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  • Professional Growth

    Two Teachers, One Lesson

    Co-teaching can bring subject and language expertise into the same classroom, provided schools protect time to plan together.

  • Teaching Methods

    The Rhyme Before the Reading Lesson

    Rhymes and shared reading can give young children playful practice with the sounds and patterns that later appear in print.

  • Trends & Research

    Which Skill Did That Test Measure?

    Testing a subject through a language pupils are still learning can obscure what they know about the subject itself.

  • Classroom Technology

    The Moment Before a Student Shares a Claim

    Digital literacy lessons need repeated source checks, discussion and the language to pause before sharing.

  • Trends & Research

    What Happens After the Climate Club Launch?

    A youth-led school climate project in Nepal raises a practical question: how can pupils keep a role after the launch event ends?

  • Teaching Methods

    A Language Archive That Can Be Heard and Owned

    An Indigenous language archive shows why recordings must remain useful and accountable to the community that gives them meaning.

  • Professional Growth

    Why One Teacher Keeps the Classroom Online

    A teacher's decision to stay in online tutoring raises questions about work flexibility, family life and close attention to learners.

  • Teaching Methods

    The Drawing That Lets a Child Enter the Story

    A Bosnian illustrator's work invites teachers to treat pictures as part of how children read, infer and tell stories.

  • Classroom Technology

    The Footnote Is the Lesson

    Following one Wikipedia footnote can teach more about evidence than a blanket rule about using the site.

  • Trends & Research

    When a Nation Changes the Language of School

    Nigeria's reversal of a mother-tongue education policy brings the practical and educational stakes of language choice into focus.

  • Trends & Research

    When Hearing the Sounds Does Not Yet Mean Reading

    A study of an oral phonemic-awareness routine asks how early literacy lessons connect sound work to letters and reading.

  • Classroom Technology

    Whose Language Is on the Screen?

    Research in Indigenous Chiapas schools shows why digital access depends on language, teacher preparation and local conditions.

  • Teaching Methods

    Teach the Conversation Before the Conflict

    Caribbean efforts to teach conflict resolution show why safe schools need practiced skills and sustained support, not a one-day campaign.

  • Teaching Methods

    What a Dictionary Remembers

    Proposed cuts to an Australian dictionary centre raise a wider question about who records the history of a language.

  • Professional Growth

    What ESL Teachers Are Asking Schools to Provide

    A national survey points to gaps in teacher preparation and curriculum materials for multilingual learners.

  • Teaching Methods

    Let the Maths Discussion Have Two Languages

    Research on multilingual maths discussion shows why a home language can support reasoning, not just translate instructions.

  • Trends & Research

    The School Supported by a Women's Cooperative

    A Tanzanian women's cooperative shows how local enterprise can support school buildings and wider community services.

  • Classroom Technology

    Algebra Behind the AI Screen

    A new pilot linking AI literacy to algebra asks whether understanding a technology can give abstract mathematics a clearer purpose.