Young children have a surprising capacity to learn math from their surroundings. It doesn’t take much, and they hear and use math language all the time without realizing it. When they ask for snacks, ...

Malinda Evans spends about an hour and a half each day teaching mathematics to her 5th graders at Navajo Elementary School in the working-class South Valley neighborhood of Albuquerque, N.M. Whether ...

Excerpted from “Teaching Math to English Learners” by Adrian Mendoza with Tina Beene. Published by Seidlitz Education, 2022. Embracing academic conversations in the math classroom becomes routine when ...

Isabel Becerra is the sheltered-instruction facilitator for the multilingual programs department in the Garland ISD in Texas. She was born in Bolivia and has been an educator since 1992. She is a ...

A new study finds that a child's language skills in kindergarten can predict his or her future proficiency in other subjects. Research shows that the more skills children bring with them to ...

Rob Manning / OPB Researchers at the New America think tank have named Portland's David Douglas School District a national model for language instruction. "The David Douglas instructional shift that ...