You have never known weird until you have watched a student-made video project. While teaching To Kill a Mockingbird in 9 th grade English, I was about as unenthusiastic as my students for a ...

Using video can really help students understand things better, especially when the videos are like explainer videos they can relate to. You can check if students are getting it by asking questions ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

Not speaking English is a figurative wall that obstructs millions of immigrants in California from taking full advantage of the opportunities in their new home. Although there are plenty of places ...

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Science shows that learning a second language can help you solve problems more critically, focus more intensely, and even keep your brain sharp as you age. And that’s not even mentioning the practical ...

Focus group moderators asked participants if they were in the process of learning English, and what challenges they faced trying to learn the language. Participants shared various ways they learned or ...

A recent study out of Philadelphia tracked kindergartners who were learning English and found that four years later there were major discrepancies between which groups of students had mastered the ...

Humans are storytelling beings. As far as we know, no other species has the capacity for language and ability to use it in endlessly creative ways. From our earliest days, we name and describe things.