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Common Core and English Learners

• Standford University: Understanding Language: Language, Literacy, and Learning in the Content Areas

Family Resources

• Colorin Colorado A bilingual site for families and educators of English learners
• IRC: Illinois Resource Center
• A Framework for Raising Expectations and Instructional Rigor for English learners

Languages and Culture

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World

Legal Compliance and Advocacy

• OELA: Office of English Language Acquisition (federal)
• OELA: White House Task Force on New Americans Educational and Linguistic Integration Webinar Series (federal)
• OCR: Office for Civil Rights
• MALDEF: Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• The English Learner Tool Kit - Intended to help state and local education agencies (SEAs and LEAs) in meeting thier obligations to English Learners (ELs)

Professional Associations

• IAMME: Illinois Association for Multilingual Multicultural Education
• TESOL: Teachers of English as a Second or Other Language
• ITBE: Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
• NABE: National Association for Bilingual Education

Refugee and Immigrant Students

• BRYCS - Bridging Refugee Youth & Children's Services
• Office of Refugee Resettlement
• Cultural Orientation Resource Center
• ICIRR: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• CAL: Center for Applied Linguistics: Refugee and Immigrant Integration
• Minnesota Humanities Commission: reading Tips

Research and Resources

• NCELA: National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
• WIDA: World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment
• CAL: Center for Applied Liguistics
• CREDE: Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence
• AIR: American Institutes for Research

Sheltered Instruction

• Pearson: the SIOP model
• Center for Applied Linguistics: SIOP/sheltered instruction​

• Bilingual education rules and parent advisory committee responsibilities:
• English
  
• Spanish
  
• EL Accountability in Title I
  
• ​English 
  
• Spanish​
  
• Additional Presentations for the 2018 Parent Summit
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These webinars are part of a series designed specifically for parents of English learners. They were created to provide parents information about the different ways students use the English language in school, along with information on English language development standards and how they can be used to support ELs. We recommend parents and educators watch each presentation in this series, beginning with Part I and ending with Part III.

• ENGLISH
  • Part 1: My Child is an English Learner. What does that Mean?
  • Part 2: My Child is an English Learner. How is my child's language development supported at school?
  • Part 3: My Child is an English Learner. How do I know if my child is making progress?
• ESPANÕL
  • Parte 1: Mi hijo es un estudiante de ingles. Que significa eso?
  • Parte 2: Mi hijo es un estudiante de ingles. Como apoya la escuela el desarrollo de lenguaje de mi hijo?
  • Parte 3: Mi hijo es un estudiante de ingles. Como puedo saber si mi hijo esta progresando?​​​

• A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook English
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Arabic
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Burmese
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Chinese (simplified)
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook French
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Gujarati
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Korean
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Nepalese
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Polish
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Russian
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Spanish
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Tagalog
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Urdu
  • A Guide to Your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook Vietnamese
• A Major New Resource About Reading for Spanish-speaking Parents
• CLAS: Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Services - Early Childhood Research Institute
• Deaf Aztlan - Hispanic Website
• Family and Advocates in Partnership for Education - includes some Hmong and Spanish publications
• National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities - Spanish online publications
• BRYCS: Bridging Refugee Youth & Children's Services
  BRYCS is a national technical assistance project working to broaden the scope of information and collaboration among service providers in order to strengthen services to refugee youth, children, and their families.
• Serving English Learners - A Manual for Illinois Educators​​

• ESSA
• Parent Notification Letters for Districts not making AMAOs
• Title III Parent Notification Letters
  
• Parent Involvement in NCLB​​