© 2008 David Ohmer, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio United Nations charter, signed in San Francisco, turns 70 is an article today from The Associated Press. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About United Nations Day.

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. 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): "Ways To Find The ‘Right Balance’ Between School & Home" A Milestone Of Sorts: There Are Now Exactly 1,450 Categorized & Regularly Updated "Best" Lists! Quote Of The Day: A Corollary To The Best Piece Of Classroom Management Advice I’ve Heard Jigsaw Puzzles As A Language-Learning Activity Quote Of The Day: Carol Dweck On "Nagging" "Avoiding ‘Trust Busters’ When Making Change In Schools" Some #CharlestonSyllabus Highlights Study: Inductive Learning Promotes "Transfer Of Knowledge" Better Than Direct Instruction All My BAM Radio Shows - Linked With Descriptions A Perfect Quote To Begin A Lesson On Deliberate Practice - If Your Students Are Basketball Fans "Control Your Destiny": Positive Self-Talk, Students & Stephen Curry Questions To Help With Positive Classroom Management "Ways To Encourage Support For English Language Learners" "Jellybean Scoop" Looks Like A Useful Reading/Writing Site For Students & Teachers "Don’t Leave English Language Learners ‘In The Cold’" Study: "Authoritative," Not "Authoritarian," Classroom Management Works Best For Boys "It’s Been A Pleasure Having You In Class This Year" "Teachers: What we want everyone to know about working in our high-needs school" How Can We Help Students Feel That Theory Of Knowledge Class Is More Relevant To Their Lives Teaching Knowledge Questions In IB Theory Of Knowledge "Ways To Help Students Develop Digital Portfolios" Skype Opens Up Web Version To Everyone "Cash" For Good Student Behavior - Without An Exit Strategy - Is Not The Best Classroom Management System Nevada Legislature Goes To Crazytown With New Voucher Law Khan Academy & College Board Announce New Free SAT Prep "Our World Of Data" Is A Treasure Trove Of Infographics "Teachers ‘Seek Relevance & Choice’ In Professional Development" Here’s How My ELL Beginner/Intermediate Class Evaluated Me Useful Collection Of "Growth Mindset" Animations Here Are The Results Of Anonymous Class Evaluations From My English Language Learner History Class If You Haven’t Read It Already, "The Teaching & Learning Toolkit" Should Probably Be On Your Summer Reading List "Follow-Up Is Critical For Successful Professional Development" Did The NY Times Just Demonstrate The Next Generation Of Infographics? Google’s New "Expeditions" Looks Like An Insanely Cool Way For Students To Take A Virtual Field Trip

Here is a video of President Obama’s moving eulogy at Reverend Clementa Pinckney’s funeral this afternoon. Here’s the transcript. I’ve also embedded some tweets sent during the service (Here’s a fascinating analysis of if by James Fallows): I plan to highlight this next quotation in history class: "History must not be a sword to justify injustice…but must be a manual for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past" —@POTUS — The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015 "Guard against the subtle impulse to call Johnny back for a job interview, but not Jamal" —@POTUS in Charleston http://t.co/qcUl5NnYQs — The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015 "May God continue to shed His grace on the United States of America." —@POTUS http://t.co/14Z3HnNi8v — The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015 The first black president singing Amazing Grace at the podium of a black church founded by a man who planned a slave revolt. — Cirque du SoBae (@brownandbella) June 26, 2015 "History can’t be a sword to justify injustice or a shield against progress but must be a manual for how to avoid… the mistakes of the past" — Libby Nelson (@libbyanelson) June 26, 2015 Obama talks up gun violence and the need to create better protections for citizens. http://t.co/WIT5KVDSU0 pic.twitter.com/NyKK9lS8Xa — NYT National News (@NYTNational) June 26, 2015

There are just so many good infographics and interactives out there that I’ve begun a new semi-regular feature called "Infographics & Interactives Galore." You can see others at A Collection Of "The Best…" Lists On Infographics and by searching "infographics" on this blog. I’ll still be publishing separate posts to individually highlight especially useful infographics and interactives, but you’ll find others in this regular feature. Here goes: The American civil war then and now interactive is from The Guardian. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The American Civil War. 2 maps that show the Civil War really was about slavery is from Vox. I’m adding it to the same list. The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes is from Slate, and is pretty amazing. I’m adding it to our US History class blog under Slavery In The Colonies. What’s Really Warming The World? is an interactive from Bloomberg. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change. I’m adding this next infographic to The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures:

Video For All is a European-funded site filled to the brim with ideas on how to use video in language-teaching. It looks like an amazing resource. Even better, Russell Stannard, who is the person who wrote about the site in his great email newsletter, has created a series of videos describing how to best use Video For All. I’m adding this info to The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them).

Many teachers, including me, have experienced the struggle of getting our students to buy into seriously revising their original drafts. I’ve tried modeling my own writing process, and have met with limited success. I’ve previously posted this sixth-grader interviewing President Obama. He cut the President off when he began talking about students needing to revise their writing, and that reflects many students’ feelings about it: I was prompted to think about this by finally getting around to reading a late March New York Times column titled What’s More Important to You: the Initial Rush of Prose or the Self-Editing and Revision That Come After It? I thought that this excerpt, in particular, would be a good one to share and have my mainstream students (I think it might be too difficult for my ELLs) respond to a prompt along the lines of: According to Cheryl Strayed, what kind of relationship do original writing and the process of revising it have with each other? Do you agree with her? To support your opinion, be sure to include specific examples drawn from your own experience, your observations of others, or any of your readings. What strategies do you use to get students invested into revising their writing? I’m adding this post to The Best Posts On Writing Instruction.

Here’s my monthly round-up of new "The Best…" lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,450 of them categorized here): The Best Resources For Learning About Juneteenth The Best Resources On Effective Note-Taking Strategies - Help Me Find More The Best Movie/TV Scenes Demonstrating Metacognition - Help Me Find More The Best Summaries/Reviews Of Research On Social Emotional Learning - Let Me Know What I’ve Missed All My BAM Radio Shows - Linked With Descriptions The Best Websites For English Language Learner Students In 2015 - So Far The Best Theory Of Knowledge Resources In 2015 - So Far The Best Online Learning Games Of 2015 - So Far The Best Tweets Of 2015 - So Far The Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of ELLs In 2015 - So Far The Best Articles (And Blog Posts) Offering Practical Advice & Resources To Teachers In 2015 - So Far The Best Articles I’ve Written In 2015 — So Far The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2015 - So Far The Best Social Studies Sites Of 2015 — So Far The Best Articles & Posts On Education Policy In 2015 - So Far My Best Posts On New Research Studies In 2015 - So Far The Best Videos For Educators In 2015 - So Far The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2015 - So Far The Best Resources For Developing Student Portfolios All My 2015 Mid-Year "Best" Lists In One Place!  

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Brad Ovenell-Carter shared this wonderful video on Twitter. I think it would be a great one to show on the first day of a Geography class. Do you have ideas on how it could be used?

The Washington Post just published this story of a man working with a Finnish broadcasting company to "to demonstrate both what it is like to live with HIV-related stigma and raise awareness of HIV." I’m adding it to The Best Web Resources For Learning About HIV & AIDS.