Tag: students
A Futile War
The War on Drugs
In 1998, the United Nations decided that it was going to eradicate drugs from planet Earth by 2008. The project was...
Rigorous Reading
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey suggest strategies to help students engage with complex texts
Fourth grader Mario sits at his desk, staring at the page...
Meeting Teachers’ Needs to Help Dyslexic Students Succeed
The beginning of a new year always brings new education policies and strategies. U.S. educators currently find themselves in a rapidly changing time for...
Testing Benefits
If you are an educator, chances are that you have had or will have a student who is learning English as an additional language....
Helping Students Find Their Voices
Imagine being a student whose family has recently immigrated to the U.S. Your family is often struggling to make ends meet, is undocumented, and...
Let Learning Emerge
Complexity theory (CT) deals with complex, dynamic, and nonlinear systems. When I first encountered CT some 20 years ago, it was not in...
The ESL Makeover
Danny Brassell gets over himself to make learning fun for all ages
When I first began teaching elementary school, my principal asked me if...
Speaking Spanish
First, let us take a look at what students are hoping for, what we are hoping for as teachers, and why speaking in class...
Breaking Barriers in Communication while Illustrating our Humanity
Michelle Zimmerman explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can facilitate communication and storytelling, and, thus, learning
LEILA: Why isn’t it talking? CUB: Is it a good...
A Pedagogy of Translanguaging
One day at recess, a distraught five-year-old approached me...
