Beth Skelton

A Scaffolding Strategy to Help Experienced ELLs Express Complex Ideas This technique gives multilingual students explicit instruction on how to effectively develop their ideas for each part of a paragraph and to link one idea to the next.

Tan Huyhn and I are excited to share our third @Edutopia article featuring strategies for supporting experienced Multilinguals with writing.

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Sentence-Level Scaffolds That Foster English Learners’ Independence and Growth Teachers can structure supports to guide English learners to speak and write using grade-level, discipline-specific language.

Tan Huynh and I are delighted to share another practical article based on our forth-coming book. This one focuses on a scaffold for sentence structures for experienced multilinguals. @edutopia.org @corwinpress.bsky.social www.edutopia.org/article/scaf...

Adapting Gradual Release of Responsibility for English Language Learners This model provides scaffolded active engagement and opportunities for guided practice to help students master new skills.

Excited to share the latest article @tanhuynh.bsky.social and I wrote on a modified approach to the Gradual Release of Responsibility. Thanks @edutopia.org

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After 18 months of waiting, I finally got to visit my co-author, little brother, and friend, Tan Huynh, at his school —the lovely International School of Phnom Penh!

Using an Input-Output Loop to Help Newcomer Students Learn Class Content Teachers can carefully chunk information to support newcomer students in learning grade-level content while developing their English proficiency.

In this new article on @edutopia.org , Tan Huynh and I share some ideas for making grade-level content comprehensible to multilingual learners at beginning levels of language proficiency.
www.edutopia.org/article/supp...

Thanks for sharing! Hilarious

Good vibes coming your way!!

Thank you, Canadian Academy, Kobe, Japan, for a fabulous week working with your staff. Dinner with the experienced and expert ES EAL teachers was such a grand celebration of the work!! Keep up the great service you provide for all your multilingual learners!!

What does the Education Department do? A guide to the agency Trump wants to gut President Donald Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job” and close the Education Department. Already, the Trump administration has started overhau...

Wondering what the Department of Education does? Here’s a primer. I support public education for ALL students.
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I thought you were in LA. Glad you are safe!

Larry, are you safe?

Thanks for sharing these highlights, Larry. The decline in teachers, the need for skilled ML teachers, and the need for better pay all jumped out to me!

Wow, Mitch, thanks for this shout out!! I’m just figuring out this new platform!!

NOT seeing

I did— it seeing the question

Are you posting questions? I’m not seeing them. Just figuring out BlueSky

I heard this is where the cool kids hang out now:)

Woohoo!! Major accomplishment!! Congratulations!! Great way to start the new year, Dr. Trower