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Shortening Distances
This past year added a new layer to the challenges that language teachers perennially confront with the pivot to online learning. In this article,...
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...
Realia for Radical Teaching
Chasing the Gingerbread Man around the halls of my elementary school was the experience that made me fall in love with reading. Our class...
Tips for Launching a District-Wide Phonics Program
Over the course of a few years here at Lumpkin County Schools, our leadership team began to realize that literacy was a root cause...
Grade Expectations
A week before spring break, I had a conversation with a student about language learning. Since I was a language learner myself, the student...
Back-to-School Guide Designed to Help Teachers Support SEL
Aperture Education has released a 2021 Back-to-School Guide designed to help teachers and administrators support students and families as schools resume. The Guide contains...
Rumi in the Language Classroom: Misscaffolding
Rumi in the Language Classroom Vol 8
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Comanche Nation Charters Dual-Language Academy
The Comanche Nation has begun enrolling students in the Comanche Academy Charter School in Lawton, Oklahoma. The charter school with include instruction in both...
Managing Reunions
This fall, many educators across the U.S. will be welcoming students back to brick-and-mortar classrooms for the first time in 18 months. Along with...
Using Evidence to Overcome Adversity
We are currently in the midst of an education crisis. Given the magnitude of the issues we’ve faced over the last year, it would...
After Whiteness, Part Two
(August 2021) J. P. B Gerald, Vijay A. Ramjattan, and Scott Stillar stress the importance of decentering Whiteness in English language teacher training and recruitment
Creating Community Connections
On March 13, 2020, when the seriousness of the coronavirus hit our campus, classes, lectures, programs, conferences, and celebrations had to be cancelled or...
