The Midwest Is Springing Forward with BurlingtonEnglish
Written by the Burlington English Editorial and Marketing team “The hallmark of adult ESL programs is flexibility. To be effective, programs need to offer classes that vary in terms of scheduling, location, duration, and content in order to maximize learning opportunities while accommodating the realities and constraints of adult learners’ lives.”1 In this article, we […]
Volunteer Tutors Make the Difference: Changing Lives, One Student at a Time
Written by the Burlington English Editorial and Marketing Team Literacy Services of Wisconsin serves more than 250 English language learners from the metro Milwaukee area, including Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties. The program is based on a one-on-one tutoring model in which volunteer tutors and adult English language learners meet for approximately two hours per […]
Increasing Student Persistence and Retention at Adult Education Center – Columbia Heights/Fridley
Written by the Burlington English Marketing and Editorial Team Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers at the Adult Education Center – Columbia Heights / Fridley (CHF) used BurlingtonEnglish as a supplemental instructional resource with their adult ESL students. With the onset of the pandemic, the program was faced with the challenge of pivoting to online […]
Minnesota Teachers are Raving about Teaching Online with Burlington Core
Writtten by the Burlington English Marketing and Editorial Team When recent stay-at-home orders were issued around the country, thousands of educational programs scrambled to maintain their connection with students and implement an alternative education plan. Fortunately, there was an easy solution for several adult education programs in Minnesota – BurlingtonCore. Prior to the outbreak of […]
Spotlight on Student Success
Stephanie Rintala, ELL Teacher; Irene Yang, ELL Student, Mid-State Technical College, Wisconsin Written by the Burlington English Marketing and Editorial Team “First, I have to improve my English. That is my goal now.” Irene Yang is an ELL student from Laos and a BurlingtonEnglish Champion at Mid-State Technical College in Wisconsin. Before Irene moved to Wisconsin from […]
