Features
Retooling from the Classroom to the Workplace
When COVID-19 began to spread, businesses and schools had to suddenly shift to remote ways of working and learning. This uncovered a major problem....
Queering English Language Classrooms
Working with queer English learners requires close attention to their emotions and feelings, prior to or in conjunction with the teaching of language and...
Read Inclusion
According to more than 25 years of research by the National Institutes of Health and Studies at Yale University, Dyslexia...
Framing the Future
Currently, we are in the middle of what some have described as the Great Reset (Rold & DeVries, 2022; World Economic Forum, 2022), driven...
Literacy
Queering English Language Classrooms
Working with queer English learners requires close attention to their emotions and feelings, prior to or in conjunction with the teaching of language and...
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...
Literacy in Spanish and English
Building early literacy skills is imperative for all students, especially the five million English learners (ELs) being educated in today’s public schools. The mastery...
World Language News
Enthusiasm for Chinese Grows in Liberia
Chinese language and cultural studies will be offered as an undergraduate degree course for the first time at the University of Liberia and other...
Promoting Spain’s Linguistic Diversity
Last month, directors from the Cervantes Institute (Spanish), the Ramón Llull Institute (Catalan), the Etxepare Euskal Institutua (Basque), and the Galician Culture Council (Gallego)...
Dreaming of Words
Dreaming of Words had its world premiere at the International Mother Language Day celebrations organized by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts...
Spanish Media Denied Comment in Wake of School Massacre
Texas law enforcement ended a long press conference on the Robb Elementary School massacre without taking a single question from Spanish-language media. Speakers of...
Resources
APH Louis Website Gets New Look, Improved Search
American Printing House for the Blind (APH) is celebrating the launch of a completely redesigned Louis website and updated search interface. Named after Louis...
Languages
Enthusiasm for Chinese Grows in Liberia
Chinese language and cultural studies will be offered as an undergraduate degree course for the first time at the University of Liberia and other...
Promoting Spain’s Linguistic Diversity
Last month, directors from the Cervantes Institute (Spanish), the Ramón Llull Institute (Catalan), the Etxepare Euskal Institutua (Basque), and the Galician Culture Council (Gallego)...
Spanish Media Denied Comment in Wake of School Massacre
Texas law enforcement ended a long press conference on the Robb Elementary School massacre without taking a single question from Spanish-language media. Speakers of...
Dread and Delight as Québec Passes Strict French Law
Called Bill 96, Canada’s Québec province passed into law its fiercely fought French language bill last month. The new law will impose penalties on...
Professional Development
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...
Rebound: Turning Our Attention to Acceleration
Pandemic teaching was hard. It stretched and pulled us. We worried about our students and their...
State Teaching Certification
Elementary and secondary school teachers in most...
Practical PD
In the midst of the pandemic, teachers are stretched incredibly thin. In addition, districts are taxed with extra time spent on contact tracing and...