New Releases
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What California Teachers Are Saying About Their Instructional Materials for English Learner Students
This brief summarizes survey data about California teachers’ views of and experience with their instructional materials in relation to their English learners.
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SimScientists Suites for Distance Learning
This free selection of SimScientists modules help educators engage learners to use science and engineering practices actively, and integrate those practices with rich science content.
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How to Engage Dual Language Elementary Students with High-Quality Texts
This webinar builds on the webinar, How to Prepare Dual Language Elementary Students to Engage in Conversations Around Central Ideas with High-Quality Texts, and introduces dual language educators to teaching and learning approaches and processes that support elementary students’ abilities to access and engage in disciplinary literacy practices with high-quality, complex texts.
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How to Prepare Dual Language Elementary Students to Engage in Conversations Around Central Ideas with High-Quality Texts
This archived webinar highlights the importance of surfacing students’ prior experiences and activating their prior knowledge in dual language classrooms.
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Analyzing Texts in Grades 3-5: The Development of Oral Language in a Distance Learning Environment
In this archived webinar, upper elementary teachers will learn how to support 3-5 grade students’ oral language development by asking questions that promote student analysis of a text’s key themes in distance learning environments.
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Supporting Secondary English Learners in the Social Studies Classroom in a Distance Learning Environment
This archived webinar helps deepen teachers’ understanding of the development of oral language for English Learners and provides some strategies that can be applied to distance learning environments.
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Elementary Educators: Communicating with Families of English Learners During Distance Learning
In this archived webinar, learn how educators can communicate regularly with families of young English Learners to increase student success.
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Linking, Describing, and Critiquing in Secondary Mathematics: Supporting English Learners’ Oral Language Development
In this archived webinar, learn how to design content-specific learning experiences that promote oral language development in distance learning environments.
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Should Schools Be Conducting Lockdown Drills?
This brief offers a summary of arguments and evidence for and against using school lockdown drills to prepare for mass shootings.
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Considerations for District and School Administrators Overseeing Distance Learning for Students with Disabilities
This brief provides guidance and resources to help district and school leaders ensure students with disabilities are well supported through distance learning prompted by the coronavirus crisis.
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Mindfulness-Based Practices for Schools
This brief describes what administrators and teachers can do now to promote the benefits of mindfulness and stress management.
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Effective Questioning in Grades K-2: The Development of Oral Language in a Distance Learning Environment
In this archived webinar, teachers will learn effective questioning techniques that can be used to design activities for distance learning environments that promote text-based discussions.
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Strategies for Trauma-Informed Distance Learning
To help educators use trauma-informed teaching practices in distance learning contexts, this brief offers strategies for recognizing and responding to students’ social and emotional needs while teaching remotely.
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Engaging Parents and Students from Diverse Populations in the Context of Distance Learning
This archived webinar shares lessons from research and practice to help educators engage with students and their families to support continued learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Communicating with Families of Newcomer English Learners During Distance Learning
The presenters in this archived webinar offer practitioners ideas for how to keep parents, guardians, and other family members engaged in supporting their students’ learning trajectory at home.
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