Literacy/ESL
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 Thurmond has announced a new $27 million digital literacy partnership that will provide free bilingual early literacy...
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...
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...
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...
A Superpower Hidden in Plain Sight
How can educators ensure that emerging bilingual students are well served in their schools, and how can we as educators foster linguistic...
Creating a Supportive SEL Forum for English Learner Lesson Contributions
The Need for Re-engaging English Learners Socially and...
Directory of Best-Practice Programs for Diverse Language Learners
To help connect educational innovations with the learners who want and need them most, the America’s Languages Working Group is launching a first-of-its-kind...
Connecting the Community
I’m the principal at Brookwood Elementary, where we serve more than 1,200 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Approximately 10% of our students are...
The 3 Es of Using Translated Materials
Social–emotional learning (SEL) has gained traction in education over the last 20 years. Over the previous two years, it has held a prominent place...