The hand movement is a visual cue meant to help the 13 English learners in the class of 19 students grasp the meaning of the complex word. Gomez learned the trick from Olga Dietz, who co-teaches with ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing Controversies over how best to teach children to read go back many years. Most recently, two questions have emerged that ...

Marlena Young-Jones has taught in Russellville City Schools for almost 11 years. Most of that time was spent as a 2nd grade general elementary teacher. In her last 2nd grade class at West Elementary, ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Low statewide reading scores have sparked many advocates to call for California to adopt a so-called structured literacy curriculum that ...

Boston College’s TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate program is designed to prepare future English language educators with the essential skills, knowledge, and ...

While Colorado is seeing some improvement in reading instruction, some students continue to struggle. As a result, the Colorado Department of Education is seeking $3.3 million in the 2025-26 education ...

At Lew Wallace School 107, principal Arthur Hinton sees students come from all over the world. The sounds of Spanish, Swahili, Kinyarwanda, and Arabic can fill the halls of the K-6 school on the west ...

This article was originally published in EdSource. Schools are still required under federal and state law to help students who don’t speak English to both learn the language and understand the content ...

Elizabeth Barrientos went through DeKalb County Schools in northern Alabama as a native Spanish speaker. Born in Gadsden, Barrientos and her family have been in Collinsville for about 30 years after ...

A new program wants to help Indiana teachers get licensed to teach the state’s growing population of English language learners. The Indiana Teacher of English Language Learners, or I-TELL, program ...

Louisiana’s first alternative program to certify teachers of English learners will seek final approval Wednesday from the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in hopes of addressing a shortage ...