by Marcel Negrete | Aug 23, 2016 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
Last week we released another new resource here on the Literacy Forward Web Portal. In order to facilitate instructors creating their own lessons using the English Forward Lesson Flow, we’ve released the English Forward Lesson Template along with a rubric for...
by Marcel Negrete | Aug 9, 2016 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
What should you do if you want to teach a lesson but there isn’t an English Forward lesson on that topic? Write it yourself! The English Forward Lesson Flow can be used to create your own lessons on any topic that is important to your students. You can decide...
by Marcel Negrete | Aug 8, 2016 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
The English Forward recently completed the first English Forward Institute here in Austin, Texas! Participants from 8 different programs, including two here in Texas, completed the 3-day training and are now rolling out English Forward back in their communities. Thank...
by Marcel Negrete | Jul 19, 2016 | English Forward, English Forward Blog
Last week Justin DeBrosse (right) presented his progress on the Humanities Institute Sabbatical Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Justin’s goal was to develop a plan to answer the question, “What is the effectiveness of the English Forward Curriculum?” In...
by Marcel Negrete | Jul 5, 2016 | English Forward, English Forward Blog, Teaching Tips
While many of the lessons found in the English Forward Curriculum already have Extension Activities, you have the opportunity to create your own for any lesson! The idea behind Extension Activities is that the students get to take what they learned in the lesson and...
