11 Ways to Make Math Instruction More Accessible to English-Learners Jody Nolf is an associate language and literacy specialist at Vista Higher Learning. For more than 20 years, she taught English and reading to middle and high school students. Six years ago, she transitioned into the world of ESOL as a full-time coordinator and advocate…

Making Culturally Responsive Teaching Work: Zaretta Hammond Corrects 3 Big Misconceptions Zaretta Hammond, M.A., is a former high school and community college writing instructor. She is a national consultant and author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (Corwin, 2015): Fall is usually a…

 Sage Advice From Veteran Teachers to Those New to the Classroom Meghann Seril, a national-board-certified teacher, serves as a 3rd grade teacher, new teacher mentor, and Teach Plus national senior research fellow. She was selected as a 2022 Los Angeles Unified school district teacher of the year: When I first started teaching, I had lots…

Classroom Cellphone Use Is Fraught. It Doesn’t Have to Be What are the best ways for teachers to handle situations where students are often using their cellphones in class for nonacademic purposes? Pre-pandemic, student cellphone use (for nonacademic use—I’ve always allowed my English-language-learner-students use it for translations) in my classes was a relatively minor problem.…

The Best Ways for Administrators to Demonstrate Leadership 1. Advice for Principals: Empower Your Teachers When principals develop partnerships with teachers, it helps them both. Read more. 2. Principals: Supporting Your Teachers Doesn’t Have to Be Such Hard Work Principals can show teachers they care by something as simple as a visit to their classrooms…

Teacher Apprenticeships Are Booming in Wake of Shortages. Here’s What You Need to Know Corrected: A previous version of this story gave an incorrect description of apprenticeship funding from the U.S. Department of Labor. Its $100 million in grants is not exclusively for teacher apprenticeships. The number of states with federally registered apprenticeship programs for…

To End Discipline Disparities Affecting Students of Color, Challenge the Status Quo What are strategies schools can implement to reduce and eliminate disparities in discipline affecting students of color? This series serves as a sort of “Part Two” to a previous series guest-edited by Terri N. Watson, Ph.D. Those responses specifically focused on discipline disparities…

  Could the Nation’s Largest District Afford to Double Teacher Pay and Triple Counseling? I find that when you tell someone a school costs $38,000, they usually picture a ritzy private school with lots of bells and whistles. Well, last month, the Citizens Budget Commission reported that New York City’s public schools will spend $38,000…