The School Leader's Guide to English Learners

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“The growing number of English learners in our schools today, coupled with an era of high accountability, poses tremendous challenges for schools. Fisher and Frey provide school leadership with essential knowledge for understanding the relationship of language to children’s lives, sociocultural realities, and academic success. This is a must-read for administrators who make day-in and day-out decisions about EL schooling.”

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“I highly recommend The School Leader’s Guide to English Learners to anyone in a school leadership position or program. This accessible, research-based, practical guide can make the difference between struggle and success for ELs in our schools.”

The School Leader’s Guide to

English Learners

—Margo DelliCarpini, Assistant Professor of TESOL, Lehman College, The City University of New York; and Editor, TESOL Journal “This is certain to be an indispensable guide to planning and practice of high-quality programs for English learners. Fisher and Frey have done an excellent job of presenting relevant research, practical examples, and suggestions, all in a highly readable, user-friendly format.”

ENGLISH LEARNERS

—Elena Izquierdo, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, University of Texas at El Paso

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—Liliana Minaya-Rowe, Professor Emerita, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut

This book contains: • Strategies for setting reasonable goals for your English learners

FISHER | FREY

English learners are enormously challenged, for they must learn English while learning in English, and must do so while meeting ever-increasing expectations for achievement. How can principals rally their schools to address these issues? The School Leader’s Guide to English Learners explores this problem through five big ideas: (1) understanding proficiency levels, (2) using instruction that emphasizes talk, (3) creating assessments that highlight strengths rather than simply catalog defects, (4) offering intense interventions, and (5) shaping programs that have the buy-in of all stakeholders—educators, families, and students.

The School Leader’s Guide to

English Learners

• Research-based guidelines for quality instruction with real-world examples • Response to intervention approaches • Reproducible and online resources, including a multilingual home language survey and principal’s self-study guide • A glossary of English learner terms

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Visit go.solution-tree.com/ELL to download the reproducibles in this book. A Joint Publication solution-tree.com

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