toolkit

The Leadership Toolkit is designed to introduce site and district leaders to E.L. Achieve’s research-based approach and professional development offerings.

 

We present a rationale for focusing on language development and outline a comprehensive framework for English Learner instruction that provides a student-centered, language-focused approach to planning and teaching. The overarching goal of our work is to provide teachers and administrators with the knowledge, skills, and tools to:

Equip English learners with the language they need to express the sophistication of their thinking for real life and academic purposes.

 

This Leadership Toolkit is not designed to equip educators with sufficient guidance needed to implement instruction. That requires comprehensive training and support for implementation, available only through Institutes offered by E.L. Achieve.

 

Table of Contents

The Urgency: Meeting the Instructional Needs of English Learners
The Approach: Features of Explicit English Language Instruction that backward maps instruction from task analysis to instruction, explicitly building receptive and expressive language by connecting thinking, reading, writing, listening, and speaking

 

Product Information

A Leadership Toolkit is a spiral bound booklet.

Cost: $29

Accompanying CD contains a PowerPoint with
discussion questions. This can be used to facilitate group processing of key ideas outlined in the Leadership Toolkit.
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  • Language Functions
  • Language Tools – Vocabulary and Grammatical Structures
  • Instruction & Application: Developing Fluency
  • Implications for School Systems (District, Site, Classroom)
A Blueprint for Serving English Learners that explains the purpose and Institute content of our professional development initiatives (Elementary and Secondary):
  • Explicit support in acquiring the language needed to comprehend and express understanding of grade-level work: Constructing Meaning
  • Instruction in the English language as its own subject of study: Systematic English Language Development
Effective Systems for Supporting English Learners that include planning, comprehensive training, and support for implementation
  • Capacity-building Model
  • Common Vision: Refining Instructional Practices
  • Readiness Survey
  • District Implementation Plan
References

 

Facilitator's CD

A Leadership Toolkit Facilitator's CD is also available, providing powerpoint presentations and resources for five 30-45 minute sessions.

 

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