Alliance for Catholic Education

This month, the podcast offers insightful ideas and practical strategies for early childhood language learners–including concrete ways to incorporate students' native languages into classroom libraries, labels, and even dramatic play materials. Read this month's article: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1013928.pdf We’re joined by Courtney O’Grady, a graduate of the ENL Hernandez Fellows progr...

The 15 on the 15th series features podcasts designed to help you digest short articles (no more than 15 minutes of reading required!). This 15-minute recipe for success is a pinch of insightful reading and a dash of engaging discussion designed to spice up your planning and instruction. Listen on SoundCloud or subscribe via iTunes or Google Play. This month, the ENL team takes an in-depth look at...

The 15 on the 15th series features podcasts designed to help you digest short articles (no more than 15 minutes of reading required!). This 15-minute recipe for success is a pinch of insightful reading and a dash of engaging discussion designed to spice up your planning and instruction. Listen on SoundCloud or subscribe via iTunes or Google Play. This month’s installment is the first part of a two...

The 15 on the 15th series features podcasts designed to help you digest short articles (no more than 15 minutes of reading required!). This 15-minute recipe for success is a pinch of insightful reading and a dash of engaging discussion designed to spice up your planning and instruction. Listen on SoundCloud or subscribe via iTunes or Google Play. This month, the ENL team welcomes Fr. Joe Corpora,...

The 15 on the 15th series features podcasts designed to help you digest short articles (no more than 15 minutes of reading required!). This 15-minute recipe for success is a pinch of insightful reading and a dash of engaging discussion designed to spice up your planning and instruction. Subscribe via iTunes or Google Play. In this month’s installment, the ENL team unpacks the article, "12 Ways to...

The 15 on the 15th series features podcasts designed to help you digest short articles (no more than 15 minutes of reading required!). This 15-minute recipe for success is a pinch of insightful reading and a dash of engaging discussion designed to spice up your planning and instruction. Listen on SoundCloud or subscribe via iTunes or Google Play. In this month’s installment, the ENL team revisits...

Welcome back! This year's 15 on the 15th series will once again feature podcasts designed to help you digest short articles (no more than 15 minutes of reading required!). This 15-minute recipe for success is a pinch of insightful reading and a dash of engaging discussion designed to spice up your planning and instruction. This month, the ENL team explores best practices in science instruction. Ka...

The ENL team continues April's conversation on multicultural children's literature with Notre Dame's Dr. Erin Moira Lemrow. This month's edition focuses on four themes that represent multilingual texts: language as blending in, hybrid language identities, language as culture affirmation, and language as learning from others.  Once again the discussion is inspired by María Paula Ghiso and Gerald Ca...

The ENL team dives into the topic of multicultural children's literature and how it can be utilized to support our English language learners on their journey of school and language acquisition. Katy and Clare are joined by Dr. Erin Moria Lemrow, a Notre Dame faculty member in multiple departments, including: First Year of Studies, the Institute for Latino Studies, the Center for Study of Languages...

The ENL team continues last month's conversation with Priscilla Wong and focuses on the linguistic challenges that face Mandarin and Cantonese speakers as they learn English. Priscilla shares her experiences as an English language learner from China and even offers a helpful tip sheet for educators who serve Chinese students.  This month's conversation is inspired by Anthony Zavagnin’s article "Th...

This month, the ENL team sits down with Priscilla Wong to discuss Anthony Zavagnin’s article "The Rising Number of Chinese Students in American Catholic High Schools" from the October 17, 2016  edition of America Magazine. You can find the article here: http://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2016/10/17/rising-number-chinese-students-american-catholic-high-schools. Priscilla is a campus minister at N...

This year's 15 on the 15th series features podcasts designed to help you digest short articles (no more than 15 minutes of reading required!). This 15-minute recipe for success is a pinch of insightful reading and a dash of engaging discussion that tastefully blends together research and classroom practice.  In this month's conversation, Katy Lichon and Clare Roach discuss how to develop the vocab...

To mark a series of January Church feast days that offer special inspiration to Catholic educators, we are pleased to publish three short podcasts discussing the lives of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. John Neumann, and St. Andre Bessette. The third and final podcast in this series comes from ACE's Director of Spiritual Life, Fr. Lou DelFra, csc, who sits down with Emily Lazor to discuss the life of...

To mark a series of January Church feast days that offer special inspiration to Catholic educators, we are pleased to publish three short podcasts discussing the lives of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. John Neumann, and St. Andre Bessette. The first podcast in this series comes from ACE's Coordinator of Policy and co-author of Lost Classroom, Lost Community, Nicole Stelle Garnett, who chats with Sar...

To mark a series of January Church feast days that offer special inspiration to Catholic educators, we are pleased to publish three short podcasts discussing the lives of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. John Neumann, and St. Andre Bessette. The second podcast in this series comes from ACE's Senior Director of Teacher Formation and Education Policy, John Schoenig, who joins Bill Schmitt for a conversa...

In this month's installment, the ENL Team takes a closer look at serving Vietnamese students in our Catholic schools by reading "Vietnam: Cultural Background for ESL/EFL Teachers." The discussion includes a guest, Sr. Kim Tran, O.P., a Dominican sister and a graduate student in Notre Dame's Master's in Divinity program. Sr. Kim shares her insights about what Catholic schools can do to better serve...

In this month's installment, the ENL Team looks at the blog post “A Strength-Based Approach to Teaching ESL” from the Cult of Pedagogy website. The discussion focuses on six approaches teachers can take to celebrate English learners and implement an additive approach to teaching these extraordinary students. Blog post can be found here: http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/strength-based-teaching-esl/ Mo...

In this month's installment, the ENL Team looks at de Jong and Harper’s article, “Preparing Mainstream Teachers for English-Language Learners: Is Being a Good Teacher Good Enough?” The discussion focuses on the five stages of language acquisition, the development of oral language, assessing ELLs, and supporting the development of writing skills!

In this month's installment, the ENL Team breaks down Claude Goldenberg's article "Teaching English Language Learners: What the Research Does - and Does Not - Say". The discussion focuses on pages 14-22 of Goldenberg's text and highlights the benefits of having parents speak in their native tongue at home, the concept of "transfer", and the 7 S's that help new vocabulary "stick" for your students,...