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Language Demands and Opportunities in Relation to Next Generation Science Standards for ELLs
This link leads to a short video by Okhee Lee of the Understanding Language group. Here she talks about a paper that highlights challenges and opportunities as English Language Learners engage with the Next Generation Science Standards. These new standards represent a major shift in science instruction, toward an explicit focus on scientific sense-making, language use, and scientific practices. These practices also place significance on developing explanations and argumentation from evidence as well as on language learning opportunities. The authors discuss in detail how four core science and engineering practices provide opportunities for ELLs:
1. Developing and using models.
2. Developing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering).
3. Engaging in argument from evidence.
4. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.
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Lily Wong Fillmore: Text Complexity, Common Core, and ELLs
Lily Wong Fillmore says the new Common Core State Standards require students to read complex texts. This is a challenge—teachers and administrators have little training in language instruction. What kind of professional development will they need? This YouTube video features Lily Wong Fillmore and can be found on the Understanding Language website of Stanford University.
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Multiliteracy Project
The Multiliteracy Project is a national Canadian study exploring pedagogies or teaching practices that prepare children for the literacy challenges of our globalized, networked, culturally diverse world. Increasingly, we encounter knowledge in multiple forms - in print, in images, in video, in combinations of forms in digital contexts - and are asked to represent our knowledge in an equally complex manner. Further, there is international recognition that Canada's linguistic and cultural diversity are a source of its strength, and a key contributor of Canada's social and economic well-being. The challenge is to assist our schools in helping students to achieve a more diverse folio of literacies.
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National Council on Teacher Quality Databurst: Teacher Leadership Opportunities
Teacher leadership is garnering considerable attention these days. According to the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), 35 states now have some formal policy on designating strong teachers as teacher leaders. These emerging policies create opportunities for clear definitions of teacher leadership roles and responsibilities at the district and school levels.
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New York Bilingual Common Core Initiative
Beginning in Spring 2012, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) launched the Bilingual Common Core Initiative to develop new English as a Second Language and Native Language Arts Standards aligned to the Common Core. As a result of this process, NYSED is developing New Language Arts Progressions (NLAP) and Home Language Arts Progressions (HLAP) for every NYS Common Core Learning Standard in every grade.
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Next Generation Science Standards
This link leads to the official website of the Next Generation Science Standards for Today’s Students and Tomorrow’s Workforce. Through a collaborative, state-led process managed by Achieve, new K–12 science standards have been developed that are rich in content and practice, arranged in a coherent manner across disciplines and grades to provide all students an internationally benchmarked science education. The NGSS is based on the Framework for K–12 Science Education developed by the National Research Council.
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PARCC Assessments
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a consortium of 18 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands working together to develop a common set of K-12 assessments in English and math anchored in what it takes to be ready for college and careers. These new K-12 assessments will build a pathway to college and career readiness by the end of high school, mark students’ progress toward this goal from 3rd grade up, and provide teachers with timely information to inform instruction and provide student support. The PARCC assessments will be ready for states to administer during the 2014-15 school year.
Pathway to Biliteracy Handout
Handout from La Cosecha 2018 in Santa Fe, NM
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