Emergent Bilinguals

1. Identify your students’ language backgrounds and Proficiency Levels (please see page 18 of the ELD Standards Framework)
   
2. Provide effective Integrated ELD and Designated ELD instruction
3. Use appropriate and planned scaffolds to support academic language development and content knowledge
4. View SOE Module #6: Supporting Emergent Bilingual Students for more effective practices and strategies.

• Access students’ “Funds of Knowledge” via a Family Survey or Inventory, such as this one from the Learning for Justice website: Family Interview.

• Connect learning to students’ lived experiences.

• Ask students to share any extenuating circumstances you should be aware of regarding their learning.

• Encourage families to have conversations in their home language to aid academic language development.

• Restorative Circles: Use a version of Restorative Circles to give Emergent Bilinguals opportunities to hear and speak English daily.
  
• 40 Intriguing Photos to Make Students Think: You can use pictures to encourage and scaffold conversations in the classroom
• QSSSA: More Thank Turn and Talk - Try QSSSA Method: Question, Signal, Stem, Share, and Assess

In addition to classroom practices, you can attend events that will help your awareness of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• As events are scheduled, the SOE will send out emails and post to the SOE Calendar of Events.

You can also increase your awareness of diversity, equity, and inclusion through books. Here are a few suggested books:

• Start Here Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community by Liz Kleinrock
  
• This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell
  
• Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices by Lorena Germán
  
• We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor

• Building Community with Restorative Circles: Online article with seven (7) steps for facilitating meaningful circles
• Colorín Colorado: EL Distance Learning Tips for All Teachers (PDF)
• Community Circle How to Run a VIRTUAL Circle | Teacher Training Webinar | Part 3 of 7: Webinar (video) on transitioning a Restorative or Community Circle to the Virtual Teaching & Learning Environment
• Using Dialogue Circles to Support Classroom Management: Video showcasing Glenview Elementary School’s use of Restorative Circles in a traditional classroom setting
• What is Translanguaging?: Video seminar given by Ofelia Garcia, a leading researcher in Translanguaging.

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