by Lisa Stewart | Jun 11, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
Memorial Day has come and summer is in full swing (anyway it is down here in Texas). I’ve been curious to hear from teachers who used English Forward’s Memorial Day Timely Lesson Plan so I was super excited when I got an email from Trena Anderson. Trena is with the...
by Lisa Stewart | Jun 11, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
During our recent training in Madison, Wisconsin I had a participant ask about ways to encourage more student interactions with the local community. This is a great question! We want our students to be able to move English from the classroom to the “real world”. Here...
by Lisa Stewart | May 24, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
Have you ever taught an open-enrollment ESL class? In open-enrollment classes, there is no ‘start’ date. Students join an on ongoing basis. As those of you who have taught in an open-enrollment program know, it can be a big challenge. You never know who you’ll have in...
by Lisa Stewart | May 15, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
The English Forward team is on the go. We spent last week in Madison, Wisconsin working with a great group of teachers and right now we’re in beautiful Lancaster, SC. The Carolinas Literacy Network brought us in the share English Forward with their community as...
by Lisa Stewart | May 2, 2013 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
This month’s user submitted question comes from a teacher wondering about the best ways to use Can Do Lists in the classroom. This is a timely question! We just finished gathering feedback from teachers using the English Forward curriculum, and this very same question...
