Professional Development & Additional Resources

 

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Project Share Project Share is an initiative to expand the creation and delivery of high quality professional development in an interactive and engaging eLearning environment and provide access to online resources, online course content, academic networking, and professional learning communities.

View a list of our Texas English Language Learner Instructional Tool (TELLIT) courses and credit hours.


 

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TEA Sponsored Professional Development
  • Announcements!

    elps academy

    Now available in Project Share: Implementing the ELPS

    The ELPS Academy is designed to assist participants in understanding how the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) provide cross-curricular second language acquisition essential knowledge and skills for listening, reading, and writing. Participants will also examine a common framework to follow when working with English language learners in content area classrooms. CPE credit (4). Please contact your education service center if you need help accessing the course.

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  • Available Now on Project Share!
    Texas English Language Learner Instructional Tool (TELLIT) courses featuring affective, cognitive, and linguistic learning environments in content areas of math, science, English language arts, and social studies.

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  • Classroom Videos
    The following video segments highlight classroom instructional strategies and were created to assist teachers in making grade-level content more accessible and enable limited English proficiency students to gain content area knowledge necessary to meet grade-level performance standards in the areas of mathematics, science, reading, and social studies.

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  • Overview of Providing Linguistic Accommodations to English Language Learners During Instruction
     Linguistic accommodations help ensure that ELLs learn the academic content in the curriculum while they are learning the English language. This instructional module, which can be accessed by Texas educators free of charge, is an overview of classroom-based linguistic accommodations. The primary goal of the module is to expand educators’ knowledge of appropriate accommodations that can be provided for ELLs in the classroom so that they will be able to succeed academically. Download instructions on how to login here.

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  • A+RISE, the first state adopted online instructional materials is a series of practical, research-based instructional strategies aligned to the Texas English Language Proficiency Standards. (only available for educators in grades 9-12)

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  • Support Site for Standards for Ensuring Student Success From Kindergarten to College and Career-English and Spanish Language Arts and Reading
     This site supports the professional development series for Texas teachers on the following state standards: the English and Spanish Language Arts and Reading Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (ELAR and SLAR TEKS), the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS), and the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS). It is not intended to take the place of professional development offered by districts and education service centers.

  • Texas Math and Science Diagnostic System (TMSDS)
    TMSDS is a web-based TEKS-aligned diagnostic assessment system in English and Spanish that covers grades 3 – 8 in mathematics and science as well as Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Integrated Physics and Chemistry, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. TMSDS provides password-protected online student test-taking and other assessment security options. With TMSDS educators gain fast, easy, and regular access to diagnostic data on students' progress in order to accurately adapt instruction and utilize resources to meet student needs. TMSDS is provided at no cost to Texas school districts and charter schools. (Science items in Spanish will be available in Spring 2011).

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Websites - Language Support
  • Best Practices for English Language Learners
    Published (May 2006)as part of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) Student Success Initiative Grant in collaboration with The Institute for Second  Language Achievement (ISLA) Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. 

  • Center on Instruction
    The Center on Instruction provides materials and resources to improve instruction and intervention for English Language Learners, including exemplary delivery models and professional development for teachers in content and language areas.

  • Es El Momento (The Moment is Now)
    This website is in Spanish.

  • K-12 Databases
    The state-funded K-12 Databases include numerous online free research and information resources and built-in strategies to assist in the success of English language learners. For login information or training, contact your school librarian or email the K-12 Databases Help Desk at k12help@esc20.net.

  • National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
    The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition collects, coordinates and conveys a broad range of research and resources in support of an inclusive approach to high quality education for ELLs. To fulfill its mission NCELA supports high quality networking among state-level administrators of Title III programs. In addition to SEA coordinators, NCELA serves other stakeholders involved in ELL education, including teachers and other practitioners, parents, university faculty, administrators and federal policymakers.

  • Center For Applied Linguistics

    The Center for Applied Linguistics is dedicated to providing a comprehensive range of research-based information, tools, and resources related to language and culture.

  • CREATE

    CREATE's focused program of research is designed to address the critical challenge of improving educational outcomes of English-language learners (ELLs) by

    • enhancing the empirical research base for readers in Grades 4–8,
    • using both narrative and expository text to develop and test effective interventions that promote content knowledge and language and literacy development,
    • investigating the features of instruction and text modifications that facilitate learning for ELLs (e.g., traditional instruction v. ESL-enhanced instruction, teacher guided instruction v. group work, traditional text v. modified text), and
    • designing, testing, and delivering professional development that ensures teachers implement effective classroom practices to help ELLs achieve high standards.
Websites - State and/or Federal Support
  • Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS)
    The Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) pulls together a wide range of information on the performance of students in each school and district in Texas every year. This information is put into the annual AEIS reports, which are available each year in the fall.

  • Accountability Ratings
    From the information contained in AEIS, the division of Performance Reporting also develops and implements the state Accountability Rating system used to rate Texas public schools and school districts. The state accountability rating system includes campuses and districts rated under standard and Alternative Education Accountability (AEA) procedures.

  • Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services
    Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (BRYCS) provides national technical assistance to organizations serving refugees and immigrants so that all newcomer children and youth can reach their potential.


  • English Language Learning University (ELL-U)
    The Office of Vocational And Adult Education (OVAE) has launched the English Language Learning University (ELL-U) website, a free interactive professional development network for ELL practitioners. ELL-U combines face-to-face events and online learning activities with collaborative social networking for a virtual university experience. Users working with English language learners may register at no cost for 24-hour access to self-paced online courses, study circles, and training events that use evidence-based instruction. English Language Learner University (ELL-U) is an innovative, accessible, free, and easy-to-use learning portal.

    ELL-U provides English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) educators with free online professional development and learning opportunities. Here educators can access evidence-based instruction training, leading adult ESOL experts, and resources, while helping to build a community of practice for ESOL professionals.

    For more information, please contact info@ell-u.org.

  • Information on the Es El Momento initiative sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
    This website is in Spanish.

  • Institute of Education Sciences
    Our mission is to provide rigorous and relevant evidence on which to ground education practice and policy and share this information broadly. By identifying what works, what doesn't, and why, we aim to improve educational outcomes for all students, particularly those at risk of failure. We are the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, and by law our activities must be free of partisan political influence.

  • LONESTAR

    provides data about Texas public schools including Enrollment, Accountability, Graduation, and High School Completion.

  • National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
    The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition collects, coordinates and conveys a broad range of research and resources in support of an inclusive approach to high quality education for ELLs. To fulfill its mission NCELA supports high quality networking among state-level administrators of Title III programs. In addition to SEA coordinators, NCELA serves other stakeholders involved in ELL education, including teachers and other practitioners, parents, university faculty, administrators and federal policymakers.

  • No Child Left Behind Program Connections – Title I Part A, Title I, Part C, Title III, Part A
    The NCLB Program Connections tool enables Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and campuses to identify similar and distinct program requirements to create processes and structures that will best support student achievement. It highlights program requirements and provides a crosswalk/at-a-glance view of the requirements for the following program areas: Program Descriptions, Program Requirements, Fiscal Management, Personnel , Program Coordination, Parent Involvement/Notification, Private Non-Profit Schools, and Program Evaluation.

  • Office of English Language Acquisition
    The mission of the Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) is to:
    • Provide national leadership to help ensure that English language learners and immigrant students attain English proficiency and achieve academically and,
    • Assist in building the nation's capacity in critical foreign languages.

  • Own Your Own Future
    In 2010, GEAR UP launched a new college and career readiness website called Own Your Own Future. Designed to provide students a web destination for short-but-informative materials aimed at preparing them to enter and succeed in college, the site also includes an educator section with activities that can be used in classrooms (as well as a resource section for parents). There are regular updates with new videos, activities and informational materials—so the site will grow right along with the students.

  • Pocket Edition
    Published annually since the 1991-92 school year, Pocket Edition reports a variety of state-level statistics on topics such as: Students; TAKS Performance & Participation; Graduates & College Admissions; Attendance, Completion, & Dropouts; Accountability Ratings; Personnel; and Finances.

  • Power on Texas

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    POWER ON TEXAS is a collaboration between TEA and AMS Pictures to highlight teachers effectively using technology to transform student achievement across the state and share these examples with other educational stakeholders. POWER ON TEXAS shows how districts overcame barriers associated with technology transformation, professional development surrounding training, administrative support, best practices with technology transformation and project-based learning as well as rural implications with technology.



  • Texas Comprehensive Center
    The Purpose of the Texas Comprehensive Center is to provide technical assistance and support to the Texas Education Agency to assure Texas has an education system with the capacity and commitment to eliminate achievement gaps and enable all students to achieve at high levels.

  • Snapshot School District Profiles
    Snapshot: School District Profiles is a Texas Education Agency product that provides an overview of public education in Texas for a particular school year. In addition to state-level information, this website contains a profile about the characteristics of each public school district. Note that Snapshot does not provide any campus-level information. For campus-level information, see the Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) or the Accountability Ratings.

  • The Best Practices Clearinghouse
    The Best Practices Clearinghouse supports schools in meeting the educational needs of all students by providing a means for schools to share information about evidence-based best practices.

  • Title III Supplemental Funds: Creative Ways to Support the Education of English Language Learners in Texas Schools

  • U.S. Department of Education
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