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Early Learning Programs Stretched by Pandemic
Early Edge California and the American Institutes for Research (AIR) released their research brief, California’s Early Learning and Care Providers: Essential Workers Who Need...
Teaching in the Atolls with no Virus Count
Welcome to CMI.
Our in-class classes never stopped. Things are the same. We waited and waited, then the virus never came.
Walking around here, living life,...
The Yoga of Collaboration
Why Collaboration?
As schools around the world increase in neurodiversity as well as cultural and linguistic diversity, many educators are turning to professional collaboration...
Free Five-Day Virtual Teaching Academy For K-12 Educators
Attendees will create a personalized Blueprint for virtual learning to guide plans for the next academic year, including equitable access
The Alliance for Virtual Learning...
Taking English Learning Online
Instructional strategies that have proven effective in improving English language learner (ELL) achievement include providing ELLs with intentionally planned vocabulary instruction; using gestures, visual...
Reflections in the Water
Occasionally, I’ll wear a long red-and-black huipil that was made for me a few years ago while I was teaching in Mexico. Every time...
ILA Hosts Virtual Town Hall on Anti-Racism
The International Literacy Association (ILA), in partnership with Kwame Alexander, award-winning children's book author and founding editor of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt imprint Versify, announced...
Parental Guidance Required
The unexpected transition to remote learning brought on by COVID-19 has led to a newfound respect amid both parents and teachers. Between teachers scurrying...
The Wonderful World of Words
Vocabulary is one of the Five Pillars of Literacy. A deep understanding of nuanced words is key for comprehension and spoken and written communication....
From Watering Down to Challenging: Breaking Down the Wall, One Essential Shift at a Time
DAN ALPERT: In Breaking Down the Wall, you underscore the problem of tracking English learners into lower-level courses in which “they experience a curriculum...
Sustaining Community
While no one was prepared for the pandemic shuttering of physical school buildings, K–12 teachers of less commonly taught languages were perhaps the most...
Tips for Virtual Teaching and Remote Learning
The current surge in distance learning will have long-term effects on education worldwide as districts implement and manage more digital transformation in school administration...