Here are links to articles I’ve written:

• 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