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To Boost Higher-Order Thinking, Try Curation

Ron Morrain Take a look at my articles in IATEFL Business Issues Magazine titled *Mind Mapping Matters*, for another take on curation. This is great article and puts what can be a complicated teaching process into laymans terms. Thanks. Kyle Stern The presentation tool Emaze has a museum exhibit template that I’ve used in the past with ESL and Migrant students to curate various media to describe their culture or native country. The presentations felt like walking through a museum room. Cindy Love the idea! How do you apply to 2nd graders when they are limited to only programs the…

When a Principal Whips and Nae Naes

…your teachers any flexibility with the allotted for a district created/mandated schedule… there’s a big problem. Dawn Barrera Jennifer, I just LOVE reading your articles!!! I am a new ESL teacher— new as in first year, new to ESL, new as in late-40’s-stay-at-home-Mom-going-back-to-work new. My 3 kids are middle school and high schoolers now and I subbed for years and *loved* it and decided to jump in full time when they got to be this age. That decision has been one of the best ones I have ever made. My days are filled with seeing K-8th grade ESL students and…

Using Playlists to Differentiate Instruction

Listen to my interview with Tracy Enos or read the transcript here. In our never-ending quest to find better ways to differentiate and personalize instruction for students, we have plenty of options. I covered a lot of the basics in my Differentiation Starter Kit. Then last year we learned how math teacher Natalie McCutchen manages a self-paced classroom. And for ESL students, there are the Can-Do Descriptors. Now, Rhode Island teacher Tracy Enos shares her system for customizing instruction to meet the needs of every student. She calls it a playlist, an individualized digital assignment chart that students work through at their…

10 Ways Educators Can Take Action in Pursuit of Equity

…Culture Too often, our English learners are being taught in ways that marginalize them, undervalue their unique strengths, and limit their progress in core subjects. Noguera urges educators to push for something better. “When immigrant students feel included,” he says, “when they are taught by competent staff who are able to teach them not simply ESL classes, but in science, in math, they do quite well. In the same ways we want to mainstream special ed students, we want to make sure all kids have access to the full resources of the school and the curriculum. Immigrant students, whether they’re…

Who We Are

…as an elementary teacher in New York City’s public school system. I began my career at a charter school before earning a Masters in Teaching through the Teaching Fellows program. Since then, I have served as Model Teacher, Instructional Lead, Collaborative Coach, and mentor. I have dual certification in Common Branch and ESL. I also hold a Masters in Applied Linguistics. After 19 years in the classroom, I remain continuously enriched and inspired by my students, my colleagues, and the teaching profession in general. It is my absolute privilege and honor to join the Cult of Pedagogy team, where I hope to continue…

Episode 110: Ten Ways Educators Can Take Action in Pursuit of Equity

…education. We have to make sure that they get a quality education so that they’re going to be able to contribute to themselves and the society that they live in. What we know is that when immigrant students feel included, when they are taught by competent staff who are able to teach them not simply ESL classes, but in science, in math, because those kids have to take all the subjects, then we see immigrant kids can do quite well. Right now in many universities, a disproportionate number of the undergraduates are immigrant students, and they’re not just foreign students….

Words Matter: Language-Affirming Classrooms for Code-Switching Students

…(for ESL students) in School. https://www.ethicalesol.org/blog/hhryxasqrobl9b8gzcza24aj6x5w5q Kamenetz, A. (2019). 6 Potential Brain Benefits Of Bilingual Education. Npr.org. https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/11/29/497943749/6-potential-brain-benefits-of-bilingual-education Kamm, O. (2015, March). There Is No ‘Proper English’ Wall Street Journal. Ladson-Billings, G.J. (2014). Culturally Relevant Pedagogy 2.0: a.k.a. the Remix. Harvard Educational Review, 84, 74-84. Lippi-Green, R. (1994, January). Accent, Standard Language Ideology, and Discriminatory Pretext in the Courts. Language in Society, 23(2), 163-198. https://rosinalippi.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Lippi-Green1994Accent-standard-language-ideology-and-discriminatory-pretext-in-the-courts.pdf Otheguy, R., García, O., & Reid, W. (2015, October). Clarifying Translanguaging and Deconstructing Named Languages: A Perspective from Linguistics. Applied Linguistics Review, 6(3): 281–307 https://ofeliagarciadotorg.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/otheguyreidgarcia.pdf Yuhas, Daisy. (2021, November). How Brains Seamlessly Switch between Languages….

Supporting Intermediate English Learners in Every Subject

…the cafeteria. They have friends. They are in the community. They have experience being a student.” Despite this ease in navigating school and their social lives, these students can hit a wall when it comes to certain academic tasks. Huynh has personal experience with this. Having moved to the U.S. as a refugee at the age of 5, his only school experiences were in the U.S. “I went to the ESL program, and I exited in fifth grade,” he says. And that’s when his language support ended. “When you listen to me talk, you’re like, okay, he’s really fluent. We…

Episode 51: CommonLit

…of requests for going down to the younger grades. We do have plans in the next year or two to go to third and fourth grade. GONZALEZ: That would be nice. BROWN: And then go lower from there. We do have a lot of requests for translating these for teachers who are in an ESL classroom. So we’re thinking about ways to support those teachers. And then we’re also building full unit plans. So in December of 2017 we’ll be launching 50 unit plan guides. GONZALEZ: Wow. BROWN: So right now we’re sending these out to our teacher advisory board,…