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Northern Indigenous Storytelling“Indigenous peoples are the guardians of their stories. Support for Indigenous broadcasting in the North is an essential tool for empowering them to tell these stories, preserve their cultures and identities, and advance reconciliation,” read a statement from Marc Miller, minister of Canadian identity and culture and minister responsible for of...

Starting in fall of 2026, the AP® World Language and Culture exams are changing in ways that go well beyond format adjustments. Across Spanish, French, German, Italian, and other languages, the College Board is introducing a Project component that accounts for 35% of each student’s total score. Students must research a topic announced in January […]

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During my time both in the classroom and working with educators, I have seen the impact of strong literacy instruction in action. Many teachers and scholars agree on what students need to be taught, but how it should be taught is not always straightforward. Below, I share a few considerations on how to optimize literacy […]

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It is logical to suggest that chunking learning into appropriate segments increases the likelihood that students will learn at higher levels. After all, chunking reduces the cognitive load that learners must bear because similar concepts or skills are clustered together. As Gobet et al. (2001) note, a chunk of learning is “a collection of elements […]

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Cascade Reading’s Jack Dempsey offers a quick guide to using and choosing Automatic Text Formatting for language learning Although language is naturally acquired, written language is a human invention and requires explicit instruction. Natural language provides a multitude of cues to meaning other than the core linguistic signal itself, such as intonation/prosody, pitch, body...