“What Makes for Valuable Feedback? Teachers Weigh In”
What Makes for Valuable Feedback? Teachers Weigh In is the headline of my latest Education Week...
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Category: anniversaries
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Pins Of The Week
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 25,000 resources there that...
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Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
Eight years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from...
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My Most Popular Tweets Of The Month
I used to post weekly collections of my best tweets, and used Storify to bring them together....
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Great Student Video Vocabulary Contest At NY Times Learning Network
Each year, The New York Times Learning Network invites students to create a fifteen second video...
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Tons Of New Resources On ChatGPT & The Classroom
So much has been shared about ChatGPT and education over the past several weeks –...
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Rosa Parks Was Born On This Day In 1913 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
Rosa Parks was born on this day in 1913. You might be interested in Best Resources For...
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The Best Resources On Peer Tutors
I have written a lot about how we use peer tutors in my ELL classes. However, I’ve...
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Valentine’s Day Is Coming Up – Here Are A Ton Of Teaching & Learning Resources
Valentine’s Day is coming up soon! You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn...
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Here Are The Guidelines I Gave A Student Teacher For Teaching US History To ELLs
This year is the first time in seventeen years I am not an official collaborating teacher...
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This Week Is The Sixty-Third Anniversary Of The Greensboro Sit-Ins – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
February 1st was the anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins. As a local television station...
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A Look Back: Researchers Find – Again – That It’s Not All On Us Teachers
(I’m republishing my favorite posts from the second half of 2022) I’m...
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My Books
Practical resource with research-based instructional strategies to support all levels of Social Studies.
Practical resource with research-based instructional strategies to support all levels of English.
Creative instructional techniques to help middle- and high-school teachers develop self-motivated and high-achieving students.
Includes real-life examples of parental involvement initiatives: home visits, the use of technology and more!
Practical resource with research-based instructional strategies to support all levels of Math.
Designed to help teachers implement the Common Core in the ELL Classroom. Sequel to ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide.
Provides research-based instructional techniques which have proven effective with English learners at all proficiency levels.
Insightful research and strategies for helping students want to care more about school and learning with high interest lesson plans.
Practical resource with research-based instructional strategies to support all levels of Science.
Tips for helping students to motivate themselves. Includes steps and lesson plans to help students motivate themselves.
Q&A-style responses to a variety of pressing classroom-management and student-engagement questions.
Provides over 50 original lessons for English Language Learners with a five-step process to increase student achievement.
My Other work
My blog to support and follow-up my Engaging parents in school book.
My Bam Radio show.
My posts for Classroom Q & A with Larry Ferlazzo at Education Week Teacher.
My Teaching English British Council posts.
50 teaching practices divided into four main sections: autonomy, competency, relatedness, and relevance.
My education posts on the Learning Network for the New York Times.