Professional Growth
Professional Growth opportunities for teachers, administrators, and educators.
Nov 08, 2016
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Helpful Ideas for Implementing ESSA
How does the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) affect educators of English learners (ELs)? TESOL’s free Resource Kit English Learners and ESSA: What Educators Need to Know provides an in-depth analysis of the portions of ESSA most pertinent to teachers of English learners in K–12 schools across the United States that receive federal funds.
Nov 08, 2016
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Guide for Providing Support and Assistance to Newcomers
Refugees from Syria is a refugee backgrounder published by the Cultural Orientation Resource Center, Center for Applied Linguistics, which provides a brief guide to Syria’s history, people, and cultures. The backgrounder then looks at the crisis in Syria and the conditions refugees face in first asylum countries. Finally, it considers some of the strengths and resources resettled refugees may be able to draw on in their new communities and some of the challenges they are likely to face.
Nov 08, 2016
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Video Series for Developing Oral Language
Key Strategies for Developing Oral Language, a video series from Teaching Channel, focuses on academic conversations with English language learners (ELLs). The series, created in partnership with Oakland Unified School District, highlights three classrooms where ELLs are engaged in academic conversations.
Nov 08, 2016
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SPOTLIGHT! On Writing and Language Acquisition
Last school year, the National Writing Project invited teachers from six high-need elementary schools across the United States to help expand the vision of what it means to recognize, prepare, and honor K–12 English learners (ELs) and their families as writers.
Nov 01, 2016
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Virtual Reality Education Platform
Imagine your students sitting in a room as atoms and planets begin appearing right in front of them while Einstein is trying to explain in words the ideas and theories he has so vividly and visually in his mind.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Funding & Recognition
Mobile Learning
Professional Growth
Social Media
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
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