REDO – Resources
Families
Teacher/Maesta Soñia Galaviz Home Visit/Visita a casa de familia
Galaviz’ school serves many students from low-income families and has the highest English-language learning population in her district. She shares a home visit conducted with one of her student’s family.
¿Y si no hablo inglés? Colorín Colorado
This site provides ideas on how to help Spanish speaking parents to desarrollar la lectura y escritura.
Recursos en Español. U.S. Department of Education
This pages provides resources for Spanish speakers.
Teachers
Shiloh Clark Unit Plan Project
Academic Language Acquisition 2019
Colorín Colorado is a bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners.
!!!!!Hablamos!!!!! Conversations on teaching, learning and bilingualism
This is the original podcast of the International Consortium for Multilingual Excellence in Education (ICMEE).
The Idaho English Learner (EL) Program assists school districts with federal and state requirements of English Language Learners (ELLs).
Migration Policy Institute Language Portal
The Language Portal gives you thousands of state and local agency documents used to provide services to English language learner clients, including contracts, planning reports, and translated material.
National Association for Bilingual Educators/My Name
This is an initiative intended to foster and promote global awareness of the importance of honoring students’ diverse cultures and languages by pronouncing students’ names correctly.
National Association of Bilingual Educators
National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) has been a non-profit membership organization that works to advocate for educational equity and excellence for bilingual/multilingual students in a global society.
National Rural Education Association
The NREA is the voice of all rural schools and rural communities across the United States.
Office of English Language Acquisition
This site provides useful information on state education agencies, state assessment directors, grant policies, grant guidance and other reference information.
The mission of Teaching Tolerance is to help teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy. The program emphasizes social justice and anti-bias.
Rural Schools The Education Alliance Brown University
This site provides definitions of rural communities and facts about ELLs in rural communities.
Higher Education Professors
U.S. Department of Education OELA Poster 2017
This poster was presented at the annual National Professional Directors Meeting at the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) in Washington D.C.
U.S. Department of Education OELA Poster 2019
This poster was presented at the annual National Professional Directors Meeting at the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) in Washington D.C.
Why are we still blaming the families in 2019?
This article dismantles the reasons why parents of Emergent Multilingual students are viewed as not caring by sharing teachers reactions after engaging in meaningful conversations with parents and family members at their homes.
Effectiveness of Understanding Relations between Community, Home, and School for Future Educators.
This article explores the opportunities provided to teachers to go into the children’ communities to learn about the cultural wealth existing in homes and to understand the importance of including parents in the education of their children.