I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here).
You can also see my all-time favorites here. I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series reviewing old favorites, too.
Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this past month (not in any order of preference) – also note that I group many updates on the Trump administration’s current attack on education and democracy in weekly posts you can find here):
“Kofi’s Fire” Is An Interactive Graphic Story About A Revolt By Enslaved People & Indentured Servants
Should We Encourage A “Culture Of Experimentation” At Schools?
This “Bilingual View” Tool Can Be Helpful To Language & Content Teachers Alike
More Research Finds That Language Matters, This Time When Discussing “Opportunity Gap”
Links To The Hundreds Of Resources I’ve Created On Quizizz
Topics & Sentence Frames For Slideshows I Have ELL Newcomers Create & Present – Part TWO
Sesame Street Has A New Exceptional Site On Dealing With Grief
New Study Reinforces Results Of Old Ones About Reading Strategies
My Instructional Videos Of The Month
“Sparky” Is The Latest Effort By Google To Find Something Useful To Do With Its AI
Great Writing Prompt From Stephen Curry Last Night!
Video: “Five graphs that changed the world”
“Students Make Mistakes. How Teachers Correct Them Matters”
“Enough Already With the New Initiatives. Give Teachers a Break”
“Books That Have Made Teachers Better”
“6 Pieces of Advice to My Grandson Entering a Teaching-Credential Program”
“Lifetoon” Is Clearly One Of The Best Online Tools For Creating Comics That I’ve Seen – & It’s Free (For Now)
Irony (Or Hypocrisy) Alert – Trump Wants English To Be Official U.S. English & Also Wants To Eliminate Funding To Help Students Learn…English
No Surprise – Survey Finds That Teachers Are Spending Even More Of Their Own Money On Students
It Seems Apparent That Student Use Of AI In College Is A Challenge, But Is That The Case In High School? Here’s What My Students Say
I Tried A Different “Line” With My ELL Students This Week – & It Might Have Worked?
Video Alternatives To Brainpop
Google Meet Now Provides Automatic Audio Speech Translations – If You Use The Paid Version
