2021 NAM Awards
Published Year
2020
Resource Type
Federal Grant
Target Audience(s)
Research and Data
Originating Organization
OELA
Resource Library
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Dual Language Education: Historical U.S. Perspectives And Current Practices – Part 2 (January 2020)
Resource Type
Podcast
Originating Organization
OELA
For English learner students, dual language programs offer opportunities to lead with their cultural and linguistic assets, leverage and nurture their full linguistic knowledge and skills, and engage in rigorous academic content learning, all while developing English.
Dual Language Education: Historical U.S. Perspectives And Current Practices – Part 2
Published Year
2020
Originating Organization
OELA
For English learner students, dual language programs offer opportunities to lead with their cultural and linguistic assets, leverage and nurture their full linguistic knowledge and skills, and engage in rigorous academic content learning, all while developing English.
Alaska Native Students as English Learner Students: Examining Patterns in Identification, Classification, Service Provision, and Reclassification
Published Year
2021
Resource Type
Report
Originating Organization
DOE
This report examines the population of Alaska Native students who are classified as English learner (EL) students and how EL policies function for these students, focusing on EL identification, classification, service provision, and reclassification as fluent English proficient.
Alaska Native Students as English Learner Students: Examining Patterns of Identification, Classification, Service Provision, and Reclassification
Published Year
2021
Resource Type
Report
Originating Organization
DOE
In Alaska, Indigenous students make up a large segment of the English learner (EL) population. This report examined Alaska Native kindergarten students who are classified as ELs; the data are from school year 2011-12 through school year 2018-19.
Resource for Self-Determination or Perpetuation of Linguistic Imposition: Examining the Impact of English Learner Classification among Alaska Native Students
Published Year
2021
Resource Type
Report
Federal law defines eligibility for English learner (EL) classification differently for Indigenous students compared to non-Indigenous students. Unlike non-Indigenous students, Indigenous students are not required to have a non-English home or primary language.
Culturally Responsive Instruction for Native American Students
Published Year
2019
Resource Type
Media
This online professional learning series is for teachers to learn how to provide more culturally responsive instruction to Native American students by integrating students' cultures into the curricula. The series consists of five sequenced lessons delivered through videos and tasks.
The ESSA in Indian Country: Problematizing Self-Determination through the Relationships between Federal, State, and Tribal Governments
Published Year
2017
Resource Type
Journal
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to (a) analyze the potential effects of the new relationship between state and federal governments on tribal sovereignty and self-determination and (b) problematize the devolution of power back to the states as they are entrusted to use the guiding frameworks
Performance-Based Assessment: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
Published Year
2017
Resource Type
Journal
Fueled by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and its focus on standardized testing, the U.S. assessment system has been driven by capitalism rather than educational benefit. Annually, the testing industry, which four companies monopolize, is valued at between $400 and $700 million.
Following in the footsteps of the wolf: connecting scholarly minds to ancestors in Indigenous language revitalization
Published Year
2017
Resource Type
Journal
The authors' respective experiences as Indigenous people, scholars, language activists, and Kwak'wala (KwakwaI+-kaI+-'wakw/Kwakiutl language) and a,Y=ia,Y=iA!kE:iiEata,Y=a (Hesquiaht dialect of the Nuu-chah-nulth/Nootka language) adult language learners and teachers are discussed in r