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CatWizard Look-up Tool Tool or Template The tool is designed to help you find the most up-to-date information about available categorical resources that serve specific needs at schools and districts.
CDE's Categorical Program Monitoring (CPM) Useful Link Procedures and general compliance forms.
CDE's Program Improvement Districts, Title I Useful Link Support the costs of activities required for local educational agencies (LEAs) identified as Program Improvement (PI) under Title I of NCLB and LEAs with Title I schools, including those identified in PI.
CDE's Virtual Library Useful Link Support and resources for districts with high-priority (low-performing) schools.
Center for Applied Linguistics’s Web site Event Resource/Handout, NCLB Resource Review the Center for Applied Linguistics’s Web site for resources including the executive summary of the "National Literacy Panel for Language-Minority Children and Youth."
Center on Instruction: English Language Learning Website with materials and resources to improve instruction and intervention for English language learners.
Closing Achievement Gaps: Improving Educational Outcomes for Hispanic Children This report focuses on two overlapping areas to address the undereducation of Latino students: English learners’ acquisition of English and Latino middle school students’ preparation for post-secondary education.
Colorín Colorado Useful Link, NCLB Resource Provides information and activities for educators and parents of Spanish-speaking English learners.
Doing What Works Useful Link, NCLB Resource Offers a user-friendly interface to quickly locate practical teaching practices that have been found effective by the US Department of Education’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, and similar organizations.
Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent English Language Learners Reading Room Article, NCLB Resource Describes the diverse community of English language learners (ELLs), demonstrates the differences in challenges facing native English-speaking struggling readers and ELLs, defines Academic Literacy, identifies challenges to improving ELL literacy, and provides extensive solutions.
Educating English Language Learners at the High School Level Reading Room Article Provides effective school improvement strategies, provides a list of recommendations, includes 10 tips from successful principals, and a brief case study.
Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades: A Practice Guide Reading Room Article Provides recommendations to practitioners on meeting the dual goals of teaching English learners the elements of the English language while providing them with literacy strategies to access the content areas.
Helping Hispanic Students Reach High Academic Standards This report comes recommended by California Comprehensive Center staff. Although this guide was written several years ago, the information is still current, and it contains practical steps and many examples.
How Long Does It Take English Learners to Attain Proficiency? Event Resource/Handout, Reading Room Article, NCLB Resource Summary of a longer study which draws conclusions that it takes English Learner students three to seven years to develop English proficiency.
Improving Education for English Learners: Research-Based Approaches NEW! A review and analysis of research evidence on improving educational outcomes for English learners.
Instructional Modifications for English Language Learners Reading Room Article Reviews instructional modifications such as making text in English more comprehensible, building English vocabulary, using primary language for support, and promoting productive interaction.
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) Website supported by the U.S. Department of Education.
Raising Expectations for Mathematics Instruction in California: Algebra and Beyond Find out strategies to raise expectations for instruction for all K-12 students, including English learners.
Reparable Harm: Fulfilling the Unkept Promise of Educational Opportunity for California’s Long Term English Learners Reading Room Article An in-depth discussion of long-term English learners. Click here for a link to the author's archived webinar on long-term English learners.
Succeeding with English Language Learners: Lessons Learned from the Great City Schools District reform in urban districts.
Teaching English Language Learners: What the Research Does—and Does Not—Say Reading Room Article Summary of research reviews by the National Literacy Panel (NLP) and the Center for Research on Diversity, Education, and Excellence (CREDE).
The Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners (CREATE) Middle grades (4-8) ELLs.
What Works Clearinghouse Useful Link, NCLB Resource Provides educators, policymakers, and the public with a central and independent source of scientific evidence of what works in education. A project of the Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education.