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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

6-18-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL:







This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Education Policy
Here are some recent good posts and articles on educational policy issues (you might also be interested in The Best Articles & Posts On Education Policy In 2014 – So Far): Efficiency-Minded Reformers Today Draw from Efficiency-Minded Reformers of a Century Ago is by Larry Cuban. Philanthropic Advocacy for School Reforms is by Larry Cuban. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About


“How Do We Know When & How To Help Students Understand Complex Text”
How Do We Know When & How To Help Students Understand Complex Text is the new “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your responses there or here….

“Honoring Fred Ross Sr.: With Cesar Chavez, he formed the UFW”
I wrote This Is Great — Legendary Organizer Fred Ross, Sr. Selected For California Hall Of Fame a couple of days ago, and now Peter Dreier and Manuel Pastor, two more former colleagues from my organizing career, have just published an op-ed in The San Jose Mercury News about Fred’s selection. It’s headlined Honoring Fred Ross Sr.: With Cesar Chavez, he formed the UFW.
Wednesday’s New World Cup Resources
Here are the latest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The 2014 World Cup In Brazil: Stop the Ball is a fun interactive from The New York Times. Al Jazeera has a great site with all their World Cup coverage, which includes neat projects like the World Cup of Food. World Cup Infographics is a site that’s collecting tons of infographics about…the World Cup. Explore more visuals like th


The Best Articles (And Blog Posts) Offering Practical Advice & Resources To Teachers In 2014 – So Far
I continue my mid-year “The Best…” lists… The title of this “The Best…” list is pretty self-explanatory. What you’ll find here are blog posts and articles this year (some written by me, some by others) that were, in my opinion, the ones that offered the best practical advice and resources to teachers this year — suggestions that can help teachers become more effective in the classroom today or to
6-17-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: The Best Theory Of Knowledge Resources In 2014 – So FarAs regular readers know, I teach an International Baccalaureate “Theory of Knowledge” class (and, next year, I’ll teach two of them!). Our school structures our IB program a bit differently from many others by having a whole lot of students take individual IB classes; w