Empower Your English Learners!

This book tells a story of how a district leader uses tools, skills and processes to help her build a strong system on the heart, mind and shoulders of strong teams to ensure that strong collaborative leadership and  project management to ensure that the district office was functioning optimally and that effective teamwork crossed every aspect of the organization. As a result, work accomplished by the district office and in schools completely aligned to the district goals of the organization. As a result, the district leaders have been able to maximize learning in every single classroom systematically across the district and district offices are fully focused on serving the customers.

As a district leader, do you want to create the conditions where every leader can establish a vision and help their teams align their work to the district goals and every student is actively engaged and develop the knowledge, skills and processes to become effective independent learners who can solve problems and apply learning in novel situations?

Listen to lessons that Elena learned in Leading Success for Diverse Learners in Chapter 3.

This book tells a story of how a district leader uses tools, skills and processes to help her build a strong system on the heart, mind and shoulders of strong teams to ensure that strong collaborative leadership and  project management to ensure that the district office was functioning optimally and that effective teamwork crossed every aspect of the organization. As a result, work accomplished by the district office and in schools completely aligned to the district goals of the organization. As a result, the district leaders have been able to maximize learning in every single classroom systematically across the district and district offices are fully focused on serving the customers.

As a district leader, do you want to create the conditions where every leader can establish a vision and help their teams align their work to the district goals and every student is actively engaged and develop the knowledge, skills and processes to become effective independent learners who can solve problems and apply learning in novel situations?

Listen to lessons that Elena learned in Leading Success for Diverse Learners in Chapter 2.

So many districts are trying to figure out how to best serve the diverse learners in their district. We know that any comitted change agent has been taking on this challenge to improve learning an engagement for diverse learners in every classroom. However, have you considered what systems need to be put in place to ensure that there is a comprehensive strategic approach in place to address the professional learning needs at the district level. Learn how one leader tackles this challenge and triumphs over upleveling the culture of her central office to create collaborative teams and get better results.

Are you trying to figure out how to engage your Latino Community? Learn about the lessons that one district leader learned and how they involved the community in the systemic work of the school system. 

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As a school and district leader, we are sure that you are aware that emergency funds have been provided to districts and schools to help them work on supporting learning disruptions. Many districts have used these funds to purchase technology, literacy and math interventions, online tools and program and provide tutoring supports. Hear what one leaders shares about how these funds have helped to support learning and engagement for diverse learners.

Are you a school or district leader and you are committed to improving learning outcomes for the English Learners and/or Multilingual Learners in your classrooms or schools? Learn about the philosophy and work from one educator who has been a champion for diverse learners. She shares how she has been engaging ELs with the grade-level curriculum and complex text and leveraging technology to enhance engagement and learning in the classroom and across schools.

Are you a school or district leader who is committed to shifting learning and engagement for ELs in the classroom? Listen to a district leaders share lessons learned about high leverage practices to ensure that teachers and leaders are implementing to ensure that they are valuing rigor, relationships and relevance to address equity for English learners.

As a school or district leader, are you wondering what it will take to move the engagement and achievment of your English Learners (ELs). What core beliefs are needed to grapple with this work? Learn how one district leader defines the shift that needs to happen to begin to change the outcomes of ELs.

As a school or district leader, are you trying to figure out how to balance teaching to grade level standard and manage reading and math interventions for your English learners (ELs)? Learn how one district developed systems to manage this process to ensure that ELs had access to grade level standards and interventions based on their learning needs.

As a school or district leader, are you trying to figure out how to improve the instructional program for your English Learners (ELs) in the context of the Common Core? Listen to hear how one leader unpacks the Common Core and talks about some of the practices that her schools and districts implemented to improve instruction for ELs.

As a school or district leader, are you trying to better understand the factors that may be impacting the academic success of your English Learners (ELs)? Do you know what factors are impacting the Social Emotional Learning needs of your ELs? Listen to how one leader talks about the aspects that need to be considered to ensure that ELs feel safe, valued and supported in their school community.

As a school or district leader, are you trying to figure out what instructional models best meet the needs of the English Learners in your district? Learn how different instructional models impact the learning outcomes of ELs at the elementary and secondary level.

As a school or district leader, are you struggling with helping your teams own the Equity work to improve outcomes for your English Learners (ELs)? Listen to what one district leader shares about her work in one district to help stakeholders unpack the equity work in the district for ELs.

As a school or district leader, are you ready to tackle the Equity work needed to improve learning outcomes and engagement for the English Learners (ELs) in your school or district. Learn how one school system engaged their a multi-stakeholder workgroup to tackle this work to improve the instructional program for ELs. 

As a school or district leader, are you wondering what systems you can put in place to address the learning needs and engagement of your Multi-Lingual Learners (MLLs) in your school or district? Listen to a district leader highlight the work that Ms. Infante-Green has been doing in Rhode Island to develop systems to improve achievement for MLLs.

As a school or district leader, are you wondering how you can better engage your English learners in the middle of this pandemic? Listen to find out what one district leader learned about the best practices and tools that can be used to engage ELs in the virtual classroom.

As a district or school leader, have you been struggling to engage your English learners (ELs) during this pandemic? Listen how leaders shifted their practices to engage more ELs in their district.

Have you been trying to figure out how to improve the academic outcomes for the English Learners in your school or district? Listen to what one district leader learned as she was exploring best practices across the country and examined a Framework for ELs from the Council of Great City Schools. 

As a school or district leader, are you committed to being a system thinker who owns the improvement work for your English Learners? Listen to hear what one leader learned about the work that New York is doing to coordinate the work for ELs in their state.

As a school or district leader, have you been struggling with how you can navigate the sticky politics in your district and still follow guidelines as you work hard to improve learning outcomes for English learners in your school or district? 

Learn how one district leader navigated these political challenges and worked with a workgroup to unpack federal guidelines and navigate the politics in her district.

Be the change that you want to see in the world, as you strengthen your muscles as a Change Champion in your school or district.

Are you a school or district leader who is committed to improving learning outcomes and engagement for English learners (ELs) in your school or district. 

Listen to how one district leader used Roger Martin's Integrative Thinking Process a workgroup structure to unpack two opposing models for programming for ELs.