English Language Learners
Scaffolding Writing Through the "Teaching and Learning Cycle"
Resources and Strategies for Identifying and Supporting English Learners with Learning Disabilities
Quality Education for ELLs/ MLLs: Why We Need It and How We Can Achieve It
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Scaffolding Writing With the “Teaching and Learning Cycle” for Students in Grades 6–12
This article explains a process through which teachers can scaffold students’ successful writing called the “Teaching and Learning Cycle" to best serve multilingual learners as well as English-proficient students.
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Chapter 4: Early Learning and Care for Multilingual and Dual Language Learners Ages Zero to Five
This archived webinar provides an overview of chapter 4 of the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice. The presenters describe evidence-based principles and classroom examples of how to best support the academic success of dual language learners.
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Chapter 2: Asset-Based Pedagogy - Student, Family, and Community Engagement for the Academic and Social-Emotional Learning of Multilingual Students
This archived webinar provides an overview of chapter 2 of the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice. The presenters addressed key aspects of the chapter, including why asset-based pedagogy is an educational imperative for multilingual students. They also discussed several ways asset-based pedagogy can promote the social, emotional, and academic development of multilingual students.
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Chapter 6: Content and Language Instruction in Middle and High School: Promoting Educational Equity and Achievement Through Access and Meaningful Engagement
This archived webinar highlights the overview chaprovides an overview of chapter 6 of the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice. Chapter 6 includes information on Integrated and Designated English Language Development and effective school and district systems. The presenters highlighted six interacting instructional practices promoted in the chapter that are essential for multilingual learner students in the secondary grades and highlight classroom vignettes that illustrate them in action.
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Chapter 7: Creating Schools and Systems That Support Asset-Based, High-Quality Instruction for Multilingual Learners
This archived webinar provides an overview of chapter seven from the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice. Chapter 7 introduces a framework for systemic continuous improvement that places multilingual learner (ML) students at the core and is guided by an assets-orientation and principles of high-quality ML instruction. The presenters showcased an example from the chapter of one system’s Aligned Continuous Improvement Model with a focus on articulation and alignment.
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Developing Educator Expertise to Work with Adolescent English Learners Module 2 – The Language We Use to Talk about English Learners and Our Work
Through the modules in this series, the National Research and Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners promotes a thorough understanding the theories
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Developing Educator Expertise to Work with Adolescent English Learners Module 1: Introduction to Key Constructs
Explore how to build a common knowledge base to provide coherence to the field of educating English Learners in secondary schools.
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Chapter 3: Multilingual Programs and Pedagogy - What Teachers and Administrators Need to Know and Do
The fourth in the series, this archived webinar provides an overview of chapter 3 in the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice, which offers guidance to teachers and administrators on conceptualizing, establishing, and improving multilingual programs and implementing research-based pedagogy in multilingual classrooms.
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Toward NGSS Design: EQuIP Detailed Guidance (Archived Webinar)
In this archived webinar, you will learn about the key features of the EQuIP resource, Toward NGSS Design, and hear examples of how educators, curriculum developers, and district leaders have used the EQuIP Rubric for Science to guide the development and evaluation of instructional materials. -
Toward NGSS Design: EQuIP Detailed Guidance
This resource is designed to support those who develop, review, select, or use instructional materials by helping create a common vision of high-quality materials that are designed for the Next Generation Science Standards.
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Engaging in Professional Learning Using Grades Four Through Six English Language Development (ELD) Videos
This archived webinar provides examples of how to incorporate the California Department of Education's English Language Development videos into professional development programs designed for teachers of grades four through six.
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Chapter 5: Content Instruction with Integrated and Designated English Language Development in the Elementary Grades
The third in the series, this archived webinar highlights four essential practices for quality teaching for multilingual learner students that are promoted in chapter 5 in the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice.
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Hero Elementary Playlist RCT Study in Formal School and Distance Learning Contexts
WestEd conducted a randomized controlled study to investigate how NGSS-aligned transmedia playlists can support student engagement and learning.
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Chapter 1: The Power and Promise of California’s Multilingual Learners—A Deeper Dive for Administrators and Teachers New to the Field
This archived webinar offers a close look at chapter one of the California Department of Education publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice.
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Growing Strong Learners in Galt Joint Union Elementary School District
This evaluation of the Growing Strong Learners initiative in the Central Valley’s Galt Joint Union Elementary School District (GJUESD) examines the program's objectives to improve kindergarten readiness and continuing academic achievement for the district’s English Learner students.
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