STEM Is Not Only a Course, It’s an Experience
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is not a single course. First, let me explain what STEM stands...
SLU and BloomBoard Collaborate to Help ParaprofessionalsGet Certified
Saint Louis University (SLU) School of Education and BloomBoard have partnered to develop collaborative strategies with school districts and educational leaders to enhance the number of pre-k–12 teachers to meet the needs of today’s...
The Aperture System Assesses SEL Competence
The Aperture System from Aperture Education houses the DESSA, a nationally standardized, strength-based behavior rating scale that assesses students’ social and emotional competence in eight key areas: self-awareness, optimistic thinking, self-management, goal-directed behavior, decision...
The Science of the Bilingual Reading Brain
“We are plural. The I is an illusion: bilinguals know this, they are hybrid like the words...
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 by the rapid adoption of technology at scale to mitigate...
New Key to Fluctuating Language Ability?
For years, the brain has been thought of as a biological computer that processes information through traditional circuits, whereby data zips straight from one cell to another. While that model is still accurate, a...
UNESCO Sees Role of EdTech in Multilingual Learning
The theme of last month’s International Mother Language Day, “Using technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities,” raised the potential of technology to advance multilingual education and support the development of quality teaching...
Encouraging Spanish/Portuguese Collaboration
During last month’s Second International Conference on Portuguese and Spanish Languages (CILPE) in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, leading Ibero-American language experts came together to create an action plan to strengthen Spanish and Portuguese in...
The Metaverse and Language Education
In the 1990s, the animated television series The Magic School Bus became well-known for its louder-than-life main character Ms. Frizzle, who took her students on wild and zany field trips that defied all...
Dogs Can Differentiate Languages
Dog brains can detect speech and show different activity patterns to familiar and unfamiliar languages, according to a new brain-imaging study published in NeuroImage (“Speech Naturalness Detection and Language Representation in the Dog Brain”)...