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By Erick Herrmann (commentary)
Many, many schools have started the new school year with a major shift in instruction. As teachers return to working with emergent bilinguals and English learners, teachers are having to reexamine the tried-and-true strategies they have used to build language instruction and practice into the curriculum across all of the content areas. The strategies we are used to using cannot function the way they did in the past.
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NABE
The NABE Executive Board held its annual organization and strategic planning meeting on July 3 via Virtual Zoom due to the COVID -19 Pandemic.
Following the oath of office for the newly elected board members: Dr. Margarita Machado-Casas - Western Region Representative; Dr. Sonia Soltero - Central Region Representative; Dr. Miriam Ebsworth - Eastern Region Representative; and Dr. Myrna Rasmussen – Central Region Representative (appointed to complete an unfinished term).
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Little Sponges® interactive language program makes language learning fun and accessible from anywhere! The program offers a research-based curriculum and courses in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, and Russian for students in PK-2nd grade. Students can use the program in school & at home on any device. Educators and parents can track progress via assessments and robust analytics. Watch a demo video at little-sponges.com.
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Important Dates for NABE 2021
Call for Proposals:
Opens: September 8th, 2020
Closes: October 30, 2020
Conference Registration
Opens: October 1, 2020
Student Essay Competition
Opens: October 1, 2020
Closes: November 11, 2020
NABE 2021 Call for Proposals-Proposal Submission is now open!
Deadline to submit your proposal: October 30, 2020
Click here for more information.
Check out the latest trend in Professional Development
NABE offers Digital Badges in Dual Language
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NABE Digital Badge #4: The Goal of Biliteracy Now Available!
NABE's fourth badge, Biliteracy, examines the elements and practices that need to be in place in a dual language program in order to provide an environment that promotes biliteracy and ensures academic achievement in two languages.
For more information, visit nabe.readylxp.com
AFT
The nation's teachers and parents are seeing through the Trump administration’s chaos and disinformation over reopening schools this fall, new polling shows. And while supermajorities of the poll's respondents fear they or their child will be infected with the virus, they are united behind the need to secure safety measures and the resources to pay for them, so students can return to in-person learning.
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Expertise
This project will increase the pipeline of Hispanic high school students prepared and motivated to pursue careers in biomedical and behavioral sciences and engineering by recruiting and engaging students and teachers from underrepresented and underprivileged high schools in multi-tiered mentoring environment and research-focused curriculum.
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Senator Brian Schatz
U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) introduced a bipartisan bill that would extend two key statutory deadlines for the 2020 Census by four months and require the Census Bureau to continue field operations through October 31, 2020. Delays in census operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic could result in a severe undercount of the population, specifically in Native, minority, and rural communities across the country. These extensions would allow the Census Bureau to continue collecting and processing data, which will lead to a more accurate count.
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Houston Public Media
For months, Jocelyn Ramos imagined how she'd decorate her very own classroom for her first year of teaching: bright colors and a warm, rainbow theme. She just never expected it'd be at her house. "This is probably my favorite part because it just feels welcoming," Ramos said in a video tour. "It's a welcome bulletin board. It says 'Bienvenidos.'"
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The 74
During particularly harsh winters when schools are closed, states require students to make up any days they miss. So why aren't states requiring students to make up the learning time they lose due to COVID-19 disruptions? The logistics would be daunting, for sure, but it's a question we should be asking. Based on my series on how students were affected in the aftermath of an earthquake in Pakistan, flooding in Thailand and a series of teacher strikes in Argentina, it's clear that children suffer short- and long-term consequences when they miss school.
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Education Week
The Schenectady, N.Y., school district realized it needed to do better by its students of color: The vast majority of its teachers were white, while less than a third of students are. A couple years ago, the district began ramping up its efforts to hire more teachers of color, as well as provide anti-racist training for its staff. The Albany-area district was highlighted by the state education department and other groups for its efforts, which included recruiting a more diverse pool of educators, building relationships with historically Black colleges and universities, and creating affinity spaces to help educators of color feel supported once on staff.
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eSchool News (commentary)
We find ourselves working in some interesting places these days. Today, my office is the home of my great-grandparents in a small Minnesota town. It’s a simple house, and full of reminders of what life and education would have looked like nearly a century ago: a one room schoolhouse, with one teacher but students of varying ages, in the midst of the Great Depression.
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University of Alberta via Phys.org
A sizable proportion of junior high school students whose first language is not English are falling behind in oral language and literacy skills, according to a recent U of A linguistics study. After testing 227 Edmonton and Vancouver English language learners in grades 7 to 9, Johanne Paradis and her colleagues found that many performed below their monolingual classmates for vocabulary size, understanding of word meanings, grammar and reading comprehension.
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Language Magazine
The idea of asset-based and responsive education coined in the ELA/ELD road map is a key element in well-designed and effectively implemented dual-immersion programs. It is widely understood that the language/s spoken, developed at home, and/or acquired and learned at school have a long-standing influence in the building of social and individual identities.
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Georgetown University Medical Center via Science Daily
Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, of sorts, say neuroscientists. Whereas adults process most discrete neural tasks in specific areas in one or the other of their brain's two hemispheres, youngsters use both the right and left hemispheres to do the same task. The finding suggests a possible reason why children appear to recover from neural injury much easier than adults.
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By Douglas Magrath (commentary)
Testing in ESL is the means of assessing the learners' progress in specific skill areas. Teachers need to make their own tests to measure the learners' progress to examine specific skill areas and to discover deficiencies. Some books come with premade tests, or the ESL department may provide tests, but most teachers will have to develop their own tests during a given course.
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EdSurge
If you want to effortlessly become an expert in a new language, you're probably too late. That's an opportunity largely reserved for children. And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. They embark on the difficult journey for different reasons. Some want to gain better job prospects, others seek to socialize in new circles, while still others just want an educational way to entertain themselves.
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Patch
When she was an 8-year-old refugee from Vietnam, Samantha Nguyen felt ashamed to speak English in front of her New York City classmates after they made fun of how she pronounced certain words. That's why now, as a kindergarten and first-grade teacher of children learning English as a new language, she focuses on creating trust among her students early on.
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Education DIVE
As schools ease into the new academic year, many district administrators are sending students and educators outside to abide by social distancing rules and minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission. Although the Center for Disease Control recently urged schools to look for ways to utilize outdoor spaces for expanded learning opportunities, outdoor classes are nothing new: Open-air learning spaces were successfully used in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of tuberculosis. Current studies show COVID-19 is also less likely to spread outdoors.
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Language Magazine
Bilingual children and adolescents may grow up with more grey matter, according to a new study published in Brain Structure and Function, in which an international team of academics led by the U.K.'s University of Reading and the U.S. Georgetown University examined detailed scans of children's and adolescents' brains and found that bilingual participants had potential advantages of both grey and white matter than similarly-aged monolingual children.
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We Are Teachers
You know the drill. You open Facebook to wind down at the end of the day and there it is. A notification that your student's parent has sent you a friend request. You pause and debate whether to accept because we all know that teaching is most effective when we have strong relationships with students, parents and caregivers. But we also know that when those relationships shift from professional to personal it can be difficult, if not impossible, to maintain boundaries.
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The 74
American schools' responses to COVID-19's sudden interruption to public education varied considerably across the nation as students went from daily classroom learning to stay-at-home orders nearly overnight. Now, a new survey reveals the limits of that patchwork response to the emergency — and indicates key lessons for schools' reopening this fall.
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Teaching Channel
While the pandemic has drastically changed our social lives, it also greatly shifted the way our students experience education. To the surprise of many, students across the nation ceased traditional classroom education in place of what most school districts refer to as "distance learning." While many parents were initially unhappy about this change, as they felt it may deter their child's education, we can actually take advantage of this shift to rethink how we see education.
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District Administration Magazine
The U.S. Education Department posted a statement on its Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund webpage saying that the interim final rule requiring states to allocate the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Pub. L. No. 116-136, is no longer in effect. ED's statement was made public a few days after the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. DeVos, 120 LRP 26741 (D.D.C. 09/04/20), in which Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia ruled ED exceeded its authority when it released the IFR.
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The Mercury
The Manhattan-Ogden school district has children from more than 70 countries who speak more than 40 different languages. The task to ensure the children and their families have the translation services they need for an academic experience equivalent to their peers whose native tongue is English falls on Emily Cherms, English for Speakers of Other Languages program coordinator.
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