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Hear from Debbie Zacarian about the critical role academic language plays in student achievement.

Soto, Zwiers, the Freemans, and Calderon, authors of the Academic Language Mastery Series, share the four key components of academic language mastery and the best practices to cultivate them. 

Join Tonya Ward Singer, author of EL Excellence Every Day, as she uncovers specific actions to enhance EL excellence and student achievement within the general ed classroom.  

Join Maria Dove and Andrea Honigsfeld as they walk through the entire collaborative instruction cycle to help enhance English language learning. 

Learn new strategies from Diane Staehr Fenner and Margo Gottlieb to ensure English learners develop academic language and engage with challenging content. 

When it comes to accelerating EL achievement, there is no silver bullet. But this, Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove promise you: when EL specialists and general ed teachers pool their expertise, your ELs’ language development and content mastery will improve exponentially. Hear firsthand from Andrea and Maria, authors of Collaborating for English Learners, what exemplary teacher collaboration looks like, which frameworks must be established, and how integrated approaches to ELD services benefit all stakeholders. 

This blog post from Tonya Ward Singer, author of EL Excellence Every Day, offers solutions to rais EL achievement. 

This blog post outlines three ways to leverage collectivism to support long-term ELs make progress and work towards Preventing Long-Term ELs. 

Anyone invested in the future of our English learners—and we hope that’s all of you!--you won’t want to miss this. Join this once-of-a-lifetime collaboration of the field’s top practitioners and authors of Breaking Down the Wall as they discuss nine essential shifts for delivering on the promise of our English learners. 

Jeff Zwiers, author of The Communication Effect, describes how to improve all dimensions of learning (content, cognition, language, social, agency, etc.) by enhancing instruction with three main features of authentic communication.

This excerpt from But Does This Work With English Learners? by Mary Amanda Stewart and Holly Genova covers how to assess your English Learners writing abilities.

This excerpt from But Does This Work With English Learners? by Mary Amanda Stewart and Holly Genova explains how to maximize a reader's workshop for English Learners.