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| Title | WestEd's SchoolsMovingUp Presents Three Webinars on English Learners |
| Body | WestEd's SchoolsMovingUp website will feature three free webinars next week. All webinars will take place from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time (1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time). The first webinar, on Tuesday, October 28, is “What the Research Does - and Does Not - Say About Teaching English Language Learners." In this presentation, Claude Goldenberg, Professor of Education at Stanford University, will summarize key findings of two major reviews of the research on educating English learners. These reviews represent the most concerted efforts to date to identify the best knowledge available and set the stage for renewed efforts to find effective approaches to help English learners succeed in school. Although there are numerous areas in which there is insufficient research to guide policy and practice, this webinar will provide guidelines based on the strongest research about effective practices for teaching English learners. The second webinar of the week, "Building Oral Language into the Basal (Encore Presentation) ," will take place on Wednesday, October 29. In this presentation co-sponsored by SchoolsMovingUp and CREATE (Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners), Diane August, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Linguistics, will describe methods to develop the language proficiency skills of English learners in the context of language arts, math, and science instruction in elementary and middle schools. Examples of methods include read-alouds of expository and narrative text and hands-on experiences to build academic language. This work is part of ongoing research funded by the US Department of Education to improve the language and literacy skills of English learners. On Thursday, October 30, the webinar "Web Tour Taking Center Stage - Act II: Ensuring Success for Middle Grades English Learners ," will showcase a unique Web site designed to help educators close the achievement gap in the middle grades so that students are prepared to succeed in high school. Carol Abbott, author of Taking Center Stage - Act II, and consultant with the Middle and High School Improvement Office of the California Department of Education (CDE), and Jeanette Ganahl, Administrator, English Learner Accountability Unit, CDE, will guide participants to key English learner resources and best practices on the Taking Center Stage-Act II middle grades Web site. The presenters will answer questions about best practices for engaging middle grades English learners, as well as share several examples and strategies that school leaders can use to guide staff members in using this free, online resource that was developed by CDE for middle grades educators and administrators. See the Online Events page on SchoolsMovingUp for further information, including specific topics to be addressed by these events, at http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/onlineevents . |
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