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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. I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series in anticipation of this blog’s tenth anniversary in February.

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:

“Learning Apps” Is One Of The Top Educational Websites Of The Year!

“Teachers Lose ‘Credibility’ if we Don’t Address ‘Controversial’ Topics”

A Look Back: Classroom Management Strategy: “Sometimes The Only Thing Worse Than Losing A Fight Is Winning One”

Here Are The Instructions I Give Mentors To Our ELLs – Help Me Make Them Better

“Common Core in Social Studies Looks Like ‘the Work of Historians’”

My Students Show How Punctuation Can Save Lives

Great Free Resource Available Today – The Performance Assessment Resource Bank

What My Students Say About Teachers Mispronouncing Their Names

Two Quick Examples Of Concept Attainment

A Look Back: Students Remember More When They Tell Stories

A Look Back: Cultivating Student Leadership

My New BAM! Radio Show Is On Helping Students Develop Self-Control

Statistic Of The Day: Many States Spending Less On Schools Now Than Before Recession

A Look Back: “Get Organized Around Assets”

Wow – What An Impressive Site On The Great Migration

“Dollar Street” Is Clearly One Of The Best Online Educational Resources Of The Year

A Look Back: “Helping Students Motivate Themselves”

StoryCorps & Upworthy Create Neat Video Series

A Look Back: Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, Say, and Do

“There is ‘Hope That ESSA Will Bring Positive Change To Classrooms’”

A Look Back: How To Recover From A Classroom Train Wreck….

A Look Back: Ducklings Video Demonstrates Great “Differentiated Instruction”

Winner Of Nobel Prize For Economics Opposes Teacher Merit Pay

“Metacognition Helps Students ‘Understand Their Gaps & How To Close Them’”

The Elephant In The Room In The Talent vs. Practice Debate

Round Two: How Much “Content” Knowledge Do You Really Need To Be An Effective Teacher?

A Report On EdSource Symposium On California Ed, Including What I Said About State Assessments

“Checkology” Looks Like A Good Classroom Tool To Promote News Literacy

“Drafting Board” Is A Good Interactive For Teaching Argument

“Vote Compass” Is An Interactive That Can Help Students Determine Their Position On Political Spectrum

“Caption Generator” Lets You Create Your Own Captions For Any YouTube Videos – Perfect For ELLs!

Here’s The Video TED-Ed SHOULD HAVE MADE About Henrietta Lacks

A Look Back: Alternatives To Collective Punishment

NameCoach Is Ingenious Tool For Helping Pronounce Student Names & It’s Free Through Colorin Colorado!

Excellent & Simple Three-Step Guide To Classroom Management Challenges

Here’s A Simple Lesson On Prehistoric Cave Paintings I Did With My ELL World History Class

A Look Back: What Can We Learn About Classroom Management From Abraham Lincoln?

“‘a Mistake is a Door to Discovery’”

Google Says They Just Achieved A Huge Breakthrough In Machine Translation

Resource Links For ELL Professional Development