Diverse Learners – Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

English Learner (EL) Pre-Referral Flow Chart Questions

This decision-making flow chart includes target questions that Child Study teams or MTSS teams should address when working through the pre-referral decision-making process. Each school or district may modify these questions to reflect their own policies and procedures, but the outline of this flow chart provides some key decision points that should be considered when […]

A Community Engaged Framing: Building Successful Community Engagement for Schools and Families of Bilingual Students Through Inquiry

Senior Program Associate Julie Webb was part of a research team exploring ways to nurture family-school partnerships in service of student learning. This article summarizes the team’s work on developing and testing a framework for schools to utilize in their family engagement efforts, particularly with bilingual families. The framework outlines user-friendly guidance and tools for […]

The Formative Assessment Practices Landscape for Students with Disabilities: An Analysis of State Definitions and Practices, 2021

This report outlines the approaches that state education agencies (SEAs) have taken in defining and using formative assessment practices, including practices to explicitly support students with disabilities. At the state level, there have been efforts to develop or adopt formal definitions of formative assessment practices that guide how these practices are used in instruction. Given […]

Scaffolding Writing With the “Teaching and Learning Cycle” for Students in Grades 6–12

Reading critically involves examining the language choices authors make to “get the job done” — in other words, to communicate effectively in specific ways with particular audiences. Not all students in middle and high school intuit this type of reading and may experience challenges when they go to write for academic purposes. Their teachers are […]

Ethnic Studies Legislation: State Scan

Reviewing state efforts to develop and implement curricula that reflects and affirms students’ racial and ethnic identities, Sylvia Kwon from the Region 15 Comprehensive Center developed this summary of recent and ongoing states’ ethnic studies legislation. For the purposes of this scan, “ethnic studies” encompasses coursework that purposefully reflects and supports students’ identities. Kwon examines […]

What California Teachers are Saying About Their Instructional Materials for English Learner Students

As part of efforts to inform California education leaders about key policy topics impacting California schooling, California Analysis for Learning and Engagement has developed a series of research briefs to share pertinent research analysis. Elizabeth Burr, Ryan Lewis, and Eric W. Crane have developed this brief to provide insight into California teachers’ perceptions of using […]

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