What messages do students and all stakeholders receive about bilingualism/multilingualism on your campus & community? & How are those messages sent? No deficit here. Being bilingual is POWERFUL 💥

Yes!!!! Big step is being intentional with schedules to foster the collaborative planning time…

This is a predictable study outcome: 👉 Our failure to teach kids grammar essentials has a cost in their ability to comprehend what they read. Great example here. From Natalie Wexler’s latest on the importance of teaching the humble sentence to students: nataliewexler.substack.com/p/to-help-stud…

Only 33% of fourth graders are proficient in reading. We cannot expect them to learn to read if we don't HELP them learn to read. Improving children's background knowledge & vocabulary, along with teaching phonics, are critical components for learning to read. #EarlyLiteracy

It’s so hard keeping the shwa out of the /w/ sound. Check out the trick we use in Kindergarten! ⁦Science of Reading Classroom⁩ ⁦Tools 4 Reading⁩ #SoR #phonemes #articulation #structuredliteracy

Leaders, consider sharing this with math teachers and coaches who want to support student dialogue! (Via instructional leader Mrs. Brooks) #MTBoS #ITeachMath

🤯 wait… there are redacted text fonts in Google Docs!? That is so cool! #GoogleWorkspaceEdu #gSuiteEdu #GoogleEdu #EdTech #GoogleET #GEG #GlobalGEG #GoogleEI #TeachWithChrome #GoogleDocs #EduTech #EduTwitter #ETCoaches #BlendedLearning x.com/tonyvincent/st…

Five Ways to Scaffold Classroom Dialogue buff.ly/3GxejoD via Tom Sherrington David Goodwin

In this article, you'll find: 4⃣ways to build vocabulary 3⃣ways to build knowledge through language 2⃣ specific approaches to classroom discussion that can build knowledge 1⃣great argument for building knowledge from birth @ClassroomWonder @ascd ascd.org/blogs/the-lang…

Yessss!!!! We can make connections for our Spanish-speaking MLs!

A Research-Backed Toolkit of What Works—and Doesn’t Work—in Education | Edutopia edutopia.org/article/resear…

Academic conversation starters via the fab duo 🌍 Dr. Michelle Shory 💻 and Irina McGrath, Ph.D..

More peer to peer interaction, structured conversations, content and language objectives, interactive word walls with student work! Yes, let’s keep pushing towards classroom practices that promote intentional language acquisition while simultaneously learning grade level content.

Visuals are powerful💥, especially for teaching #MultilingualLearners. I'm delighted to share with you this VISUAL representation of the many types you can use to support MLs. *Created in collaboration with ideas💡from the fabulous Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld.

⚡🪜⬆Level Up! Think-Pair-Share⚡🪜⬆ sbee.link/x4ghbekpfq via scholarlyteacher #teachertwitter #edutwitter #k12

Give him the ball and he’ll score every time ❤️

Learn how teachers draw on their students’ diverse language practices as resources in their learning! This five-episode series is available 24/7 at bit.ly/3Iu8YPh. #PD #teacherchat

Yes! All of the above are needed! It’s not an either OR, it’s this AND that!

“[R]esearch finds that kids are more likely to learn what is taught in a small group than in the whole class.” (Shanahan, 2024). The challenge is to figure out HOW. shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/what-is-t…