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Studies By QTEL
Promising Practices for Middle School English Language Learners
With the collaboration of school districts and middle schools across California, QTEL is conducting the Study of Promising Practices for the Instruction of English Learners. This two-phase study is designed to help policy makers and school leaders make informed decisions about the education of English language learners, especially at the middle school level.
Funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the study will map the programs and patterns of intervention used in middle school by 25 California school districts with high populations of English language learners. Middle school is of particular interest because it is a time when English learners' progress toward redesignation may stagnate, just as they are entering a system of departmentalized courses that, in many cases, are tracked.1
The goal of the first phase of the study is to identify eight promising programs: four widely used interventions and four less widely used but interesting, and perhaps unconventional, approaches. In the second phase of the study, QTEL will create eight case studies of these promising interventions, describing clear and specific practices that local educators can implement. Research indicates that rich depiction of actionable practices can inspire school change by allowing educators to see how "similar students" to their own are able to produce "different results."2
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