Tag: california
Apply Now for California New Teacher Grant
Applications for 2022-23 Golden State Teacher Grant (GSTG), which provides up to $20,000 to support teachers and counselors, will be accepted through April 1, 2023, or until all funds have been awarded, whichever occurs...
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 addition to another language, represent over 50% of the state’s...
$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...
Making Good on a Promise to Multilingual Learners
In 2016, California passed Proposition 58, which eliminated subtractive linguistic schooling policies...
Académie Française Rails Against ‘Californisms’
France’s official authority on the vocabulary and grammar of its language has targeted a new threat: “les Californisms.”That’s the name the Académie Française (or in English, the French Academy) has come up with to...
Instructional Audio Solutions for All Students and Educators
Lightspeed, a provider of powerful instructional audio solutions, has released research showing that instructional audio solutions benefit all student groups and educators beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. With mask mandates and social distancing in place...
California Seeks to Expand Bilingual Teacher Prep
California has outlined several goals for its education system, which are rapidly approaching over the course of the next decade. Among these are plans to develop a universal preschool program by 2025, as well...
California Commits $3 Billion to Community Schools Strategy
Last month, California state superintendent Tony Thurmond announced the formation of an advisory board to help guide the work of the California Community Schools Partnership Program (CCSPP), which is being hailed as the largest...
California’s Commitment: Literacy, Biliteracy, and Libraries
I have only one critical comment about California’s Secretary of Education Thurmond’s task force report, “California Commits to Literacy and Bets on Biliteracy,” but after that, I have only praise and optimism.
The critical comment:...
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 research and policy report by Manuel Buenrostro & Julie Maxwell-Jolly,...