Testing in Place
In 2017, California Assembly Bill (AB) 705, by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, was drafted to eliminate placement bias and grant greater access for students...
Rigorous Reading
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey suggest strategies to help students engage with complex texts
Fourth grader Mario sits at...
Immigrants, Their Languages, and Their Children
Alex Poole presents three modest principles to facilitate familial bilingualism
Headlines like “Majority of Americans Want Immigrants to Learn English, Poll Says” (Benedetti, 2013),...
Enjoyable Testing that Works, Really
Deborah Blaz finds that integrated performance assessments motivate students
If you Google “IPA,” you will first find lots of posts about alcohol (India...
All You Need is Read
Dianne Henderson and Gene Kerns offer practical strategies to help all students reap the benefits of reading
A new report...
When One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Sara Davila addresses the challenges of mixed-ability classrooms
Have you often found that, even with a reliable placement test, many...
Evaluating Continuing Education
Julie Yaeger explains how to find the perfect professional learning fit
As teachers, we all buy in to the power of learning. Learning keeps...
How to Train Your English Teacher
Teaching English online is exploding in popularity, which is great news for teachers and learners as it is much more flexible and opens up many opportunities for...
Sharing Selfie Improvement
Outside singles competitions—say, in tennis or the shot put or figure skating—there are very few truly individual athletes. And even for those athletes, odds are they’re not...
Oct. 5 is #WorldTeachersDay
October 5 is World Teachers' Day and this year the theme is "Young Teachers: The Future of the Profession." The following is an excerpt from a...