Teaching math to English learners in middle and high school requires a nuanced approach. Those students are often at very different places in their language development and in their academic grounding ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...

Math isn’t just about numbers. It’s about language, too. Many math tasks involve reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These language demands can be particularly challenging for students whose ...

Excerpted from “Teaching Math to English Learners” by Adrian Mendoza with Tina Beene. Published by Seidlitz Education, 2022. Embracing academic conversations in the math classroom becomes routine when ...

For too long, California’s English learners — and the teachers guiding their education — have had to adapt to math curricula and textbooks that were not created with them in mind. Here in Fresno, we ...

In California and across the country, English learners are too frequently an afterthought. Though they are one of the largest student groups — California has more than 1 million students who are ...

There are layers upon layers of teaching going on here. Watts is teaching the kindergartners how to identify numbers. The math coaches are helping her plan a more effective lesson, while they learn ...

Schools are under constant pressure to make budget cuts, and music programs are often first on the chopping block. Now, an extensive study from the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that ...

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