Here are links to articles I’ve written:
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- Building Cathedrals In The ESL Classroom
- Computers & Community Organizing in the ESL Classroom
- Computers, Relationships And English Language Learners
- Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There
- Family Literacy, Computers and ESL
- Favorite Education Game Sites
- Free Education Newsletters
- Games Students Can Play
- Home Computers & English Language Learning
- Keeping Up-To-Date On Web Resources
- More Free Email Newsletters
- Pointing & Clicking For ESL: Using Video Games To Promote English Language Development
- Samuel L. Jackson, My ESL Students And Me
- Shaking Up The ESL Classroom
- Teaching Is Organizing (Or Should Be)
- The Positive Impact Of English Language Learners At An Urban School
- What Do You Do In The Computer Lab?
- A “Good” Class Gone “Bad”…And Back To “Good” Again
- Online Learning Leverages Literacy To ELL Families
- Teaching Secrets: The Last Day Of School (free registration required to read)
- Parent Involvement Or Parent Engagement?
- 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)
- “Family Literacy, English Language Learners, and Parent Engagement”
- A Few Ways To Motivate Teachers To Use Tech
- Giving Classrooms A Purpose
- Getting English-Language Learners to Thrive
- English Language Learners And The Power Of Personal Stories (The New York Times)
- Home Visits And Hope For The Future
- What Are Your New School-Year Resolutions?
- The best kind of teacher evaluation (The Washington Post)
- How To Give Classrooms A Mission (The Washington Post)
- Why Paying Parents To Attend School Events Is Wrong (Washington Post)
- 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’
- The importance of being unprincipled
- Being ‘Transactional’ Versus Being ‘Transformational’ in Schools
- School Librarians And English Language Learners
- Looking Beyond The Simple School Fix (reprinted in Washington Post as Teachers: What we need to do to fix schools
- What Do School Reform Technocrats and Failed Urban Renewal Schemes Have in Common?
- The Parent Trigger Doesn’t Help Schools Or Parents
- 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
- Using Visuals To Teach Text (podcast & transcript)
- Super Book Of Web Tools For Educators (ESL chapter written by me)
- Five Questions For Diane Ravitch
- 4 Concerns About Michelle Rhee
- What ‘Star Wars’ Can Teach Educators About Parent Engagement
- 5 Questions for an Exceptional Principal
- The Michigan Fish Test and school reform
- Helping Students Motivate Themselves
- Helping Students Motivate Themselves (Washington Post version)
- Involvement or Engagement?
- “Finishing the School Year Strong”
- Shortcuts, School Reform and Private Foundations
- Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching
- What’s really wrong with ‘parent trigger’ laws
- Why schools should not grade character traits
- Icarus & School Reform
- 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
- Students Remember More When They Tell Stories
- Getting Organized Around Assets
- Do’s & Don’ts For Teaching English Language Learners
- Bribing Students: Another ‘Magical Solution” That Doesn’t Work
- Seven Tips for Building Positive Relationships with English Language Learners
- Assessment & Reflection With ELLs—And All Students
- Fostering Relationships in the Classroom
- Two Challenges in Teaching ELLs: Primary Language Use and Book Selection
- Merit Pay and “Loss Aversion” (Washington Post)
- Dancing Guy Doesn’t Teach Good Leadership Lessons
- What to do — and not do — for growing number of English Language Learners
- 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
- Using Tech to Teach English
- 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
- Apps, Apps Everywhere: Are Any Good, You Think?
- 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
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