In Part I of this article, the authors explained how games can be effective instructional tools for language learners and describe the qualities that make games suitable for the classroom. In this ...

NASHUA – Most days, Danielle Boutin leaves work feeling as though she has failed. As one of precious few teachers to serve the 179 English Language Learners at Ledge Street Elementary School, she sees ...

A trending AI song went viral, but in my classroom, it did something even more powerful: it unlocked student voice. When teachers discuss AI in education, the conversation often focuses on risk: ...

Is dictation old-fashioned, too teacher-centered, and boring, or can it be fun, challenging, and a good way to spot students’ language strengths and weaknesses? A post “Why Dictation?” over at My ...

The teacher holds up a book, “Snowmen at Night” by Caralyn Buehner, and reads to 13 pre-schoolers at Prescott Elementary. As Danae Martin reads the story of a boy imagining what happened to his ...

Almost 10 percent of students in US public schools are English language learners (ELLs), and that percentage is growing every year. One of the biggest challenges today’s teachers face is helping ELLs ...

Curtiss Strietelmeier is a K–12 analyst for CDW•G. He spent two years as an elementary teacher, two years as an educational trainer, 10 years as a director of technology and six years as a school ...

The Amphitheater Public Schools district has 959 English-language learners receiving the required four hours of English instruction daily. Amphi is satisfying the state mandate with four-hour blocks ...

Charter schools, it turns out, are doing a better job of educating English-language learners than traditional public schools. That's a bright spot in an otherwise bleak report on Texas charters. And ...

NORWALK — When Oscar Cortez moved to Norwalk in 2013 and enrolled in high school, he worried about all the normal things new high school students worry about. But he also faced a hurdle most students ...

NASHUA – Imagine being a teenager with a native tongue of Spanish, Vietnamese, or Arabic and arriving at Nashua High School North or South. You end up working so hard just to fit in and learn English ...