It started slowly for my mother, a teenager as Hitler rose to power. She remembered they started having assemblies with rallies of Hitler Youth. She and other Jewish students were excluded, taken to the office. Her best friend Gicka, who lived next door, stopped coming
The Corwin Deep Equity Institute will kick off tomorrow, April 28, in Boston, MA, where educators from across the country will gather for two days of intensive professional learning around issues of educational equity, supporting English learners, and social-emotional learning. We spoke with keynote speaker
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Teachers are often asked to help students design resumes for future employers. We have to be thinking in really practical terms about what our students’ employers will want to see. Lisa Johnson took this question head-on, asking CFOs, engineers, entrepreneurs, real estate agents, artists, and
How many of us have listened to a speaker or read a book and marveled at the descriptive power and richness of the words used? We have our favorite speakers, reporters, or authors who move us through how they write. Nations, peoples, political change
Literacy is freedom’s gatekeeper. We know that the more literate an individual, the more capable he is of reaching his educational and career aspirations. After all, a major measure of effective schooling is the literacy attainment of its graduates. But the impact of literacy reaches
As districts face challenges with a revolving door of excellent teachers, it’s time to find ways to offer sustainable, relevant, and engaging PD in and across schools. EFFECTIVE PD displays three primary characteristics: Sustained Collaborative Active It’s when these three characteristics are combined that real results are achieved
Three in four U.S. classrooms have at least one student who is an English Learner (EL). Even in schools with EL specialists, ELs spend the majority of their instructional day with core teachers. EL excellence with rigorous content learning requires EVERY teacher be an effective
Every school district across the country is acutely aware that English learner populations are growing rapidly. Often when I hear educators talk about needs of English learners, they have a tendency to focus on newcomer immigrant students. Yes, their language needs are important, but we
I recall the first time my principal, a good friend and mentor, asked me to consider becoming an administrator. The challenge was to use my leadership skills beyond my classroom and influence positive change school-wide. This would be a seminal event as my principal referred
It has been 20 years since I completed my doctoral research on educational equity in public schools. During one of my initial classroom observations, I shadowed a group of English learners in a kindergarten classroom. The students had just completed an engaging circle time discussing