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Nearly 90 Of My Videos About Instruction

  I’ve made many videos over the years, including quite a few animated ones with Education Week on differentiated instruction, learning transfer, and student motivation. You can see thirty of them all here. I’ve...

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My Books

The Social Studies Teacher's Toolbox

Practical resource with research-based instructional strategies to support all levels of Social Studies.

The ELL Teacher's Toolbox

Practical resource with research-based instructional strategies to support all levels of English.

Self Driven

Creative instructional techniques to help middle- and high-school teachers develop self-motivated and high-achieving students.

Parent Engagement

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.

Common Core

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.

Self Motivated

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.

Classroom Management

Q&A-style responses to a variety of pressing classroom-management and student-engagement questions.

Strategies

Provides over 50 original lessons for English Language Learners with a five-step process to increase student achievement.

My Other work

Engaging parents blog

My blog to support and follow-up my Engaging parents in school book.

Bam Show

My Bam Radio show.

Classroom Q & A

My posts for Classroom Q & A with Larry Ferlazzo at Education Week Teacher.

BC

My Teaching English British Council posts.

50 teaching practices divided into four main sections: autonomy, competency, relatedness, and relevance.

New York Times

My education posts on the Learning Network for the New York Times.