In this first-of-a-kind collaboration, teachers and leaders have both the research and the practical strategies to take those first steps toward excellence in educating our culturally and linguistically diverse children. In this book, the collaborative authors discard deficit-based approaches and see children who come to school speaking a different home language for what they really are: learners with tremendous assets.
The 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:
- From Deficit-Based to Asset-Based
- From Compliance to Excellence
- From Watering Down to Challenging
- From Isolation to Collaboration
- From Silence to Conversation
- From Language to Language, Literacy, and Content
- From Assessment of Learning to Assessment for and as Learning
- From Monolingualism to Multilingualism
- From Nobody Cares to Everyone/Every Community Cares
