Resources for English Language Learners

Embrace Diverse Schools

Resource Title: Building Partnerships with Immigrant Parents
Description: Highlights lessons learned from a unique parent partnership program created in a high school where half of the parent population was born outside the United States.

Resource Title: Partnering with Parents and Families to Support Immigrant and Refugee Children at School
Description: Immigrant students face unique mental health challenges, often unidentified and untreated, that impact their academic success. Building a partnership with their families can be a key to supporting mental health of the students and their entire family

Resource Title: Debunking the Middle-Class Myth: Why diverse schools are good for all kids
Price: $29.95
Author: Eileen Gale Kugler
Description: In this award-winning book, Eileen Kugler highlights how diversity in schools stimulates and deepens education for each child, an advantage lost to homogenous schools. She challenges each stakeholder to take part in strengthening our diverse schools.

George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education

Resource Title: An Analysis of State Policies for the Inclusion and Accommodation of English Language Learners in State Assessment Programs during 1998-1999
Price: $10
Author: Charlene Rivera, Charles Stansfield, Lewis Scialdone, and Margaret Sharkey (Eds.)
Description: In addition, the 2001 report is supplemented by an online database that includes the following three search online engines at http://r3cc.ceee.gwu.edu/lepstatepolicyreport/Search.asp: 1. Search State Policies - This search presents a list of general policy items such as "State has a policy regarding inclusion/exemption." Selecting policy items from the list and pressing the search button returns a list of states that address the policy items selected. 2. Search Inclusion and Accommodation Decision and Criteria - This search presents a list of decision makers such as students, parents, and teachers as well as a list of criteria such as time in U.S. and time in state's schools. The decision and criteria items can be applied to either inclusion/exemption policy or accommodation policy. 3. Search Accommodation Policies - This search presents a list of accommodations and allows the user to specify whether a certain accommodation is allowed on some components, all components, or not at all. This section also allows the user to specify whether or not state policy indicates that scores are reported when different accommodations are used.

Resource Title: State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners: A National Perspective
Author: Charlene Rivera and Eric Collum (Eds.)
Description: CEEE research around assessment policies for English language learners has resulted in several major national studies designed to build an understanding of states' strategies for including this student group. This volume contains 3 studies: 1. Analysis of State Assessment Policies Regarding Accommodations for ELLs 2. A Survey and Description of Test Translation Practices 3. Examination of State Practices for Reporting Participation and Performance of English Language Learners in State Assessment

Resource Title: Promoting Excellence Series
Price: $8 for set
Author: CEEE
Description: This series of publications is designed to provide tools for those seeking sound, research-based models and strategies for the design or evaluation of services for English Language Learners.

National Education Association's Read Across America

Resource Title: Read Across America Resource Calendar