To bring our English learners and all of our students up to proficiency, lessons need to engage and motivate students to do the hard work of practice. To have a tool like Learning Upgrade, self paced, ...

Something to keep an eye on: A recent alum of the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a background in working with immigrant students is developing a lesson-sharing website specifically for ...

I’ve previously published a series on teachers’ favorite lessons for ELL newcomers. Now, it’s time to do the same for intermediate ELLs. Maria Cruz teaches English for speakers of other languages at ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

Sixteen-year-old Na Da Laing struggled in elementary school. "I was different from other students," she remembers. "I couldn't speak English at all." Now, eight years later, she's reading George ...

This is a critical moment for education in California. After years of attempting to educate students during a pandemic, districts across California are facing unprecedented teacher shortages and ...

The northeastern Alabama county has some of the highest concentrations of ELL students in the state.

Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were ...

Seven years later, children who start learning English in the first grade achieve poorer results in this subject than children whose first English lesson isn’t until the third grade. The researchers ...

Sixteen-year-old Na Da Laing struggled in elementary school. "I was different from other students," she remembers. "I couldn't speak English at all." Now, eight years later, she's reading George ...