A Focused Approach: Instruction for English Learners

Leadership Overview and Implementation Planning Sessions (one day)

For district leadership teams interested in learning more about professional development for explicit language instruction via A Focused Approach: Instruction for English Learners, including Systematic ELD and Constructing Meaning for Content Instruction, and to begin developing a district  Implementation Plan (prerequisite for offering A Focused Approach Institutes).

Download a flyer to register for the following events:  Flyerpdf_sm

  • Los Angeles, CA - October 25, 2011

  • San Jose, CA - December 12, 2011
  • San Jose, CA - March 14, 2012

District hosted Leadership Overview and Implementation Planning sessions:

  • Plano Independent Public Schools, TX - September 22, 2011

Schools Moving Up Webinar

February 29, 2011

Description

Presenters on this fifth webinar in the 2010-2011 series on English learners are Susana Dutro, a founding partner of E.L. Achieve, an organization whose mission is to assist educators in equipping English Learners for academic achievement and Dr. Kate Kinsella faculty member in San Francisco State University’s Center for Teacher Efficacy and consultant to districts and state departments throughout the nation. Dutro and Kinsella will address English language development (ELD) for adolescent English language learners based on current research, endemic challenges, and promising practices. They will outline a model for rigorous standards-aligned instructed ELD, illustrative examples, and practical tools to inform ELD program design. Dutro and Kinsella will focus on the explicit teaching of vocabulary and syntactical structures as critical components in building students’ oral and written academic English.

This webinar series is co-sponsored by SchoolsMovingUp and the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd in collaboration with the California Department of Education . In this webinar series, the authors of Improving Education for English Learners: Research-Based Approaches, which was published by the California Department of Education in July, present on specific chapters in the book. Webinar participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss the issues with the presenters and with each other.

11th Annual Accountability Leadership Institute for English Learner, Immigrant, and Migrant Students, CA

2010 Theme
Improving Education for English Learners: Current Research and Effective Implementation
Presentation - Susana Dutro and Kate Kinsella's presentation will include a discussion on challenges faced by English Language Learners (ELL) and practices that fail to address their instructional needs. Effective instructional elements impacting ELL achievement include:

- Knowing students' instructional needs.
- Backward mapping a cognitive task in order to identify and teach the language required to comprehend and express meaning.
- Explicitly building of receptive and expressive language though reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

ELL Accountability Leadership Institute Burlingame, CA - December 6 - 8, 2010.  Click here for details and registration information.
 
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