Clarifying the Roles of Translating, Interpreting, and Translanguaging How to Effectively Incorporate Home Languages into Your Classroom Take a minute to consider your opinions on how and when multilingual learners (MLs) should use their home language in content classrooms (e.g., math, social studies, science). For each statement in Figure 1,…
Integrate More Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices into Your Classroom With This Free Tool Are you looking to integrate more culturally responsive teaching practices into your classroom this year? Are you wondering how to get started? A classroom library inventory can be a great entry point. Our free tool, Assessing Multicultural…
Are You Using this Protocol to Engage Multilingual Learners in Math? Gone are the days when we talked about math as a “universal language” and math assignments were merely columns of problems needing to be solved. Now, math classes are filled with opportunities for rich language use, and math can…
What are the Core Beliefs that Ground Your Work with Multilingual Learners? In the hecticness of our day-to-day responsibilities, it can be challenging to find the time to stop and reflect on the purpose that frames our work and the beliefs that guide us. However, as advocates for multilingual learners…
The start of a new school year marks an excellent time to determine priorities and set goals that encourage and support the success of our ELs. One topic to consider as you begin the 2019-2020 school year might be EL family engagement. In this blog post, I will discuss why EL…
Engaging English Learners (ELs) in Academic Conversations Imagine this scene… your students are in small groups using images from a story that you recently read to discuss the story’s themes. As you kneel down to listen in on one group’s conversation, you overhear one of your quieter English learners say…
