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How Monolingual Teachers Can Support English Language Acquisition for Multilingual Learners

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And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities. I wish I could thank Esther and tell her how much I have learned from our brief acquaintance.

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Can You Be a ‘Good Teacher’ Inside a Failing School?

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Carl Brownlee, a former United States Marine officer, is a middle school social studies teacher at Fisher Magnet Upper Academy. He opens up classes with hip-hop education from Flocabulary, then goes into worksheets, videos, group assignments, and desktop assignments—incorporating cell phone apps and music in the activities.

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