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As English language arts teachers, we’re always trying to find ways to build student comprehension with grade-level texts in reading and listening. We’re also trying to support our students with their ability to write. A language dive is especially useful in this effort. In a language dive, we take a juicy sentence from a text and utilize it to support students’ understanding of the main ideas while they learn different types of language and ultimately model writing. One of the most challenging things about a language dive is that students may not know all of the words or concepts in the chunks they’re deconstructing.

When Gaby Pacheco was applying to college, her high school counselor discouraged her from applying anywhere. As an undocumented student, she could get herself and her family in trouble, the counselor warned. Pacheco is now president and CEO of TheDream.US, the nation’s largest college scholarship provider for undocumented students.

In her award-winning entry for NPR's Student Podcast challenge, Ameya Desai interviews her grandfather, Kishor Desai, whose family migrated from India to Uganda, where Kishor was born and raised. His father worked at a sugarcane factory outside of Uganda's capital, Kampala.

Here's how to build a culture of reading to welcome students who are learning a new language, particularly those who come from strong oral storytelling traditions.

School and district leaders are navigating questions from educators, students, and families on how safe schools are from deportations after the Trump administration rescinded a policy protecting schools from immigration enforcement actions. But just how many students and families would be affected by changes to immigration policies? That number — likely in the tens of millions — stretches beyond estimates of an undocumented immigrant population, researchers said.

Studying the lives of mathematicians can help elementary students discover a positive math identity for themselves.

Denver Public Schools is taking the Trump administration to court in an effort to keep immigration enforcement away from schools locally and across the country.

A new bill in Utah addressing rapid growth of ELL enrollment has the support of many, but some worry it may not serve schools that have historically needed help serving English learners

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona championed multilingualism for all students, as well as improved programming for the nation’s English learners. One of the last major projects he oversaw in his tenure at the U.S. Department of Education was the office of English language acquisition’s dual-language immersion project: a publication of four playbooks with detailed guidance for educators on how to establish and sustain dual-language immersion programs.

In a tight labor market where businesses struggle to find qualified workers, three states have discovered that investing in English language learning is unleashing untapped economic potential and building a more resilient workforce.