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How Dialogue Journals Build Teacher-Student Relationships

21Aug2016

by Jennifer Gonzalez

Dialogue journals are a powerful tool for building trust with your students. Learn how they work.

Listenwise: Bringing World-Class Podcasts to the Classroom

15May2016

by Jennifer Gonzalez

Podcasts make wonderful texts, and they’re awesome for teaching listening skills. Listenwise is a platform that helps you make the most of them.

Can-Do Descriptors: A Free Tool for ESL Differentiation

31Jan2016

by Jennifer Gonzalez

If your non-English speaking students aren’t ready to do the regular class work, what should you have them do instead? This handy tool can help.

Teaching Corporate English in Kazakhstan

23Dec2014

by Jay Malone

In our first “Day in the Life” memoir, guest writer Jay Malone shares his experience in running an English-language school in Aktau, Kazakhstan.

12 Ways to Support English Learners in the Mainstream Classroom

11Dec2014

by Jennifer Gonzalez

Advice from three ESL teachers on the things regular classroom teachers can do to help English language learners thrive in mainstream classrooms.

Know Your Terms: Code Switching

19Jun2014

by Jennifer Gonzalez

Correcting nonstandard dialects doesn’t really help students learn to speak or write in formal English. So should teachers just let kids talk (and write) how they want?

How We Pronounce Student Names, and Why it Matters

14Apr2014

by Jennifer Gonzalez

Mutilating someone’s name is a tiny act of bigotry. Whether you intend to or not, what you’re communicating is this: Your name is different. Foreign. Weird. It’s not worth my time to get it right.

Race in the Classroom: There’s a Manual for That

24Mar2014

by Jennifer Gonzalez

83 percent of U.S. teachers are white. Nearly half our students are not. However uncomfortable it may be to talk about, this makes a difference. The good news is, a set of best practices is starting to emerge.

Know Your Terms: Nonlinguistic Representation

12Mar2014

by Jennifer Gonzalez

If you’ve ever heard a guy stop in the middle of an explanation and say, “Hold on, let me draw you a picture,” that dude is fixing to serve you a heaping plate of nonlinguistic representation.