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Schools must do more to help families overcome language barriers

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residents who speak a language other than English at home. I talk to a lot of parents, both as a parent myself and in my work advocating for language services. What I hear is that while public, magnet, and charter schools are legally required to offer language services, schools simply aren’t using interpreters as much as they should.

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Lights, camera, literacy: Student-created book reviews inspire a global reading culture

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Project overview: Reading, recording, and reaching the world As an ESL teacher, Ive always looked for ways to make literacy feel meaningful and empowering, especially for students navigating a new language and culture. Her work demonstrated not only strong literacy skills but also digital fluency and a growing sense of self-expression.

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AEF Schools: Empowering Students with Individualized Learning, Social Growth, and Real-World Skills

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With small class sizes, individualized instruction, and a focus on executive functioning, social-emotional growth, and life skills, AEF offers a unique educational experience tailored to each students needs. These platforms allow students to practice skills at their own pace while giving teachers real-time insights into their progress.

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How to help ESL students improve writing skills

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Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. Above-average writing skills are a must here to succeed.

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What I learned building an AI tool for my own kids (and millions more worldwide)

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Throw out the traditional app playbook When my family and I moved from Siberia to California in 2014, my daughter Sofia had to adjust to a whole new language at preschool. Watching her struggle, I realized language-learning tools just werent designed for kids.

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This ESL teacher ensures students learn the language–and feel the love

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You just start small, using photo cards, and expanding their reach, just like you would with a baby, by trying to fill their world with language. In the beginning, it means very basic language that you build on. Also, something that is also very important to me is that they preserve their home language. Her family is] Honduran.

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4 tools to help students build post-COVID research skills

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However, as educators begin to consider how to evolve education to meet the needs of our students today and in the future, we have before us the enormous task of shoring up students’ academic skills that may have eroded during the “emergency teaching” era. The good news is that there are a host of edtech resources to support this.

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