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Grade Seven Writing Test (PDF)
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California Middle Grades Alliance (CMGA)
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National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform (Outside Source)
Schools to Watch - Taking Center Stage (STW-TCS)
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English Learner Resources
Added December 2008
Babel Fish Translation Tool
(Outside Source)
California Association for Bilingual Education
(Outside Source) (CABE)
California Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
(Outside Source) (CATESOL)
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
(Outside Source) (CTC)
California Department of Education (CDE) Web page on
English Learners
Bilingual Teacher Training Program
(BTTP)
California English Language Development Test
(CELDT)
Clearinghouse for Multilingual Documents
Document Translations Reference
English Language Development Standards (English)
(PDF; 830KB; 91pp.)
English Language Development Standards (Spanish)
(PDF; 1.5MB; 98pp.)
Language Learner and Support Division
Resources [for English learners]
Title III
Two-Way Language Immersion Program Resources
Center for Applied Linguistics
(Outside Source)
Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
(Outside Source), University of Southern California
Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners
(CREATE) (Outside Source)
Developing Reading and Writing in Second-Language Learners
Lessons From the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth
(Outside Source)
Doing What Works on English Language Learners
(Outside Source)
Doing What Works: Teaching Vocabulary to English Learners
Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent ELLs
(PDF; Outside Source)
English Language Learners
(ELL); Santa Clara County Office of Education (Outside Source)
Improving Assessment and Accountability for English Language Learners in the No Child Left Behind Act
(PDF; Outside Source)
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
(Outside Source) (NCBE)
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
(Outside Source) (NCELA)
A National Study of School Effectiveness for Language Minority Students Long-Term Academic Achievement
(PDF; Outside Source), W. Thomas & V. Collier
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
(Outside Source) (OBEMLA)
Programs for English Language Learners: Resource Materials for Planning and Self-Assessment
(Outside Source)
Project GLAD: Guided Language Acquisition Design
(Outside Source)
Project QuEST, Quality English and Science Teaching
(Outside Source)
Quality Teaching for English Learners
(Outside Source) (QTEL)
Santa Clara County Office of Education support materials for teaching English Learners
(Outside Source)
SchoolsMovingUp Webinars including TCSII on EL
(Outside Source)
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
(Outside Source)
Specially-Designed Academic-Instruction in English ( SDAIE) handbook
(Outside Source)
Successful Bilingual Schools
(PDF; Outside Source)
TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
) (Outside Source)
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
(Outside Source)
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