Author: Jeff Zwiers

The Common Core State Standards require students to do more with knowledge and language than ever before. Rather than be mere consumers of knowledg...

Adopt a strengths-based, justice-centered approach to teaching multilinguals Offering educators a path to pedagogical justice for multilingual lear...

Dr. Jeff Zwiers, an educational researcher at Stanford University, has spent the last 15 years analyzing classroom conversations to see how they ca...

The communication effect is what happens when we saturate our classrooms with authentic communication, which occurs when students use language to b...

Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students t...