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How can educators ensure that emerging bilingual students are well served in their schools, and how can we as educators foster linguistic diversity as an asset rather than as a problem? Who Are Emergent Bilinguals?As of fall 2018, 10.2% of public school students in the US were identified as English […]

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Afghanistan is facing a worsening humanitarian crisis, and it’s hitting children especially hard. When the Taliban took control back in August, most Western funding was cut off and the country’s assets were frozen. Without this money, the economy has collapsed, most health facilities have closed and people are unable to […]

After enjoying each word, students may take on another challenge: Choose one of them and try it out in a sentence, then post your sentence to our comments section. Better yet, try using it in your next conversation. Winner Rohana Khattak, Islamabad, Pakistan oblivionaire (noun) A billionaire who chooses to […]

By Frank Adamson, Assistant Professor of Education Leadership and Policy Studies at California State University, Sacramento and author of a background paper for the 2021/2 GEM Report The title of the 2021/2 GEM Report, Who chooses? Who loses? invokes the notion of ‘school choice’, a term encapsulating Milton Friedman’s market-based […]

The “normal” classroom is not one where every 8-year-old is meeting 8-year-old developmental markers, or where every 15 year old has the same reading level. This is reality. When you have an infant, you’re looking for signs that they’re developing normally at the appropriate, expected pace. You’re watching for the […]

We’ve just posted a new blog post by Dr. Albrecht in our “Library Service, Safety, & Security” section of Library 2.0: “Dealing with Disruptive Teens / Tweens in the Library.” This post is part of a new Library 2.0 feature, “Ask Dr. Steve.” QUESTION: The scenario that we get most often is […]

Lynn How Lynn has been teaching for 20 years, during which time she has been an Assistant Head, Lead Mentor for ITT and SENCO. She loves to write and has her own blog: www.positiveyoungmind.com. She has also just taken up the position of editor of Teacher Toolkit…. Read more about […]

Chemical reactions happen around us all the time. These reactions occur when we cook or bake and even in our bodies, like when we breathe. Everyday objects are able to react and cause incredible reactions. Here are some easy science experiments you can create using things you can find around […]