© 2012 luhtalam, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are some useful resources connecting Social Emotional Learning with Common Core Standards. I’m adding them to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources (you’ll be able to find other related resources already there): Social and emotional learning gaining new focus under Common Core is a very useful and interesting article published by Ed Source. How Are Social-Emotional Learning and the Common Core Connected? is by Maurice Elias. Social-emotional skills can boost Common Core implementation is also by Maurice Elias. Teaching The Whole Child How to Integrate Social-Emotional Learning into Common Core is from The Greater Good Science Center. Integrating Social Emotional Curricula and the Common Core is from Inside the Classroom, Outside The Box. Webinar: Social-Emotional Learning Integrated with Academic Literacy Equals Secondary Students’ Common Core Success is from WestEd. Webinar Recording: Where Does Resiliency Fit in the Common Core? is from ScholarCentric. Resiliency Key to Students’ Success in Common Core is from the same group.

In front of a statue of Alexander Hamilton, Treasury Secretary Lew announced that a woman would be put on the newly-designed ten dollar bill, and that public input was invited over the summer on social media using #TheNew10 hashtag on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. It’s a great idea. However, too bad he isn’t inviting that kind of input in the fall, too, which would be a great time to integrate it in lots of classroom learning activities….

As regular readers know, I’ve been doing a weekly ten-minute online BAM! Radio Show for the past year-and-a-half. In each show, I’ve interviewed guests who have contributed to one of my Education Week Teacher columns. They’ve been pretty popular, with nearly 30,000 downloads each month. I thought readers might find it helpful if I put links with descriptions to each show in one place. I won’t be starting them up again until September, but will continue to update this list when I do… Three Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Teaching with Val Brown, Julia Thompson Overwhelmed: Help for Those of Us Whose Lives Are Out of Balance with Debbie Silver Would These 5 Tips Make You More Open to New Teaching Practices? Sally Zepeda, Bill Sterrett, and Pete Hall Encouraging Other Teachers Who Work with English Language Learners with Sonia Nieto, Alicia Lopez The Three Best Ways Teachers Can Encourage Support for English Language Learners with Jennifer Connors, Diane Staehr Fenner, Sydney Snyder Teaching Strategies 2.0: What Is a Digital Portfolio? Why It Matters with Rusul Alrubail, Michael Fisher The Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Professional Development with Rick Wormeli Why Some Teachers Stay, While Others Quit with Sharon Jacobs A Second Look: Teacher Attrition at High Poverty Urban Schools Karen Baptiste, Pia Wong, Yvette Jackson How Small Learning Communities Create Powerful Climates for Academic Success with ReLeah Cosette-Lent, Ted Appel How Are Common Core Standards Impacting Teaching Math to ELLs? with Ben Spielberg, Denisse R. Thompson, Gladis Kersaint Exploring the Difference Between Student Participation and Student Engagement with Jennifer Gonzalez, Bill and Pérsida Himmele Fitting Technology Into the Common Core Standards: Do This, Don’t Do That with Michael Fisher, Andrew Miller What Are Good Examples of Reading Lessons Aligned to Common Core Standards? with Cheryl Dobbertin What Are the Differences Between Project-Based, Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning? with Jeff Wilhelm, Suzie Boss What Are the Best Ways to Teach Literature in the Age of Common Core? with Nancy Steineke, Sean McComb, Bill and Pérsida Himmele Teaching English Language Learners (ELLs): Five Strategies That Work with Judie Haynes, MaryAnn Zehr The 10 Best Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary in the Classroom with Katie Brown, Marilee Sprenger Maker Movement, DYI, 3D Printers: New Fad or Real Path to 21st Century Skills? with Laura Blankenship What Is Your Advice to Educators Who Want to Write a Book? with Marjorie McAneny, PJ Caposey, Alan Sitomer Differentiated Instruction and Tracking Students: Is It Time to Reconsider? Laura Robb, Regie Routman Effective Classroom Management: Do This, Not That with Pernille Ripp, Dr. Bryan Harris How Can We Increase the Ranks of Teachers of Color? with Gloria Ladson-Billings Are Caring and Relationship Building Compatible with Implementing Common Core Standards? with Mai Xi Lee, Sean Slade How Can Teachers Meet Common Core English Standards with English Language Learners? with Maria Montalvo-Balbed, Debbie Zacarian Can We Effectively Evaluate Teachers Based on Factors Teachers Completely Control? with Ben Spielberg and Ted Appel Student Engagement Versus Student Compliance: How Much Does It Really Matter? with Debbie Silver, Dr. Bryan Harris What Are the Myths and Misconceptions Around Formative Assessment? with Nancy Frey How Can We Help Students Appreciate the Value of Learning Geography? Elisabeth Johnson, Kelly Young Close Reading: What It Is, What It’s Not with Chris Lehman Accountability: What are the Alternatives to Using Test Scores for Teacher Evaluations? with Julian Vasquez Heilig, Ph.D., Ben Spielberg How Can We Make Math More Engaging and Accessible to Students? with Dr. Anne M. Collins, Sue O’Connell What Is the Best Way to Train Student Teachers? with Emily Geltz, Linda Rief How Can Teachers Best Manage Race and Class Issues In Schools?  with P. L. Thomas, Ashanti Foster Second Thoughts: Teacher Attire, Does it Really Matter? with Roxanna Elden, Renee Moore How Is Globalization Changing How and What You Teach? with  John Spencer, Diana Laufenberg How Can Teachers Meet the Common Core Requirement for Complex Reading? with Amy Benjamin, Wendi Pillars What Are We Losing By Eliminating Arts From the Curriculum? with Virginia McEnerney, David Booth What Can We Do to Develop a Culture of Success in our Classrooms? with Heather Wolpert-Gawron, Chris Lehman How Can History Teachers Make the Curriculum More Engaging? Peter Pappas, Sarah Kirby-Gonzalez What Are the Best Ways for Teachers to Work With School Counselors? with Leticia Gallardo, Mindy Willard How Can We Help Students (And Ourselves) Stay Organized? with Julia Thompson , Ariel Sacks How Can Administrators Help Create an Engaging Curriculum with Anne Reeves, Kelly Young Dissecting Grades: What Do They Mean, What Are They Worth? with Rick Wormeli How Can We Help Students Handle Loss and Grief? with Mary Tedrow, Stephen Lazar How Can We Differentiate Instruction More Effectively? with Carol Tomlinson What Are the Real Benefits of a 1:1 Program? What Are the Biggest Challenges? with Alice Barr, Dr. Troy Hicks How Can We Get All Students in Our Classes Thinking and Learning All the Time? with Bill and Pérsida Himmele, Jim Peterson What Are the Five Best Practices to Promote Better Student Learning with Diana Laufenberg, Jeff Charbonneau What Do We Need to Do to Better Support English Language Learners? with Karen Nemeth, Judie Haynes How Can We Reduce Teacher Attrition at High-Poverty Schools? with Barnett Berry, Ilana Garon Why Precisely Do Teachers Leave High Poverty Schools? with Angel L. Cintron Jr. and Paul Bruno What Are the Habits of Lifelong Readers, How Do We Instill Them? with Donalyn Miller What Are the Basics Every Teacher Should Know About the Maker Movement? with Sylvia Martinez, Tanya Baker Character, Grit, Perseverance: Magic Bullet? with Jason Flom and Debbie Silver How Do We Increase Involvement Among Parents Who Are Already Overwhelmed? with Darcy Hutchins and Mai Xi Lee

Rafe Esquith, the extraordinary Los Angeles teacher (you can see an interview I did with him last year here) has been suspended from the classroom, allegedly because he recited a Mark Twain quotation to his class. The whole thing sounds insane. You can read a Los Angeles Times article about the situation here and a comment left at a local CBS station story that may or may not shed a little more light on what happened. I’ll be looking forward to getting the full story and, with luck, to seeing Rafe back in the classroom. Here’s a short video of him giving advice to new teachers:

Why ‘grit’ isn’t always a good thing is a good piece in today’s Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt: I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About "Grit."

I’ve written in my New York Times column about how I use optical illusions with English Language Learners, and I certainly use them when teaching perception in my Theory of Knowledge class. You can many that I’ve previously posted here. The 2015 Illusion Of The Year has just been announced, and here it is:

© 2008 Howard Arnoff, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio You’ve no doubt learned about the awful hate crime last night in Charleston. Both NBC News and The Guardian seem to have particularly thorough central webpages with updated reports. Here are a few tweets from this morning: These words, from the late pastor and SC state senator Clementa Pinckney: http://t.co/pO0C7r1BDn pic.twitter.com/iyT9MiosFy — Matt Thompson (@mthomps) June 18, 2015 Dr. King at #EmanuelAME. #HistoricBlackChurch #CivilRightsMovement #CharlestonShooting pic.twitter.com/Iu3ihGjQ2V — The King Center (@TheKingCenter) June 18, 2015 The church where #CharlestonShooting took place has a donate button if you want to help http://t.co/fpHnvHjIc1 #Charleston #CharlestonSC — Brian J. White (@talkwordy) June 18, 2015 AJC cartoonist Mike Luckovich takes on #CharlestonShooting http://t.co/FWmD9PELtZ pic.twitter.com/HuifDvlpX3 — AJC (@ajc) June 18, 2015 A closer look into the lives of the victims of the Charleston, SC church massacre. http://t.co/MKFAIKuxmf pic.twitter.com/hYhVkTVLDd — The Root (@TheRoot) June 18, 2015 Here's the Dr. King quote Obama just cited pic.twitter.com/sE1zTTtb5C — ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) June 18, 2015

© 2011 Margaret Ornsby, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio So much has been written about Social Emotional Learning - see The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources. But, really, who has time to read all of it? What’s a one-stop shop where you can get a pretty good overview of what it is, why it’s important, and how it might work in the classroom? Here are a handful of recent reviews/studies that I think are pretty good. Let me ones you think should be added to the list: The Need to Address Noncognitive Skills in the Education Policy Agenda is from The Economic Policy Institute. Teaching Adolescents To Become Learners: The Role of Noncognitive Factors in Shaping School Performance: A Critical Literature Review is from The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research. Social Emotional Learning in High School: How Three Urban High Schools Engage, Educate, and Empower Youth — Full Series is from Stanford.

Half of American whites see no racism around them is the headline of a Washington Post story about some incredible data. Here’s an excerpt: I’m adding this info to A Collection Of Useful Posts, Articles & Videos On Race & Racism - Help Me Find More.

I’m adding this video to The Best Fun Videos About Books & Reading: