Literacy/ESL
Young Readers Struggle in Different Ways
Many children struggle to learn to read, and studies have shown that students from a lower socioeconomic status (SES) background are more likely to...
Can Teaching English Like Spanish Close the Achievement Gap?
If you have even a passing knowledge of Spanish, you know the ns in montaña are different. You can see it. But English isn’t...
Identifying Equitable Intervention
For multilingual learners struggling academically or with...
Multiliteracies and Multilingual Learners
Equipped with Miami Linguistic Readers, Camino de la Escuela, and my own ingenuity, my young multilingual learners and I dived into what we believed...
Supporting Our Youngest Dual Language Learners
California is home to more dual language learners (DLLs) than any other state, both in number and share. DLLs, or children learning English in...
United for Bilingual Education
As we move further into the millennium, many national and local educational systems are considering how best to meet the changing needs and demands...
English Divide in Francophone West Africa
Sub Saharan Africa ranks among the regions in the world where education exclusion is the highest. In fact, according to UNESCO Information Statistics: “Over...
The Benefits of Recognizing Biliteracy
Multilingual learners at West Aurora High School in Illinois garnered outstanding results when personally invited to a free testing opportunity to earn biliteracy recognition....
Celebrate Banned Books Week by Exercising Your Right to Read
Banned Books Week is an annual event that celebrates the freedom to read and draws attention to the harms of censorship.
Banned Books Week...
TOEFL Post Pandemic
Just as the rest of the education industry has learned, adapted, and pivoted over the last two and a half years, so too has...
$27 Million in Literacy and Biliteracy Supports for CA Students
California state superintendent of public instruction Tony...
Unifying Language Acquisition with Literacy Instruction for Language-Minority Students
Lexia Learning, a company specializing in structured literacy, recently convened a roundtable on a subject that has been...
EL Teachers Need More Math Support
Even though nearly 20% of students in California K-12 schools are English Learners, the latest research from EdTrust...
The Science of the Bilingual Reading Brain
“We are plural. The I is an illusion: bilinguals know this, they are hybrid like the words inside them, surprised halfway on the translation...
Motivate Readers Now!
No one disputes the benefits of extensive reading (ER) for students of English. There is a substantial body of evidence supporting using graded readers...
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...