Editor’s Note: Wendi Pillars, author of Visual Notetaking for Educators and a National Board Certified English as an Additional Language (EAL) teacher at Jordan-Matthews High School in Siler City, ...

Most people can vividly remember a moment in their life when they felt very deeply heard and understood by another—perhaps by a friend or partner, therapist or teacher, family or community member. On ...

The pandemic has provided the rare opportunity for many of us to slow down and listen to the world around us. At the Smithsonian, listening is an essential part of our work. Listening to individuals, ...

It started with silence. Not the comforting kind that settles in after a long day, but the loaded, tense kind – the silence that fills the space between two people who no longer know how to talk to ...

Focus group moderators asked participants if they were in the process of learning English, and what challenges they faced trying to learn the language. Participants shared various ways they learned or ...