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The English learner population in the United States stands at about 5.2 million students. Sixteen percent of these students also have disabilities. So, in addition to English-language instruction, they’re legally entitled to special education services.

“Carl the Collector” is aimed at 4-to-8-year-olds and was designed to celebrate the variety and potential of neurodivergent kids.

Students can explore science concepts through an activity that encourages them to record their observations in thoughtful ways.

When ChatGPT was released to the public in November of 2022, it didn’t take long for the technology to make its way into K-12 classrooms across the country. Now, two years later, schools are starting to develop guidance for teachers and students addressing the use of generative AI in the classroom.

Engaging project-based learning activities can provide avenues for new educators to teach students crucial social-emotional skills.

We tend to think of math as a subject that’s accessible only to certain types of people. But that’s a false assumption, and it’s holding back achievement for far too many students. With the right instructional approach, everyone can learn and do math.

For civics and social studies teachers who had been monitoring the 2024 presidential election, teaching about the election results on Wednesday presented both a pedagogical challenge – and opportunity. Chalkbeat reporters fanned out to schools across the country to see how teachers approached this monumental day.

Kate Kinsella and Jennifer Finney-Ellison offer practical ways in which CTE teachers can help students new to English grapple with course reading demands.

It’s one thing to be immersed in a language. It’s another to speak it. And Ava Silva, who grew up in the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe’s, wasn’t fluent in Alabama. "My áapo’s first language is Alabama," said Silva, using the Alabama word for grandmother. "I could never fully understand it, but … I loved sitting beside her and just hearing her talk." At Harvard, Silva quickly connected with Assistant Professor of Linguistics Tanya Bondarenko. Within months, Bondarenko’s WOLF Lab (Working on Language in the Field) began studying the innerworkings of Alabama.

Teachers can experiment with a variety of strategies to build and assess students’ ability to converse in the target language.