Educators often diminish the importance of focusing on students’ skills in speaking and listening in English as well as reading and writing, says a thoughtful post over at a new blog created by ...

A new book, Formative Assessment for Literacy: Grades K-6, provides some help for regular elementary or reading teachers who have ELLs in their classrooms. The book, published by Corwin Press, isn’t ...

Since the pandemic started, teachers and students have had to transition from brick-and-mortar classrooms to virtual environments, and back. During this time, learning loss–the reversal of academic ...

Micah Castelo is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K-12. Her experience includes education and community news coverage for the Syracuse Post-Standard and international news reporting for the Pulitzer ...

Punjabi students are pictured here in August during a Whiteland High School Punjabi class. The growing Punjabi population is driving much of the demand for English Language Learner classes at the ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

Kelly Hill instructed her class of middle schoolers to talk. "I want to hear a rumble in the room," she said. "Everybody should be talking." Four students in a cluster occasionally wove Spanish words ...

"As an ELL teacher in a regular classroom, it would make my job easier versus we're all spread out and have meetings on top of meetings," Kindschi said. "It gets difficult to collaborate. With second ...

Teachers need support to succeed in a post-pandemic climate, including technology and additional opportunities for ELLs to build their learning Since the pandemic started, teachers and students have ...