Engaging Language Learners

Seal of Biliteracy

The Seal of Biliteracy Marks a Milestone

ELL / ELA|K–12 Education|language Classroom|Languages and Culture

The Seal of Biliteracy is celebrating a well-deserved fifteenth anniversary this year. The seal, which recognizes...

Dynamic Classroom Interactions for Multilingual Learners

Designing Dynamic Classroom Interactions for Multilingual Learners

ELL / ELA|Instructor Resources|K–12 Education|language Classroom|Professional Development|Technology in the Language Classroom|Webinars

Designing dynamic classroom interaction allow teachers to design lessons that meet the individual instructional and...

Content Area Writing and Multilingual Learners

Content Area Writing and Multilingual Learners – Moving Towards an Asset Model

ELL / ELA|K–12 Education|language Classroom|Professional Development|Webinars|Writing

Writing as an academic process is both a complex and multifaceted endeavor. It involves having the writer...

How to Foster Language and Literacy Development in the Spanish Classroom

How to Foster Language and Literacy Development in the Spanish Classroom

ELL / ELA|K–12 Education|language Classroom|Professional Development|Webinars

As a student in a Basque/Spanish bilingual program in Spain and, a generation later, the mother of a student in a...

How to Foster Language and Literacy Development in the Spanish Classroom

Translanguaging: Defining and Describing Its Use with Second Language Learners

ELL / ELA|K–12 Education|language Classroom|Professional Development|Webinars

In its basic form, translanguaging is a theory of language practice. And, as in any theory applied to practice, it...

Superpowers for Building Writing Proficiency: Articulation and Alignment

Superpowers for Building Writing Proficiency: Articulation and Alignment

K–12 Education|Professional Development|Webinars

Proficiency in writing: How do we build skills that lead our students to communicate through writing, both in the...

How to Foster Language and Literacy Development in the Spanish Classroom

First and Second Language Writing: Is Their Development Aligned?

ELL / ELA|K–12 Education|language Classroom|Professional Development|Webinars

Carol Chomsky (1971) once stated, “children’s minds, at four, five, six, are far from linguistic empty space into...

How to Foster Language and Literacy Development in the Spanish Classroom

Empowering Multilingual Learners with Digital Resources

ELL / ELA|K–12 Education|language Classroom|Professional Development|Webinars

As an instructional coach, I get many questions about the use of educational technology with multilingual learners....

Superpowers for Building Writing Proficiency: Articulation and Alignment

Mixing It Up: Varying Our Approaches to Engage All Language Learners

K–12 Education|Professional Development|Webinars

It’s so easy to get into a routine, leaning on our “go-to” strategies for our lesson plans. There’s a certain...