Articles I’ve Written

Here are links to articles I’ve written:

• • • • • Teaching Is Organizing
        • Teaching Secrets: The Last Day Of School (free registration required to read)
        • Teaching Secrets: How to Use Leftover Class Time Wisely (free registration required to read)
        • Teaching Secrets: Going Home (free registration required to read)
        • ELL 2.0: How To Make The Most Of The Web (free registration required to read)
        • Giving Classrooms A Purpose
        • Getting English-Language Learners to Thrive
        • English Language Learners And The Power Of Personal Stories (The New York Times)
        • What Are Your New School-Year Resolutions?
        • Private Foundations Have a Place (& Have To Be Kept In Their Place)
        • Teacher Eyes On The Wrong Prize?
        • Let’s Do Less ‘Fire, Ready, Aim’
        • Being ‘Transactional’ Versus Being ‘Transformational’ in Schools
        • School Librarians And English Language Learners
        • Looking Beyond The Simple School Fix
        • What Do School Reform Technocrats and Failed Urban Renewal Schemes Have in Common?
        • Gates Foundation Minimizing Great Tools For Helping Teachers Improve Their Craft
        • The Best (and Worst) Education News of 2010
        • Education-Related Predictions for 2011
        • Videotaping teachers the right way (not the Gates way)
        • Freire’s Learning Sequence
        • Five Questions For Diane Ravitch
        • What ‘Star Wars’ Can Teach Educators About Parent Engagement
        • 5 Questions for an Exceptional Principal
        • Helping Students Motivate Themselves
        • Involvement or Engagement?
        • “Finishing the School Year Strong”
        • Shortcuts, School Reform and Private Foundations
        • Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching
        • Why schools should not grade character traits
        • The Best (and Worst) Education News of 2011
        • Education-Related Predictions for 2012 (Huffington Post)
        • 10 education predictions for 2012 (Washington Post)
        • Helping Students Motivate Themselves (New York Times)
        • The Five By Five Approach To Differentiation Success
        • Cultivating Student Leadership
        • Getting Organized Around Assets
        • Do’s & Don’ts For Teaching English Language Learners
        • Seven Tips for Building Positive Relationships with English Language Learners
        • Assessment & Reflection With ELLs—And All Students
        • Fostering Relationships in the Classroom
        • Using Games in the ELL Classroom, Part I
        • Using Games in the ELL Classroom, Part II
        • Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, Say, and Do
        • Using Photos With English Language Learners
        • Eight Ways to Use Video With English Language Learners
        • The best — and worst — education news of 2012
        • Why School Reform And Other Debates Get Nasty
        • Teacher: How my 9th graders graded me
        • Cultivating a Positive Environment for Students
        • Technology: Moving from No to Yes (Part One)
        • Giving Teachers the Opportunity to Say “Yes” to Ed Tech (Part Two)
        • Chart: Useful Summary Of The Differences Between Parent Involvement & Parent Engagement
        • Ethical and Effective Test Prep
        • Five ways to get kids to want to read and write
        • Positive, Not Punitive, Classroom Management Tips
        • More Positive, Not Punitive, Classroom Management Tips
        • Why we can’t all get along over school reform
        • Best and Worst Education News of 2013 — So Far
        • Getting students to engage — not just comply
        • Video: “Developing Leadership in Classrooms, Schools and Communities”
        • Developing Teacher Leadership for the Long Haul
        • Five key strategies to get/keep kids engaged at school
        • Teachers Should Be Friendly with Students but Not Friends
        • Best and worst education news of 2013
        • What school reformers can learn from Pope Francis
        • Nine educated education predictions for 2014!
        • The Education Department’s strange new report on teaching (reprints most, though not all, of a post I wrote for this blog)
        • English-Language Learners and Academic Language
        • The manipulation of Social Emotional Learning
        • Teaching Argument Writing to ELLs
        • The best and worst education news of 2014 — so far
        • Best and worst education news of 2014 — a teacher’s list
        • Nine education predictions for 2015
        • Help Your Students Get Into the Learning Flow
        • What Motivates A Student’s Interest in Reading and Writing
        • Creating the Conditions for Student Motivation
        • Strategies for Helping Students Motivate Themselves
        • The real stuff of schooling: How to teach students to apply knowledge
        • Why Viewing Classroom Management as a Mystery Can Be a Good Thing
        • Teachers: What we want everyone to know about working in our high-needs school
        • 5-Minute Film Festival: 8 Videos for ELL Classrooms
        • Best and worst education news of 2015 — a teacher’s list
        • Eight education predictions (and some wishful thinking) for 2016 — a teacher’s list
        • Common Core Writing and ELLs
        • Collaborative Writing, Common Core, and ELLs
        • Peer Review, Common Core, and ELLs
        • How to Cultivate Student Agency in English Language Learners
        • Ideas for “Close Reading” with ELL Students
        • Helping English-Learners Meet the Common-Core’s Speaking and Listening Standards
        • Chat Stations, Predictions, and ‘Wingmen’: More Speaking and Listening Activities for ELLs
        • Teacher: What happened when my students’ behavior took a ‘major turn for the worse’
        • Strategies for teaching the Common Core — no matter what you think about the standards
        • The best and worst education news in 2016 — so far.
        • ‘Dear President-elect Trump’: Immigrant students write letters asking for ‘the opportunity to demonstrate we are good people.’
        • The good — and very, very bad — education news of 2016
        • A teacher makes eight education predictions for 2017 — some of them dire
        • Student Engagement: Key to Personalized Learning
        • The best — and worst — education news of 2017
        • Nine education predictions for 2018 — some of them heartbreaking
        • Micro-Writing for English Learners
        • Activating Prior Knowledge With English Language Learners
        • Helping English-Learners End the School Year Strong
        • How to Use Oral Presentations to Help English Language Learners Succeed
        • How to Engage ELLs in Literary Conversations
        • Culturally Responsive Teaching in the ELL Classroom
        • 4 Fun Ways to Practice Short Oral Presentations
        • Teaching English Language Learners: Tips From The Classroom
        • How Recovering From A Herniated Disc Increased My Empathy For Students
        • The best — and worst — education news of 2018
        • A teacher makes 2019 education predictions — some he ‘desperately’ hopes won’t come true
        • The best and worst education news of 2019 — and one item hard to categorize
        • Research in Action: Ramping Up Support for Long-Term ELLs
        • A teacher makes 10 predictions for education in 2020 — some of them rather hopeful
        • A teacher assesses the past decade in K-12 education — and makes 9 predictions for the 2020s
        • A teacher predicts what his classroom (and others) will look like in the fall
        • We Might Have Gotten Remote Learning Wrong. We Can Still Fix This School Year
        • Teacher: Eight concerns about school this fall that are robbing me of sleep
        • The positively worst and best education news of 2020 — as viewed by a teacher
        • A teacher’s deepest fears about 2021: Students who disappeared, covid-19 myopia and six more
        • Teacher: What’s missing from calls for summer school to stem ‘learning loss’
        • Thirteen things that should happen in schools now — but most probably won’t
        • The kind of teaching kids need right now
        • The pandemic is affecting the third straight school year — and this teacher is very, very worried
        • Teacher: 10 things school districts should do right now
        • There was a lot of education news in 2021. Here’s the best and worst of it — by a veteran teacher
        • 9 mostly pessimistic education predictions for 2022 — from a teacher
        • Help Language Learners Lead Their Own Learning
        • Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Teaching
        • What Teachers Have Learned Since the Pandemic Closed Schools
        • How to Promote the Intrinsic Desire to Learn
        •  What Kinds of Feedback Motivate Students Best?
        • 3 Ways to Make Learning Relevant to Students
        • The Parent Trigger Does Not Help Schools Or Parents
        • “The Positive Impact Of English Language Learners At An Urban School”
        • The Best Kind Of Teacher Evaluation
        • Bribing students: Another ‘magical solution’ that doesn’t work
        • Merit Pay & “Loss Aversion” Nonsense Studies
        • Why Teachers – & Everyone Else – Should Ignore The Dancing Guy’s Leadership Advice
        • The Importance Of Being Unprincipled
        • Why schools should not grade character traits
        • What to do — and not do — for growing number of English Language Learners
        • Icarus & School Reform
        • Building Cathedrals In The ELL Classroom
        • The Michigan Fish Test & School Reform
        • Translanguaging: A Vital Tool for ELL Teachers

Though most of my Education Week columns feature contributions from other other educators, along with a few words from me, I sometimes primarily write or co-write the entire column. Here are some of those (I’ll add more when I have the time):

• With Trump in Office, Schools Should Ask Themselves These Questions
• 5 Urgent Classroom Issues for Teachers, According to Larry Ferlazzo
• 5 Things Teachers Need to Know, According to Larry Ferlazzo
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Student Motivation But Were Afraid to Ask
• 3 Ways to Make Learning Relevant to Students
• 8 1/2 Things That Have Been Working This Year & 6 That Haven’t
• The Best and Worst Education News of 2023
• Larry Ferlazzo’s 9 Education Predictions for 2024
• Larry Ferlazzo’s 9 Education Predictions for 2025
• The Best and Worst Education News of 2024
• When Teaching English Learners, Embrace These 3 Critical Mindsets
• 10 Actions Teachers Can Take Now That Trump Is President
• Trump’s Executive Orders Are Coming Fast. Here’s What Teachers Can Do
• 6 Pieces of Advice to My Grandson Entering a Teaching-Credential Program
• Advice for Beginning—and Veteran—Teachers
• Larry Ferlazzo: 10 Things I Will (and Won’t) Miss When I Retire
• Larry Ferlazzo’s 6 Reasons Why He Stayed at His School
• What Could Change Teachers’ Minds About Saying Goodbye?
• This Is the Most Effective Teaching Strategy I’ve Seen in 23 Years
• Larry Ferlazzo’s 10 Education Predictions for 2026
• “The Best and Worst Education News of 2025” 

Here are all my Edutopia articles in one place.

Here are all my ASCD articles in one place.

Here are all my Washington Post columns in one place.

Here are all my NY Times articles in one place.

Here are all my British Council posts in one place.