Ideas For Incorporating the “Maker Movement” In Teaching English Language Learners?

Video: Bloom’s Taxonomy According To “Monsters Inc.”

Congressman John Lewis: “Sometimes you have to make a way out of no way”

Smithsonian Learning Labs Now Lets You Create Free Virtual Classrooms & Assignments

I Didn’t Learn Much From How Students Evaluated Me This Year, & Here’s What I’m Going To Try In The Future

Nice Review Of Our ELLs & Common Core Book

Ed Week Publishes Special Report: “Changing Practices In Writing Instruction”

Wealthiest Person In World Unveils Online Learning Platform

This Interactive Lets You Compare Different Types Of Map Projections

“Ways to Help ELLs Learn Pronunciation”

Dan Willingham Writes The Best Piece On “Grit” That I’ve Seen

Here’s My List Of “The Best Things You Can Do to Maximize the Chances of a Lesson Being Successful”

Excellent Advice From Dan Willingham On Students Listening To Music In Class

Study Says Just Taking One International Baccalaureate Class Has Powerful Impact

Atul Gawande On “A Mistrust Of Science”

“Classroom Rules – Ways to Create, Introduce & Enforce Them”

“What Makes Great Teaching” Seems Like An Excellent Report – With One Exception

You’ve Heard Of “Deeper Learning”? How About “Deeper Teaching”?

Teachers Can Try-Out New “Minecraft Education Edition” For Free This Summer

Paul Tough Puts Free Interactive Version Of His New Book Online

Study: “you want to speak to the brilliance, but you also need to speak to the struggle”

Wall St. Journal Publishes Coolest Hamilton Teaching Tool Yet

Calm Down, Everybody – Group Work & Class Discussions Can Work Just Fine

My Latest NY Times Interactive For ELLs Is On Reflecting About The School Year

Is “Emotional Granularity” The Next SEL Skill To Teach?

This Use Of A Venn Diagram For Poetry Is Brilliant & Hilarious

TOK Connection: “Pearls Before Swine” Does Another Version Of “Who’s On First?”

My Summer Reading List So Far – Light On Ed, Heavy On Bubblegum For The Brain. What’s On Yours?

“Making Grading Practices ‘Specific, Constructive & Timely’”

As More Schools Use VAM To Evaluate Teachers, Businesses Go In Opposite Direction

My Next Three Big Writing Projects

Hopeful Study On Academic Success, But I Have A Question

“Roots” Visualization Of Atlantic Slave Trade

“FoxType” Looks Like A Very Versatile Writing Site

‘Children Need Both Paper Books & Digital Texts’

How My University Students Evaluated Me Spring Semester

Here’s What My Theory Of Knowledge Students Will Be Doing For Their “Finals” – What Are You Doing?

Wash. Post Publishes Excerpt From Our Book on ELLs & The Common Core

Statistic Of The Day: Books Are Important

“Reading Digitally vs. Reading Paper”