This article provides a profile of students with interrupted formal education, their strengths and needs, recommendations of best practices, and examples of different kinds of support that will accelerate their academic achievement.
The following resources can support schools' partnerships with the multilingual families of English language learners (ELLs), with a special focus on newcomer families and resources for educators who are new to working with ELLs.
Learn more about what's happening around the country related to English language learners (ELLs), immigrant families, and refugees during COVID-19.
Learn more about strategies that individual educators and schools can use to support immigrant students.
Gabriela Uro is Manager for English Language Learner Policy and Research for the Council of the Great City Schools
Pam Knittel is the ESL District Coach in the Poughkeepsie City School District and served as the primary facilitator for our Common Core and ELLs project.
Katy Padilla is a fifth-grade ESOL specialist at Mason Crest Elementary School in Annandale, Virginia, a school with a high percentage of ELLs.
The following information provides tips for addressing rapidly unfolding current events in Syria, as well as background information for teachers and students on the civil war that has driven Syrians from their country.