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Welcoming English Language Learners into Your Middle School Classroom
It’s that time! The school year is beginning and you’re ready to welcome up to 180 new learners into your classroom. Whether you’re in your first...
Transitional Literacy and the Science of Reading in Grades 6-12
Transitional literacy focuses on bridging the gap between basic reading skills and more advanced literacy skills necessary for success during middle...
Unlocking Bi-Literacy: Strategies for Diverse Middle School Learners
Congratulations! You’re well into the first semester now. You’re developing new and solid relationships with your learners and creating a classroom...
Tackling Literacy Challenges for Emergent Bilingual Middle Schoolers
Do you ever have one of those days where you ponder, “What on Earth am I doing, and am I doing it right???” I did. Often. And they were often...
Little Known Tech Tools to Personalize Learning for Your Students
With schools thrust into online education models, it is more important than ever to ensure the proper support is in place for all students. How can...
Strategies for Building Vocabulary in Multilingual Learners
In my last post, I shared the success stories of two of my multilingual learners. I told you I used strategies, but I didn’t share which ones.
Improving Learning Outcomes for Your Busy Students
Toward the latter half of my son’s junior year in high school (he’s a junior in college now), I went with him to the meetings set up by the...
Tips for Student-Lead Classes
We’ve heard of Project-Based Learning (PBLs), which allows students to mostly have independent leadership through a task or project and creative...
Empowering Future Success: Fun and Effective Formative Assessments
With so much heated debate over the concept of teaching to the test, it almost seems counterintuitive to ask teachers to assess their students even...
8 Books to Promote Social Emotional Learning in Your Classroom
The wonderful thing about Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is it isn’t content-specific; it can span all curriculum and grade levels. Knowing the five...
Inspiring Success Stories of Emergent Bilingual Learners in Middle School
When I think about the success stories of my middle school emergent bilingual learners, I can’t help but smile. What about you? Sure, there were...
AP Psychology: Using Cognitive Psychology to Study Smarter
The start of a new year always a wonderful opportunity to introduce students to effective, research-backed methods for studying more effectively....