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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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From the Marine Corps to the Classroom

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Name : Annie Talley Ochoa Age : 44 Current town : Cupertino, California College : Alliant University through a TeachStart Fellowship Area of study : High school social studies Hometown : Corona, California EdSurge: When did you realize that you wanted to become a teacher? No one noticed that I had a learning disability.

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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. It does not matter if they came to you four grades behind, if that child’s family is impoverished, or if the child has any type of learning disability that may be undiagnosed,” says Brownlee. “It

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