Features
Seal of Biliteracy Goes Global
Linda Egnatz is impassioned by the expanding reach and motivating power of the Seal of BiliteracyGlobal Community...
Alaska’s First and Second
Daniel Ward asks Brandon Locke and Victor Santos to discuss how Anchorage School District is leading the...
Multilingual Matters
The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language which is one of the authorities regulating and preserving...
Language Advocacy For the Children’s Sake
Kathleen Stein-Smith believes that we need to shift paradigms in world language education and advocacy
Literacy
Reaching English Learners Act Gains Support
TESOL International Association has pledged its support for the bipartisan Reaching English Learners Act (H.R. 1153, S....
Bringing Parents In
Veteran second-grade teacher Nadya Abu-Rish explains how every educator can foster a learning...
Celebrating National Library Week 2019
We are halfway through this year’s National Library week, and celebrations continue to take place in and...
Black Dialects a Barrier to Justice
Write caption…Independence Hall, originally known as Pennsylvania State House is where the...
World Language News
Sharing Study Abroad
The recent college admissions scandal has focused much of the nation on the competition for places at...
New York Proposes ELL Training for Most Teachers
The New York State Education Department has proposed regulatory changes that would require teacher preparation programs in...
Brown Can’t Retire at 65
School segregation increasing as we mark 65th anniversary of
Brown v Board of EducationAs...
Crow Summer Institute
Glacier National Park, Montana, USAThe Crow Summer Institute is occurring in Crow Agency, Montana, at the Little...
Resources
Leveled Readers
The benefits of free, voluntary reading are undeniable, but finding books that are interesting and exciting without...
Languages
¡Qué Rico!
Costa Rica packs a multitude of experiences for the Spanish immersion student into a small, friendly,...
Costa Rican Spanish
Like most places, Costa Rica has its own unique words, phrases, and...
Netflix to Adapt Spanish Masterpiece
Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s literary masterwork One Hundred Years of...
Afrikaans Phased Out
South Africa’s University of Pretoria has begun phasing out Afrikaans as its...
Professional Development
Poor Students, Rich Teaching
Solution Tree has released the revised edition of Eric Jensen’s best-selling book, Poor Students, Rich Teaching, along...
Corwin’s Five Recommendations for Building Professional Expertise
1. Tonya Ward Singer’s EL Excellence Every Day: The Flip-To Guide for Differentiating Academic LiteracyThis book has some...
Have Fun Learning
If kids are having fun while learning a language, it is much more likely they will enjoy...
Personalize Literacy and Language Instruction with OverDrive E-Books and Audiobooks
OverDrive offers teachers an ever-growing collection of tools for literacy and language instruction and access to an...
Spanish Resources
Some free online resources for Spanish teachers
Teachers’ blogs:
Miscositas www.miscositas.com Lori Langer de Ramirez offers a plethora of resources for Spanish teachers: Thematic curriculum units with...