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| NABE 2018 — 47th Annual International Bilingual Education Conference
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Scheduled for Albuquerque Convention Center on March 1-3, 2018. Pre-Conference starts on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.
La Cosecha
La Cosecha 2016 will bring together educators, parents, researchers and practitioners supporting dual language enrichment programs from across the U.S. La Cosecha offers you the unique opportunity to share best practices and resources, current theory and practice, build networks, and fuel our community's efforts to build a better future for our children as we “harvest” the best of our multilingual and multicultural communities.
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Kaplan Early Learning Company
Communicating with families is an essential part of building strong school-home partnerships, but communicating with dual language learners' families can be difficult since they often speak little to no English. As an educator, it's important that you don't let language and cultural barriers (and the conflicts and misunderstandings they may cause) prevent you from establishing connections with students' families.
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By: Erick Herrmann
 The brain is a powerful and fascinating organ. As we encounter new stimuli, our brain searches for meaning. Is this something that integrates in with information already stored in the brain? Is there a "hook" upon which I can hang this information? Our brains continue to search for patterns to make meaning. Just as this happens in our lives as we carry out daily functions, it also happens with students as they go about their school day and learn new content and skills.
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The Washington Post
The U.S. Education Department solicited public comment on draft regulations it has created for states to implement the school "accountability" and data reporting provisions of the new Every Student Succeeds Act — and, boy, did it get feedback, some of it scathing. When Education Secretary John B. King Jr. announced the proposed rules in May, he said they were designed to "give states the opportunity to work all of their stakeholders ... to protect all students' right to a high-quality education," and that they "give educators room to reclaim for all of their students the joy and promise of a well-rounded educational experience."
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Medical Xpress
Most U.S. school teachers instruct only in English; yet, the number of students from homes where a non-English language is spoken is expected to double by the year 2030, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. New research from the University of Missouri shows that Spanish-speaking preschoolers experience significant improvements in their English skills when they have a good grasp of Spanish letters and numbers.
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Fox News
A group of refugees is suing a Central Pennsylvania school district, saying the academy they were put in after their arduous journey to America is not up to snuff. Represented by the Pennsylvania branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, the six refugees sued Lancaster schools in federal court, saying they were dumped in a disciplinary school and are being denied access to a quality education. The students range in age from 17 to 21, and hail from Somalia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Burma.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 Take advantage of your new students' eagerness to socialize by setting up fun, interactive exercises that take into consideration important beginning-of-the-school-year objectives, from student introductions and diagnostic assessment to promoting group unity and inclusive behavior. Grouped as mingles and circles — interaction patterns that promote connection within the group — these activities are designed to move students physically and emotionally.
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When Pedro Martinez arrived at La Joya Middle School in Visalia, Liz Serrato knew she had to reach him. "I want to challenge you," she told him when he said he preferred learning with other Spanish-speaking students. She urged him to take up the trumpet, which helped him meet new classmates. Martinez came from Michoacán, Mexico — the same part of Mexico where Serrato spent her childhood. Feeling a connection to him because of their shared Mexican heritage, Serrato knew all too well what he and other English learners face. She was 15 when she came to the United States. Now she’s on a mission to help spread her methods for teaching English learners and closely monitoring their progress throughout the Visalia Unified School District.
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Medical Daily
For a whopping 21 percent of Americans, English isn't the main language spoken at home. In California alone, almost 44 percent of children eligible for primary or secondary school speak something other than the native U.S. tongue in their residence, The Washington Times reported. A new study was just published revealing that when kids learn a native language early, it could give them a leg-up on English and math comprehension once school begins. The research showed that preschoolers who had strong letter and math abilities in Spanish experienced gains in equivalent English skills.
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Portland Press Herald
Portland parent Micky Bondo was surprised when she went to parent-teacher conferences and didn't see her friends and neighbors from the immigrant community. "I didn't see the diversity of the parents. I thought: What's going on? Am I the only one?" said Bondo, a native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who moved here from Atlanta in 2009. "So I went to different parents in my own community and asked them, 'Why didn't I see you at the parent-teacher conference at your child's school?'"
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Tampa Bay Times
When they first arrive in the country, children who don't speak English aren't required to take the usual battery of Florida's standardized tests. Rather, they sit for assessments to gauge their English proficiency after time spent learning the language. They take ACCESS for ELLs, which replaced the Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment. The Florida Department of Education has released the latest results for 259,414 children who took that exam, which measures their listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. Overall, 43,425 students — or 17 percent — were deemed proficient in all areas, with the highest levels of proficiency coming in the fourth and fifth grades.
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