The hand movement is a visual cue meant to help the 13 English learners in the class of 19 students grasp the meaning of the complex word. Gomez learned the trick from Olga Dietz, who co-teaches with ...

Teachers can’t hold back the ways social, political, and technological changes disrupt their students’ lives. But teachers have the power to help their students adapt to and thrive in an evolving ...

While teaching English language learners has always been a formidable challenge in Houston ISD, some educators say the job has become increasingly difficult this year because they face enormous ...

If you teach English learners, you already know the daily puzzle: a classroom full of students at five or six different ...

If Lake Elementary School had looked only at the student’s math assessment in English, teachers would have worried about him. But when he took the same exam in Spanish, Principal Paola Elena Zepher ...