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Important Dates for NABE 2021
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The Canticos Bilingual Preschool App, designed by educators for children ages 3-5, is both engaging and educational! Using 21st century skills, kids will learn foundational math, reading, art and social-emotional concepts in English and Spanish. Featuring award-winning bilingual videos, books, music and games, the Canticos App is available to download on  IOS and  Android .
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Call to reimagine English learner education
Language Magazine
The Coalition for English Learner Equity, a group of national education leaders and organizations, working together to improve educational outcomes for linguistically and culturally diverse students, has launched a new national effort to help address the education disparities faced by English learners across the nation. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed long-standing inequities and school systems are ill-equipped to meet the needs of EL students. This initiative addresses these challenges by providing guidance to district and state leaders as well as educators to reimagine the way this critical population is served in schools.
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Helping English language learners excel despite the distance
Verizon
Qasim Almjareesh uses technology to continue his studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. It's hard enough to learn in a second language without a pandemic keeping you out of the classroom. But Qasim Almjareesh — a newly minted eighth-grader at Newburg Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky — hasn't let that stop him. Our discussion with the Syrian immigrant and native Arabic speaker brought to light his experience with distance learning after COVID-19 pushed his school to shift to teaching virtually last spring.
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Teaching in-person and virtual students at once? It's an instructional nightmare, some educators say
Chalkbeat
Many of America's teachers expected to spend some of this school year teaching to a screen. They just didn't realize their students would be in front of them in a classroom, too. As schools reopen their doors, it's becoming more common for teachers to have both virtual and in-person students on their rosters every day. In many places, that's because students have been split into groups to allow for smaller classes. In other cases, families have opted to keep their children home, but they were not assigned a remote teacher.
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The learning curve: Distance learning poses more challenges for English learners
Voice of San Diego
A small, select group of San Diego Unified's most vulnerable students will be eligible to be come back to school for appointment-based, in-person learning. The group includes special education students and those who have fallen behind in their learning. One group it doesn't specifically include: English language learners. English learners are students with a different home language, who are not yet proficient in English. They make up nearly 20% of the roughly 500,000 students in San Diego County. Their unique learning needs make them less likely to be served well by online school, experts say.
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How can teachers help students grapple with the chaos surrounding us?
The Hechinger Report
No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. Even kindergartners have plenty of questions about the presidential election, the pandemic and the movement to end systemic racism. What's less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context.
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Ways to check for understanding virtually with culturally and linguistically diverse students
By Erick Herrmann
 Every teacher knows the importance of having students respond frequently and checking for understanding, as we need to be sure that the instruction we are providing is working, and that students are indeed learning. When it comes to culturally and linguistically diverse students, it becomes especially critical as students are learning new content in a new language. Yet, in our new era of virtual or hybrid teaching, we need to consider how we are assessing students and conducting checks for understanding through what is a new way of teaching and learning to many.
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5 of the most common virtual teaching challenges (plus how to tackle them)
We Are Teachers
Challenge #1: Frozen screens and tech problems galore. One of the most common frustrations is the hot mess of tech issues that come with trying to get thirty kids on the same call. Sometimes this happens at home, and sometimes as part of a partially live-streamed classroom. Even taking attendance can be a ten-minute process as students join and leave the call for various reasons, some including technical difficulties.
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Teachers struggle to recreate language-rich classes for English learners online
EdSource
When schools across California canceled in-person classes in the spring, some students lost crucial opportunities to learn and practice their new language — English. About one-fifth of students in California are learning English as a second language, and most of their classes are only in English. In order to learn to speak, read and write fluently, they need additional language classes and many opportunities to practice speaking and interacting with peers and teachers, which can be difficult remotely.
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Adapting assessment to personal learning
Language Magazine
The shift to online learning calls upon educators to reimagine the ways we structure our courses and facilitate the learning experience. With that comes the imperative to modify the way that we assess student learning. Even this fall term will be different from the swift move to online that many instructors experienced in the spring, now that we’ve had some months to get used to the idea of teaching online and have some experience under our belts.
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Hotter days widen racial gap in US schools, data shows
The New York Times
Rising temperatures are widening the racial achievement gap in United States schools, new research suggests, offering the latest evidence that the burdens of climate change fall disproportionately on people of color. In a paper published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, researchers found that students performed worse on standardized tests for every additional day of 80 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, even after controlling for other factors. Those effects held across 58 countries, suggesting a fundamental link between heat exposure and reduced learning.
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Federal per-pupil spending map gives rundown for each school and district
THE Journal
The United States Department of Education has launched an interactive map that shows how much money each school spends per student. So far, districts and schools in 20 states have been added to the map. The idea, according to the agency, is to "radically increase transparency as parents and local leaders seek to understand funding levels and differences between schools." ESSA, the Every Student Succeeds Act, requires each state to provide the data on "per pupil expenditures" as part of its public "report card" for each education agency.
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