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Accelerate Success for English Learners With Formative Assessment: Introduction
Helping Multilingual Learners succeed requires advancing their English proficiency while also engaging them in grade-level academic content. This brief is the first in a series...
Accelerate Success for English Learners: Formative Assessment Support for Integrated and Meaningful Language Learning
This brief highlights how quality instruction for English Learners integrates language development with academic content and analytic practices. By designing rich, authentic tasks that focus...
Accelerate Success for English Learners: Students Work Beyond the Edge of Their Current Abilities With Formative Assessment
This brief emphasizes how quality instruction for English Learners helps them work just beyond the edge of their current knowledge and abilities. It explains how...
Accelerate English Learner Success: Students Take Ownership Over Their Learning With Formative Assessment
This brief examines how quality instruction empowers English Learners to develop agency, confidence, and self-regulation while advancing their language skills. Through formative assessment practices like...
Accelerate English Learner Success: Students Participate in Collaborative Discussions
This brief underscores the importance of structured collaborative discussions in supporting English Learners to build content knowledge, develop language skills, and engage in analytic practices....
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...
Demystifying Statewide Standardized Assessments: Making Assessments Accessible for Students With Disabilities and English Learners
Students with disabilities and English learners may receive changes to the test administration so they can show what they know and can do. Tests also...
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...
Refugee Children in U.S. Schools: A Toolkit for Teachers and School Personnel
This collection of resources is for schools and educators seeking to support refugee students, who are often newcomer English learners, in the areas of child...
Incorporating English Learner Progress into State Accountability Systems
This paper identifies key issues and questions for state decision makers to consider and explore with regard to how states should include English learners (ELs) in states' accountability systems...