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Books

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Adding English: A Guide to Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms by Elizabeth Coelho

Powerful Practices for Supporting English Learners: Elevating Diverse Assets and Identities by Fern Westernoff, Stephaney Jones-Vo & Paula Markus

Big Ideas for Expanding Minds by Jim Cummins and Margaret Early

Making Content Comprehensible for Multilingual Learners: The SIOP Model by Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt, Deborah J. Short & Katie Toppel

Differentiating Instruction and Assessment for ELLs: A Guide for K-12 Teachers by Shelley Fairbairn & Stephaney Jones-Vo

Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching ELLs in the Mainstream Classroom by Pauline Gibbons

Access for Success: Making Inclusion Work for Language Learners by Katy Arnett & Renée Bourgoin

Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages: A Handbook for Teachers by Margo Gottlieb

Assessment in Multiple Languages: A Handbook for School and District Leaders by Margo Gottlieb

Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals by Tan Huynh & Beth Skelton

Special Education Considerations for Multilingual Learners: Delivering a Continuum of Services by Else Hamayan, Barbara Marler, Cristina Sánchez-López & Jack Damico

Psychological Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children and Adolescents: A Practitioner's Guide by Esther Geva & Judith Wiener

Building Literacy with ELLs: Insights from Linguistics by Kristen Lems, Leah D. Miller & Tenena M. Soro

Blogs

Tan Huynh

Welcome | ML Instruction | Empowering ELLsSharing ELL strategies that work. Helping ELL teachers implement classroom-tested, research-backed ELL strategies that develop social and academic language

Dr. Carol Salva

Edublog ran by Dr. Carol Salva. Contains video resources, PD Opportunities, webinars, podcast episodes, and more.

Podcasts

Boosting Achievement: The ESL Podcast with Dr. Carol Salva

ASSETS Podcast with Jobi Lawrence

Highest Aspirations by Ellevation Education

Webinars

Multilingual Learner Summit

Be sure to check out recordings from past virtual conferences too!

HomePRE-CONFERENCE LIVE CHAT MLSummit hosts Tan Huynh, Dr. Carol Salva, and Katie Toppel offer DIYpd ideas for USING the MLSummit! ML Summit founders and facilitators ( and #DIYpd4MLs authors) talking about innovative ways to make the most of the summit! Many ideas were shared including some from

Vista Higher Learning Webinars

Click here to browse the extensive collection of recorded webinars

National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition - Webinars

Click here to browse the extensive collection of recorded webinars

UDL for Language Learners

Impact 2022 - Recordings and Resources

Impact is a free virtual conference for educators of multilingual students.

Impact 2022 | Recordings & ResourcesThank you for making Impact 2022 our biggest virtual conference yet. We enjoyed learning alongside educators from across the country and bringing together experts in the field of multilingual education. Together, we can build and nurture a community to increase the impact on the lives of our ELs. We have compiled all session recordings as well as resources from the sessions and additional opportunities to follow and connect with our presenters below. Be sure to join the community so you will be the first to know about upcoming opportunities and new learning resources!

American Reading Company Webinars with Jim Cummins and Claude Goldenberg

Be sure to check out the links in the description which you can access when watching on YouTube.

Websites

colorincolorado.org

Colorín ColoradoA bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners

Capacity Building Series

Ontario Educators - Capacity building series HOME > Monographs > Capacity building series Capacity Building Series The Capacity Building Series was produced by Ontario's 'Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat' to support leadership and instructional effectiveness in Ontario schools. It was published from 2007 to 2018. A World of Words-

Multilingual Learning Toolkit

Multilingual Learning Toolkit • Dual Language • MultilingualismPromoting the benefits of multilingualism and providing resources supporting Pre-K through 3rd grade multilingual children and teachers.

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