Resources
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Investing in Bilingual Teachers
By Martha I. Martínez, Ph.D., SEAL (Sobrato Early Academic Language) & Guadalupe Díaz Lara, Ph.D., California State University, Fullerton
SEAL Teaching and Learning Outcomes in 12 School Districts
Summary of a Multiyear Evaluation Studying the Replication of the Sobrato Early Academic Langauge (SEAL) Model
Building an Effective Early Childhood Workforce:
The Need for Professional Development for Educators of Dual Language Learners
CDE: Improving Education for Multilingual English Learner Students
Chapter 3 - Multilingual Programs and Pedagogy: What Teachers and Administrators Need to Know and Do
CABE 2019 Edition: Multilingual Educator
SEAL’s Approach to Building Teacher Capacity to Support English Learners
Migration Policy Institute
Supporting Dual Language Learner Success in Superdiverse PreK-3 Classrooms: The Sobrato Early Academic Language Model
National Academies Press
Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures
Inspiring Engagement & Igniting Learning: SEAL Teaching and Learning Outcomes in 12 School Districts
Inspiring Engagement & Igniting Learning: SEAL Teaching and Learning Outcomes in 12 School Districts For more videos on SEAL’s model, impact and pedagogy, visit our YouTube channel. If you’re a SEAL practitioner, we are always creating new videos just for our partner educators implementing the model so [...]
Introduction to SEAL
Introduction to SEAL For more videos on SEAL’s model, impact and pedagogy, visit our YouTube channel. If you’re a SEAL practitioner, we are always creating new videos just for our partner educators implementing the model so login to Torsh to see all the resources available. [...]
SEAL Covid-19 Webinar Series
SEAL Covid-19 Webinar Series Promoting Oral Language in Distance Learning - May 20, 2020 Engaging Families in Distance Learning - May 27, 2020 For more videos on SEAL’s model, impact and pedagogy, visit our YouTube [...]
Call to Action: A Multilingual California
Call to Action: A Multilingual California For more videos on SEAL’s model, impact and pedagogy, visit our YouTube channel. If you’re a SEAL practitioner, we are always creating new videos just for our partner educators implementing the model so login to Torsh to see all the [...]
Bilingualism Through the Eyes of a Student
Bilingualism Through the Eyes of a Student For more videos on SEAL’s model, impact and pedagogy, visit our YouTube channel. If you’re a SEAL practitioner, we are always creating new videos just for our partner educators implementing the model so login to Torsh to see all [...]
SEAL Pedagogy
SEAL Pedagogy For more videos on SEAL’s model, impact and pedagogy, visit our YouTube channel. If you’re a SEAL practitioner, we are always creating new videos just for our partner educators implementing the model so login to Torsh to see all the resources available. [...]
How SEAL is working in Los Angeles Unified School District
How SEAL is working in Los Angeles Unified School District For more videos on SEAL’s model, impact and pedagogy, visit our YouTube channel. If you’re a SEAL practitioner, we are always creating new videos just for our partner educators implementing the model so login to Torsh [...]
For more videos on SEAL’s model, impact and pedagogy, visit our YouTube channel.
Please download some of our favorite SEAL educator tools and resources.
EL Roadmap Needs Survey – Coaches
A tool to help coaches focus on and support English Learner Roadmap Implementation.
Bringing Joy into the Home
A flyer with a list of ideas in Spanish & English about how to bring joy back into the home after a year of shelter in place. A wonderful resource to include in monthly family newsletters.
Classroom Audit
A classroom audit involves a non-judgemental reading of the messages conveyed by the materials present in a classroom. Use this classroom template to look at your classroom through the lens of equity and diversity. interactions between students and teachers, books on the shelves, and arrangement of furniture through the lens of equity and diversity.
Oral Language Analysis for Designated ELD
The Oral Language Analysis strategy provides teachers an opportunity to record student learning and language production, and then analyze their language to determine a series of lessons or steppingstones to be adddressed during Designated ELD.
SEAL’s High Leverage Pedagogical Crosswalk
A crosswalk of SEAL's HLPPs and how they shift from Preschool through 6th grade.
Importance of Oral Language: Module Introduction
Lays out why a focus on oral language is so critical for English Language Learners.
Literature of Windows & Mirrors Bibliography
A series of wonderful books to be used in a classroom that address gender, race, economic class and family structures in order to provide windows out to the world and mirrors for students to see themselves.
Alignment & Articulation Tool
A tool that promotes reflection and cross-grade level discussion amongst teachers to encourage school-wide alignment and articulation.
Promoting a Sense of Identity
Supports teachers by providing ways they can work with families to promote children's proud sense of identity, connection to home culture and heritage, plus respect for diversity.
How Families Can Develop Oral Language
A family resource that informs families of different ways they can help develop oral language.