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Making “Small Waves of Change”: Dual Language and General Education Teacher Transformation through Instructional Coaching

Published Year

2023

Resource Type

Journal

Target Audience(s)

Administrators

Educational Leaders

Elementary Educators

Researchers

This multisite qualitative case study explores ways in which instructional coaching focused on English language development (content)and teachers’ individual beliefs (process) can help general education and dual language bilingual education elementary teachers work within and through perceived in

Surveying the Landscape of California's English Learner Reclassification Policy

Published Year

2021

Resource Type

Report

How do California's school districts decide when English learners (ELs) are ready to exit the EL designation through the process of reclassification? This is the question that California's policymakers asked and which this brief discusses.

Thousands of ELs fall short on test of language skills

Published Year

2017

Resource Type

Serial

New standards for the scoring of a widely-used English proficiency test have made it much more difficult for students to be judged as proficient.

Family Literacy: A Critical Inquiry-Based Approach to English Language Acquisition

Published Year

2018

Resource Type

Journal

In this theoretical article, the author explores the perceptions that drive the development of family literacy programs aimed at preparing limitedEnglishproficiency (LEP) families for schools in the United States.

Initial Spanish proficiency and English language development among Spanish-speaking English learner students in New Mexico

Published Year

2018

Resource Type

Report

To what extent do Spanish-speaking English learner students develop English proficiency and grade-level readiness in English language arts and math from early elementary school to upper elementary school?

Who-Are-Long-term-English-Learners-Using-Classroom

Published Year

2017

Resource Type

Journal

In the context of recent debates for and against the reality of ~long-term English learners (LTELs)' in US secondary schools, the diversity of these students' classroom experiences and opportunities to develop academically valued forms of English is often overlooked.

Gifted English Language Learners

Published Year

2016

Resource Type

Journal

Current research on gifted English language learners (gifted ELLs) is broadly centered on identification issues and investigations of underrepresentation in gifted programs mainly in schools in the United States and referencing predominantly Spanish-speaking students.

I Know I'm Generalizing but|: How Teachers' Perceptions Influence ESL Learner Placement

Published Year

2015

Resource Type

Journal

This qualitative study focuses on the potential influence students' English as a second language (ESL) status has on teachers' placement decisions. Specifically, the study examines 21 teachers' responses to and decisions regarding fictional student record cards.

Writing in Young Deaf Children

Published Year

2015

Resource Type

Journal

The authors conducted an integrative review of the research literature on the writing development, writing instruction, and writing assessment of young deaf children ages 3 to 8 years (or preschool through third grade) published between 1990 and 2012.

Manhattan teacher helps immigrant students excel in Advanced Placement English classes

Published Year

2017

Resource Type

Serial

At the Manhattan Academy for Arts and Language, a newcomer school in New York City, teacher Lauren McCoy is teaching one of the school's first-ever Advanced Placement classes, and taking her students to the next level.