Engaging English Learners Through Access to Standards

How can districts and schools successfully promote academic English language development through teaching content knowledge and standards-based skills and abilities? This thoroughly researched book provides concrete answers. You’ll find practical steps and ideas for developing collaborative, cross-curricular programs that address EL-specific needs. Clear tables and templates, essays, expert research, and real-life teacher and parent stories illuminate best practices for appropriate standards-based instruction that gets results.

Using the authors’ six-part ENGAGE Model, you’ll learn to:

•Establish a shared vision for serving ELs
•Name the expertise to utilize within collaborative teams
•Gather and analyze EL-specific data
•Align standards-based assessments and grading to ELs’ linguistic and content development
•Ground standards-based instruction in both content and language development
•Examine results to inform next steps
Use this groundbreaking guide to accelerate progress and ensure effective instruction for all ELs!