For young English-language learners, language skills can be a barrier not just to reading but math as well. Educators and researchers working in two school districts here hope that helping students ...

Math education can be difficult—for students and teachers. Those difficulties are often magnified when students have learning disabilities such as dyscalculia that can make it difficult to learn math ...

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 ...

Curriculum development and adoption hardly gets the attention it deserves. Every few years, California goes through an extensive process to decide California’s math, language arts, history and science ...

These lessons have shown us that style and context matter for our struggling students. A successful curriculum is not just a collection of resources that happen to align to the standards. To bring our ...

When 8-year-old Farid started school at James B. Congdon Elementary School in New Bedford two years ago, he didn’t speak English, stayed quiet and cried most days, according to his principal, Darcie ...

There are layers upon layers of teaching going on here. Watts is teaching the kindergartners how to identify numbers. The math coaches are helping her plan a more effective lesson, while they learn ...

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Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were ...

(TNS) — Matthew Karabinos was hesitant to try ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence tool, when it first came out in 2022. The sixth-grade math teacher was concerned about what the technology ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...