Since the pandemic started, teachers and students have had to transition from brick-and-mortar classrooms to virtual environments, and back. During this time, learning loss–the reversal of academic ...

During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 11 years. You can see all those collections from the first 10 years here. Today’s theme is ...

Eight member of the English Learners Task Force have resigned in protest of parts of the new Inclusive Education Plan moving the majority of English Language Learners to General Education classrooms. ...

When I started teaching in California’s public schools 30 years ago, it was the beginning of the so-called English-only movement. “Qualified teachers” for multilingual learners were chosen to teach if ...

Punjabi students are pictured here in August during a Whiteland High School Punjabi class. The growing Punjabi population is driving much of the demand for English Language Learner classes at the ...

Marisa DeSerio, who teaches English-language learners at Pulaski Street Intermediate School in Riverhead, makes changes to her lessons every year. In the past two years, though, she’s tinkered even ...

Kelly Hill instructed her class of middle schoolers to talk. "I want to hear a rumble in the room," she said. "Everybody should be talking." Four students in a cluster occasionally wove Spanish words ...

Though every student has experienced the pandemic differently, ELLs have fallen further behind than their peers, which potentially affects their future education and career outcomes. Whether we use ...