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Michigan Implements New Literacy/Dyslexia Bills Two new literacy/dyslexia laws were signed last month by Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer at Gardner International Magnet School in...

Bilingualism Makes the Brain More Efficient

Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to build connections within itself, adapting to the surrounding environment. The brain is most plastic in childhood, forming new...

International Education Week is Nov. 18-22

International Education Week (IEW), a joint initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education, is November 18-22, 2024. According...

Canada Freezes NWT Language Allocation

The federal funding allocation for Indigenous language programs in the Northwest Territories (NWT) has stalled at CAN$5.9 million per year for the next three...

New Federal Funds for Native Languages

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced over $7 million in new...

New Ojibwe Immersion Program

This fall, Wisconsin’s Bayfield School District is launching an Ojibwemowin immersion program for kindergarten students in collaboration with the Red Cliff Band of Lake...

WKU Renews Chinese Flagship Program

Western Kentucky University’s (WKU’s) Department of Modern Languages’ Chinese Flagship Program has renewed its four-year $1.5 million grant with The Language Flagship, an initiative...

Saudi Arabian Schools Welcome First Chinese Teachers

The first 175 Chinese language teachers began teaching at primary and middle schools in Saudi Arabia last month, as part of an agreement made...

Leadership: Pivoting to Progress

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Teachers are often drawn to education in hopes of exercising their creative freedom to make a difference in children’s lives. Yet it can be a crushing blow to realize when they enter the teaching profession that it involves far more than passion, intellect,...
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Canada Freezes NWT Language Allocation

The federal funding allocation for Indigenous language programs in the Northwest Territories (NWT) has stalled at CAN$5.9 million per year for the next three...

New Federal Funds for Native Languages

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced over $7 million in new...

New Ojibwe Immersion Program

This fall, Wisconsin’s Bayfield School District is launching an Ojibwemowin immersion program for kindergarten students in collaboration with the Red Cliff Band of Lake...

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Leadership: Pivoting to Progress

Teachers are often drawn to education in hopes of exercising their creative freedom to make...

Mainstreaming Multilingualism

As ever, an influx of diverse learners is entering the K–12...

Make a Plan for Oracy

Schools are placing a greater emphasis on foundational skills than ever before, and rightly so....

Implementing a Bilingual Authorization Program

In Fall 2022, Whittier College’s Teacher Education program launched their online...

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...

Scaffolding Success

One of the tools teachers of multilingual learners have at their disposal to move learning...

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It’s been a rough few years for elementary teaching and learning. Concerns remain about the progress (or lack thereof) that US students are making in literacy, and there’s no one cause hindering this progress. Many factors have contributed to lower test scores, from the amount of money individual districts...
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Say What?

When we read, we are reading language. Thus, a strong foundation in oral language is essential to reading comprehension. The research base we refer to as the science of reading includes copious studies by researchers such as Andrew Biemiller,...
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Bridging WIDA and the Science of Reading in ESOL Programs

Click here to read WIDA's response to this article To download the full white paper, visit https://www.languagemagazine.com/the-struggle-with-aligning-wida-based-esol-programs-to-the-science-of-reading-a-call-to-action-for-wida/ A district reading specialist was responsible for implementing changes mandated by the Georgia Department of Education concerning structured literacy training and dyslexia screening procedures....
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Bilingualism under threat: structured literacy will make it harder for children to hold on to their mother tongue

International Viewpoint: NEW ZEALAND From the beginning of the 2025 school year, all schools will be required to use structured literacy – also known as “phonics” or the “science of reading” – to teach children how to read. But the...
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Science of Reading Bill Fails in California

California Assembly Bill 2222 (see April issue, p. 9: “California Bill Would Mandate Science of Reading”), which would have required teachers...
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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...

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