• Center on Instruction: English Language Learners
  Research-based materials on English Language Learning, research syntheses and exemplars of best practices. Currently available are materials on the topic of Reading: Grades K-3 for English Language Learners.
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• Claiming Opportunities: A Handbook for Improving Education for English Language Learners Through Comprehensive School Reform
  View and print Handbook from The Ed. Alliance at Brown Un.(2003) Maria Coady, Edmund T. Hamann, Margaret Harrington, Maria Pacheco, Samboeun Pho, Jane YedlinClaiming Opportunities provides information, strategies, and tools that support the Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) program, as presented in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. The handbook is designed to help administrators in making schools more responsive and responsible for English language learners (ELLs). It presents existing research on both CSR and ELL educational reform and suggests how the two educational improvement efforts can be integrated.
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• English Language Learners at School: A Guide for Administrators
  Crandal with Stein and Nelson What kinds of knowledge and skills do mainstream teachers, English as a second language, bilingual teachers, and support staff need to implement an effective program for English language learners? Edited by Else Hamayan and Rebecca Freeman with 57 Contributors (2006)
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• Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping
  Whether you're deep into curriculum mapping or just starting out, you need this helpful resource to speed your mapping effort along and apply curriculum mapping to special situations. Following the processes outlined in the ASCD best-seller Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12, teachers and administrators offer concrete advice on how to get the most out of curriculum mapping in districts and schools.
  in Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > Aligning Programs to Assessments with administrators ascd curriculum k-12 mapping teachers
• Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported by Rigorous Evidence
  A User-Friendly Guide by the U.S. Dept. Insititution of Ed. Sciences describes what they consider scientifically based research. The complete guide, including a checklist for evaluating whether an intervention (defined as "an educational practice, strategy, curriculum, or program," p. 1) is supported by rigorous evidence (Appendix B) Web sites that list evidence-based interventions can be found in Appendix A.
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• Implementing RTI using Title I, Title III and CEIS funds
  Key Issues for Decision-makers US Dept. of ED. This Powerpoint is designed to explain RTI and use of funds that can be used for each tier.
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• Leadership & Management-Eye On Education
  This is a link to the resources for Administrators for effective leadership and management from Eye on Education.
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• Learning Along the Way: Professional Development by and for Teachers
  Diane Sweeney, currently a literacy specialist with the Public Education & Business Coalition, tells the story of how the inner-city public school in Denver where she was a teacher and literacy coach used learner-centered professional development to achieve outstanding gains in teacher knowledge and effectiveness.
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• Resulted-Oriented Professional Development
  Thomas R. Guskey, Un. of Kentucky, reviews research in 1995 related to professional development, but his suggestions still have merit.
  Learning Point Associates is a nonprofit education organization with more than 20 years direct experience empowering educators to transform student learning.
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• The Principal Difference: Key Issues in School Leadership and How to Deal with Them Successfully
  Review entire book online. A teacher educator, researcher and consultant, Susan Church has a long-standing interest in the complexities and challenges of educational leadership. In The Principal Difference she explores the issues that confront school administrators, and demonstrates how best to provide the leadership today's schools need. It draws on the latest research and personal case studies. ASCD recommended book online for review.
  Stenhouse publishes professional books and videos by teachers for teachers
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• The SIOP Model for Administrators
  Written by Deborah Short, MaryEllen Vogt, and Jana Echevarria, SIOP for Administrators provides a clear overview of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol and how it relates to administrators, giving them a better understanding of how to accurately assess their teachers' training and implemention of the SIOP Model.
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• USATODAY.com Admin. blocking report on English-only
  Is bilingual education report being downplayed?The government will not publish a report it commissioned on bilingual education — and critics say that's because the Bush administration disagrees with the findings, which cast doubt on the efficacy of teaching immigrant children through English-only lessons.
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