Resources

• National Association for Bilingual Education
• Programs for Educational Opportunity
  Provides technical assistance to states and K-12 school districts to support their efforts to treat all students equally and to help them succeed in school whatever their background. We have offered equity-related assistance to K-12 education for nearly 25 years in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education.
• This Center replaces the Multifunctional Resource Center for Bilingual Education in Service Area 6 and eleven other Regional Technical Assistance Centers serving categorical programs. It encompasses the states of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is the principal and legal grantee in a collaborative partnership with the United Tribes Technical College (Bismarck, ND), Hamline University (St. Paul, MN), and Eastern Michigan University, EMU, http://www.emich.edu/ .   A period of transition of transferring and revising roles and responsibilities from TACs to CRACs has been designated by the U.S. Department of Education.
• The NY Dept. of Ed. updated word-to-word glossaries subject glossaries in several languages. Excellent Resource!
• Need a visual to help students understand verb tenses? Verb Tenses - a presentation and teaching tool on tenses usage and construction.
  
•  Resource list on saying hello and greeting in multiple languages.  Here are some of the ways to say hello around the world.
• www.readwritethink.org/  - Classroom and professional resources for teachers.  It is loaded with lesson plans, student interactives, calendar activities, etc.
• Sixteen Sources of Foreign Language/Multicultural Health Information Materials 
• www.ManyThings.org - This is a fun study site for learners of English as a Second Language.
• NABE's mission is to advocate for our nations Bilingual and English Language Learners and families and to cultivate a multilingual multicultural society by supporting and promoting policy, programs, pedagogy, research, and professional development that yield academic success, value native language, lead to English proficiency, and respect cultural and linguistic diversity.
• Education Week has just released "Spotlight on ELLs in the Classroom," an online collection of articles and commentaries about ELLs published in the newspaper over the last several yet.
  
  The Spotlight explores how schools and teachers are using innovative means to help English-language learners gain skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The cost for the online package is $4.95.
  
  Topics include:
  - developing oral-language skills for English-learners
  - using data to inform ELL instruction
  - educating long-term English-language learners
  - strategies for math instruction
  - mixing students at varying levels of English proficiency
  - online resources for English-language learners
  - research on improving achievement for English-learners.