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Creating an Environment Where Language Flourishes
- A Resource for Elementary Classroom Teachers
Build a positive classroom culture that values students as learners and thinkers and promotes rich and meaningful interactions to accelerate linguistic and academic growth.
Building a Community of Learners
Learn how to create an environment that meets the needs and embraces the strengths of your linguistically and culturally diverse students.
Setting Rigorous Expectations
Language learning occurs when expectations and modeling are clear and feedback is provided in a consistent and explicit way.
Higher Thinking Skills
Improve students' ability to communicate complex ideas and interact meaningfully with peers in the context of engaging and challenging tasks.
Assessment Strategies
Assess the language of your students to inform language teaching and learning in your classroom. Learn strategies to assess your students' growth in academic language.
Change does not come about simply because we wish it.
Sonia Nieto in Education Week Teacher
Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.
Paulo Freire
Students show up with incredible strengths and assets. Kids are capable of much more than we think.
Gloria Ladson-Billings
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