Tag: teaching
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...
Literacy Education in 2023
If you were tasked to pick one word to guide your work as a literacy changemaker in the new year, what would it be? As the new year is upon us, and the magnitude...
Tools for Teaching Transfer between Spanish and English
Sound–Spelling Transfer Kits are now being used in schools across the US to accelerate the progress of emerging bilingual students in grades K–2 and to facilitate the work of their teachers. These unique resources...
The Key to Reducing Teacher Burnout
Teachers play an incredibly important role: educating the young people who will one day shape our world. Yet 90% of educators say burnout is a serious problem.1 Even more alarmingly, 55% are seriously considering...
Collaborative Planning: Never Having to Go It Alone
This experience gave me the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues I don’t usually get the opportunity to work with, and we were able to support and help each other to get through the first...
Content, Language, and Culture Learning Targets
Lesson planning is a political act. Schools in the US, at the core, are designed to promote a monocultural and monolingual perspective of teaching and learning. As educators, the lessons we create and facilitate...
Co-Teaching for Capacity Building
Whether you are a school or district administrator, a coach or fellow educator, you must have encountered a colleague who felt lost when assigned to teach English learners,...
Rumi in the Language Classroom Vol 9: Over-Reliance on One Method
Rumi in the Language Classroom Vol 9
In the last volume of “Rumi in the Language Classroom”, the story of “a man and his cow” in Rumi’s “Masnavi-e-Manavi” is discussed. This is the story of...
Realia for Radical Teaching
Chasing the Gingerbread Man around the halls of my elementary school was the experience that made me fall in love with reading. Our class had just finished a book about him, and all of...
Grade Expectations
A week before spring break, I had a conversation with a student about language learning. Since I was a language learner myself, the student asked me for tips on learning a second language. Instead...