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dual language learners
Podcast
June 29, 2023

How home languages enhanced preschool curriculum in Fresno

Preschool teachers use information from family interviews to plan curriculum and incorporate songs and books in children’s home languages.

EdSource staff
English Learners
June 28, 2023

Does your child speak a language other than English? California preschools want to know

California is trying to identify preschoolers who speak languages other than English and help them keep those languages and learn English.

Zaidee Stavely
Commentary
July 11, 2022

More teachers, outreach needed to support California's youngest English learners

California can create a national model for expanding educational opportunities for students and crafting groundbreaking policies that serve to properly identify and serve dual language students.

Patricia Lozano and Feliza Ortiz-Licon
English Learners
December 20, 2021

How TK can help students learning English as a second language

Advocates say the expansion of transitional kindergarten is an opportunity to offer high-quality preschool to more children who speak a language other than English at home.

Zaidee Stavely
English Learners
December 7, 2020

Preschoolers learning English need to be identified, supported, says California’s master plan

The plan for the first time calls for requiring preschool programs to identify and report the languages spoken by children enrolled.

Zaidee Stavely