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How Monolingual Teachers Can Support English Language Acquisition for Multilingual Learners

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Odette guided Esther as she wrote her answers in English. “I She wanted me to know that although she could not yet speak English, she felt confident as a learner in her first language. Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers.

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Why Districts Are Turning to Esports to Reach More Learners

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Programs like this open new doors for students who don’t always see themselves represented in traditional extracurriculars, especially girls, multilingual learners and students with disabilities. Confidence: English Language learners improve through hands-on projects. Collaboration: Teams build shared purpose and community.

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6 ways to bolster STEM education for the future

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“The nation’s persistent inequities in access, participation, and success in STEM subjects that exist along racial, socioeconomic, gender, and geographic lines, as well as among students with disabilities, are therefore concerning and problematic. Next page: The 6 components of future STEM education.

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Trimming the Edtech Fat: How Districts Are Streamlining Their Digital Ecosystems

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Cot, assistant director of educational technology for the Massachusetts education department. Kyle Berger, chief technology officer, Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District, Texas. Reflection grounded in evidence, equity, and community voice is what many hope defines the next era of educational technology.

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Teaching Bilingual Learners in Rural Schools

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Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. But some rural schools are developing multilingual education strategies to rival those found in urban and suburban districts.

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When the Variability of All Learners Is Addressed

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As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. We, as an education community, must commit to the principles of Universal Design for Learning for the benefit of all learners.

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Helping All Learners Achieve Success on Their Own Terms

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Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Personalized Learning: Meeting the needs of students with disabilities. Bring on the learning revolution!