Resources
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
Ch.01 Survey: Leadership and Professional Development
This survey for reflection and action is organized around guiding principles for leadership and professional development regarding ELLs articulated in the introduction to chapter 1 (Hamayan and Freeman Field, 2012). Educators can use this survey to review their leadership and professional development regarding ELLs, identify strengths and needs of their current approach, and propose action steps they can take to improve their leadership and professional development in this area. Educators can either download the survey or complete it online to easily share the results of their surveys with other educators in their school.
Publication: English Language Learners at School: A Guide for Administrators, 2nd edition
Topic: Professional Development
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Object(s): survey
Ch.02 Survey: How Children Learn in Two (or More) Languages
This survey for reflection and action is organized around the guiding principles about how children learn in two or more languages articulated in the introduction to chapter 2 (Hamayan and Freeman Field, 2012). Educators can use this survey to review how well their policies, programs, and practices reflect what we know about how children learn in two (or more) languages. Educators can then identify strengths and needs, and propose action steps they can take to ensure that the services they provide are theoretically and pedagogically sound. Educators can either download the survey or complete it online to easily share the results of their surveys with other educators in their school.
Publication: English Language Learners at School: A Guide for Administrators, 2nd edition
Topic: Professional Development
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Object(s): survey
Ch. 03 Survey: Policies and Accountability Requirements for ELLs
This survey for reflection and action is organized around the guiding principles for policies and accountability requirements for ELLs articulated in the introduction to chapter 3 (Hamayan and Freeman Field, 2012). Educators can use this survey to review their policies and accountability requirements for ELLs, identify strengths and needs of their current approach, and propose action steps they can take to improve those policies and accountability requirements. Educators can either download the survey or complete it online to easily share the results of their surveys with other educators in their school.
Publication: English Language Learners at School: A Guide for Administrators, 2nd edition
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): survey
Ch. 04 Survey: Developing Instructional Programs for ELLs
This survey for reflection and action is organized around critical features of effective programs for ELLs articulated in the introduction to chapter 4 (Hamayan and Freeman Field, 2012). Educators can use this survey to indicate how well they have developed their instructional program for the ELLs in their schools, and to identify strengths and needs of their current approach, and propose action steps they can take to improve their instructional program. Educators can either download the survey or complete it online to easily share the results of their surveys with other educators in their school.
Publication: English Language Learners at School: A Guide for Administrators, 2nd edition
Topic: Program Implementation and Evaluation
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Object(s): survey
Ch.05 Survey: Implementing and Evaluating Instructional Programs for ELLs
This Survey for Reflection and Action from Ch.05 (Hamayan & Freeman Field) is based on the guiding principles for implementing and evaluating effective instructional programs for ELLs that were articulated in the beginning of the chapter. Educators can use this survey to consider how well their instructional program for ELLs is implemented and evaluated. Educators can then identify their identify their strengths and needs in this area, and propose action steps they can take to improve their program implementation. Educators can either download the survey or complete it online to easily share the results of their surveys with other educators in their school.
Publication: English Language Learners at School: A Guide for Administrators, 2nd edition
Topic: Program Implementation and Evaluation
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Object(s): survey
Ch.06 Survey: Classroom Instruction and Assessment
Use this survey to focus your observations of classes that serve ELLs (general education, ESL, bilingual). Use a plus sign (+) when you have observed exemplary practice in this area, a check mark when you have observed evidence of this practice, and a minus sign (-) when you have found no evidence of this practice. Jot down evidence of the practice that you observed. Use the data that you collect on this survey to focus conversations with teachers and to guide decisions about professional development. Review your observations and evidence to identify strengths of classroom instruction and assessment for ELLs at your school, future possibilities you can see, and concrete action steps you can take. Feel free to revise the survey as necessary to focus your observations on areas of concern (e.g., particular strategies that teachers are targeting in professional development).
Publication: English Language Learners at School: A Guide for Administrators, 2nd edition
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Object(s): survey