Leading Professional Development
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One important role that ESL teachers can play in their school is leading professional development for colleagues, including administrators, classroom teachers, content-area teachers, and school staff. These resources offer some ideas on choosing topics for professional development and making this responsibility a manageable part of the schedule.
Featured Articles
- You Are Already a Leader: Identifying Your Leadership Skills on Behalf of ELLs
- Getting to Know Our Families’ Cultural and Social Assets: The View from Dearborn, MI
- Essential Actions: 15 Research-based Practices to Increase ELL Student Achievement
- Preparing All Teachers to Teach ELLs
- Teacher Reflections: Common Core Planning and Professional Development
Blog Posts
- Teaching Informational Text to ELLs
- Video Series: Engaging ELLs in Academic Conversations
- New CCSS Resources from Education Week and Understanding Language
- Common Core and ELLs: Planning Professional Development About Academic Language (Part 2)
- What's Your "Elevator Speech" About Your Expertise with the Common Core for ELLs?