Marilee Coles-Ritchie, PhD
@marileecr.bsky.social
supporting multilingual learners, reader, hiker, teacher educator
Website:
marileecolesritchie.com
*Professional Development in schools
*qualitative researcher
Blog/Newsletter:
substack.com/@marileecolesritchiephd
Website:
marileecolesritchie.com
*Professional Development in schools
*qualitative researcher
Blog/Newsletter:
substack.com/@marileecolesritchiephd
After a break, teachers may need games to engage. Check this out!
3 Zero-Tech Ways to Gamify Vocabulary
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3 Zero-Tech Ways to Gamify Vocabulary
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3 Zero-Tech Ways to Gamify Vocabulary
(and Support Multilingual Learners)
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December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
After a break, teachers may need games to engage. Check this out!
3 Zero-Tech Ways to Gamify Vocabulary
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3 Zero-Tech Ways to Gamify Vocabulary
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Teaching Thanksgiving Responsibly
Content-Area Classes with Multilingual Learners
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November 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Check out the started connection questions.
A Joy-Centered Tip for all Content Area
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A Joy-Centered Tip for all Content Area
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A Joy-Centered Tip for all Content Area
Inspired by Unearthing Joy for Multilingual Learners
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November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Check out the started connection questions.
A Joy-Centered Tip for all Content Area
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A Joy-Centered Tip for all Content Area
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The public deserves to know the extent of Epstein’s abuse and to hold accountable anybody—regardless of political affiliation—who enabled it. Add your name to the petition to demand the Department of Justice and White House publicly release the files.
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Release the Epstein Files
The public deserves to know the extent of Epstein’s abuse and to hold accountable anybody—regardless of political affiliation—who enabled it. Add your name to the petition to demand the Department of ...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The public deserves to know the extent of Epstein’s abuse and to hold accountable anybody—regardless of political affiliation—who enabled it. Add your name to the petition to demand the Department of Justice and White House publicly release the files.
sign.moveon.org/petitions/ep...
sign.moveon.org/petitions/ep...
Share with content area teachers!
One Simple Shift open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
One Simple Shift open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
One Simple Shift
Making Content More Accessible for Multilingual Learners
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November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Share with content area teachers!
One Simple Shift open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
One Simple Shift open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Do your students help deconate your walls? Do your walls offer support for #multilinguallearners ?
Walls That Welcome open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Walls That Welcome open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Walls That Welcome
How Classroom Posters Can Power Belonging for Multilingual Learners
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October 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Do your students help deconate your walls? Do your walls offer support for #multilinguallearners ?
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Walls That Welcome open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
The Best Way to Learn? Teach It
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The Best Way to Learn? Teach It
Ways to implement this practice for Multilingual Learners
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October 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Best Way to Learn? Teach It
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Effective way to connect content to emerging Multilingual Learners.
Unpacking the Language of the Standard open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Unpacking the Language of the Standard open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Unpacking the Language of the Standard
Step by step breakdown for Multilingual Learners
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October 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Effective way to connect content to emerging Multilingual Learners.
Unpacking the Language of the Standard open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Unpacking the Language of the Standard open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Live in Utah? Contact your state legislator to stop partisan gerrymandering: act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-...
Stop Gerrymandering in Utah
Utahns have been clear: they want fair maps. But Republicans are trying to ram through a partisan gerrymandered map to benefit D.C. politicians. Contact Governor Cox and the state legislature to deman...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Let's get kids learning through movement!
3 Ways to Teach Content Vocabulary Through Movement, by @mcoles65 substack.com/@marileecole...
3 Ways to Teach Content Vocabulary Through Movement, by @mcoles65 substack.com/@marileecole...
3 Ways to Teach Content Vocabulary Through Movement
Benefits for Multilingual Learners
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September 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Let's get kids learning through movement!
3 Ways to Teach Content Vocabulary Through Movement, by @mcoles65 substack.com/@marileecole...
3 Ways to Teach Content Vocabulary Through Movement, by @mcoles65 substack.com/@marileecole...
Who wants an activity that connects content to relevant life experience and builds community?
Content-based, Joy-filled Collage open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Content-based, Joy-filled Collage open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Content-based, Joy-filled Collage
Drawing from Muhammad's book "Unearthing Joy"
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September 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Who wants an activity that connects content to relevant life experience and builds community?
Content-based, Joy-filled Collage open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Content-based, Joy-filled Collage open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Guest post by Urban Secondary Language Arts Teacher: Honoring the Genius of Multilingual Learners open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Honoring the Genius of Multilingual Learners
Guest post by Urban Language Arts Teacher
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September 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Simple Shifts for Multilingual Learners
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Simple Shifts for Multilingual Learners
Try them tomorrow!
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September 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Simple Shifts for Multilingual Learners
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3 Ways to Launch the School Year with Student Voice and Content Connection
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3 Ways to Launch the School Year with Student Voice and Content Connection
Inspired by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
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September 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
3 Ways to Launch the School Year with Student Voice and Content Connection
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A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust
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A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust
A view from Israel
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July 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust
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José Andrés: The World Cannot Stand By With Gaza on the Brink of Famine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Opinion | José Andrés: The World Cannot Stand By With Gaza on the Brink of Famine
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July 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
José Andrés: The World Cannot Stand By With Gaza on the Brink of Famine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Yes, I Do School Workshops (and I’d Love to Visit Yours!)
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Yes, I Do School Workshops (and I’d Love to Visit Yours!)
Supporting your Multilingual Learners
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June 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Yes, I Do School Workshops (and I’d Love to Visit Yours!)
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Try this to create connection and reflection with your students. End of Year Reflection Gallery Walk open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
End of Year Reflection Gallery Walk
Adaptable for Any Content Area
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May 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Try this to create connection and reflection with your students. End of Year Reflection Gallery Walk open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Reposted by Marilee Coles-Ritchie, PhD
Please share with teachers if you live in the western US! Amazing Opportunity for 6-12 grade STEM or STEAM Teachers open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Amazing Opportunity for 6-12 grade STEM or STEAM Teachers
MIT & Westminster University Collaboration
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April 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Please share with teachers if you live in the western US! Amazing Opportunity for 6-12 grade STEM or STEAM Teachers open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Salt Lake City adopts new banners, sidestepping pride flag ban utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/05/06/s...
Salt Lake City adopts new banners, sidestepping pride flag ban • Utah News Dispatch
The Salt Lake City Council unanimously adopted three new city banners to sidestep a new state flag ban hours before it took effect.
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May 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Salt Lake City adopts new banners, sidestepping pride flag ban utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/05/06/s...
Health Care, Business & Religious Leaders, Educators, Other Experts to Discuss How Mass Deportations Are Harming Utah Communities | MomsRising www.momsrising.org/newsroom/hea...
Health Care, Business & Religious Leaders, Educators, Other Experts to Discuss How Mass Deportations Are Harming Utah Communities
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30At 10 am Wednesday, April 30 at the State Capitol, MomsRising and Voices for Utah Children will host a news conference and roundtable discussion that brings toget...
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April 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Health Care, Business & Religious Leaders, Educators, Other Experts to Discuss How Mass Deportations Are Harming Utah Communities | MomsRising www.momsrising.org/newsroom/hea...
LOVE this response. Maine Governor, Staring Down Trump, Says She Is Unfazed by ‘Loud Men’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Maine Governor, Staring Down Trump, Says She Is Unfazed by ‘Loud Men’
Observers of her political rise — and some who have sparred with her — say Gov. Janet Mills’s refusal to bow to President Trump is right in character.
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April 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
LOVE this response. Maine Governor, Staring Down Trump, Says She Is Unfazed by ‘Loud Men’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Please share with teachers if you live in the western US! Amazing Opportunity for 6-12 grade STEM or STEAM Teachers open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
Amazing Opportunity for 6-12 grade STEM or STEAM Teachers
MIT & Westminster University Collaboration
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April 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Please share with teachers if you live in the western US! Amazing Opportunity for 6-12 grade STEM or STEAM Teachers open.substack.com/pub/marileec...
"What I wish my teachers would do!"
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"What I wish my teachers would do!"
Quotes from High School Multilingual Learners
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April 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"What I wish my teachers would do!"
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Stories for science, math, social studies, music, and all content areas!
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Story Circles for All Content Areas
Tips for Multilingual Learners
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March 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Stories for science, math, social studies, music, and all content areas!
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