- The Importance of Artificial Intelligence in Education for All Students
- Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall III
- Deconstructing English Learner Labels, Constructing Multilingual Schools
- The Science of Reading in Dual Language
- Ensuring Equity in Reading Instruction
- The Benefits of Recognizing Biliteracy
- Why UDL Matters for English Language Learners
- What is Orania?
- Podcast Seeks to Legitimize US Spanish
- Stricter Language Laws for French Residency
Winners Announced for 2024 Crystal Apple Awards
School Specialty today announced the 2024 winners of its annual Crystal Apple Awards, which celebrate teachers who embody inspiration, leadership, and passion in teaching.
Each...
Podcast Seeks to Legitimize US Spanish
Spanish speakers in the US, among linguists and nonlinguists, have been denigrated for the way that they speak, says UC Berkeley sociolinguist Justin Davidson....
Chinese ‘Linguistic Coup’ in East Africa
As part of its goal to displace American influence, China is winning linguistic hearts in East Africa (a bloc of 300 million people), by...
Ukraine Focuses on Minority Languages
Last month, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, in cooperation with the European Union and the Council of Europe, organized a round...
Learning Chinese Stimulates Both Temporal Lobes
New evidence suggests that studying Chinese and learning to write Chinese characters may train a whole array of cognitive abilities not developed by learning...
California District Introduces Hindi
The board of Silicon Valley’s Fremont Unified School District (FUSD) has voted to introduce Hindi as a world language into its curriculum, making it...
California Bill Requiring Kindergarten Exempts Early English Testing
Parallel California Assembly (2226) and Senate (1056) Bills have been introduced that would require children to attend one year of kindergarten before enrolling in...
Iñupiaq in Action
This past fall, we were writing animal counting stories in my first-grade class. I had one of the best experiences as I was working...
Unlocking the Vietnamese Language: A Student’s Perspective in Saigon
Vietnam—the land of delicious food, viral-worthy motorcycle traffic, immense history, and… language classes? Learning Vietnamese is definitely not on the radar for many language learners, and as I’ve written before, it’s notoriously difficult to find language-learning materials in Vietnamese.1 Unlike many international languages such as French, Spanish, or English, Vietnamese is spoken primarily by native speakers and there are...
Learning from Long Shadows
My decade-long involvement in shadowing projects across the country has taught me that the average percentage of time that multilingual learners (MLLs) are speaking...
Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall III
Premise:
Nationally, there is a higher demand for...
Project Seeks to Preserve Syriac
Texas A&M University historian Dr. Daniel Schwartz and likeminded colleagues from around the world have been working to help preserve Syriac and its 2,000...
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Implementing a Bilingual Authorization Program
In Fall 2022, Whittier College’s Teacher Education program launched their online bilingual authorization program (BILA). In year 1, the program was initially fully asynchronous, but after surveying BILA students mid-way through...
To Support the Science of Reading, Replace Disinformation with Collaboration
My first teaching job after earning a Master of Arts in teaching was at a...
Students at the Center
All educators are teachers of language—and engaging students in thinking about...
Acting UP
When I signed up for an improv theater class, I never thought to combine my...
Collaborative Planning: Never Having to Go It Alone
This experience gave me the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues I don’t usually get...
Breaking through Language Barriers
With about 7,200 students speaking 20 different languages, our district needs technology tools that support...
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New America and SEAL to Co-host Webinar about Science of Reading and ELs
Concerns have been raised that methodologies based on the Science of Reading may negatively impact English Learners (ELs).
On February 8, New America and SEAL will co-host a webinar that will unpack the relationship between the Science of Reading and ELs, including the misconceptions about this much debated topic, best practices for EL-identified students, and implications for dual language programs. The first panel of experts will discuss the policy implications...
Science of Reading
To Support the Science of Reading, Replace Disinformation with Collaboration
My first teaching job after earning a Master of Arts in teaching was at a private school in Austin, Texas, for students with...
Science of Reading
California Bill Would Mandate Science of Reading
A newly introduced California Assembly bill would require the state’s teachers to be trained and reading to be taught only according to the principles of the Science of Reading. AB 2222, introduced by Assemblymember Blanca Rubio, a Democrat from...
Science of Reading
Small Investment Offers Big Literacy Gains
Research by Stanford University found that 75 of the lowest-performing California elementary schools that received funding from an out-of-court settlement made significant progress on third-grade state Smarter Balanced tests this year.
Major news outlets, including the Los Angeles Times,...
Science of Reading
Background Knowledge and Where to Get It
Stephen Krashen argues that those who read more know more
Wexler (2023) has pointed out that a reader’s background knowledge is a significant predictor of reading proficiency. She concluded that “greater background knowledge of the topic was correlated with...
Science of Reading
Listen to the Bilingual Science!
Two years ago, we (Dual Language Education of New Mexico’s professional development coordinators) outlined a framework for high-quality dual language education that...
Science of Reading
Building Biliteracy
Transfer is important in all learning, but it is especially important in language-learning contexts. The purpose of this paper is to present practical,...
OpEd
Laying Down the Law
Every few years, education bubbles up to the top of the political agenda in state capitols across the US and legislatures scramble to pass bills that seek to bind the state’s education policy to the prevailing political ideology. This...
Equity
Making (Language) Data CUTE:Comprehensible, Usable,Timely, and Empowering – Part I
(July 2023) Ayanna Cooper explains how we need the right data
as a tool for equitable instruction
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Ensuring Equity in Reading Instruction
Early one summer, my parents moved our family into a 900-square-foot house in the central part of town that would become home for my siblings and me for the next 25 years. We didn’t have much, so it only...