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California Set to Boost Education Spend
California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, is proposing to spend almost $86 billion in his newly released budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year, thanks to the...
Parting Blow to Fair Federal Funding
According to The New York Times and The Washington Post, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to do away with the disparate impact...
Creating Community by Reading Aloud
The COVID-19 pandemic has unearthed so many challenges for our loved ones and our communities. In my work as a literacy advocate, I think...
Risk-taking
Rumi in the Language Classroom Series Vol 3
See Vol 1 of the series here.
See Vol 2 of the series here.
One of the poems...
Five Million Assessments Reveal COVID Educational Slide
A new report based on 5.3 million assessments of student progress in grades 1-8 details the effects on learning associated with COVID-19 school disruptions....
Elite Language Students Focus on Community Service
Even during these challenging times, language students contribute to the greater good. I recently attended (via Zoom, of course) the award ceremony of the...
Bill to Support Distance and Blended Learning for Children in Need
Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, according to Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists, who found that unlike adults, who use specific...
Benefits of Routine on Virtual Teaching
With only a month of virtual teaching under my belt, this year is already the wildest year I’ve ever taught. This isn’t the first...
Why We Need to Support Teachers Now
1. When researching Whole (Whole: What Teachers Need to Help Students Thrive ), what surprised you about your findings?We were looking for examples of...
Pocketalk Donates Devices to 100 ELL Teachers
Pocketalk, the global innovator in connecting conversations and removing language barriers, donated 100 new translation devices to U.S. educators teaching English language learner (ELL)...
New TESOL K–12 Remote Teaching Resource
When schools pivoted to remote teaching in response to the pandemic, I was directing a large graduate program for in-service teachers of English learners...
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