Resources
12 Key Practices Checklist
The 12 Key Practices checklist is aligned with the 12 Key Practices framework that structures Implementing Effective Instruction for ELLs by Suzanne Wagner and Tammy King (2012). Administrators, teachers, and leadership team members can use this Checklist when they are 1) reviewing their current instructional programs for ELLs, 2) assessing program and professional development needs, 3) monitoring implementation, 4) evaluating program effectiveness, and 5) restructuring programs.
Publication: Implementing Effective Instruction for English Language Learners: Twelve Key Practices for Administrators, Teachers, and Leadership Teams
Topic: Program Implementation and Evaluation
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Object(s): checklist
12 Key Practices Framework
This downloadable pdf file includes the Wagner & King (2010) Key Practice 1 framework that structures their book. The framework is divided into four parts: 1) Shared Practices at the District, School, and Classroom Levels; 2) Common Classroom Practices for All ELL Educators; 3) Core Instructional Practices of Every Program for ELLs; and 4) Organizing the Key Practices into Effective Program Configurations. The 12 Key Practices checklist is aligned with this framework.
Publication: Implementing Effective Instruction for English Language Learners: Twelve Key Practices for Administrators, Teachers, and Leadership Teams
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Object(s): framework
1. Creating multilingual professional learning communities
A multilingual professional learning community, or MPLC, is organized and directed by practitioners, with a shared mission, vision, and goals for educating multilingual learners. As you’ll see in the webinar, an MPLC brings a multilingual perspective to professional learning communities.
Publication: Caslon Community
Topic: Professional Development
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2. Notemaking Guide for Expository Text
Leadership teams can use the Notemaking Guide to structure their team work so they customize for their states, districts, schools, and programs.
A.0.1 Evaluating and Improving Programs for Bilingual and English Learners
Rebecca Field gave this presentation at fall 2016 conferences. Participants learn to 1) conduct an internal and/or external evaluation of their services for bilingual and English learners; 2) collect and analyze program review data; 3) use evidence of student learning (ACCESS for ELLs data) to guide instruction and collaboration among general education, literacy, ELD, and bilingual teachers; and 4) use evaluation findings to strengthen programs and professional development. Examples from diverse districts are provided.
Publication: Caslon Community
Topic: Program Implementation and Evaluation
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Object(s): presentation
A.0.2 Evaluating and Improving Programs for Bilingual and English Learners
Rebecca Field used this handout with her fall 2016 presentations (see Resource A.0.1). The handout can guide district efforts to collect data for the program review.
Publication: Caslon Community
Topic: Program Implementation and Evaluation
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Object(s): handout
A.1.1 Leadership Institute presentation: Ensuring Shared Responsibility for ELLs/Bilingual Learners
Rebecca Field developed this presentation, Ensuring Shared Responsibility for ELLs/Bilingual Learners, for a leadership institute with superintendents from across the state of New Jersey. Superintendents and other district leaders learn how to evaluate their existing policies, programs, practices, and assessments for ELLs/bilingual learners to ensure that they are pedagogically sound, well implemented, and deliver results (i.e., meet the Castañeda Standard). This institute emphasizes the shared responsibility of all educators (administrators, general education teachers, literacy specialists, bilingual and ESL educators, special education specialists, support staff) in providing ELLs with equal access to educational opportunities
Publication: English Language Learners at School: A Guide for Administrators, 2nd edition
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): Presentation
A.1.2 Leadership Institute handout: Ensuring Shared Responsibilty for ELLs/Bilingual Learners
Rebecca Field developed this handout as part of the Leadership Institute: Ensuring Shared Responsibility for ELLs/Bilingual Learners with superintendents across the state of New Jersey. This handout accompanies the presentation of the same name.
Publication: English Language Learners at School: A Guide for Administrators, 2nd edition
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): Handout