Resources
From the NYS Education Department's Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages
Guiding Principles for Administrators, Policy Makers, and Practitioners
Professional Sites
CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION E-BLAST
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NYSED RESOURCES
NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION SESSIONS
PARENT RESOURCES
From the NYS Education Department's Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages
Guiding Principles for Administrators, Policy Makers, and Practitioners
(Use the links below to view or download documents)
- Blueprint for English Language Learner/ Multilingual Learner Success
- Linguistically Diverse Learners and the NYS Next Generation P-12 Learning Standards: a series of eight topic briefs produced for NYSED by Nonie K. Lesaux, PhD from Harvard University & Emily Phillips Galloway, EdD from Vanderbilt University
- Brief 1: Advanced Literacies For Academic Success
- Brief 2: What Goes into Effective Reading Comprehension?
- Brief 3: Hallmark 1 of Advanced Literacies Instruction: Engaging, Content-Rich Texts
- Brief 4: Hallmark 2 of Advanced Literacies Instruction: Classroom Discussion
- Brief 5: Hallmark 3 of Advanced Literacies Instruction: Building Written Language
- Brief 6: Hallmark 4 of Advanced Literacies Instruction: Academic Vocabulary and Language
- Brief 7: Advanced Literacies Instruction: Spotlight on Instructional Units of Study
- Brief 8: Advanced Literacies Instruction: Spotlight on Language Production Projects
- Introduction to the New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards
- Preface to the New York State Next Generation English Language Arts and Mathematics Learning Standards
- EMERGENT MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS IN PREKINDERGARTEN A Protocol for Identification, Instructional Planning & Programming
- Politico: School Integration Training Targets 'root causes' Article
Professional Sites and Resources
- ¡Colorín Colorado!
- Breaking News & English
- Open English World
- International Children’s Digital Library
- The New York State Common Core Bilingual Standards
- CUNY-NYSIEB
- New York State Education Department – Glossaries for content areas grades 3-12
- Omniglot—Provides information on languages, alphabets and language systems, useful phrases, etc.
- Steinhardt NYU
- Toronto Public Library – Offers books in Arabic, Bengali, Nepali, Somali, Spanish, and others
- Drum Publications (Burmese/Karen Resources)
Professional Organizations
- AAAL (the American Association for Applied Linguistics)
- ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages)
- CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics)
- Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
- Center for Language Minority Education and Research
- Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
- IATEFL (International Association for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language)
- Intercultural Development Research Association
- MLA (Modern Language Association)
- Multicultural Pavillion Teacher’s Corner
- NABE (National Association for Bilingual Education) – Affiliation
- NAME (National Association for Multicultural Education)
- National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
- NCLR National Council of La Raza
- New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers (NYSAFLT)
- New York State Bilingual/ESL Network
- NYSCEA (New York State Council for Educational Associations)
- NYSED OBE-FLS (Office of Bilingual Education & Foreign Language Studies)
- New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NYS TESOL)