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"This book is certain to be an indispensable guide to planning and practice in dual language schools. It is practical, down-to-earth, and firmly based in broad experience and research."Robert Slavin, Co-DirectorCenter for Research on the Education of Students Placed at RiskJohns Hopkins University

"Calderón and Minaya-Rowe have done an excellent job of presenting relevant research along with practical examples and suggestions, all in a highly readable and user-friendly format. This volume is an indispensable tool for teachers, administrators, and parents involved with dual language programs."Liz Howard, Research AssociateCenter for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC

"This book is an excellent resource for educators interested in developing bilingual capacity in American school children."Diane August, DirectorNational Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth

"A comprehensive compendium of dual language program implementation strategies and examples. An indispensable how-to book for school level administrators, teacher trainers, teachers, and parents."Ana Maria Olezza, Director of Bilingual ProgramsHartford Public Schools, Connecticut

"This practical book can be used as a tool to transform schools into dual-language programs that focus on the improvement of school performance and language enrichment. It is written in a very pragmatic style and provides insights and frameworks supporting a school or district's systemic reform."Anthony Amato, SuperintendentHartford Public Schools, Connecticut

Use dual-language instruction to promote literacy in two languages!

How can you provide a bilingual learning experience that includes high levels of achievement for both English-language learners and English-dominant students? What can you do to include all students in the adventure of learning a new language? Two-way bilingual education helps children maintain their cultural language as well as learn a new language—an invaluable skill in an increasingly integrated world.

Designing and Implementing Two-Way Bilingual Programs provides essential elements to help your students gain literacy in two languages, increase cross-cultural understanding, and meet high levels of achievement in all core academic areas.

This excellent resource provides school administrators, teachers, and parents with the basic knowledge necessary for planning and implementing an effective two-way bilingual program by:

Promoting native-language literacy skills and balanced bilingualism Providing a standards-based education while promoting proficiency in two languages Helping all students gain cognitive and linguistic benefits from academic tasks that call for creativity and problem solving

This indispensable handbook also includes strategies for building learning communities for dual-language teachers, professional development plans that meet the specific needs of dual-language programs, and tips for involving parents.

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Your guide to culturally and linguistically sustaining practices in your dual language classroom and school.

It’s time to set the record straight: Multilingualism is a tremendous asset that must be nurtured and valued and the most effective pathway to multilingualism is dual language education. Despite significant evidence attesting to the cognitive, social/emotional, and economic benefits of multilingualism, the majority of our classrooms and schools are monolingual.

Encouragingly, recent shifts in state policies have increased the demand for dual language programming in our schools. This increased momentum brings new challenges, including the need for more bilingually authorized teachers, high-quality instructional resources, and accurate assessment and accountability in the target languages of instruction. With contributions from ten experts in multilingual education, Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall outlines the systemic and pedagogical approaches necessary for successful multilingual and dual language programs. The book supports educators to: 

Shift the paradigm from one that is subtractive and deficit-based to one that is additive and assets-basedEmbed culturally and linguistically sustaining practices in their instructionUnderstand how to promote multilingualism in the context of teaching academic contentDevelop assessments as, for, and of learning in multiple languages.Lead high-quality dual language schools and programsRecruit and retain highly qualified bilingual educators

Offering a comprehensive overview of bilingual policies and historical context all educators should understand, Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall is an invaluable guide to creating dual language learning environments that build on the precious assets of our multilingual students and families.

Be the instructional coach multilingual students and their teachers need.

As the population of multilingual learners (MLs) in K–12 schools continues to grow, instructional coaches must support content teachers to recognize these students’ assets and address their linguistic, cultural, academic, and social-emotional needs. Leveraging her decades of facilitating and coaching experience in the fields of language, literacy, and professional learning, Margarita Calderón meets this urgent need with practical, evidence-based strategies to leverage the power of coaching in support of ML excellence.

Through the individual chapters dedicated to academic language, reading, and writing instruction and strategies to promote student discourse and social-emotional learning embedded throughout, this book will give coaches what they need to guide all teachers toward ML excellence. Additional features include

A step-by-step framework designed to help coaches promote teacher efficacy with MLs regardless of program setting or instructional approachClear guidance for how to structure coaching sessions with teachers, driven by research-based approaches and observation and feedback protocols for accelerating student comprehensionMyth-busting facts about the do’s and don'ts of effective coaching for ML successSpotlights on the experiences of veteran coaches focusing on successes, challenges, and tips to remain resilientIndividual and group reflection questions and tools at the close of each chapter

Offering solutions to the challenges faced by MLs that content area teachers must be prepared to address, this book is a powerful tool coaches can use to move multilingual instruction beyond compliance to excellence.

"Offers invaluable resources for teachers and administrators taking a proactive approach to eliminating the subgroup of long-term English learners."—Yee Wan, Multilingual Programs CoordinatorSanta Clara County Office of Education, San Jose, CA

"This book encapsulates a serious call to action: challenging leaders and educators to forge bold yet eminently practical pathways toward high-quality, evidence-based systematic instruction."—Virginia R. Champion, Senior Education SpecialistRegion One Education Service Center, Edinburg, TX10 keys to keeping English learners from falling through the cracks

Students who struggle with academic English are likely to struggle with academic content throughout their school years. This practical guidebook's 10 components for success will help educators at all levels close this achievement gap. Best-selling authors Margarita Espino Calderón and Liliana Minaya-Rowe provide step-by-step instructions for integrating vocabulary and writing across the curriculum to improve students' learning. Key features include:

A clearly articulated, evidence-based professional development program for teaching diverse English language learners effectivelyCoverage of a variety of program typesResearch-based tools for improving instruction and measuring learning progressionsMethods for implementing an EL program while meeting core standards and content objectives

Inside are studies from a principal and superintendent and an array of assessment tools, checklists, and resources to guide you through the improvement process and establish a meaningful accountability system for the benefit of teachers, administrators, parents, and students.

By now it’s a given: if we’re to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today’s content standards, we must cultivate the “code” that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto, in which she invites field authorities Jeff Zwiers, David and Yvonne Freeman, Margarita Calderon, and Noma LeMoine to share every teacher’s need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language.

The subject of this volume is vocabulary. Here, Margarita Calderon reveals how vocabulary is best taught as a tool for completing and constructing more complex messages. With this book as your roadmap, you’ll learn how to:

Teach high-frequency academic words and discipline-specific vocabulary across content areas Utilize strategies for teaching academic vocabulary, moving students from Tier 1 to Tiers 2 and 3 words and selecting appropriate words to teach Assess vocabulary growth as you go

Our vocabulary instruction must come from the texts our ELLs and SELs are about to read, not from a set of activities that teach words in isolation. This guidebook will help you get started as early as tomorrow. Better yet, read all four volumes in the series and put in place an all-in-one instructional plan for closing the achievement gap.

Retool your whole school for EL achievement  For any student, middle and high school can be challenging. But for an English learner or striving reader—and the myriad words, phrases, syntax, texts, and concepts they must negotiate on a daily basis—the stakes seem a whole lot higher. Fortunately for content-area teachers, Margarita Calderón and Shawn Slakk make available in a single resource all the best instructional and professional development combinations for expediting comprehension across the secondary grades.  Really a tool to assist all learners across all language needs, the second edition of Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6-12, provides evidence-based strategies for helping content-area teachers and schools at large: 

Teach academic language in all subject areas  Embed discourse practice through interaction strategies  Integrate basic and close reading comprehension skills into lessons  Teach drafting, revising, and editing for content-specific writing   Use cooperative learning to develop social emotional skills and enhance academic achievement 

Calderón and Slakk know firsthand that if we’re to counter the commonly held narrative of predictable failure among our ELs, it takes a whole school, and they have the evidence to prove it. Read Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6-12, implement its strategies across all classrooms, and soon enough you, too, will maximize the comprehensions skills so critical to our ELs’ long-term success.   

It was a dark and stormy night in Santa Barbara. January 19, 2017. The next day’s inauguration drumroll played on the evening news. Huddled around a table were nine Corwin authors and their publisher, who together have devoted their careers to equity in education. They couldn’t change the weather, they couldn’t heal a fractured country, but they did have the power to put their collective wisdom about EL education upon the page to ensure our multilingual learners reach their highest potential.

Proudly, we introduce you now to the fruit of that effort: Breaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learners’ Success.

In this first-of-a-kind collaboration, teachers and leaders, whether in small towns or large urban centers, finally have both the research and the practical strategies to take those first steps toward excellence in educating our culturally and linguistically diverse children. It’s a book to be celebrated because it means we can throw away the dark glasses of deficit-based approaches and see children who come to school speaking a different home language for what they really are: learners with tremendous assets.

The authors’ contributions are arranged in nine chapters that become nine tenets for teachers and administrators to use as calls to actions in their own efforts to realize our English learners’ potential: 1.       From Deficit-Based to Asset-Based  2.       From Compliance to Excellence  3.       From Watering Down to Challenging  4.       From Isolation to Collaboration  5.       From Silence to Conversation  6.       From Language to Language, Literacy, and Content  7.       From Assessment of Learning to Assessment for and as Learning  8.       From Monolingualism to Multilingualism  9.       From Nobody Cares to Everyone/Every Community Cares   

Read this book; the chapters speak to one another, a melodic echo of expertise, classroom vignettes, and steps to take. To shift the status quo is neither fast nor easy, but there is a clear process, and it’s laid out here in Breaking Down the Wall. To distill it into a single line would go something like this: if we can assume mutual ownership, if we can connect instruction to all children’s personal, social, cultural, and linguistic identities, then all students will achieve.

 

 

 

Motivate English learners to boost proficiency with confidence. This book focuses on instructional strategies that integrate language, literacy, and content across all subject areas in secondary education. Presenting instructional methods within the framework of the Common Core and other state standards, the authors demonstrate how rigorous instruction can help amplify students’ self-worth and promote more significant learning to ensure all students thrive.

English learners (ELs) arrive at school with unique proficiency levels and content competencies, cultural and educational backgrounds, and instructional needs. In this book, the authors share research-based strategies preK–12 administrators and teacher leaders can implement to effectively identify and support ELs. They outline what educators must consider as they renovate their EL program and its instructional components, as well as define the many EL-related terms and concepts teacher leaders must know to make this a reality. Each chapter ends with discussion questions readers should share with staff or team members to promote EL success schoolwide.

Benefits

Study research that supports the approaches to EL implementation covered in this book.Review academic definitions and everyday definitions of key terms for EL services.Gain clear guidance on how to communicate and implement expectations for EL teaching, including how teachers can help EL students develop core social-emotional skills.Learn how to take a whole-school approach to EL success as you consider the roles of EL coaches and recommendations for observing EL classrooms.Discuss key questions with your staff or team for supporting English learning.

Contents

Introduction: Just Who Are My English Learners?

Chapter 1: Requirements for Teaching English Learners

Chapter 2: Instructional Components and Strategies

Chapter 3: Development of Social-Emotional Skills

Chapter 4: Professional Development Components

Chapter 5: Professional Coaching in the Classroom

Chapter 6: Implementation Strategies for Leaders

Chapter 7: Whole-School Approach to Success for ELs (and All Other Students)

Appendix A: WISEcard and Coaching Template

Appendix B: Recommended Books

For busy classroom teachers, integrating instruction for English learners with literacy, reading, discourse, and social-emotional learning (SEL) may seem daunting. This research-backed guide offers evidence-based strategies core content teachers can use immediately to improve daily practice. The authors explore the importance of SEL application to the English learning process and how to connect essential instructional elements to cultivate active, engaged learners.

This book will help K–12 teachers: Understand the core tenets of the CASEL framework and how SEL applies to English learnersImplement a schoolwide culture shift toward SEL practicesImprove student SEL competenciesAssist English learners and multilingual learners in developing their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skillsAccelerate language and literacy developmentContents:IntroductionChapter 1: Self-Awareness Applied to Vocabulary and DiscourseChapter 2: Self-Management Applied to ReadingChapter 3: Social Awareness and DiscourseChapter 4: Responsible Decision Making and WritingChapter 5: Relationship Skills and School-Classroom CommunitiesReferences and ResourcesIndex

Authors Karen Johannesen Brock and Margarita Espino Calderon provide an evidence-based, whole-school approach for K-3 reading and writing. Bridging the science of language with second-language learning, this book equips educators with intentional, actionable strategies for vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing through an emphasis on academic discourse. K-3 teachers can now unlock literacy, achieve student success, and inspire multilingual learners through daily routines.Grades K 3 classroom teachers, specialist teachers, and school leaders can use this book to:Discover new research-validated approaches to literacy instruction for multilingual learnersExpand multilingual learners vocabulary through explorations of cultural backgrounds and perspectivesMerge the science of reading, the science of literacy, and second-language learning practices to enhance multilingual learners literacyEnforce language and literacy development through peer discussions and writing tasksShape educational policy to promote a healthy school culture that supports multilingual learners Contents:IntroductionChapter 1: Getting to Know Multilingual LearnersChapter 2: Examining the Research About Teaching Literacy to Multilingual LearnersChapter 3: Building Vocabulary, Discourse, and Background KnowledgeChapter 4: Integrating Discourse Through Core Content InstructionChapter 5: Guiding Multilingual Learners Through the Writing ProcessChapter 6: Adopting a Whole-School Approach to Language, Literacy, and ContentEpilogueAppendixReferences and ResourcesIndex

Adolescent multilingual learners need reading instruction in every content classroom. Authors Margarita Espino Calderon and Karen Johannesen Brock provide an evidence-based, whole-school guide that bridges the research on reading with second-language learning. Get practical instructional strategies for vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing, and academic discourse to help core content teachers set a new standard for literacy and achieve equitable student success.Grades 4 12 classroom teachers, specialist teachers, and school leaders can use this book to: Discover new research-validated methods and approaches to literacy instruction for multilingual learnersImprove multilingual learners' vocabulary acquisition through preparation and discussion of assigned textsMerge the science of reading and second-language learning practices to enhance multilingual learners' literacyEnforce language and literacy development through peer discussions and writing tasks Receive recommendations for coaching teachers and professional learning for each componentShape educational policy that promotes a healthy school culture in support of multilingual learners Contents:IntroductionChapter 1: Who Are the Multilingual Learners?Chapter 2: What Does the Research Say About Teaching Language and Literacy For Multilingual Learners?Chapter 3: The Right To Read Starts With Vocabulary Building Vocabulary, Discourse, and Background Knowledge as the Foundation for Reading WellChapter 4: MLS RIGHT TO READ! How to Integrate the Science of Reading, Second Language Learning, More Student Talk, and Core ContentChapter 5: THE RIGHT TO WRITE! Talking to Learn to WriteChapter 6: What Does a Whole-School Approach to Language, Literacy, and Content Look Like?Final ThoughtsReferences and ResourcesIndex