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Build collaborative leadership practices that transform outcomes for multilingual learners The landscape of education is shifting, and multilingual learners now make up a growing portion of classrooms nationwide. Yet too many of these bright, capable students struggle to reach their potential because the adults around them aren't working together effectively. This updated guide shows exactly how to create the collaborative culture multilingual learners need to thrive. Drawing from extensive research and real-world success stories, bestselling authors Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove present a comprehensive roadmap for transforming your school's approach to supporting multilingual learners. This practical resource meets you where you are and guides you toward where you need to be. The authors understand that creating lasting change requires more than good intentions—it demands strategic leadership, shared vision, and sustained collaboration among all members of the learning community. This essential guide provides: A clear framework for collaborative leadership that moves beyond individual teacher efforts to create school-wide systems of support Research-based program models that integrate language development with academic content across all subject areas Practical tools and templates for coordinating services, developing shared curricula, and implementing effective assessment practices Professional learning strategies that build capacity among all staff members to work effectively with multilingual learners Real voices from the field featuring authentic examples and reflections from successful educational leaders The time for isolated approaches to multilingual learner education has passed. This guide empowers educational leaders to create collaborative, inclusive environments where multilingual learners don't just survive—they flourish alongside their peers while developing language and literacy skills.

Looking for a silver bullet to accelerate EL achievement? There is none. But this, we promise: when EL specialists and general ed teachers pool their expertise, your ELs’ language development and content mastery will improve exponentially. Just ask the tens of thousands of Collaboration and Co-Teaching users and now, a new generation of educators, thanks to this all-new second edition: Collaborating for English Learners. Why this new edition? Because more than a decade of implementation has generated for Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove new insight into what exemplary teacher collaboration looks like, which essential frameworks must be established, and how integrated approaches to ELD services benefit all stakeholders. Essentially a roadmap to the many different ways we can all work together, this second edition of Collaborating for English Learners features: All-new examples, case studies, illustrative video, and policy updates In-depth coverage of the full range of strategies and configurations for determining the best model to adoptTemplates, planning guides, and other practical tools to put collaboration into practiceGuidelines, self-assessments, and questionnaires for evaluating the strategies’ effectiveness By this time, the big benefits of teacher collaboration are well documented. Where teachers and schools struggle still is determining the best way to do so, especially when working with our ELs. That’s where Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria Dove, and their second edition of Collaborating for English Learners will prove absolutely indispensable. After all, there are no two better authorities.

Pool your collective wisdom in support of your English learners! English Learners (ELs) and multilingual learners (MLs) have double the work of their English-speaking peers as they are required to master language and content simultaneously. To support this dynamic academic and language development process, all teachers need to have an understanding of language acquisition and EL/ML-specific methodologies along with offering social-emotional support to ELs/MLs and work in tandem with each other. Bestselling authors Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria G. Dove have returned with this new resource that complements and expands on their previous titles on co-teaching and collaboration by addressing collaborative planning in greater depth. Co-planning is positioned as the first step toward integrative language and content instruction as regular and purposeful collaboration ensures that Els/MLs have access to core content. Key features include: • Practical, step-by-step guidance to starting and sustaining collaborative planning for integrated language, literacy, and social-emotional development • An array of checklists, templates, and protocols for immediate implementation • Snapshots from the Field provide real-life examples of co-planning in action • Beautiful full-color design with original sketch notes to bring concepts to life • QR codes that link to author interviews elaborating on key ideas This substantial guide will assist novice and seasoned educators alike in their move away from isolated practices and help them engage in collaborative planning and professional dialogue about asset-based, best practices for ELs/MLs.