English Language Learners
Scaffolding Writing Through the "Teaching and Learning Cycle"
Quality Education for ELLs/ MLLs: Why We Need It and How We Can Achieve It
Resources and Strategies for Identifying and Supporting English Learners with Learning Disabilities
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What California Teachers Say About Their Instructional Materials For English Learner Students: New Data and Insights
This CALE knowledge brief summarizes California findings from a nationwide survey on teachers’ perceptions of their instructional materials for English learner students. It includes considerations for improvements in instructional materials and developing policies and professional learning systems.
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Resourcing Supports for Young Multilingual Learners with Suspected Disabilities in California: Learning Collaborative Recommendations
In order to help educators best support young multilingual learners, WestEd launched a short-term, cross-sector Learning Collaborative to improve collaboration, build knowledge capacity, and increase awareness of best practices related to integrated ELD instruction. This report details lessons learned and offers recommendations for policymakers and education leaders.
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Promoting Attendance
This REL West collection of resources helps schools and districts use data to design and carry out strategies to reduce chronic absence—from building community awareness to providing intensive one-on-one support for students and families.
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Supporting Young English Learners at Home: Family and Caregiver Activities
These simple and fun activities help families and caregivers leverage cultural and linguistic assets and knowledge to strengthen language development at home for young English Learners.
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Supporting Integrated English Learner Student Instruction
This guide is designed to help district and school site leaders assess the professional learning needs of elementary school teachers to implement research-based recommendations for the instruction of English learner students. -
Science Learning with Hero Elementary: Accessible Blended Learning Resources to Reach All Students
There is a need to design learning resources that allow a diverse range of students access to instructional content, including students with disabilities, dual-language learners,
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Discussion Builders Poster, Grades K-1 (Spanish Version)
When we introduced these posters in teacher professional development, teachers begged us to publish them, and so we have. Use to build students’ language and thinking in any subject area. Powerful scaffolding for English language learners.
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Discussion Builders Poster, Grades 4-8 (Spanish Version)
When we introduced these posters in teacher professional development, teachers begged us to publish them, and so we have. Use them to build students’ language and thinking in any subject area. Powerful scaffolding for English language learners.
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Discussion Builders Poster, Grades 2-3 (Spanish Version)
When we introduced these posters in teacher professional development, teachers begged us to publish them, and so we have. Use to build students' language and thinking in any subject area. Powerful scaffolding for English language learners.
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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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