Episode 173 - Brain Science Meets the Classroom: A Conversation with Dr. Lisa Riegel

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Episode 172. Why Your EL Lessons Feel Scattered (and How Backward Design Fixes It)

In this episode, I’m diving into lesson planning and introducing a process called backward design, which is a truly great way to plan for our English Learner (EL) students. You will hear how backward design differs from the traditional, “build-as-you-go” approach that often leave ...  Show more

Episode 171. Stop Planning Everything: A Simpler Way to Plan for Multilingual Learners

In this episode, I dive into a common source of overwhelm for EL teachers: overplanning. The pressure to adapt content-area lesson plans for multilingual learners often leads us to try to plan everything, including both content and detailed language support. I explain that the go ...  Show more

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