A Leader's Guide to Collaboration and Co-Teaching for Multilingual Learners
Build collaborative leadership practices that transform outcomes for multilingual learners
The landscape of education is shifting, and multilingual learners now make up a growing portion of classrooms nationwide. Yet too many of these bright, capable students struggle to reach their potential because the adults around them aren't working together effectively. This updated guide shows exactly how to create the collaborative culture multilingual learners need to thrive.
Drawing from extensive research and real-world success stories, bestselling authors Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove present a comprehensive roadmap for transforming your school's approach to supporting multilingual learners. This practical resource meets you where you are and guides you toward where you need to be. The authors understand that creating lasting change requires more than good intentions—it demands strategic leadership, shared vision, and sustained collaboration among all members of the learning community.
This essential guide provides:
- A clear framework for collaborative leadership that moves beyond individual teacher efforts to create school-wide systems of support
- Research-based program models that integrate language development with academic content across all subject areas
- Practical tools and templates for coordinating services, developing shared curricula, and implementing effective assessment practices
- Professional learning strategies that build capacity among all staff members to work effectively with multilingual learners
- Real voices from the field featuring authentic examples and reflections from successful educational leaders
The time for isolated approaches to multilingual learner education has passed. This guide empowers educational leaders to create collaborative, inclusive environments where multilingual learners don't just survive—they flourish alongside their peers while developing language and literacy skills.
A must-read! Their second edition provides critical information for co-teaching and collaboration, complemented by the addition of professional development and leadership support required.
It’s more important than ever that instructional leaders set the tone for and exemplify collaboration so that it permeates every facet of school life. The Leader’s Guide continues to be a tribute to all educators who facilitate collaborative practices and advocate for multilingual learners during rapidly changing times. Sprinkled with leadership voices from the field, this 2nd edition offers new insights into the value and strength of collaboration in upholding the dignity of linguistically and culturally sustainable pedagogies. Protocols and resources offer additional opportunities to build a shared knowledge base to unify a school or program. As Honigsfeld and Dove so aptly profess, it’s only with a shared mission and unified vision that, in community, we can be forward thinking to advance teaching and learning for our multilingual learners.
A Leader's Guide is a tool like no other educational book I have ever encountered. The book supports the busy, instructional leader who wants to grow all of their students' knowledge, but may not have the background to know best practices to ensure that all students are growing at high levels. The book provides an entry point for readers, regardless of their current context, with feedback from those in the field and ready-made tools to engage stakeholders in honest, best practices. The book serves as an engaging guide to support leaders of all levels in developing and implementing a plan to ensure that multilingual learners acquire on-grade-level content and grow their English language skills.
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