EL Leadership Conference Archive:
2013 Conference Materials
The California 2012 ELD Standards:
Building Capacity and Internal Accountability
Robert Linquanti, Project Director & Senior Researcher, WestEd
Presentation |
Handout: Genres (Text Types) |
Handout: Group Jigsaw
- New English Language Development Standards were released in California in 2012. This presentation provided an overview of those standards and their shifts and implications as schools also move to the new Common Core standards and assessments. District-level accountability for ELD standards implementation was also highlighted. The following state documents were referenced.
California ELD Standards Documents
Overview: ELD Standards and Proficiency Level Descriptors (Link no longer available)
Sample: ELD Standards for Grade 5
Glossary of Key Terms
Preparing ELs in the New Common Standards Era:
Toward Rigorous and Well-Scaffolded Instruction
George C. Bunch, Ph.D., Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Chair, English Language Arts Workgroup
Presentation | Handouts
- This presentation discussed opportunities for English Learners in the new Common Core State Standards and reviewed an exemplar English Language Arts unit that demonstrated shifts in approaching language, learning language, and instruction for English Learners.
