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Opportunities for Leaders

Coaching

Coaching

Video

The Power of Interaction and Building Community

Video

Modeling and Explaining a Task

Video

Preparing Learners – The Anticipatory Guide

Video

Introduction to the Units

Vignette

A Principal and Coaching: Possibilities and Limitations

Vignette

Introduction to the Suite of Briefs on Coaching

Presentation

Norwalk Public Schools: A Model of Excellence in Transformational Multilingual Learning Practices

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Module 4: Multilingualism in the United States and Around the World: Current Issues and Tensions – A Focus on the Conversation with Ofelia García

Module

Module 1: Introduction to Key Constructs

Webinar

Reconceptualizing the Role of Critical Dialogue in the Education of English Learners

Webinar

The Role of Talk in Learning: Implications for Recently Arrived EAL and Refugee Background Students in Mainstream Classes

Webinar

English Learners and Civic Life: The Imperative, the Reality, and the Potential

Webinar

What’s in a Name? The Terms We Use to Talk About English Learners, the Theories They Reflect, and Why Labels Matter

Video

The Structure and Process of Scaffolding

Video

The Power of Established Collaborative Grouping

Video

Meet the Authors of the Curriculum

Vignette

Navigating a New Role: From Teacher to Coach

Vignette

Coaching: A Beginning Coach’s Story

Presentation

Challenges and Affordances in the Development of Teacher Expertise

Module

Module 6: Equitable Policy and Practice for English Learners: What Should Teachers and School Leaders Know and Do?

Module

Module 3: Shifts in Our Understanding of Second Language Learning: From the Teaching of Oral Skills to the Development of Oracy: A Focus on the Conversation with Alice Stott

Webinar

From Acquisition to Development: Reconceptualizing Educators’ Work with English Learners

Webinar

Policy and Equity in the Education of English Learners: The Struggle Continues

Webinar

Oracy in the UK for All Students: Current Research

Webinar

English Learners in the United States: A Historical, Policy, and Educational Trajectory

Video

Shifts in Teacher Beliefs

Video

Reaching Consensus and Co-Construction of Knowledge

Video

The Features of the Curriculum

Vignette

Blurring Lines: Coaching or Friendly Encounters?

Vignette

Using Cases in the Ecological Development of Teacher Expertise: The Role, Nature, and Requirements of Coaching

Presentation

The Development of Teacher Expertise to Work with English Learners with Quality

Module

Module 5: Teaching and Learning Disciplinary Literacies at the Secondary Level: A Meaning-Making Perspective

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Module 2: The Language We Use to Talk about English Learners and Our Work: A Focus on the Conversation with Guadalupe Valdés

Webinar

Teaching Disciplinary Literacies in Hard Times that Just Got Harder

Webinar

A Meaning-Oriented Model of Language for the Classroom

Webinar

Robust Learning Opportunities for English Learners: Even MORE Important Now

Webinar

Multilingualism in the United States and Around the World: Current Issues and Tensions

Course Taking Patterns

Course Taking Patterns

Brief

Waiving English Learner Services: Who Does It and Why? State Policy Forces and Structural Factors in Oregon, Texas, and Michigan

Brief

English Learners’ Access to Content in Pennsylvania: Academic Course Enrollment in High School English Learners’ Peer

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English Learner Vignette: Issues of Grouping EL Identified Students, Challenges, Tensions, and Possibilities

Brief

English Learners’ Access to Core Content: Academic Course Enrollment in High School

Vignette

You Can Use the Language All You Want but You Can Never Leave: The Difficult Task of Reclassification

Brief

Counselor Availability: Examining Policy Levers for English Learner Course Access

Brief

How State, District, and School Levers Can Improve the Course Access of Students Classified as English Learners in Secondary Schools

Brief

The Effects of Waiving English Learner Services: Examining Policy Levers for English Learner Course Access

Brief

Michigan English Learners’ Access to Advanced Courses: Academic Course Enrollment and Completion in High School

Vignette

Counselors’ Dilemmas

Presentation

Examining Access to Core Content for EL-Classified Students in High School

Vignette

Challenging and Supporting Students Bureaucratically Classified as Long-Term English Learners: The Elective Psychology Course

Brief

Teacher Preparation: Examining Policy Levers for English Learner Course Access

Brief

Composition In Oregon: Examining Policy Levers for English Learner Course Access

Vignette

Seeking Equity for EL-Classified Multilingual Learners through Language and Content Integrated Instruction: The Legacy and Tensions of the Lau Decision*

Article

The Legacy and Tensions of the Lau Decision

Vignette

Study 1 (Course-Taking)

Brief

Bilingual Education: Examining Policy Levers for English Learner Course Access

Brief

Extra Instructional Time: Examining Policy Levers for English Learner Course Access

Promoting Teacher Collaboration

Promoting Teacher Collaboration

Vignette

Are you Performing with a Band or Singing Karaoke? Rethinking Co-Teaching Roles to Serve EL-Classified Multilingual Learners

Vignette

A Principal and Coaching: Possibilities and Limitations

Vignette

A Portrait of Co-Planning

Presentation

Exploring the Affordances Offered by Ecological Research on the Education of Multilingual Learners

Presentation

Norwalk Public Schools: A Model of Excellence in Transformational Multilingual Learning Practices

Brief

Supporting Adolescent English Learners in Distance Learning: What Can School and District Leaders Do?

Vignette

Navigating a New Role: From Teacher to Coach

Vignette

Coaching: A Beginning Coach’s Story

Brief

Rethinking Language in Mathematics for English Learners: Connecting Theory, Research, and Practice

Presentation

District Policies for Collaborative Instructional Models: Tensions of Implementation

Vignette

A Tale of Two Administrators: School-based Leadership in Collaborative Teaching Models

Vignette

Blurring Lines: Coaching or Friendly Encounters?

Vignette

Using Cases in the Ecological Development of Teacher Expertise: The Role, Nature, and Requirements of Coaching

Article

The Legacy and Tensions of the Lau Decision

Presentation

Challenges and Affordances in the Development of Teacher Expertise

Brief

Who Is in Charge of English Learner Services: Lessons Learned from a National Co-Teaching and Collaboration Study

  • National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners
  • National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners
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The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305C200008 to WestEd. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.

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