Bilingual Booklist: Celebrating the Day of the Dead | colorincolorado.org/booklist/celeb…

ELL Strategy: Text Reconstruction In this collaborative strategy, students listen to a short text about their current unit of study several times and reconstruct the text together. colorincolorado.org/teaching-ells/…

Dr. Reitz visited RW 3rd DL students to respond to letters written as part of their BUF. The end-of-unit performance task was to write a letter informing the superintendent about one area of inequity in the school. Authentic learning!@School_D15 Edgar De La Mora RW Rascals

Learning from Holly Sawyer about how to use content as an equity tool for all, through the use of AI. Dr. Maureen Cassidy #ELevateYourLearning #WIDA2025 WIDA™

A team of ML educators and coaches attended Carly Spina ML Data Summit today. Thank you to Illinois Resource Center (IRC) for providing this opportunity for our team to deep dive into EL data to improve instructional practices. Edgar De La Mora McHenry School District 15

Happy Halloween from Team Garden! Edgar De La Mora McHenry School District 15

This team worked so hard today developing our ELD frameworks. I am so proud of them and their dedication to the Four Cs: Clarity, Consistency, Connection, and Collaboration! McHenry School District 15 Edgar De La Mora

Enjoy a link to this Padlet that continues to evolve. You will find a treasure trove of resources to support educators serving multilingual learners as readers, writers, listeners, and speakers. padlet.com/valentina_gonz…

What's your favorite ELL strategy from our ELL strategy library? We'd love to hear from you! colorincolorado.org/ell-strategy-l…

Another busy day of curriculum work with the tireless middle school ELD staff! We are well on our way to getting our first trimester ELD framework complete. Can’t wait to see what else this team is able to accomplish the rest of the year! McHenry School District 15 Edgar De La Mora

Here's a sentence patterning chart that shares about culturally and linguistically responsive classrooms. If you were asked to write three sentences about culturally and linguistically responsive classrooms using one descriptor from each column, what would you write? What would

Here is what's new in 2025 so far! Literacy, AI, content-area instruction, early childhood, ELL policy and funding, and much more! colorincolorado.org/best-2025-new-…

Our classrooms are like landscapes. They are environments that students either THRIVE in or they learn to SURVIVE in. What type of environment have you cultivated? #teaching #teaching_english #teachingideas #teachingenglish #teachingresources #languagelearning

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New! Phonological Awareness and ELLs: Article, Tip Sheet, and Slide Deck for PD colorincolorado.org/article/phonol… Image: Reading Universe

We now have slide decks that you can use for PD on the following topics: --Phonics Instruction for ELLs --Phonological Instruction for ELLs --Vocabulary Instruction for ELLs You are welcome to share these slides and related articles and tip sheets! colorincolorado.org/ell-profession…

Developing a complete picture of multilingual learners is more than knowing their English language proficiency. Deeper development uncovers who multilingual learners are as humans and how their other languages and experiences interact with new language acquisition. Each

Have you seen our ELL Resource Collections? colorincolorado.org/ell-resource-c…

Multilingualism is like a kaleidoscope, vibrant, dynamic, ever-changing, and forever transforming into something new and beautiful. As new languages are folded in, additional layers of complexity are created. Much like a kaleidoscope, patterns emerge and a multilingual learner

Language Objectives: The Key to Effective Content Area Instruction for English Learners This article includes tips, examples, and expert videos. colorincolorado.org/article/langua…