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Connecting the Community
I’m the principal at Brookwood Elementary, where we serve more than 1,200 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Approximately 10% of our students are...
The 3 Es of Using Translated Materials
Social–emotional learning (SEL) has gained traction in education over the last 20 years. Over the previous two years, it has held a prominent place...
Reading Research Leading to Teaching Practice
For years, research into how students learn to read has progressed without really making its way into the classrooms where that learning is happening....
Multilingual Experiences for All Students
How have your experiences prepared you for this role?I’ll begin by sharing this: Many years before I was born, there was a teacher in...
Backward Design
Comprehensible input. Movies. Language clubs. Guest speakers. Pirates. Conversations. Fly-swatter vocabulary matches. Video pen pals. Study abroad.A language program can take many forms and...
English Learner Progress Dips during Pandemic
The latest report on how English learners (ELs) around the country coped with language development during the pandemic reveals an overall downward trend in...
California’s Commitment: Literacy, Biliteracy, and Libraries
I have only one critical comment about California’s Secretary of Education Thurmond’s task force report, “California Commits to Literacy and Bets on Biliteracy,” but...
COVID’s Literacy Fallout
The metaphor “summer slide” has been used for decades to describe the essential skills that children lose over the summer when they’re out of...
California Commits to Literacy Target and Bets on Biliteracy
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has announced an initiative to ensure that not only will every student learn to read by...
Make English Truly a World Language
(September 2021) Venice Irving and Anna Hearrell explain how cultural awareness can bridge the English divide
Curing Initiative Fatigue
Stacy Hurst and Laura Axtell explain how to kick off the new school year with buy-in from everyone
For many educators, the beginning of the...
Rumi in the Language Classroom: Misscaffolding
Rumi in the Language Classroom Vol 8
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