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Continue reading →: Paradoxes of Rigor
by Ruslana Westerlund I have recently been reflecting on how rigor by itself can really do more harm than good. I originally titled this blog as “Fed Up with Rigor” but quickly realized (after it started making circles on social media) that it might be sending the wrong message. Let…
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Continue reading →: My Visit to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights
By Ruslana Westerlund, Author of From Borsch to Burgers: A Cross-Cultural Memoir On October 22, 2015, my good friend Diana Merritt Turner took me — on behalf of the Teachers of English as an Additional Languages (TEAL) Manitoba Conference Committee — to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR) located…
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Continue reading →: Building on the Translanguaging Practices of Emergent Bilinguals
Originally posted on The Educational Linguist: Below is the text-version of a short article that I wrote for Penn GSE Research into Practice. Click here to see the full web version. Educational linguists have developed a theory of bilingualism that has significant implications for teaching emergent bilingual students. The centerpiece…
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Continue reading →: Bringing Academic Language to the Mainstream: Using Sentence Frames to Collaborate with Classroom Teachers
By Max Ginsberg, a Minnesota Teacher Can a single idea bring about lasting change in an entire school? That was the question I pondered as one of the instructors of the West Metro Leadership Academy asked what kind of change project we were going to bring back to our schools.…
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Continue reading →: Using Immigrant Children as Pawn in Pre-Election Times
By Dr. Christel Broady US readers are caught up in the bizarre world of political demagogy toying with the topic of immigration and immigrants. We can find one candidate describe all Mexican illegal immigrants as rapists and murderers. Another one describes Asians giving birth in the USA as creating anchor…
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Continue reading →: ELL Myths From The Trenches
by Ruslana Westerlund There are many sets of myths that have been written on the hot topic of second language acquisition. McLaughlin’s list is still read by many, even though it was written in 1992. Even Edutopia recently came up with its own list. I have decided to compile a…
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Continue reading →: ACADEMIC DISCOURSE IN THE SECONDARY MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM
By a Guest Blogger Rebecca DesRoches This blog post was originally submitted as a paper for EDUC731 course at Bethel University, Graduate School of Education, College of Adult and Professional Studies. It has been edited to fit the blog genre. I have chosen to focus my reading and research of the academic discourse…
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Continue reading →: The Good-Enough-Co-teacher
By Guest Blogger Jennifer Lundstrom Hernandez Recently, I had the privilege of sitting on a panel of co-teachers (EL and content) to answer questions from an undergraduate class of future secondary content teachers on the topic of co-teaching. My Earth Science co-teacher and I were one co-teaching pair, and we…
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Continue reading →: What Does Language Have to Do with Social Justice?by Ruslana Westerlund This post was inspired by the Social Justice Panel at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I participated as an invited speaker. It was organized by Carl Grant, Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This post does not reflect the content of the panel. The panel…
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