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Breaking Down the Wall - Essential Shifts for English Learners' Success (Paperback)
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Breaking Down the Wall - Essential Shifts for English Learners' Success (Paperback)
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It was a dark and stormy night in Santa Barbara. January 19, 2017.
The next day's inauguration drumroll played on the evening news.
Huddled around a table were nine Corwin authors and their
publisher, who together have devoted their careers to equity in
education. They couldn't change the weather, they couldn't heal a
fractured country, but they did have the power to put their
collective wisdom about EL education upon the page to ensure our
multilingual learners reach their highest potential. Proudly, we
introduce you now to the fruit of that effort: Breaking Down the
Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learners' Success. In this
first-of-a-kind collaboration, teachers and leaders, whether in
small towns or large urban centers, finally have both the research
and the practical strategies to take those first steps toward
excellence in educating our culturally and linguistically diverse
children. It's a book to be celebrated because it means we can
throw away the dark glasses of deficit-based approaches and see
children who come to school speaking a different home language for
what they really are: learners with tremendous assets. The authors'
contributions are arranged in nine chapters that become nine tenets
for teachers and administrators to use as calls to actions in their
own efforts to realize our English learners' potential: 1. From
Deficit-Based to Asset-Based 2. From Compliance to Excellence 3.
From Watering Down to Challenging 4. From Isolation to
Collaboration 5. From Silence to Conversation 6. From Language to
Language, Literacy, and Content 7. From Assessment of Learning to
Assessment for and as Learning 8. From Monolingualism to
Multilingualism 9. From Nobody Cares to Everyone/Every Community
Cares Read this book; the chapters speak to one another, a melodic
echo of expertise, classroom vignettes, and steps to take. To shift
the status quo is neither fast nor easy, but there is a clear
process, and it's laid out here in Breaking Down the Wall. To
distill it into a single line would go something like this: if we
can assume mutual ownership, if we can connect instruction to all
children's personal, social, cultural, and linguistic identities,
then all students will achieve.
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