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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.
Take the Flip-to Book Tour! You have to see this book to believe
this book. And once you use this book it will quickly become your
most treasured teaching resource. What exactly is so remarkable?
All of the best teaching tools in language and literacy are at your
fingertips! Just flip to that strategy you want to learn or that
literacy goal you want to reach for a wealth of ready-to-use
resources to actively engage learners, build academic language, and
strategically support literacy instruction. Much more than a
resource for EL specialists, EL Excellence Every Day is written for
every teacher, with a singular focus on improving the ways we all
differentiate literacy instruction. Busy teachers especially will
appreciate: Over 85 flip-to strategies that help you engage and
support all learners 200+ prompts and linguistic scaffolds to
facilitate academic conversations connected to specific literacy
goals Lesson-ready resources for essential literacy goals:
anticipate before reading, read to understand, read to analyze and
infer, and write with text evidence Formative assessment tasks and
if/then charts for personalizing teaching to every student
Differentiation guides that demonstrate how to adjust supports
across EL proficiency levels Intuitive, color-coded design so you
can find what you need, when you need it No one lesson or strategy
is ever the perfect solution for every student. No one student
learns in the same way. If there's one universal truth in teaching
it's that every child is unique. Devour this book and soon enough
you'll provide the excellent literacy instruction each and every
student deserves each and every day. "We need resources that
clearly and quickly help us to meet diverse instructional needs
every day in every classroom. Tonya Ward Singer's EL Excellence
Every Day: The Flip-to Guide for Differentiating Academic Literacy
is such a resource." --JEFF ZWIERS, from the foreword
The transformative professional learning model that advances equity
in your school! How do we make educational equity a reality, lesson
by lesson? Author Tonya Singer shows how team observation and
learning can strengthen schools and support educational achievement
by all students. Including video clips of actual teams, this book
helps to: Implement best practices for observation-based
professional learning Work as a team to create a culture of deep
collaboration that closes opportunity gaps among students Use
observation-based data to better reach culturally and
linguistically diverse learners Develop and implement strategies
that build students' skills for future success
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