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What Goes into Creating Good ELT Content?
by Walter Henderson, Jr., Senior Supervising Editor, ELT When ELT teachers answer this question, we expect their responses to match our own internal checklist: ‘integrated skills?’, ‘authentic audio?’, ‘communicative activities?’, ‘valid and reliable assessments?’, etc. The checklists are important given that most ELT teaching and learning practices, if not dominated, are at least mediated by…
Read MoreBook Deserts
Providing children with access to books in underserved communities by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager Book deserts are a growing problem in the United States. Book deserts are communities where access to suitable reading materials is extremely limited, especially for the youngest residents. In this interview, Marley Dias – a young woman with an…
Read MoreNational Council of Teachers of English 2018 Annual Conference
by Kevin J. Gray, Managing Director, Westchester K-12 Publishing Services Anne Riccio (Sr. Supervising Editor, ELA and Humanities) and I recently attended the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual conference in Houston, TX. The theme of this year’s conference was Raising Student Voices, with an emphasis on extending the diverse array of voices…
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