… at wida, we hear from our featured educator and the person who nominated her... her husband! laura barry is an … a tv and vcr, and that was it,” she said. “now we have so many options.” laura’s really liked using a program called … has prepared students and teachers to handle whatever is to come. tommy agrees and has been impressed by just how much …
… illustration of speech bubble with newsletter and the words ensenando … bi/multilingual students, this is a fact that unlikely comes as a surprise. as a result of this pandemic, we need … waves of approval from external audiences, or mandates, but that exist and flourish because we do right by …
… merideth trahan and kenji hakuta. april 12, 2022 this edition of conversations with tim features a discussion between … were essentially assessments of vocabulary. we've come a long way from those kinds of assessments to trying to … you don’t have to build capacity in everybody through mandated training, you need to think about enabling strong …
… robb freeman where do you teach? what grade(s)? how long have you … two-way street. we want to do more than just have families come to us. for example, some of the staff and i volunteered …
… amanda kail headshot where do you teach? what grade(s)? how … arabic or spanish speakers. the vast majority of our els come from egypt or central america. our district is very …
… in may of this year, aguirre participated in a webinar sponsored by the national association of esea state program … collaboration with transact communications and brustein & manasevit . the title of the webinar was “serving english … with the stresses of the pandemic while also having to become home-teachers. educators need to be strategic and …
… bulthuis headshot where do you teach? what grade(s)? how long have you been a teacher and how long have you been at … spoken among our students. about 29% of our students come from spanish speaking homes and about 3% are self … all of our students bring very rich cultures with them, and many of our student families have historical connections to …
… maja standing in an exotic location july 8, 2021 “i chose to become an educator because i have a passion for supporting … the gold standard for our advocacy,” maja said. “the performance definitions and assessment tools help us to better …
… nallely gonzalez headshot october 22, 2021 “today’s students are our … help multilingual learners feel supported, according to amanda spalter, one of nallely’s internship supervisors, is … her school that may need help with english. helping others comes naturally to nallely. after high school, she plans to …
… some cases, even getting food or finding a place to live. once in a while, i was surprised to learn that some of the … while a hls is not a designation tool, it can present as many administrative challenges if it overidentifies … that we take a more holistic, dynamic approach when it comes to identifying ELs. Read the article to learn about …