Equity, Language, and Learners with Sonja Bloetner
Sierah Tyson speaks with Sonja Bloetner, ESOL Supervisor at Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, about equitable education for English learners.
Sierah Tyson speaks with Sonja Bloetner, ESOL Supervisor at Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, about equitable education for English learners.
Sierah Tyson of EducationNomad talks with Josh Parker on equity in education, committing oneself to the work, investigating what we as educators really believe about children, fostering equity and implementing rigorous aligned curricula in schools.
Sierah Tyson of EducationNomad talks with Mariama Sesay-St Paul on literacy education, teaching challenging texts to students, facilitating reading proficiency in the classroom, and more.
Crystal Gonzales discusses the state of instructional materials for English Language Learners and the intersection of language, culture and public education in America.
Andrew Chen and Peter Coe discuss how and why the standards are different than what came before. A conversation with Andrew touches on the history of math standards in the United States, how rigor is like baseball, and what coherence really means.
Peter Coe talks with Andrew Chen about the math standards and shifts. Dr. Andrew Chen, president of EduTron, was on the Common Core Standards Development Team in Mathematics.
David Abel talks with Dr. Timothy Shanahan about the state of literacy in US schools, and what the research is telling us to do differently.
Dr. Aída Walqui discusses the state of English Language Learning pedagogy today, and what can be done to improve it.
Former Education Secretary John King discusses the state of education in America today and what can be done to improve it.
Kristen Ehlman interviews Doug Sovde about the role of mathematics knowledge in who acquires power in a democracy, and how it is incumbent upon us to widen the net of opportunity.