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From https://www.edutopia.org/article/supporting-students-interrupted-educations

Supporting Students with Interrupted Educations
Four strategies for helping students who have missed portions of their schooling—and examples of how teachers are using these strategies.
By Elizabeth Schuster
October 26, 2017

Almost a quarter of all students enrolled in San Francisco Unified School District last school year were English learners. Many of them were students with limited or interrupted formal education, or SLIFEs (the exact number is unknown because the district doesn’t track this). …

These are some of our most high-risk students because they face language and cultural barriers in addition to needing basic school skills, yet there’s not a lot of easily accessible information to help teachers support SLIFEs. To address this, I’ve collected some research-based strategies along with examples of how my colleagues and I have implemented them.

Read the full article, with four specific strategies that you can use, at https://www.edutopia.org/article/supporting-students-interrupted-educations