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CAJOLA, GUATEMALA - FEBRUARY 12: Teacher Willy Jimenez talks with Indigenous Mayan Mam-speaking children at a reading circle held in the Grupo Cajola library on February 12, 2017 in Cajola, in the western highlands of Guatemala. Women are especially effected by emigration from Guatemala, where some 70 percent of the men have left to work as undocumented immigrants in the United States, many of them leaving behind wives and children who only know their fathers online, if at all. Grupo Cajola, an NGO funded by American donations, is attempting to make the town's economy prosper locally to help reduce the need for emigration. With U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, the spectre of increased deportations back to Guatemala and reduced remittances has made the need to educate children and adults and transform the local economy more urgent than ever. Remitances from undocumented Guatemalan laborers are the main source of income of Guatemala, and while increasing wealth and driving a housing boom in towns like Cajola, they have also had the negative effect tearing the social fabric of local communites. Grupo Cajola has set up a weaving center, an egg farm, carpentry shop, internet cafe, library and education programs for pre-schoolers and their parents, while providing scholarships for more than 20 young residents to learn local trades. Textiles they produce are now exported for sale to the U.S. The NGO was founded in 2000 by Eduardo Jimenez, who lived as an undocumented immigrant for 10 years in the U.S. before returning to Guatemala. He coordinates locally with the group's American director Caryn Maxim, who organizes funding and product sales in New Jersey. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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Improving Identification and Screening Processes for Indigenous Latinx English Learners

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Pandemic Response to Pandemic Recovery: Helping English Learners Succeed This Fall and Beyond

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 21: Students and faculty join together in front of Yung Wing School P.S. 124 on May 21, 2021 in New York City. May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage month and awareness has spiked due to incidents of Asian racism and other acts of hatred in the age of COVID-19. Schools across the Lower East Side held rallies in response to the recent violence against the AAPI community. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

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Supporting English Learners, Supporting Families: Using Community-Based Tutoring to Accelerate Learning

PROVO, UT - FEBRUARY 10: A student works on a computer at Freedom Preparatory Academy on February 10, 2021 in Provo, Utah. Freedom Academy has done in person instruction since the middle of August of 2020 with only four days of school canceled due to COVID-19 outbreak. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)

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Lessons on Navigating Dual Language Immersion in the Virtual Environment

STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT - OCTOBER 21: Kindergarten teacher Maggie Peterson reaches around a safety shield while giving a reading test to a student at Stark Elementary School on October 21, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. Stamford Public Schools is continuing the fall semester with a hybrid model of in-class and distance learning, occasionally quarantining individual classes when a student or faculty member tests positive for COVID-19. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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Keeping English Learner Students Engaged During the Pandemic

STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT - SEPTEMBER 23: Masked school children wait to have their portraits taken during picture day at Rogers International School on September 23, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. Students lined up outside while socially distanced due to COVID-19 precautions to be individually photographed. Most students at Stamford Public Schools are taking part in a hybrid education model, attending in-school classes every other day and distance learning the rest. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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How to Support English Learners during a Time of Uncertainty