Interdisciplinary Biliteracy Planning Template

Mercuri and Musanti with Rodriquez created an interdisciplinary biliteracy planning template to showcase examples of instruction and assessment from bilingual classes across elementary grade levels, in different types of dual language programs, and serving different populations. In their book they also include a step-by-step guide on how to use the flexible interdisciplinary biliteracy planning template to teach for authentic interdisciplinary biliteracy.

Interdisciplinary Biliteracy Webinar

Interdisciplinary biliteracy refers to holistic, dynamic literacy practices connecting content areas in two languages. This interactive session shows how teachers use standard-based talking, reading and writing across the curriculum and languages in flexible ways to provide equitable access to content knowledge for all students. The authors, Sandra Mercuri and Sandra Musanti, will demonstrate how to design cross-linguistic connections at the text, sentence and word levels to further develop the academic language of the disciplines. Viewers will also learn how to use the preview-view-review activity structure as an effective bilingual strategy to make complex content and text comprehensible for bilingual learners and provide opportunities for students to develop biliteracy in any content area.

Investing in Innovation Fund (i3)

The Investing in Innovation Fund, established under section 14007 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), provides funding to support (1) local educational agencies (LEAs) and (2) nonprofit organizations in partnership with (a) one or more LEAs or (b) a consortium of schools. The purpose of this program is to provide competitive grants to applicants with a record of improving student achievement and attainment in order to expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are demonstrated to have an impact on improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates.

Johnson, Adrienne - Special Education Considerations for ELLs, 1st Ed. Review (2008).

This pdf is the book review that Adrienne Johnson, Adrienne wrote about Special Education Considerations for English Language Learners: Delivering a Continuum of Services by Else Hamayan, Barbara Marler, Cristina Sanchez-Lopez, and Jack Damico. Retrieved from www.mabemi.org/eresources.html

Juntos: The Three Beliefs of Joint Collaboration

Key Practice 01: Structuring Equitable School and Classroom Environments checklist and role template

This downloadable pdf file includes the Wagner & King (2010) Key Practice 1 checklist and the templates included at the end of the Key Practice 1 chapter.

Key Practice 02: Educating ELLs through Colloration Checklist

This downloadable pdf file includes the Wagner & King (2010) Key Practice 2 checklist included at the end of the Key Practice 2 chapter.

Key Practice 03: Implementing a Balanced Student Assessment System Checklist and Templates

This downloadable pdf file includes the Wagner & King (2010) Key Practice 3 checklist and the templates included at the end of the Key Practice 3 chapter.