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WIDA provides English language proficiency standards and assessments for ELLs. The organization offers a range of resources, including the Can Do Descriptors, which outline language development stages, and assessment tools for language proficiency. It is great for students and understanding and assessing English language proficiency levels. They are helpful for meet and advocating for the linguistic needs of ELLs.

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In this edition of Conversations with Tim, Tim speaks with Rosalie Lincoln and Cathy Moses about their work in the Lower Kuskokwim School District in Alaska to preserve and revitalize the Yugtun language.

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WIDA develops and provides proven tools and support to help multilingual learners, and their educators, succeed.

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The TESOL Resource Center provides a many resources for teachers for lesson planning, cultural competence, and professional growth, making it a valuable resource for inclusivity of ELLS.

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Resource Center | TESOL | International Association

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The TESOL Resource Center offers lesson plans, teaching tips, activities, assessment tools, and other valuable tools to help you plan your classes.

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The Harvard Family Research Project provides research and resources on family engagement, including a focus on diverse learners and ELLs. They have great research-backed approaches to family engagement, providing educators and families with evidence-based strategies.

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Complementary Learning

Linking families, schools, and communities to support success in school and in life.

Family Involvement

Promoting strategies to support family involvement in children's learning and development.

Out-of-School Time

Supporting the accessibility, quality, and sustainability of out-of-school time programs and initiatives.

Early Childhood Education

Promoting innovative program development, family-provider relationships, community collaborations, & successful transitions.

Evaluation

Helping organizations get the information they need to develop and execute effective strategies.

Other Research Areas

Exploring new ideas and research areas.

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HFRP Home / HFRP - Harvard Family Research Project

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The Harvard Family Research Project strives to increase the effectiveness of public and private organizations and communities as they promote child development, student achievement, healthy family functioning and community development.

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This article, available on the Colorín Colorado website, outlines 20 practical strategies for school leaders to engage ELL families. It covers ideas such as home visits, cultural events, and using technology. This is great for teachers to build connections between schools and ELL families.

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Guide for Engaging ELL Families:

School leaders are in a unique position to engage the families of ELLs, even if previous attempts at family outreach have been unsuccessful. Engaged ELL parents bring invaluable dedication and wisdom regarding their children to the school community and can be crucial partners in supporting their children's success.

This guide offers twenty big ideas to help school leaders get started on the path towards a strong home-school partnership. An overview of the guide and related video clips are included below.

Each idea has four components:

What you need to know: Background information and context

Reflection: Questions about your own school setting that can be used for professional development activities with individuals or groups

Strategies: Specific, concrete strategies targeted for an audience of PreK-12 administrators

Examples: Stories shared by educators and administrators around the country

This guide is also available as a PDF.

Note: Links to additional resources on Colorín Colorado and other ELL websites are included in each section, as well as highlighted notes and recommended resources in the appendices at the end of the guide. If you have additional ideas or resources that you would like to recommend, feel free to share them in an e-mail to [email protected] !

Video Clips

The following video clips feature administrators and experts speaking about ways in which school leaders can successfully engage ELL families.

Featured experts include:

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Guide for Engaging ELL Families: School leaders are in a unique position to engage the families of ELLs, even if previous attempts at family outreach have been unsuccessful. Engaged ELL parents bring invaluable dedication and wisdom regarding their children to the school community and can be crucial partners in supporting their children's success.

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VOA Learning English offers content such as videos that can be shown to those with different English accents, for students with different global English varieties to practice and learn more.

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Voice of America - Learn American English with VOA Learning English

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Learn American English with English language lessons from Voice of America. VOA Learning English helps you learn English with vocabulary, listening and comprehension lessons through daily news and interactive English learning activities.

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International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) is a resource that allows learners to listen to recordings of English speakers, to get exposed to English language varieties.

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IDEA: International Dialects of English Archive | free dialect and accent recordings for the performing arts

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Welcome to IDEA. The International Dialects of English Archive was created in 1998 as the internet's first archive of primary-source recordings of English-language dialects and accents as heard around the world. With roughly 1,700 samples from 135 countries and territories, and more than 170 hours of recordings, IDEA is now the largest archive of its kind.

IDEA's recordings are principally in English, are of native speakers, and include both English-language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages. (Many include brief demonstrations of the speaker's native language, too.) The archive also includes extensive Special Collections.

Paul Meier is IDEA's founder, director, and principal contributor, personally collecting nearly 20 percent of the archive. He established IDEA to provide actors the real-life models they need for their characters' accents and dialects; many actors use his Accents & Dialects for Stage and Screen in conjunction with IDEA. But IDEA has proved invaluable in many other fields too; for example, it's a favorite tool of international business, helping personnel become familiar with their customers' accents and dialects.

HOW IDEA WORKS

To find an example of an accent or dialect, use the Global Map, or the Dialects and Accents tab on the menu bar. The site is also fully searchable, not just by country, state, and province, but also by characteristics of each speaker, such as ethnicity, age, and occupation; even single phrases from transcriptions and phonetics can be searched online. You may conveniently listen to the streaming audio while reading the accompanying transcription and commentary. All samples have one-line descriptions (gender, age, year of birth, ethnicity, location). Submission of new samples by the editors and other contributors is done entirely online.

At the heart of IDEA are its Senior Editors and the Associate Editors, forming a global network of contributors. They record the subjects, transcribe the recordings, and, in many cases, write scholarly commentaries that often include phonetic and cultural analyses. Many editors are professors at major universities, or are members of The Voice and Speech Trainers Association ( VASTA).

Cameron Meier is IDEA's executive editor and chief sound and copy editor, and also vice president of Paul Meier Dialect Services.

New recordings, their accompanying transcriptions and scholarly commentaries are added frequently (see What's New). Each recording includes both a reading (Comma Gets a Cure, or, on our earliest recordings, The Rainbow Passage) and some unscripted speech - about four minutes in all.

The Global Map quickly reveals which countries/states/provinces have a representative sample, and those that still lack one. As you see, IDEA continues to grow, aspiring to provide a recording from every corner of the world. Please join us in this ambitious project by becoming an associate editor, or contributing your own voice to the archive.

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IDEA: International Dialects of English Archive

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Welcome to IDEA, the internet's best source for primary-source recordings of English-language dialects and accents as heard around the world.

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Provides resources, professional development opportunities, and publications for ESL educators (you can get certification with this which provides some more experience and validity).

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Do you dream of traveling through exotic countries, exploring unfamiliar cultures, and meeting new people from all corners of the globe? If your answer is YES, then a TESOL certification from ITTT is one of the best ways to make your dreams come true!

With over 25 years of experience in training new teachers via our online and in-class certification options, International TEFL and TESOL Training (ITTT) offers internationally accredited qualifications that are actively sought out by employers worldwide. They know that graduates of our certification courses are trained to be dynamic and forward thinking in the classroom and will be an asset to their business, no matter where they are in the world. Whether you are looking for a course that you can study from home or a hands-on course led by professional teacher trainers, ITTT has you covered.

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Tesol Courses and Tesol Certification | ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Teach English Abroad

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ITTT offers in class and online TESOL courses and programs in 30+ countries worldwide. Teach English abroad with an accredited TESOL certification course.

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LearnEnglish Teens by the British Council provides grammar resources specifically designed for teenage English learners. It is great and includes interactive activities and quizzes.

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Practise and improve your grammar by watching our Grammar Snack videos.

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Duolingo is a great language learning app that offers interactive lessons in fun ways. It covers various aspects of language learning, including grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.

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Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps!

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The National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) provides professional development opportunities for educators, administrators, and policymakers involved in bilingual education. This includes conferences, workshops, etc.

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Since 1975, the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) has been a non-profit membership organization that works to advocate for educational equity and excellence for bilingual/multilingual students in a global society.