As a curriculum and learning specialist at an elementary school in Verona, Wisconsin, l have the opportunity to work with amazing educators and students of all cultures; as a prior bilingual resource ...

Nationally, about 1 out of every 10 public school students is an English-language learner. And as a presenter pointed out during an education panel at last Friday’s Mount David Summit, the numbers are ...

Arizona education officials are giving school districts some room to diverge from a mandate that all English-language learners be taught specific English skills in classrooms separate from other ...

During the summer, I will be sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past nine years. You can see all those collections from the first eight years here. Five ...

The Roaring Fork School District recently appointed Basalt High teacher Sharon Moya to fill the district’s recently created district post of English language learner (ELL) instructional ...

Excel Academy East Boston, where the author taught English Language Learners and administered the ACCESS Test from 2020 to 2022 (photo via Google Maps.) Daniela is an energetic and chatty 13-year-old ...

Micah Castelo is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K-12. Her experience includes education and community news coverage for the Syracuse Post-Standard and international news reporting for the Pulitzer ...

Every year, Monica Mesa, principal of Longfellow Elementary School in Mesa, has to decide which school activities her more than 100 English-learning students will miss. Sometimes they'll miss ...

Twenty years ago, Licking Heights Local Schools was a rural district with a predominantly English-speaking student population. In 2023, a visitor walking down the hall might hear a group of students ...

Arizona is overhauling a state law that education advocates and researchers say has resulted in unintended segregation in Arizona's schools. The oft-debated Arizona law requires non-English speaking ...

During a routine review of the Wilder School District in the spring of 2020 — before COVID-19 shut down schools — the SDE found issues in 18 of 23 areas of the ELL program, far more citations than in ...