Creating New Futures for Newcomers: Q&A with BethAnn Berliner
BethAnn Berliner discusses schools that are using effective strategies to support students who are immigrants, refugees, and asylees, also known as newcomer students.
English learners
September Focus: Literacy Across Content Areas
In this post, we introduce the work of three language and literacy initiatives – Reading Apprenticeship, Quality Teaching for English Learners, and Leading with Learning, and offer a variety of tools and resources to inform your practice.
Creating New Futures for Newcomers: Lessons from Five Schools That Serve K–12 Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylees
This report highlights "bright spots," schools that are using promising and effective strategies for supporting newcomer students in K–12 classrooms.
Scaffolding Young Children’s Story Writing
Words of advice before trying the Teaching Learning Cycle to support children’s engagement with complex stories and their story writing: planning is key, start with one new strategy, and have fun.
July Focus: Summer Reads Guaranteed to Inform and Inspire
Check out these resources to learn about supporting English learner students, implementing restorative-justice practices, and more.
Register for Summer Institutes: Learn Effective Strategies for Teaching English Learner Students with Disabilities
This two-day institute addresses misconceptions about, and provides research-based strategies for, teaching English learner students and students with disabilities.
Designing Productive Mathematical Talk: Supporting English Learner Students
Experts from WestEd’s Quality Teaching for English Learners initiative describe why incorporating opportunities for effective dialogue with peers is essential for effective math teaching and learning.
March Focus: Comprehensive Support to Improve Success for English Learners
WestEd is highlighting best practices to help you provide high-quality support for English learners, focusing on research, resources, and professional learning. Learn more.
March Focus: Comprehensive Support to Improve Success for English Learners
Explore WestEd’s research, services, and resources designed to help educators rapidly improve teaching and systemic support for English learners.
English Language Learners at the Center of System Change: A Multidistrict Network Takes Improvement to the Next Level
Read about an initiative that aims to build the capacity of district and school leaders to make systemic improvements that boost the achievement of English language learner students, better preparing them for college and careers.