Nearly 50 Bilingual and ESL program directors and coordinators, from different school districts and charter schools in Region 4, came together this past Thursday to share best practices, collaborate with […]
El pasado 8 de abril, se llevó a cabo la Feria Educativa Hispana en la que más de 175 padres disfrutaron de acceso a recursos e información sobre cómo pueden […]
The Secondary ESL division delivered the official award letters to the ten immigrant ELL students who were chosen to attend the Close-Up Program in Washington D.C. this summer. The Close-Up […]
Research shows that if you are not a good listener, you won’t be a good reader. And since students can generally listen 2-3 grade levels above what they can read, […]
Cognates are words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation. Some cognate pairs may have the exact same spelling but different pronunciation (such as radio), others […]
Next week, the secondary ESL division will be delivering U.S. History EOC study materials to various high school campuses. These materials are targeted for specifically identified ELL students who still need […]
When English language learners struggle with reading comprehension, it can often be attributed to their difficulty with understanding the vocabulary. By using the strategies described in Building ELLs Academic Vocabulary Strategies […]
Newsela, launched in 2013, is a platform that gathers news from various sources and rewrites them according to students’ reading levels in grades 2 – 12. Now students can study the same content, […]
It is said laughter is the best medicine, but one teacher at Clements/Parsons Elementary School has found it to also be a pretty effective teaching technique. Source: Kdhnews.com By: Wendy Sledd […]
At 6 pm, on February 22nd, about 35 people gathered in Black Middle School’s cafeteria for the first immigration seminar for families. The event organized by Lilia Cerna, ESL […]
