Features
The Power of Sports Fiction (and the Importance of Being Impeccable)
Fiction can take what seem to be ordinary situations and show us how important they can be. This one definitely changed my life for...
Reading Resources
World of ReadingFor over 30 years, World of Reading has offered hundreds of readers in a variety of languages—from Albanian to Vietnamese—from publishers worldwide....
Literacy
Unifying Language Acquisition with Literacy Instruction for Language-Minority Students
Lexia Learning, a company specializing in structured literacy, recently convened a roundtable on a subject that has been...
Why Saving Time Serves Students and Literacy Educators
Cox Campus, the online learning community of the Rollins Center for Language and Literacy at the Atlanta Speech...
EL Teachers Need More Math Support
Even though nearly 20% of students in California K-12 schools are English Learners, the latest research from EdTrust...
The Science of the Bilingual Reading Brain
“We are plural. The I is an illusion: bilinguals know this, they are hybrid like the words inside them, surprised halfway on the translation...
World Language News
Indigenous Taíno of Puerto Rico Take Their Fight to the UN
Puerto Rican Taíno representatives recently attended the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in New York to call attention to their situation.“If...
How Schools Can Best Help Students in Deep Poverty
About 7% of American children are living in deep poverty— that’s more than five million children across the US. The Learning Policy Institute, a...
Congress Urged to Fund Child Care
“At a moment when Americans are struggling just to get by amid the worst inflation in decades, the...
Pennsylvania Grants $384 M For Early Childhood Education
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has announced more than $384 million in grant funding for early childhood education, providing...
Resources
Reading Mastery
Oakland University
MAT in Reading and Language ArtsFormat: Fully OnlineLength: 2 yearsCredit hours: 32• Get experiential training through our reading/writing clinics• Learn from nationally renowned...
Languages
Using Comics to Teach
Over the past two centuries, as the world...
Portuguese in Africa
While Nigerians of Brazilian heritage in...
At 8 months, Babies Already Know Their Grammar
Even before uttering their first words, babies master the grammar basics of their mother tongue. Thus eight-month-old French...
Plan to Promote French Across Canada
The government of Québec is proposing...
Professional Development
Collaborative Planning: Never Having to Go It Alone
This experience gave me the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues I don’t usually get the opportunity to work with, and we were able to...
Careers & Recruitment
Louisiana Offers EL Add-On Certification
The Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) has partnered with UMass Global as part of the National Professional Development grant program...
Co-Teaching for Capacity Building
Whether you are a school or district administrator, a coach or fellow educator, you must have encountered a...
What We Say and How We Say It
Even behind masks or through a screen, the language that educators use is one of the most powerful tools available to build...