Kate Kinsella provides proven practices for ensuring all students are prepared to contribute and listen actively within bilingual, ELD, and content-area coursework

The Need for Re-engaging Language Learners Socially and Academically

Since the pandemic, K-12 educators have made earnest efforts to provide safe and supportive havens for re-engaging young scholars who suffered tremendous learning loss and social isolation. English learners enrolled in diverse programs, whether bilingual or general education, count among the youths who were most victimized by distance education. The prolonged social isolation they experienced interrupted their development of English language, foundational literacy skills, and subject matter knowledge (Sugarman and Lazarín, 2020).…