Tag: 2015
December 2015
DECEMBER
2016 Year Planner Conferences, workshops, observances and grant deadlines
Open Doors Report More students than ever are U.S.-bound to learn
Nail Polish and Baseball Bats Diana Kennedy suggests “googling for content” to inspire students to read
Growing Global Educators Deborah Ellis engages students...
November 2015
Fact or FICTION: The PLOT thickens Stephen Krashen argues that self-selected pleasure reading of fiction is key to complex text comprehension for first- and second-language learners
Skills for a Multilingual, Global Learning Community Edynn Sato...
October 2015
B.O.O.S.T. Your Instruction!
Anne Paonessa finds ways to make the most of class contact time
Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves
Kristal Bivona on how increased access to communications technology has created new ways schools can...
September 2015
Namer of Thrones
Game of Thrones’ language creator, David J. Peterson, details his extraordinary career as Hollywood’s linguist-in-chief
Building to Code
Virginia “Jenny” Williams uses assessment and scaffolding to support the five stages of...
August 2015
Making Words Dance
Kwame Alexander and Chris Colderley explain why we need to read and write more poetry in (and outside of) the classroom
Precision Rotation
Lance Knowles applies real-world knowledge to the implementation of the...
July 2015
Telling Stories
Stephen Krashen on what to do and what not to do when reading aloud
Powering Pedagogy
Margaret Don offers solutions to the problems arising from using PowerPoint in the language classroom
Portuguese from Cape to Cape...
June 2015
Profile: Mohamed Abdel-Kader
The U.S. Department of Education's language boss shares his motivation and goals
Words + Pictures
Lina Sun sees the value of using graphic novels to help develop multiliteracies
French à la mode
Gaétan Mathieu sees bilingualism...
May 2015
All the School’s a Stage
Pilar Alvarez, education director at the Young Storytellers Foundation, explains how the organization boosts literary confidence
Boosting Brain Power
Erin Bell documents reading improvement through the implementation of research-based programs
Cutting to the...
April 2015
Cutting to the Common Core
Constructive Conversations
Constance Dziombak finds that quality academic conversations help ELLs to clarify and express their arguments
Audio Dissection
Seventeen-year-old Akshay Swaminathan shares his technique to improve world-language comprehension
Harnessing the Power of...
March 2015
Cutting to the Common Core
Fostering Academic Interaction
Kate Kinsella offers an action plan to encourage second language learners to participate in constructive classroom discussion
Stories Bring It Home
Kate Nguyen and Nile Stanley research resilience...