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Title: Resources for Spanish-Speakers Not Literate in Their Home Language
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From http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
Larry Ferlazzo has assembled an annotated list of resources for helping heritage Spanish speakers be more literate in Spanish, available at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/08/07/resources-for-spanish-speakers-not-literate-in-their-home-language/
Source: Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
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Title: Spanish Resources for Transportation
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From http://zachary-jones.com/
Here is another culture-based packet from Zambombazo, this one focused on transportation: http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/modes-of-transportation/
Source: Zambombazo
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Title: Songs for Spanish Learners
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Last year (http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/21693) we noted “Spanish Mama” Elisabeth’s collection of songs for Spanish 1 learners (available at http://spanishmama.com/authentic-songs-for-my-spanish-i-class/). She has recently added to her collection of posts with 30 songs for Spanish 2 (http://spanishmama.com/30-authentic-songs-for-advanced-spanish-classes/) and 30 more for advanced Spanish classes (http://spanishmama.com/30-authentic-songs-for-advanced-spanish-classes-2/).
Source: Spanish Mama
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Title: Showcase Your City: 48 horas en…
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Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell created a project in which Spanish learners showcase their communities, giving recommendations for where to go and what to eat in 48 hours. See the current final projects (for Louisville, Kentucky, and Washington, Iowa) and find contact information if you’d like to join the project at http://www.48horasen.com/
Source: 48 horas en…
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Title: Report: Five Lenses to Bring English Learner Data into Focus
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From http://ell.stanford.edu/content/seeing-clearly-five-lenses-bring-english-learner-data-focus
Two new reports from New America’s Education Policy Program stress the need to improve data quality and literacy to better track the performance of English learners (ELs), the fastest-growing student group in K–12 public education.
Overall, the view of EL outcomes is often blurry or distorted, argues the report’s author Janie T. Carnock, due to a host of common misunderstandings and limitations to how most states collect, track, and report on the data.
“Many education leaders have only a fuzzy idea of what excellence for ELs looks like and how genuine successes would show up in the data,” says Carnock. “Worse yet, data can be used in ways that misleadingly present ELs as a group that never shows progress or success—which is not true.”
The first report, Seeing Clearly: Five Lenses to Bring English Learner Data into Focus, offers a framework to help address these issues and enable more accurate, meaningful data usage for ELs. When parsing EL data, stakeholders should bear in mind that:
1. The EL subgroup is not static.
2. Learning a language takes time—but not forever.
3. ELs at different stages progress at different rates.
4. English skills impact academic performance.
5. Poverty affects most ELs and, as a result, their educational outcomes.
Along with the framework, the paper concludes with policy recommendations for state leaders to consider to leverage data more effectively for ELs.
The second report, Pioneering Change: Leveraging Data to Reform English Learner Education in Oregon, illustrates how some of these data principles can be applied through concrete policy reforms, using Oregon as a case study. In 2013, Oregon leaders passed a law that focused exclusively on bringing visibility to English learners through data, House Bill 3499. Oregon provides a model for other state leaders across the country on how to create more accurate, transparent data systems for EL students.
Access the reports at https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/policy-papers/seeing-clearly/
Source: New America
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Title: Resources for Planning Learning Stations
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Today’s Topic of the Week and Activity of the Week deal with “in-class flipping” and learning stations. Here is a timely curated collection of resources for planning learning stations on Larry Ferlazzo’s website: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/08/14/the-best-resources-for-planning-learning-stations-please-add-more/
Source: Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
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Title: Podcast Series: We Teach Languages
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We Teach Languages is a podcast that explores the question, “What does excellent language teaching look like?” Hosted by Stacey Margarita Johnson, the podcast explores language teaching from the diverse perspectives of real teachers.
The latest podcast is by Lisa Sheppard, “Making the Transition to Authentic Resources and Proficiency.”
We Teach Languages is available at https://weteachlang.com/
Source: We Teach Languages
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Title: Flipgrid: Video Discussion Platform
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Flipgrid is a video discussion platform. At its simplest, teachers create a prompt, and students post video responses. Language teachers have been blowing up the blogosphere with rave reviews and descriptions of how they use Flipgrid. Here are some of them:
French teacher Wendy Farab gives a nice overview of old and new features and goes into some detail about how Flipgrid can be used in language classes: https://mmefarab.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/ive-got-that-flipgrid-fever/
CI/TPRS teachers Carrie Toth and Arriane Dowd describe how they use Flipgrid for studying novels in this post: https://fluencymatters.com/flip-your-novel-study-with-flipgrid-by-carrie-toth-and-arianne-dowd/
Learn about new features and how teachers can use them in this recent blog post: http://karlymoura.blogspot.com/2017/08/meet-all-new-flipgrid-10-must-try-ideas.html
Flipgrid is available at https://info.flipgrid.com/
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Title: Eclipse Resources
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Source: Various
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Title: First Week of School Resources
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Source: Various
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