I’ve written before about my ongoing experiment with students visualizing success. It seems to be going well, and I’m going to be very interested in late January when we have our first assessments to determine if...
Read MoreAs I did in 2007 and in 2008, I invited readers to send-in one-to-three things they learned in 2008. Quite a few of you shared and I have the privilege, in turn, of sharing your lessons here. I’ll save mine until the end....
Read MoreI’m doing some research for an article I’m writing on English Language Learners, and have been identifying some pretty decent resources for finding the most up-to-date statistics on English Language Learners in the...
Read More“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird) Empathy, it seems to me, is a pretty important...
Read MoreMy latest student interactive for ELLs at the NY Times is on climate change. It introduces students to the problem, and it also teaches them about the “Five W’s” – who, what, where, when and why. A writing prompt is...
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