This model provides scaffolded active engagement and opportunities for guided practice to help students master new skills.

With the new Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA), the federal government has made teaching English Language Learners a priority through stronger accountability provisions and the authorization of ...

Margo Gottlieb answered questions about what it takes to create English-language-proficiency standards and assessments and how those tools can be used to improve instruction. Educators have struggled ...

NASHUA – Most days, Danielle Boutin leaves work feeling as though she has failed. As one of precious few teachers to serve the 179 English Language Learners at Ledge Street Elementary School, she sees ...

District-wide, 37% of students — 1,215 — are considered English Language Learners, with 60% classified as ELL students in Prairie Elementary’s Kindergarten through second grade.

In eighth grade, Pedro Marra’s parents told him and his brother Vinny they were going to pack everything up from their home in the bustling city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, for a new opportunity in Iowa ...

The number of English-language learners is on the rise. But schools with the biggest populations are in just a few areas of ...

A school year’s worth of short, accessible image-driven posts that invite a variety of kinds of writing. By The Learning Network Looking for new ways to get students reading and responding to ...

Looking for new ways to get students reading and responding to nonfiction? Try these exercises for discussion, writing and speaking. By Peggy Dimock A teacher of both English as a New Language and ...