Video Podcast on Teaching and Leading for Multilingual Learner Excellence

M.A.B.E. president Andrew Rogers and author Tonya Ward Singer discuss the power of asset-based language and literacy to strengthen Multilingual learner engagement and achievement in K-12 schools. Questions include: What shifts do we need to make to ensure Multilingual Learners thrive in our classrooms? How do we effectively chose, lose and adapt scaffolding to our students’ strengths? What strategies are important for classroom conversations and active student engagement? What professional learning practices are impactful for building the capacity of EVERY teacher to be an ML teacher?

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More Important Than Strategies

“More strategies!,” educators often request when we talk about teaching and leading for multilingual learner (ML) excellence. This impulse is understandable: strategies and scaffolds are shiny and inviting. They are easy-to-visualize solutions, often written into checklists and mandates to implement at scale. And, yes, strategies are important tools. However, tools alone do not build a house. Strategies without high expectations lead to over-scaffolding at scale.Strategies without data-driven reflection lead to,…

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New Edition of EL Excellence Every Day

Educators are asking, “Where can I find EL Excellence Every Day? Did it go out of print?” It’s not out of print. On the contrary, this popular flip-to guide has an updated and enhanced second edition released this year! NEW EDITION, NEW TITLE! EL Excellence Every Day now has a new edition with a new title: Asset-Based Language and Literacy: The Flip-To Guide to Multilingual Learner Excellence in the Core.…

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On the Outside/On the Inside

Looking to engage learners at the intersection of art, literacy, and human connection?On the Outside/On the Inside is a creative activity that fosters personal reflection, while simultaneously building background in vocabulary and concepts for talking about character traits.

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Improvement Science Meets Neuroscience

Confirmation bias and implicit bias pack a double punch in shaping how we use data in our professional learning communities and classrooms to serve our kids. If we are looking at the wrong data or interpreting it via implicit blinders, the science of our data-driven process isn’t going to save us from false assumptions.

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” 

Maya Angelou

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Maya Angelou

What’s your commitment in 2021? Mine is courageous creativity. Here’s why.

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Unexpected Joy

With the mad string of traumatic and unexpected events in 2020, why not a bit of magic? Why not a totally irrational moment of joy?

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