English Language Learners
Research & Initiatives

"Whose Student Is She?" No Child Left Behind is plunging many English language learners into the educational mainstream - and sometimes getting them in over their heads.

Catholic Social Teaching PowerPoint

Cultivating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments PowerPoint

Cultivating Effective Teacher and Learning Environments for Bilingual Latino Students: Part II

GMCEC Latino Workshop for St. Thomas More High School

Effectively Serving Latino/a Students in the Classroom

Teaching English Language Learners

VIDEO: A personal story of an English Language Learner

Reducing Educational Barriers for Latino Students

Guest Blog: Some REALLY Encouraging Testing News for MPS!

Some Really Encouraging Testing News for MPS!

Why is that English language learner sitting in the back of the classroom and not speaking up? Maybe she just needs a friend. Here's what some schools are doing to make sure their ELL students become part of the school community.

Listening to Latinas

Lonely Language Learners? (www.tolerance.org)

Downloads

Scanlan English Language Learners Summary (pdf)

Relevant Links

Mary Ann Zehr's blog tackles difficult policy questions, explore learning innovations, and share stories about different cultural groups on her beat.

Literature to Support Catholic schools serving English Language Learners

Cattaro, G. M. (2002b). Immigration and pluralism in urban Catholic schools. Education and Urban Society, 34 (2), 199-211

Kilman, Carrie (2009). Lonely Language Learners? Teaching Tolerance, (35). http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?p=0&is=44&ar=1006

Scanlan, M., & Palmer, D. (in press). Race, Power, and (In)equity Within Two-Way Immersion Settings. Urban Review

National High School Center Webinar: "Effectively Educating English Language Learners at the High School Level."

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