From Hard Times, Good Things Come: A Partnership Beyond the Pandemic
Written by Peg Gould, Director of Community Education and Training Mercer County Community College, Trenton, New Jersey We all saw it coming: the COVID-19 quarantine, but we were told, and we believed it would be “two weeks and back to normal.” Initially, the goal was to keep the teaching going, and we did. March 16, […]
Rio Salado College Surprise Reaches New Heights with the Burlington Blend
Written by the Burlington English Editorial and Marketing team “Relevant, realistic, meaningful content that makes sense to students.” These are the words that Jennifer Shaffer, Instructional Services Supervisor from Rio Salado College (RSC) in Surprise, Arizona, uses to describe BurlingtonEnglish. From January to May of 2018, Ms. Shaffer embarked on an ambitious journey with her […]
NWACC Teachers and Students are Achieving Success with BurlingtonEnglish
Written by the Burlington English Editorial and Marketing team Teachers at NorthWest Arkansas Community College (NWACC) are thrilled about how BurlingtonEnglish (BE) has helped students thrive in their ESL classes. NWACC began implement- ing BE in January 2019 in all six levels of its ESL program. When Burlington customer representa- tives Amanda Perez and Ana […]
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 […]
