There’s one student you keep coming back to. The one you mentioned in your last team meeting. The one who’s been in your room for…

Someone handed you the WIDA Can Do Descriptors. Maybe it was at new teacher orientation, maybe in a PD session, maybe in your mailbox with…

You pasted a prompt into ChatGPT. What came back looked great. Then you held it up next to your actual students at their actual levels,…

Six weeks in. You’re tired — the real kind. And you end some lessons wondering: did anything actually land? That feeling doesn’t mean you’re failing.…

A decision gets made about one of your ELL students. A placement, a schedule, a service. And nobody asked you. Not because the decision-makers are…

A few weeks into the school year a specific worry surfaces for most ELL teachers. A student is participating. Completing tasks. Sitting through the lesson.…

Imagine you are a parent. You moved to a new country less than a year ago. You walk into a school building where you cannot…

Most professional development on co-teaching describes a world most ELL teachers have never worked in. Equal partners. Shared planning time. Coordinated instructional design. Today’s episode…

If you listened to Episode 206 you already understand why comprehensible input matters. This episode is about what it actually looks like on a Tuesday…