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Helping Native American Students Defy the Odds and Reach Their Full Potential

In August 2019, a welcome piece of news came from the University of Minnesota-Duluth: twelve Native American students were poised to begin their...

Biliteracy Seals Offer Hope, Recognition for EL Students

Millions of K–12 students in the United States are non-native English speakers or English learners (ELs), a status that has historically been seen as...

What If Every Student Had A Personalized Learning Plan?

In a 2019 opinion piece for online education news site the74million.org, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Paul Reville posed an...

English Learners and Dyslexia: A Guide

There are students who are English Learners (ELs), there are students who have dyslexia... and there are also ELs who have dyslexia. In a video...

Student-Led Literacy Support: Making Word Walls Work for All Students

Thanks to inclement weather, elementary school teacher and college lecturer Justine Bruyere stumbled onto an innovative way to build her young...

Project-Based Teaching and Learning: Designed with Students in Mind

To the ears of many, project-based learning is just another education buzzword laden with promise but unclear in definition. These days, the phrase...

Community Involvement 101: The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

Research shows that one of the most important predictors of school success and high school graduation occurs early in a student’s life: A 2013...

Take Your EL Classroom Outside! How to Use Gardening to Facilitate Conversation

There are several strands that feed into successful language acquisition for an English Learner (EL), as students must master skills such as...

Partnering with Students to Reduce Assessment Stress

Assessments are a hot topic in today’s data-driven education culture. Even veteran educators are learning new and different ways to assess their...

Teacher Engagement Benefits Student Progress in Lexia® Core5® Reading

This national study demonstrated that teacher engagement has a positive impact on student progress in Lexia® Core5® Reading.

Adolescent Literacy Crisis or Crisis of Student Engagement?

It is widely acknowledged today that too many adolescents lack sufficient literacy skills. The United States Department of Education has even...

Advantages of Learning Management Systems in K–12 Classrooms

Learning management systems (LMS) are software or web-based applications that provide a central, integrated space for educational resources,...