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Leveraging her decades of facilitating and coaching experience in the fields of language, literacy, and professional learning, Margarita Calderón meets this urgent need with practical, evidence-based strategies to leverage the power of coaching in support of ML excellence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the individual chapters dedicated to academic language, reading, and writing instruction and strategies to promote student discourse and social-emotional learning embedded throughout, this book will give coaches what they need to guide all teachers toward ML excellence. 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But for an English learner or striving reader—and the myriad words, phrases, syntax, texts, and concepts they must negotiate on a daily basis—the stakes seem a whole lot higher. Fortunately for content-area teachers, Margarita Calderón and Shawn Slakk make available in a single resource all the best instructional and professional development combinations for expediting comprehension across the secondary grades. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Really a tool to assist all learners across all language needs, the second edition of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTeaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6-12\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, provides evidence-based strategies for helping content-area teachers and schools at large:\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cul\u003e      \u003cli\u003eTeach academic language in all subject areas \u003c\/li\u003e      \u003cli\u003eEmbed discourse practice through interaction strategies \u003c\/li\u003e      \u003cli\u003eIntegrate basic and close reading comprehension skills into lessons \u003c\/li\u003e      \u003cli\u003eTeach drafting, revising, and editing for content-specific writing  \u003c\/li\u003e      \u003cli\u003eUse cooperative learning to develop social emotional skills and enhance academic achievement \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCalderón and Slakk know firsthand that if we’re to counter the commonly held narrative of predictable failure among our ELs, it takes a whole school, and they have the evidence to prove it. 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They couldn’t change the weather, they couldn’t heal a fractured country, but they did have the power to put their collective wisdom about EL education upon the page to ensure our multilingual learners reach their highest potential.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eProudly, we introduce you now to the fruit of that effort: \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBreaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learners’ Success.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn this first-of-a-kind collaboration, teachers and leaders, whether in small towns or large urban centers, finally have both the research and the practical strategies to take those first steps toward excellence in educating our culturally and linguistically diverse children. It’s a book to be celebrated because it means we can throw away the dark glasses of deficit-based approaches and see children who come to school speaking a different home language for what they really are: \u003cstrong\u003elearners with tremendous assets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe authors’ contributions are arranged in nine chapters that become nine tenets for teachers and administrators to use as calls to actions in their own efforts to realize our English learners’ potential:\u003cbr\u003e  1.       From Deficit-Based to Asset-Based \u003cbr\u003e  2.       From Compliance to Excellence \u003cbr\u003e  3.       From Watering Down to Challenging \u003cbr\u003e  4.       From Isolation to Collaboration \u003cbr\u003e  5.       From Silence to Conversation \u003cbr\u003e  6.       From Language to Language, Literacy, and Content \u003cbr\u003e  7.       From Assessment of Learning to Assessment for and as Learning \u003cbr\u003e  8.       From Monolingualism to Multilingualism \u003cbr\u003e  9.       From Nobody Cares to Everyone\/Every Community Cares\u003c\/p\u003e  Read this book; the chapters speak to one another, a melodic echo of expertise, classroom vignettes, and steps to take. To shift the status quo is neither fast nor easy, but there is a clear process, and it’s laid out here in Breaking Down the Wall. To distill it into a single line would go something like this: if we can assume mutual ownership, if we can connect instruction to all children’s personal, social, cultural, and linguistic identities, then all students will achieve.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312613110133,"sku":"9781544342610","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781544342610_ea003085-34cc-462d-addb-f8c93fc7801f.jpg?v=1786023489"},{"product_id":"breaking-down-the-monolingual-wall","title":"Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eYour guide to culturally and linguistically sustaining practices in your dual language classroom and school.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s time to set the record straight: Multilingualism is a tremendous asset that must be nurtured and valued and the most effective pathway to multilingualism is dual language education. 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