Project GLAD — which stands for Guided Language Acquisition Instruction — is a model of sheltered English instruction that school districts around the country have used to prepare their teachers to ...

Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...

Lindsey Rose, Evanston Township High School’s multilingual services director, calls the school’s emergent multilingual courses “a little United Nations.” The ETHS multilingual services department ...

This course will prepare students with the knowledge and skills to effectively shelter content instruction to ensure that English Learners (ELs) can access grade level curricula, succeed academically ...

Vol. 52, No. 2, Effective Professional Development for Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Students: Issues and Perspectives (Spring 2013), pp. 118-127 (10 pages) Published By: ...

Some school districts are trying to figure out how to apply Response to Intervention, an approach for providing help to struggling students that’s gotten lots of attention in the field of special ...

The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) is increasingly used as an instructional framework to help elementary and secondary teachers support English language learners (ELLs). This useful ...

Children from families in which English is not the language of the home represent a rapidly increasing percentage of students enrolled in U.S. schools. Language minority students can be found in ...