Resources
Resources to connect you and your colleagues to contemporary research and evidence based practices for engaging English learner students.
Resources
Massive Open Online Courses to Support English Learner Instruction
- Supporting ELs under New Standards
- Constructive Classroom Conversations
- Learning as Evidence: improving ELLs’ argumentation through formative assessment practices
Videos
- Freedom to Talk by Kenji and Luis Hakuta
- ELPA 21 Professional Development Modules
- Integrating Language and Content in Middle School
ELP Standards Documents
Miscellaneous Resources
- Ten Pedagogical Shifts from English Language Learners and the New Standards (Heritage, Walqui, Linquanti, 2015)
- Understand Language Initiative at Stanford University
- Understanding Language Lesson Sequence
- Cheuk, T. (2013). Relationships and Convergences among the mathematics, science, and ELA practices. Refined version of the diagram created by the Understanding Language Initiative for ELP Standards. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.
Related Readings
- Council of Chief State School Officers. (2012). Framework for English Language Proficiency Development Standards corresponding to the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. Washington, DC: CCSSO.
- Saunders W., Goldenberg, C., Marcelletti, D. (2013) English Language Development: Guidelines for Instruction. American Educator.
- Linquanti, R., Hakuta, K., Castellon, M. (2012). The Purpose of the English Language Proficiency Standards, Assessments and Instruction in an Age of New Standards: Policy Statement from the Understanding Language Initiative. Understanding Language.
- Zwiers, J., O’Hara, S., Pritchard, R. (2013). Eight Essential Shifts for Teaching Common Core Standards to Academic English Learners. Academic Language Development Network.