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Leveraging Language: How can students who are learning English use their home language in a personalized classroom?
Are you interested in learning how to better support your students who are learning English (“ELs”) by offering opportunities to use their home language in your general education classroom? If so, this guide will map out specific ways to engage your...
Strategic Supports: How can general education teachers implement strategic supports for students who are learning English within their personalized classroom?
Are you looking for ways to better support your students who are learning English (EL) within your personalized classroom? If so, this guide will map out specific strategies that can engage your learners in new ways through nonverbal communication,...
Scaffolded Summary
Crafting sentence and paragraph stems can support students who are learning English in summarizing content in a more scaffolded way.
Engaging Spanish-Speaking Families to Strengthen Edtech Implementation
Gill-Montague Regional School District’s Director of Technology partnered with a Spanish interpreter and community liaison to support Spanish-speaking families. The efforts of the liaison facilitated stronger engagement with edtech among...
Bilingual Binders
Bilingual binders allow students who are learning English (EL) the ability to monitor and document their progress in a language that both feels comfortable and enables them to engage most fully.
Say Something Cards
Say Something cards provide students who are learning English with scaffolded sentence stems to help guide conversations.
Total Language Response
How to use body language and non-verbal cues in addition to verbal directions to better support understanding for students who are learning English, as well as all students.
Model, Model, Model
The teacher uses a variety of teaching styles during a “think aloud” to explicitly model for students what they will be doing during their independent practice. This modeling process eventually moves from the teacher modeling to the teacher modeling...
Next Generation Learning Models for English Language Learners: Promising Practices and Considerations for Teaching and Learning
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the promising practices and trends in personalized learning and competency-based education for English language learner (ELL) students. This paper shares case studies and examples from schools and programs...
How to Use Vocabulary Frames
This website describes both when and how to use vocabulary frames in instruction and provides a printable worksheet. Vocabulary frames provide additional support for students who are learning English by helping them to not only define a word but...
Vocabulary Frames
Framing words around their functions in a sentence to better support language acquisition along with content mastery