Crossing Borders: ELL Lessons Learned from a Primary Years Program in China

The author describes her two-year experience of living in China and how this molded her attitudes about English language learners in Texas. Examples drawn from the Nanjing International School show how one school worked to meet the needs of a diverse group of students, with more than 70% learning English as a second language. The practical foundations behind these examples are supported by research, and readers are encouraged to consider how these examples could be applied with ELLs in our classrooms.