Tag: ELL
A Superpower Hidden in Plain Sight
How can educators ensure that emerging bilingual students are well served in their schools, and how can we as educators foster linguistic...
Directory of Best-Practice Programs for Diverse Language Learners
To help connect educational innovations with the learners who want and need them most, the America’s Languages Working Group is launching a first-of-its-kind...
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...
New National Effort to Address Effective Literacy for Multilingual Learners
Researchers, educators, teachers, administrators, school board members, and advocates with expertise in literacy and the education of English learner/emergent bilingual students have come together...
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...
Bilingual Ed Boosts English Writing
A first-of-its-kind study from the University of Kansas (KU), examining three key cognitive functions and their role in learning to write, suggests that insufficient...
Recommendations for Long-Term English Learners
Ten years after their groundbreaking publication, Reparable Harm called attention to California’s long-term English learners (LTELs), Californians Together has released Renewing Our Promise, a...
Words Matter – The Case for Shifting to “Emergent Bilingual”
Throughout IDRA’s almost five decades, we have paid close attention to how we speak about people in terms of race or ethnicity, gender, etc....
