Features
Make English Truly a World Language
The Caribbean Sea encompasses over 7,000 islands, including the famous tourist destinations of Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and Barbados. Taken all together, the Caribbean...
After Whiteness, Part Two
How many times have you seen an advertisement for an English teaching position that either implicitly or explicitly seeks a “native English speaker”? What...
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...
A Road to Reading
We have learned the past 20 years, through cognitive science research, that over 90% of students can learn to read at grade level by...
Literacy
Make English Truly a World Language
The Caribbean Sea encompasses over 7,000 islands, including the famous tourist destinations of Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and Barbados. Taken all together, the Caribbean...
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: Misscafolding
Rumi in the Language Classroom Vol 8
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Debating the Digital Divide
Yaritza was suspended in seventh grade for punching a boy in the nose. He had called her a dull-witted donkey, not quite in those...
World Language News
Helsinki Mayor Floats Idea of English-Language City
Finland has two official languages: Finnish and Swedish. The government also recognizes an additional handful of regional languages like Sámi or Karelian, as well...
Emphasizing the Needs of Hispanic Students
The Florida Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (FL-ALAS) helps to transform educational institutions across the state of Florida by seeking to ensure that...
Mandarin Imposed on Minority Preschools
The Chinese Ministry of Education is making Mandarin the medium of instruction for preschoolers in areas where minority languages like Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uyghur,...
A Step to Slow France’s Regional Language Decline
France is notorious for its single-language policy, which ranks French as the only official, national language in the country—despite the country being home to...
Resources
Back-to-School Guide Designed to Help Teachers Support SEL
Aperture Education has released a 2021 Back-to-School Guide designed to help teachers and administrators support students and families as schools resume. The Guide contains...
Languages
Helsinki Mayor Floats Idea of English-Language City
Finland has two official languages: Finnish and Swedish. The government also recognizes an additional handful of regional languages like Sámi or Karelian, as well...
Make English Truly a World Language
The Caribbean Sea encompasses over 7,000 islands, including the famous tourist destinations of Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and Barbados. Taken all together, the Caribbean...
Taiwan Opens Chinese Centers Across US
Taiwan’s Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC), Tung Chen-yuan (童振源), opened the new Taiwan Center for Mandarin Learning in Irvine, California, to...
What Do Students Want Out of Today’s Language Class?
What motivates students to study languages? How do our students prefer to learn languages? Does school actually “get in the way” of language learning?
To...
Professional Development
Student Teaching in Spain in the Time of COVID
The European Quality Chart on Internships and Apprenticeships describes higher education and vocational school practices in participating companies and entities as a training-oriented component...
Beyond Crises: The Reawakening of Classrooms
It’s summer 2021 and as educators, we might be thinking beyond crises and concentrating on the extent to which the transformation of our practices...
Financing Feeling
Committee for Children works with policymakers from around the country and supports laws, policies, and funding that promote social–emotional learning (SEL), address bullying, and prevent child...
How Bilingual?
World language departments around the globe are continually faced with the task of advising and placing freshmen and transfer students into the appropriate courses....
ALAS Opens a Women Superintendents Policy Leadership Academy
The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) has created a new leadership academy specifically to help new female superintendents learn advocacy skills and...