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Choosing Schools, and Battles
Daniel Ward refuses to be distracted by efforts to divide supporters of public education
The dogdays of summer have been rudely disturbed by the reaction to teachers’ leader Randi Weingarten’s linking of the federal government’s...
NEH & First Nations Combine to Revitalize Native American Languages
Despite being threatened with elimination under the proposed federal budget, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced a three-year partnership with First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) to foster the revitalization of...
PandaTree’s Dynamic New Learning Platform
PandaTree’s new live video tutoring platform gets kids engaged and motivated to learn languages by allowing them to put Mandarin or Spanish language skills to work in authentic virtual settings.
Tutors and students see each...
Faculty-Led Trips to Central & South America
AEA’s faculty-led Service Learning and Spanish Immersion Program gives students the opportunity to engage with a rural Costa Rican community while practicing language skills.
Through faculty-led homestays, organic farm visits, guided rainforest walks, culinary and...
February 2017
Inside February 2017 :
Community Service Jason Stricker explains how the Supporting Teacher Effectiveness Project helps create professional learning communities that work
No Method in the Madness Ann Abbott Carol Gaab questions the value of traditional teaching methods in the...
May 2016
No Student Is an Island
Globalization is here to stay, like it or not, so all of our educational systems should strive to produce graduates who are capable of operating in the international arena. This...
Music Educator Spreads Spanish Through Song
Sara Quintanar, an elementary school music educator, bilingual songwriter, and performance artist, has taken the international community by storm with her songs in Spanish for English-speakers to learn the language.
Her work in bilingual music...
Mass. House Pushes For Diversity in ELL Teaching
Last week, the Massachusetts House passed a bill that would eliminate “one size fits all” teaching for English Language Learners ( ELL ). The bill, H. 3736 or “An Act relative to language opportunity...
New Directions for Technology Use in ELL Instruction
As K–12 districts aim to improve learning for a wide range of students facing unique challenges, education leaders need to be particularly mindful of the English language learning (ELL) student population. Of all the students in public schools in the U.S., an estimated 9.3% were ELLs in the 2013–14 school year. Though ELL students have made strides in reading, leaping 22 points in average fourth-grade reading scores from 2000 to 2015, this group of students is consistently behind their non-ELL peers in this area.
Helping Bilingual Researchers
Melanie Curl demonstrates how using youth-friendly databases helps increase literacy among English language learner
In classrooms that include both English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers, educators face the unique challenge of teaching these...
