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Differentiating Assignment Template
Complete the Differentiated Assignment Template for your students. The key is to align teacher expectations for use with what students at particular ELP levels can do with language.
Publication: Differentiating Instruction and Assessment for English Language Learners: A Guide for K-12 Teachers, second edition
Topic: Professional Development
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Object(s): template
Dr. Raymond Isola and Dr. Jim Cummins Webinar
Transforming Schools: Shared Leadership, Equity and Evidence
A principal shares the successful turnaround story in an elementary school serving students from low-income, primarily Latino homes in San Francisco. He emphasizes the powerful role principals have in school reform and explains how their shared leadership approach and results-oriented cycle of inquiry process dramatically improved student performance over a 13-year period. Concrete examples illustrate how this approach engages key constituents: teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, parents, community members, businesses leaders, and students themselves.
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Publication: Transforming Sanchez School
Topic: Professional Development
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Dr. Raymond Isola and Dr. Jim Cummins Webinar Slides
Transforming Schools: Shared Leadership, Equity and Evidence
A principal shares the successful turnaround story in an elementary school serving students from low-income, primarily Latino homes in San Francisco. He emphasizes the powerful role principals have in school reform and explains how their shared leadership approach and results-oriented cycle of inquiry process dramatically improved student performance over a 13-year period. Concrete examples illustrate how this approach engages key constituents: teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, parents, community members, businesses leaders, and students themselves.
Publication: Transforming Sanchez School
Topic: Professional Development
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Dr. Sandra Mercuri Webinar
La enseñanza bilingüe: Planning for content, language, and biliteracy
This webinar shows biliteracy teachers how to design interdisciplinary units of study that are aligned with content standards; include reading, writing, and talking in both languages; and yield evidence of biliteracy learning. The presenter will share examples of a unit and lesson planning framework that teachers can use to design a bilingual interdisciplinary unit of instruction for any grade level in any type of biliteracy context.
Publication: La enseñanza en el aula bilingüe: Content, language, and biliteracy
Topic: Professional Development
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ELLs and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is being replaced by Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the latest reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Dr. Wayne E. Wright, Purdue University professor and author of Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners (2015, Caslon Publishing), addresses how this new federal education policy is different, and discusses the implications for English language learners.
Publication: Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners: Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice, third edition
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): video
ELLs and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Presentation
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is being replaced by Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the latest reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Dr. Wayne E. Wright, Purdue University professor and author of Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners (2015, Caslon Publishing), prepared a slide presentation about how this new federal education policy is different, and the implications for English language learners.
Publication: Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners: Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice, third edition
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): presentation
Interdisciplinary Biliteracy Planning Template
Mercuri and Musanti with Rodriquez created an interdisciplinary biliteracy planning template to showcase examples of instruction and assessment from bilingual classes across elementary grade levels, in different types of dual language programs, and serving different populations. In their book they also include a step-by-step guide on how to use the flexible interdisciplinary biliteracy planning template to teach for authentic interdisciplinary biliteracy.
Publication: La enseñanza en el aula bilingüe: Content, language, and biliteracy
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Investing in Innovation Fund (i3)
The Investing in Innovation Fund, established under section 14007 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), provides funding to support (1) local educational agencies (LEAs) and (2) nonprofit organizations in partnership with (a) one or more LEAs or (b) a consortium of schools. The purpose of this program is to provide competitive grants to applicants with a record of improving student achievement and attainment in order to expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are demonstrated to have an impact on improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates.
Publication: Caslon Community
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): website