It continues to be time for mid-year “Best” lists.

Now it’s time for the Best Videos For Educators.

You can see all my previous “Best” lists related to videos and movies (and there are a lot since I’ve doing this since 2007) here. Note that they’re also continually revised and updated.

Here are my picks from the first half of 2025:

I began posting videos on TikTok a year ago, and also upload them to my YouTube Channel. In addition to the videos on my video page, there are about 100 more short ones there.

The Best Saturday Night Live Videos On Education

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This is an amazing video.  I’m sharing it here, and also adding it to The Best Videos For Content Teachers With ELLs In Their Classes – Please Suggest More. It would be perfect to show to educators and ask them to identify the ways they made content comprehensible to non-Spanish speakers.

 

ELL teachers will especially “get” this short bit from  Saturday Night Live. The video should start right at the beginning of the DEI segment:

 

I think this is an excellent way to talk about DEI:

 

This is – by far – the best thing I’ve seen or read about the issue of transgender athletes. You might also be interested in Informative PBS NewsHour Video: “What science tells us about transgender athletes” (be aware that he uses the “f” word near the beginning of the video and then again at the 32 minute mark):

 

I’m adding this new TED-Ed lesson and video to The Best Resources For Learning About “Flow”:

 

I don’t think you’ll find many IB Theory of Knowledge teachers who don’t do a lesson asking if math was discovered or invented. I’ve often used the English language TED-Ed video on the topic, and now they’ve developed a Spanish language version.  For me, at least, that will come in handy for the ELD students who are taking my class.

Here are both versions:

 

I’m adding this video to The Best Resources For Learning About Our World’s Population Of 7 Billion:

 

I’m adding this PBS video to The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change:

 

Many of us teach our students about the Trolley Problem (see The Best Videos About The Famous “Trolley Problem”).I do in our IB Theory of Knowledge class. Now, thanks to  Saturday Night Live, I have the perfect video to show at the end of the lesson – a love song about it!

 

I’m adding this video to The Best Videos Documenting The History Of The English Language: