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This coaching tool was developed to support teachers whose classes include English learners (ELs).

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) members, and staff from the American Institutes of Research (AIR) and Education Northwest identified the attributes of effective teachers of English learners (ELs) and integrated these characteristics into two widely used teacher observation tools,

This study examines the stories or reflective narratives of teachers. This paper reports a qualitative case study of three veteran teachers' reflections on their personal and professional experiences with ELs.

A new study published in the Journal of Teacher Education finds that student teachers with more multicultural awareness foster more positive classroom environments for their students, but that awareness varies considerably among future teachers based on prior experience working with youth of color.

According to a new report from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), the support offered to young children who speak languages other than English at home varies widely from state to state, and community to community.

The Reaching English Learners Act, introduced in the House on January 18 by a group of Democrats in Congress, would create a grant program under Title II of the Higher Education Act to help colleges and school districts prepare qualified teachers to serve growing numbers of EL students.

A teacher of EL students provides practical strategies for how to teach Tier two words (per the Common Core Standards, words that are more likely to appear in written text than in speech) to ELs.

English language learners (ELLs) are often placed in mainstream classrooms to be taught by teachers with little preparation for linguistic diversity.

This report examines whether low-income students are taught by less effective teachers than high-income students and if so, whether reducing this inequity would close the student achievement gap.

Recent policy changes in California's education system have opened up a unique opportunity to improve educational opportunities for the state's 1.4 million English learner students (ELs).