English Language Learners

Even with improved literacy instruction in the early grades, some students are not able to keep up with the increasing demands of reading and writing as they enter middle and high school. Left unaddressed, older students who have fallen behind may never catch up to their peers. This eBook from Voyager Sopris Learning outlines what […]

Seguin ISD was facing a lot of challenges when Dr. Matthew Gutierrez first arrived as superintendent in 2017. A suburban district located outside San Antonio, Texas, Seguin serves 7,300 students, of which 70 percent are eligible for free or reduced lunch and 75 percent are minorities. Achievement gaps had been widening and Seguin students had […]

How can audiobooks help to support learning in remote and hybrid school environments? Audiobooks can play a key role in supporting struggling readers in a distance learning environment, provided they are paired with features that aid in absorption and enjoyment of content. With anywhere, anytime access to the largest library of curriculum aligned, human-read audiobooks, […]

Why is it important that young students learn in a multisensory environment? Humans naturally perceive their environments in a multisensory way. As we grow, develop and learn, we make use of these multisensory inputs to confirm and influence our behavior. When you try to cross the street, you both see and hear if a car […]

Situated outside of San Francisco, the Mountain View Whisman School District (MVWSD) has a highly diverse socioeconomic student population. Of the district’s 5,344 students, 35 percent are socioeconomically disadvantaged and 24 percent are English language learners, with some 50 languages represented. Academically, early literacy had been one of the district’s most significant challenges. In 2018, […]

Students will need flexibility as they face a future of work that will operate increasingly as a gig economy and—since the COVID outbreak—a remote economy, says one K-12 expert.