This collection of research provides a review of research on the effective practices for improving outcomes for English learners including academic achievement.
Author(s): Julie Esparza Brown, Jennifer Doolittle
Publication URL: https://rti4success.org/sites/default/files/framework_for_rti.pdf
Category: Comprehensive Planning, Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
Grade Level: All Grade Levels
Keywords: Cultural Responsiveness, Response to Intervention, Special Education
Summary:
This brief handbook outlines an introduction to RTI, geared toward EL teachers. It explains the three-tiered framework of this approach and how to apply it. The authors focus on how RTI benefits students at all levels of ability, and how it integrates with cultural responsiveness principles.
Culturally Efficacious Mathematics and Science Teacher Preparation for Working with English Learners
Author(s): Belinda Bustos Flores, Lorena Claeys, Conra D. Gist, Ellen Riojas Clark, Abelardo Villarreal
Publication URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/teaceducquar.42.4.3
Category: Professional Development
Grade Level: All Grade Levels
Keywords: Content Area Instruction, Cultural Responsiveness, Mathematics Instruction, STEM Instruction, Science Instruction, Teacher Preparation, Teacher Quality
Summary:
This article argues that teachers, both in their initial preparation and in ongoing professional learning, need specialized knowledge of both content areas and ELs. It provides research-based examples of efficacy building and demonstrates how the design of teacher preparation and professional development lead to cultural proficiency and efficacy in the classroom.
Dual Language Education Programs: Current State Policies and Practices
Author(s): Andrea Boyle, Diane August, Lisa Tabaku, Susan Cole, Ashley Simpson-Baird
Publication URL: https://ncela.ed.gov/files/rcd/TO20_DualLanguageRpt_508.pdf
Category: Comprehensive Planning, Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
Grade Level: All Grade Levels
Keywords: Dual-Language Programs, State and Federal Funding, State and Federal Regulations
Summary:
This extensive report delineates and compares dual language education programs nationwide, describing how various states support and regulate these programs. It includes specific information on Illinois and shows how other states structure dual language education in similar or different ways.
Language and the Fulfillment of the Potential of All Americans
Author(s): Terrence Wiley, Beatriz Arias, Jennifer Renn, Shereen Bhalla
Publication URL: https://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/CAL-AAASWhitePaper-LanguagePotentialAmericans.pdf
Category: Community and Family Engagement
Grade Level: All Grade Levels
Keywords: Biliteracy, Communicating with Families, Cultural Responsiveness, Family Rights and Responsibilities, Heritage Languages
Summary:
This article explores how to promote public educational policy that supports biliteracy, English proficiency, preservation of heritage languages, and measures against language discrimination. It argues for the development of a national language policy that ensures that all Americans can receive the language services they need. While its recommendations are on a national level, many can be applied to communities and districts.
Building Migrant Civil Society: Indigenous Mexicans in the US
Author(s): Jonathan Fox, Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
Publication URL: https://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/download/1007/687
Category: Community and Family Engagement
Grade Level: All Grade Levels
Keywords: Communicating with Families, Community Partnerships, Cultural Responsiveness, Migrant Families
Summary:
This article draws attention to the large population of immigrants from Mexico with indigenous backgrounds, many of whom have primary languages other than Spanish, and the migrant communities they have begun to form. Understanding of these communities, which often exist outside of typical American structures, will help educators engage indigenous, migrant families in culturally responsive ways.
Indigenous Language Students from Spanish-Speaking Countries: Educational Approaches
Author(s): Hannah Pick, Walt Wolfram, Jacqueline LÑpez
Publication URL: http://www.cal.org/heritage/pdfs/briefs/indigenous-language-students-from-spanish-speaking-countries-educational-approaches.pdf
Category: Community and Family Engagement, School Culture and Climate
Grade Level: All Grade Levels
Keywords: Cultural Responsiveness, Heritage Languages
Summary:
This article draws attention to the substantial population of ELs from Latin America who are members of indigenous groups and therefore do not speak Spanish as their primary language. It provides research-based recommendations for supporting ELsÍ heritage languages, communicating with families, and recognizing cultural and linguistic differences from native Spanish-speaking peers.
Assessment of English Language Learners: Evidence-Based Evaluation and Best Practice
Author(s): Samuel O. Ortiz
Publication URL: http://www.orbida.org/resources/events/PORTLAND%20PUBLIC%20SCHOOLS%20-%20EVAL%20OF%20ENGLISH%20LEARNERS%20-%20ORTIZ.PDF
Category: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
Grade Level: All Grade Levels
Keywords: Assessment, Cultural Responsiveness, Language Development
Summary:
This collection of slides from a presentation on EL assessment takes a developmental and neuropsychological approach, using charts and tables to illustrate concepts of language acquisition and assessment. It makes research-based recommendations for culturally responsive, nondiscriminatory approaches to assessment and interpretation of test results.
Response to Intervention in Reading for English Language Learners
Author(s): Sharon Vaughn, Alba Ortiz
Publication URL: http://www.rtinetwork.org/learn/diversity/englishlanguagelearners
Category: Comprehensive Planning, Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
Grade Level: All Grade Levels
Keywords: Literacy Intervention, Response to Intervention, Special Education
Summary:
This article explores the use of RTI to support ELs with reading difficulties. It acknowledges the added difficulty of supporting students when their level of knowledge in their native language is unclear, and suggests ways to compensate for this in screening, intervention, instruction, and assessment.
Response to Intervention and the Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
Author(s): John L. Hosp
Publication URL: http://www.rtinetwork.org/learn/diversity/disproportionaterepresentation
Category: Comprehensive Planning
Grade Level: All Grade Levels
Keywords: Disability Screening, Response to Intervention, Special Education
Summary:
This article explains the history of the disproportionate representation of ELs in special education. It goes on to explore how a Response to Intervention approach can begin to address disproportionate representation.
RTI- Based SLD Identification Toolkit: Considerations for English Language Learners
Author(s): Claudia Rinaldi, Samuel O. Ortiz, Sue Gamm
Publication URL: http://rtinetwork.org/getstarted/sld-identification-toolkit/ld-identification-toolkit-considerations-for-ell
Category: Comprehensive Planning
Grade Level: All Grade Levels
Keywords: Disability Screening, Individualized Education Programs, Learning Disabilities, Response to Intervention, Special Education
Summary:
This article explains factors that should be considered when identifying students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) who are also ELs. It discusses culturally responsive interventions and practices, and ways to include parents and EL staff in educational processes. There are also links to other resources for Response to Intervention support for students with disabilities, including a downloadable SLD worksheet.