Rethink how academic languaging can transform content area teaching For years, the teaching of content-based academic language to multilingual learners has focused on formulas, vocabulary lists, and sentence patterns―often sidelining students’ linguistic and cultural strengths. Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Margo Gottlieb address these challenges by embracing academic languaging, an active, collaborative student-driven process. Academic Languaging offers strategies to integrate language and content le...
Jul 31, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 224
Elise White Diaz is well-versed in the challenges facing diverse students from difficult backgrounds. Prior to her work in public education, Elise’s passion for trauma-informed pedagogy began when she moved to Tegucigalpa, Honduras to serve at a school for child laborers in the garbage dump. There she taught bilingual and ESL education at the secondary level, and learned so much from her students who overcame obstacles and went on to college. Upon returning to the United States, Elise brought he...
May 08, 2025•43 min•Ep. 223
Engage, Empower, Educate: Unleash the Potential of Multilingual Learners What′s your "why" for being a teacher? Unlike other professionals, teachers often have strong reasons for why they teach and a clear sense of purpose. Acknowledging and understanding this purpose helps educators to not just do what they do but do it well. This illustrated guide was designed for all classroom teachers to emphasize the unique challenges and opportunities that arise in multilingual learner education. Using Sim...
Mar 16, 2025•38 min•Ep. 222
This book is written for teachers with intellectual agility, compassionate hearts, and creative minds — those who want to support their students and appreciate specific strategies. This essential guide is compact, research-based, and includes the most basic supports. It's accessible with ideas that can be implemented in a teacher's established or current structure. This book will provide secondary teachers with essential tools to support Multilingual Learners (MLs) in your classes. After reading ...
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 221
Here is an example of the newcomer hub Megan talked about: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Fxo0d6labSdIBCQwL92ln0X4mcO48WXSbT2Hna6IgEQ/edit#slide=id.p She is generously sharing her email to those who want to know more about the newcomer hub: megan_dreher@fis.edu
Oct 20, 2024•31 min•Ep. 220
One in five students are identified as speaking English as an Additional Language (EAL) and all teachers are highly likely to be teaching multilingual students in their classrooms. As our schools become more culturally and linguistically diverse, they must respond to the needs of the students in front of them, and this book provides a range of strategies and resources to ensure teaching is adaptive and responsive so that all learners thrive and fulfil their academic potential. At the heart of th...
Aug 29, 2024•57 min•Ep. 219
You can access the article that Ruslana referenced in this podcast conversation. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/teaching-writing-content-areas-research-practice Here are the links to some of my work connected to the conversation. Teaching Writing in the Content Areas: from Research to Practice https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/teaching-writing-content-areas-research-practice Teaching with the WIDA 2020 ELD Standards in a Second-Grade Literacy Block by Dr. Ruslana Westerlund Scaffo...
Aug 22, 2024•46 min•Ep. 218
https://amzn.to/4cHbS2A In its second edition, Breaking New Ground for SLIFE builds on its model for supporting students who are new to English and may have experienced a disruption in their schooling. The practices presented in this book emerge from the belief that education for students with limited or interrupted formal education, also known as SLIFE, should not be remedial but should build on the students’ prior learning experiences and existing areas of knowledge. This second edition has be...
Aug 15, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 217
Join bestselling authors Margo Gottlieb and Andrea Honigsfeld on an engaging journey to showcase collaborative assessment within assets-driven instructional practices. Integrating instructional and assessment cycles, explore how multilingual learners can interact with each other and their teachers to form lasting partnerships. Using evidence-based, research-informed strategies, Gottlieb and Honigsfeld invite educators to form partnerships to fortify linguistically and culturally sustainable asse...
Aug 01, 2024•47 min•Ep. 216
Cooperation, coordination of services, and impactful collaboration are critical to the success of multilingual learners with exceptional needs. Written by experts in the fields of language and literacy development, equity, and special education, this practical guide emphasizes the power of partnership and inclusive pedagogy to transform educational practices for culturally and linguistically diverse students. Through six comprehensive chapters, the book offers strategies for effective co-plannin...
Jul 04, 2024•51 min•Ep. 215
May 26, 2024•45 min•Ep. 214
Please visit https://supported.com to learn more about their generous work for the field. https://amzn.to/3WCWNdy Though multilingual learners (MLs) comprise nearly 25% of the school-age population, the most widely-used social emotional learning (SEL) frameworks and programs lack an intentional focus on these students’ unique strengths and challenges. To foster MLs’ academic success and wellbeing, educators must consider students’ cultures, languages, assets, expectations, norms, and life experi...
May 14, 2024•45 min•Ep. 213
In this episode, our guest Dr. Huseyin Uysal shares insights into personalized teaching strategies for multilingual learners. Drawing from his vast experience in curriculum development and academic leadership, he sheds light on the transformative power of differentiated instruction. From his own journey as an English instructor in diverse settings to receiving a prestigious award in TESOL leadership, Dr. Uysal unveils the intricacies of fostering inclusive educational environments. He delves int...
May 05, 2024•21 min•Ep. 212
Apr 17, 2024•44 min•Ep. 211
https://amzn.to/3VvNeNh Decades of research (Wright, 2016), and the experience of millions of educators, make one thing abundantly clear about the modern classroom: students need to talk about their learning. Engaging students in small-group, academic conversations is one of the most effective ways to: enhance comprehension reduce misbehavior build academic language proficiency support literacy develop socioemotional skills promote question-asking and deep thinking, and create a sense of communi...
Apr 04, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 210
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Mar 28, 2024•50 min•Ep. 209
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Mar 21, 2024•58 min•Ep. 208
Bring classroom content to life for multilingual learners In this eagerly anticipated revision of their bestselling book, authors Diane Staehr Fenner, Sydney Snyder, and Meghan Gregoire-Smith share dynamic, research-backed strategies that every educator of multilingual learners (MLs) can add to their repertoire. Including more of what educators loved from the first edition―authentic classroom examples, a wide variety of research-based instructional strategies, and practical tools to implement ac...
Mar 14, 2024•54 min•Ep. 207
@regieroutman bravely and loving shares many of her personal stories to help restore our sense of hope, joy, and possibility in uncertain times. Free PDF of Chapter 5 (https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3-euw1-ap-pe-ws4-cws-documents.ri-prod/9781032445502/Chapter%205.pdf) Companion website for free resources (https://sites.google.com/view/theheartcenteredteacher/home) Order the book (https://amzn.to/3RX2wat)
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 205
@DebbieZacarian and Dr. Cohn-Vargas team up to share how we can create identity safe spaces for all students, especially MLs.
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 204
https://amzn.to/46J230K mpowering multilingual learners, families, and teachers With its emphasis on relationship building as the backdrop for linguistically and culturally sustainable assessment, the bestselling second edition of Assessing Multilingual Learners significantly impacted the field of language education. Applying the groundbreaking assessment "as," "for," and "of" learning model to new contexts, this updated third edition offers educators welcoming and encouraging ways to support mu...
Feb 29, 2024•50 sec•Ep. 203
Dr. Corrigan shares how Hattie’s work correlates perfectly with effective ML instruction. https://amzn.to/3uzybqt
Feb 22, 2024•48 min•Ep. 202
This book transformed my writing instruction. It is practical, easy to implement, and thoughtful. https://amzn.to/3uscLLA
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 201
Equity-based mindsets + language and literacy practices in all classrooms! Sarah Bernadette Ottow has spent over 20 years supporting schools and organizations with her Language Lens® approach that improves the learning experience for every student. The Language Lens for Content Classrooms: A Guidebook for Teachers, Coaches & Leaders shows educators how to center language learners while improving accessibility across Tier 1/universal instruction for all learners in all classrooms, featuring: ...
Feb 09, 2024•43 min•Ep. 206
Dr. Benegas and Natalia’s Benjamin share how we can bring academic and heritage languages together.
Feb 08, 2024•47 min•Ep. 200
Dr. Claude Goldenberg shares the science behind effective reading instruction for MLs in this conversation. The research articles he mentioned during the conversation can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Yj2DY-4mu3uNknvqI95TWTwe_ysjIpOR?usp=sharing
Feb 01, 2024•49 min•Ep. 199
@Larryferlazzo shares 4 factors that foster intrinsic motivation in this podcast based on his newest book. https://amzn.to/44pF8qT
Jan 25, 2024•35 min•Ep. 198
Maria Potvin (@bilingual_lab) will share her article on supporting bilingual reading at home ( https://onraisingbilingualchildren.com/2023/04/18/10-powerful-and-effective-strategies-to-promote-and-support-reading-at-home-for-bilingual-children/ ).
Jan 18, 2024•32 min•Ep. 196
Learn how to best support English learners and address the needs of newcomers! This professional book provides step-by-step strategies for teachers of ELs. Written by Eugenia Mora-Flores and Stephanie Dewing, this book offers practical tips to help teachers bring English language instruction into any classroom. With this meaningful resource, teachers will meet English learners’ diverse needs and make newcomers feel safe and welcome. https://amzn.to/3X5fJ2Z
Jan 11, 2024•53 min•Ep. 195
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