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Virtual art meets language learning: A tech-enhanced ESL experience

April 14, 2025 by Nesren El-Baz, ESL Educator

Using virtual art with ELLs transforms language learning into a rich, human experience, using self-expression to enhance learning.

Art has a unique power in the ESL classroom--a magic that bridges cultures, ignites imagination, and breathes life into language. For English Language Learners (ELLs), it’s more than…

AI in Education

Using AI to teach persuasive writing to English learners

January 12, 2025December 20, 2024 by Nesren El-Baz, ESL Educator

Before diving into AI integration in writing, it’s essential to understand where students are and where each student needs support.

Twenty years ago, when I started my career as an ESL teacher in Houston, Texas, I remember the struggles of teaching persuasive writing to English learners. I had…

ELL

This ESL teacher ensures students learn the language–and feel the love

March 28, 2024 by Tonyaa Weathersbee, Chalkbeat

Teaching ESL students means more than helping them learn English and find their way--it means helping newcomer students fit in socially

Missy Testerman has been teaching at Rogersville City School for 32 years. But for the past few years, she’s been teaching more children who weren’t born in the…

Literacy

3 keys to successful summer reading (regardless of the languages students speak)

March 14, 2024March 12, 2024 by Claire Hagen Alvarado, Ed.L.D.

A great summer reading program for students is buoyed by focusing on student strengths and maintaining excitement by checking in.

When I began teaching English as a second language (ESL), I had anywhere from seven to 13 different languages in my classroom because our district was in an…

ELL

6 ways to support multilingual learners in STEM

January 17, 2024 by Veronica Burnett, Regional STEM Trainer, Accelerate Learning

With high-quality STEM experiences, MLs can develop the problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration skills they need to succeed.

STEM can help with English language development by allowing students to engage with language in a variety of ways. The hands-on nature of STEM learning also makes concepts…

ELL

How to help ESL students improve writing skills

January 30, 2023 by Lesley Vos, Contributing Writer, eSchool News

It's a challenge to learn a language, but ESL students are brave enough to accept it--and you have instruments to help them along the way.

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills--listening, reading, speaking, and writing--from scratch. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

Newsline

BOOKR Kids Enters US Educational Market With BOOKR CLASS Next Generation ESL Learning App For Classrooms And Families

October 1, 2021 by ESchool News Staff

BUDAPEST/LOS ANGELES (October 1, 2021) – An acclaimed and multi award-winning English As A Second Language (ESL)appin daily use with ... Read more

Newsline

Rosetta Stone Announces Winners of the Emergent Bilingual Educators of the Year Award Program

November 2, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

Rosetta Stone Inc. announced the 10 winners in its first Emergent Bilingual Educators of the Year award program. A total ... Read more

IT Management

Pearson unveils tablet ELL assessment system

January 29, 2015 by Stephen Noonoo

A new tablet-based assessment developed by Pearson will specifically target English Language Learners (ELLs) in order to help them build English language skills and succeed on summative assessments.…

Virtual art meets language learning: A tech-enhanced ESL experience

Using AI to teach persuasive writing to English learners

This ESL teacher ensures students learn the language–and feel the love

3 keys to successful summer reading (regardless of the languages students speak)

6 ways to support multilingual learners in STEM

How to help ESL students improve writing skills

BOOKR Kids Enters US Educational Market With BOOKR CLASS Next Generation ESL Learning App For Classrooms And Families

Rosetta Stone Announces Winners of the Emergent Bilingual Educators of the Year Award Program

Pearson unveils tablet ELL assessment system

North Carolina District Wins ISTE 2025 Distinguished Award for AI Leadership and Parent Engagement Innovation

10 (and counting…) Google goodies for your classroom

ISTE Takeaways—What It Takes To Win the Impact Award

Look Who’s Talking—Bringing STEM Up To Speed

5 strategies to get your students talking

With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts

First AI-Powered Special Education Management Platform Helps Districts Reach 100% IEP Compliance

Students Using Lexia Core5 Reading Outperformed Their Peers On the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts/Literacy Assessment

Otus Awarded Practitioner-Informed Design Product Certification from Digital Promise

Counslr Launches in Texas to Increase Access to Mental Health Support for Staff and Students

Ignite Reading Again Approved as 1:1 High-Dosage Early Literacy Tutoring Provider in Massachusetts

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