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A Deeper Look at Smarter Balanced’s Assessment Supports for ELLs
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) released its Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations Guidelines last week. The Guidelines for ELLs and students with disabilities (SWDs) were...
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PARCC Announces Translation of Common Core Math Tests Into Spanish
Education Week‘s Lesli Maxwell reports that the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) will translate Common Core math assessments into Spanish and possibly other...
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Congratulations to Diane on her new book!
We are very proud to announce the publication of Diane Staehr Fenner’s new book! Advocating for English Learners: A Guide for Educators (Corwin 2013) features a foreword by John Segota of TESOL and is...
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New Common Core Resources: Achieve the Core
Hi Everyone! Diane is away this week but will be back next week with some updates on Common Core math resources for ELLs. In the meantime, we are excited to share a groundbreaking new online resource...
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Resources for Teaching the CCSS in Mathematics to ELLs
As I continue to learn so much from Mathematics for ELLs expert Dr. Anita Bright while we collaborate on scaffolding New York State’s P-12 CCSS in Mathematics curriculum for ELLs, I have a heightened...
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Common Core and ELLs: Planning Professional Development for Colleagues (Part 1)
This week, guest blogger Ayanna Cooper offers ideas for planning professional development sessions on the Common Core and English Learners. So you’ve been asked to provide professional development for...
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New CAL Brief: Responses to Questions About Implementing the Common Core with...
Hi everyone! Diane has been at GATESOL this week in Georgia and continues her busy fall travel schedule, and Ayanna Cooper will provide the next installment of her series on planning professional...
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Common Core and ELLs: Classroom Videos from Colorín Colorado
Hi Everyone! Welcome to our new e-mail subscribers! For those of you that missed the launch of our Common Core and ELLs resource section this summer, we wanted to make sure you had all of the great...
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Common Core and ELLs: Planning Professional Development About Academic...
In Part 1 of our series about planning professional development around the Common Core, we offered some introductory points to cover as you consider what your colleagues need to know about implementing...
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Your Role in the Common Core: Advocating for ELLs
I have been very fortunate this fall to work with dedicated teachers and administrators in a few different states who are involved with the education of English language learners (ELLs). As I’ve been...
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Your Role in the CCSS: Advocacy Action Items (Part 2)
In last week’s blog post, Your Role in the CCSS: Advocating for ELLs, I provided an equity audit table focused on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and ELLs to help you take the pulse of the...
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New York to Seek Federal Waiver to Test ELLs in Native Languages
Lesli Maxwell at Education Week reports that the state of New York is preparing to ask for federal waivers to administer Common Core State Standards language arts assessments in ELLs’ native languages....
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Common Core and ELLs Blog: Highlights from 2013
Happy New Year, everyone! Before we launch our new Common Core and ELLs topics for 2014, we want to do a recap of some of the highlights from all of the great content posted in 2013. Throughout the...
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Upcoming Webinar Featuring Diane: Advocating for English Learners with the CCSS
Diane Staehr Fenner We are pleased to announce that our Common Core for ELLs blogger, Dr. Diane Staehr Fenner, will be presenting a webinar on Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 1-2 pm EST entitled...
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Looking at the Crystal Ball: Common Core for ELLs in 2014
Happy New Year, everyone! Welcome to my inaugural 2014 blog post. Similar to Lydia’s recap of the highlights from our 2013 blog posts, I wanted to look ahead and share a few of the topics that we...
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Text Dependent Questions for ELLs
In this week’s post, I’ll circle back to another theme from Tim Shanahan’s fascinating article called “Letting the Text Take Center Stage” (American Educator, Fall 2013). As you may recall from my...
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State of the Union: Latino Students in the Spotlight
Hi, everyone! While Diane is working away on her text-dependent questions, we wanted to share a few notable points from President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night related to Latino...
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Common Core for ELLs: Resource Roundup
With the beginning of the new school year, this week I’ll share some recently developed Common Core materials for English language learners that have been updated or that I have recently become aware...
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A Deeper Look at Smarter Balanced’s Assessment Supports for ELLs
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) released its Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations Guidelines last week. The Guidelines for ELLs and students with disabilities (SWDs) were...
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PARCC Announces Translation of Common Core Math Tests Into Spanish
Education Week‘s Lesli Maxwell reports that the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) will translate Common Core math assessments into Spanish and possibly other...
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