Live Now: Culturally Responsive School Practices Webinar
|
Culturally Responsive School Practices to Promote the Success of Hispanic English Learners, OELA’s final webinar celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month 2020, is now live on NCELA. Hosted in partnership with Regional Education Laboratories (REL) Pacific, the webinar featured a discussion from Dr. Katie Gao, Dr. Tameka Porter, and Delia Pompa on the factors that impact the social and emotional well-being of Hispanic ELs, identified research-based strategies to establish culturally responsive school environments, and featured strategies for promoting the academic achievement of diverse learners.
|
|
EL Instruction: A One-Stop Shop for Charter Schools
|
- Gain the tools needed to select the appropriate English instruction model for their student population.
- Prepare to effectively assess EL students.
- Provide appropriate services in online learning environments in response to COVID-19.
|
Visit the NCSRC website to explore this learning experience and choose an EL instruction model that fits your school.
|
|
Updates from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) |
-
Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) Releases 2017-2018 Data – The CRDC is a universal compilation of data related to OCR’s civil rights enforcement responsibilities at the PreK-12 level, including charter schools, magnet programs, alternative schools, schools serving students with disabilities, and long-term juvenile justice facilities. The 2017-18 CRDC covers a broad array of topics and requires districts and their schools to collect and input as many as 1,700 data points.
|
|
-
The CRDC web site features many useful tools, including tables and charts, that display a district’s or school’s data about key issues for the current CRDC and/or multiple prior collections at the same time.
|
|
October 24, 2020
Virtual Session
|
Based on research of the social, emotional, and academic needs of secondary immigrant students, this session will offer useful strategies and techniques for content-area and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers of newcomer ELs. |
|
October 24, 2020
Virtual Conference
|
The 2020 Bank Street Language Series Conference: Anti-Racist Language Teaching is a virtual space where educators will share their design of learning experiences for language-minoritized children and nurture understandings of curriculum and pedagogy that validate the language practices of all children. |
|
October 29, 2020
Virtual Conference
|
This free virtual conference from Istation will feature a keynote from Dr. Gloria Gonzalez on tailoring dual-language literacy instruction using a multimodal technology approach. Sessions include: Authentic Spanish Instruction: Balancing Language and Literacy; Strategies to Support English Language Learners in a Virtual Environment; Mindfulness, Growth Mindset for Dual-Language; and Building a Dual-Language School from the Ground Up.
|
|
November 4-7, 2020
Virtual Conference
|
La Cosecha 2020 will bring together educators, parents, researchers, and practitioners supporting dual language enrichment programs from across the U.S. to share best practices and resources, review current theory and practice, build networks, and fuel our community's efforts to build a better future for our children as we “harvest” the best of our multilingual and multicultural communities. |
|
November 19-22, 2020
Virtual Convention
|
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is hosting its annual convention virtually, with high-quality sessions, electronic posters, roundtables, and a virtual exhibit hall. The convention will feature three keynote speakers: John Quiñones, Erin Jones, and Nyle DiMarco. |
|
November 19-22, 2020
Virtual Convention
|
The 2020 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention will be held online in November. |
|
WBEZ
This article outlines Chicago Public Schools’ (CPS) recent expansion of its dual language programs. It addresses issues related to the expansion, such as a shortage of dual language teachers and administrators, advantages and disadvantages of various dual language program models, and the topic of gentrification and how it impacts which student populations benefit from these programs.
|
|
Education Week
In remote and/or blended environments, engaging students in lessons may sometimes be challenging. This blog entry offers four strategies that educators can use in online or face-to-face environments to increase student engagement.
|
|
Education Commission of the States
This resource provides a national comparison of EL policies in all 50 states. The information in this resource was gathered from state statutes or regulations. The resource presents a matrix that shows how each state approaches EL policies.
|
|
Migration Policy Institute
The sudden switch to remote learning in Spring 2020 brought to light inequities in access to education that affect ELs and immigrant students, especially in under-resourced schools throughout the country. This report examines the schools’ responses and how they impact the education of EL and immigrant students, identifies challenges that schools and districts face, and highlights some policy recommendations that may help ensure access to and equity in education for underserved student populations.
|
|
Join REL West, the Region 15 Comprehensive Center, and the Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety for a free webinar and panel discussion on the interrelationships among race equity mindsets, social and emotional well-being, and outcomes for Black, Latinx, and other students of color. Presenters will share evidence on why equity in schools is key to improving student outcomes and discuss how educators can shift mindsets to support positive student social and emotional development and build equitable education systems.
|
|
The 2021 ELD Virtual Professional Learning Summit seeks session proposals that highlight innovative and effective practices related to EL education; administrative leadership; promising practices for promoting student achievement; strengthening systems to support high-impact family engagement; designing strong home-school-community partnerships; culturally responsive schools and classrooms; collecting, analyzing, and using data to make programmatic and instructional decisions; leadership in connecting educational policy and practice; and strategies that foster student resiliency.
|
|
NABE invites all education experts, researchers, authors, and successful practitioners with information of interest to submit a proposal for its 50th Annual International Conference. NABE seeks proposals that engage participants in topics related to quality education for ELs and Dual Language Learners (DLLs) such as achieving educational equity for ELs and DLLs; ensuring social justice for ELs and DLLs through strong linguistic and academic attainment; and providing equal educational opportunities for ELs and DLLs.
|
|
University of Washington – Seattle
Seattle, WA
|
|
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
|
|
Norwalk Public Schools
Norwalk, CT
|
|
Subscribe to NCELA NEXUS
Did you receive the Nexus from a colleague? You can subscribe here. |
|
Submit Your News
Do you have news to share with the Nexus community?
Send your alerts, upcoming events, resources, and job postings to AskNCELA
by Tuesday, November 3, 2020, for inclusion in the next edition of Nexus.
|
|
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA)
|
|
Disclaimer: NCELA Nexus is intended to share information that can be of use to educators, parents, learners, leaders, and other stakeholders in their efforts to ensure that every student, including ELs, is provided with the highest quality education and expanded opportunities to succeed. The information and materials presented on NCELA Nexus do not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by NCELA, the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), or the U.S. Department of Education. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
