Throughout the pandemic, some students have been in survival mode. With the return to face-to-face instruction this school year, students desperately need in-class support to develop their SEL skills and thrive. Read on to get five strategies for integrating SEL instruction and activities into your literacy block.

Effecting Change for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners gives teachers the opportunity for teachers everywhere to effect change for their learners. Here are five steps to reaching academic equity in your schools and classrooms.

Today more than ever social studies teachers have an opportunity. We have an opportunity, and an obligation, to provide our students not with static, one-dimensional content from a textbook, but rather content that will provide students with the disciplinary knowledge from multiple perspectives from all those that have contributed to our collective history.

When schools closed beginning in March 2020, most systems struggled to implement remote learning. Schools, educators, learners, and parents just weren't prepared for that. Which is why academic equity has become a focus of schools across the nation.

Instruction has not looked the same since schools closed their physical classrooms in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Educators across the United States have worked tirelessly since that time to reach and teach all students. English learners have particular educational needs.

I often joke that one of the ways I realize I am getting older is that when I hear younger people use slang, I cringe. There is probably no greater separator of generational differences than the use of slang. Being able to validate and affirm the current generation's use of slang is a great way to relate and connect with them.