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What We're Reading - March 20, 2019
Here are six articles that are trending this week in Ellevation's ELL Community...
- From Education Dive, Shawna de la Rosa profiles strategies by ELL Teacher Tan Huyhn and others that help educators use students' native languages to deepen English literacy.
- New America's Amaya Garcia and Jenny Muñiz lay out frameworks to help districts create successful "Grow Your Own" programs to address teacher shortages and close the diversity gap.
- From The Christian Science Monitor's Equal Ed initiative, Noble Ingram profiles programs in Portland, Maine that tap immigrants to help resolve the city's teacher shortage.
- In an article that is highly relevant to ELs, Julia Freeland-Fisher goes beyond the achievement gap and highlights the "relationship gap" that helps many students succeed while leaving others behind.
- Language Magazine spotlights the importance of recoginizing heritage languages as a key component of educational equity, with references to the Seal of Biliteracy as part of the solution.
- From Education Week, Sarah Spark discusses why lunch, exercise, sleep, and air quality should be at the top of the priority list for school districts.
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