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NABE Executive Board Express Sympathy and Prayers to the victims of Hurricane Harvey:
The NABE Executive Board joins its entire membership, supporters and friends to express sincere sympathy and prayers for all of the families affected by Hurricane Harvey that devastated the City of Houston and surrounding Gulf Coast areas. We honor the first responders and all those who are risking their lives to save others from the devastating aftermath of the hurricane. Our sincere prayers and positive thoughts go out to all of the families and businesses who have suffered in this tragedy and will have to rebuild. We are confident that the families and businesses will rebuild successfully as Texas is a very resilient state with a wonderful “¡Sí se puede!” spirit. NABE encourages all of its members to contribute their time, energy and finances to the American Red Cross Disaster Funds in support of the victims and their families affected by this hurricane. NABE is proud of our Texas Affiliate,TABE, and are confident that they will come together to support our Houston neighbors and the Gulf Coast in the very difficult and challenging weeks and months ahead. The NABE Executive Board will also contribute a $3,500 check to the American Red Cross along with our sympathy and prayers for strength and courage to our brave teachers, parents, education leaders and especially students.
"¡Sí se puede!"
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NABE
Over 150 participants from 9 states attended the Third Annual NABE Dual Language Symposium in Delray Beach, FL. Participants were very pleased with the venue at the Delray Beach Marriott as well as the cultural aspects, school site and corporate demonstration visits and the robust nature of the program and other school initiatives. This was a great opportunity for teachers and administrators to come together to collaborate, re-engage, share and learn how to implement stellar Dual Language Instruction Programs and be part of a working teacher network that will last beyond the Symposium. The program also included examples of how to develop a strong STEAM framework for 21st Century Global Success, Integrating Spanish and English Language Development Standards in DLP, Cross-Linguistics applications and practices, and Dual Language program design, development and implementation. Special VIP guests included, Palm Beach County Schools Superintendent, Robert Avossa, representatives of the Consulate of Spain and Mexico, several research scholars, presentation by the Dallas ISD on teacher quality and selection and the AFT Colorín Colorado Instructional Support Series. An exceptional entertainment rendition by student Maikel Suárez of Latinos in Action generated very rave reviews. Participants were entertained by a very strong and challenging keynote address by Ken Williams on the topic of Minorities among Minorities: Bringing Dual Language to All Communities and Challenging the Status Quo Defenders on issues of equity, access and opportunities. NABE also launched its first in-depth PD Training Series on Dual Language Instruction in the Northern Chicago School District. Please visit the NABE Website for more information on this Professional Development DLI training.
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NABE
Consistent with NABE's stated mission, values and commitment to our more than 4.6 million Multilingual/Dual Language English Learners and their 20,000 teachers and other education leaders who serve their educational, emotional and social needs, the NABE Executive Board and its membership are honored and proud to be a signature to the DACA letter supporting more than 800,000 individuals who can contribute in a very positive and dynamic manner to our nation's continued economic growth and global competitiveness. NABE also encourages its members to write letters of support to their individual federal elected officials urging support and to join our most valued partner, The American Federation of Teachers, AFT, on September 1 in a national day of resistance, advocacy and support for DACA.
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Enjoy a curriculum for 1st to 5th grades that provides the foundations of the Spanish language in an engaging, coherent, and age-appropriate way. MORE
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NABE
Scheduled for Albuquerque Convention Center on March 1-3, 2018. Pre-Conference starts on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.
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NABE
Sponsor and Exhibitor Registration for NABE 2018 is open!
NABE 2018: March 1-3, Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, NM
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NABE proudly support an IMPORTANT AND PROFOUND STATEMENT—LINDA DARLING HAMMOND
Click here to view the article "Moving Forward from Charlottesville."
Dear Linda,
Thanks for sharing your letter decrying the recent atrocities of Charlottesville and your excellent and compelling contributions to address these seemingly unrelenting social and malignant ills of our society. Thanks also for your shared references at the end of the article. NABE supports your concerns and we are very pleased to share your letter among our colleagues and constituents to keep them informed and aware of the need to continuously shed the light on these very dark chapters in our history for achieving equity, access, opportunities, social, educational and economic equity and justice. As observed by other social justice champions of the past, “…Bad people prevail only when good people keep silent.” Thanks once more Linda for lending your voice and expressing your strong concerns on behalf of the Learning Policy Institute. NABE proudly joins you in solidarity and resistance against these dark forces to empower our teachers, parents, education leaders, policymakers and community to provide an equitable, equal, and accessible learning environment and resources to ensure the success of All students in our public schools and especially our Multilingual/Dual Language English Learners. Please count on NABE for any meaningful education partnership and networking opportunities going forward with the Learning Policy Institute.
"¡Sí se puede!"
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NewSchools Venture Fund
NewSchools Venture Fund announced up to $8 million in funding opportunities across all three of our investment areas. We're looking for teams of educators and entrepreneurs who aim to reimagine learning. If you or someone you know wants to design an innovative school, create an ed tech product for PreK-2nd Grade education or diversify education leadership, NewSchools might be able to help them fulfill their mission. Please share this information throughout your networks.
The entire NewSchools team is buzzing today. We know there are educators and entrepreneurs out there with bold ideas that can help more students finish high school with a wide range of options and the freedom to pursue them. And all we need is to find them and support their visions.
Would you like me to connect you to someone on our team to chat about any of the funding opportunities and how we might share this opportunity with your networks? If so, please let me know. In the meantime, we'd also love for you to promote this opportunity on Twitter and Facebook. Here are some suggested posts:
- Are you an #edu #entrepreneur or #educator with a bold idea to reimagine learning? Check out funding opps w/ @NSVF — http://bit.ly/2tRuHv9
- Calling all #education #startups and #EduLeaders who want to reimagine learning — http://bit.ly/2tRuHv9 @NSVF
- Up to $8M in funding now open from @NSVF http://bit.ly/2tRuHv9 #edu #innovation
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NABE
La Asociación Enseñanza Bilingüe: (www.ebspain.es) is one of NABE's new International Affiliates from Madrid, Spain. NABE will be actively participating with their Annual International Bilingual Education Conference in Madrid on Oct. 20-22. All NABE members will receive a special 10 percent discount on their registration fees. The Conference is usually very well attended with more than 1,000 European and international Bilingual Education Scholars, researchers, authors, teachers, students, government officials and policy makers from throughout Europe and Asia. The Conference will provide a very rich and diverse linguistic and cultural experience for attendees. For further information, please visit their website and register for the conference: www.ebspain.es.
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We are seeking individuals to join our team who are committed to educating; meeting the academic and social needs of every student in a safe and positive learning environment. MORE
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Business Communication
ABC will meet in Dublin, Ireland Oct. 18-21 and welcomes sessions in Spanish!
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HEC
On behalf of the Hispanic Education Coalition, which unites 14 national organizations dedicated to improving educational opportunities and outcomes for the more than 56.6 million Latinos and Latinas living in the United States and Puerto Rico, we urge you to support the following critical programs that support millions of Hispanic students, as well as other underserved communities.
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Department of Community Affairs
The Consulate General in Mexico in Dallas invites all children of all nationalities of North Texas, between the ages of 6 and 14 years old, to participate in the drawing contest "Este es mi Mexico", with the theme of the Monarch Butterfly, its habitat, and migration journey through the countries of Mexico, United States and Canada. For contest rules and registration form you may visit the following website.
There will be 12 winning drawings and 50 honorable mentions selected for this year’s contest. The selected drawings will take part in an itinerant exposition that will be inaugurated in Mexico City and after will be send all around the globe. Click here for more information about the Monarch Butterfly.
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Executive Director Special Education — Springfield or Chicago Office
Executive Director Equity and Access — Springfield or Chicago Office
The Chronicle of Higher Education
As Hurricane Harvey lashed her small home in Houston with wind and rain, Carolina Ramirez hunkered down to face a threat she finds even more ominous: word that President Trump may be about to rescind the program that has allowed her to work and live there for the past five years without fear she'll be deported. Ramirez, 28, is one of the original beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. The program, whose fate is now up in the air, has allowed nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children to work and study here for two-year renewable terms.
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eSchool News
As more and more ELL students enter the U.S. public school system, teachers are facing the twofold challenge of communicating not only with these students, but with their families as well. After all, non-English-speaking families have the same desires as native English speakers to know how their child is doing academically, emotionally and socially.
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Language Magazine
Sara Davila uses theory and research to hit the learning sweet spot. You walk into your classroom ready with a full selection of lesson plans for the week, excited to deliver some compelling learning to your students. You've worked hard to put together a lesson you feel is both challenging and engaging, with language that will be relevant and meaningful to your learners. Everything is running along beautifully until you actually start your lesson. That sinking feeling is the realization that: the students already know the language; they are going to finish most of the work within the next five minutes; you are going to need to fill about 30 minutes of class time.
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MinnPost
There are lots of ways for students to gain exposure to a second language in school. Going the traditional route, students can study a foreign language through an elective course, progressing to higher levels over the years. For students who qualify for English Learner services, schools offer mandated supports and programming to help these students gain fluency in English. There's a third route that's a bit of a hybrid approach. Through immersion programs, students typically receive instruction for subjects like math, reading and science in a language other than English — with Spanish, French and Mandarin being the three most popular offerings in Minnesota — and spend time during art, music and other subjects speaking and learning in English.
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Education DIVE
Signed into law in December 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Acts passage was heralded at the time by former President Barack Obama as a "Christmas miracle" that broke deep partisan divides in Congress. The latest reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as part of his "War on Poverty," replaces its Bush-era counterpart, the No Child Left Behind Act. And where NCLB issued federal accountability mandates aimed at closing achievement gaps between students across racial and socioeconomic backgrounds — particularly in math and reading — ESSA seeks to return much of the decision-making power around those efforts back to states.
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Education Week
A working paper from researchers at Northwestern University and the American Institutes for Research found no evidence that refugee students have a negative effect on the behavior or academic achievement of their schoolmates. David Figlio, the incoming dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern, and Umut Ozek, a senior researcher at AIR, examined what happened in 100 Florida schools following the Haitian earthquake of 2010.
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Education Week
Across the country, school districts are trying new tactics to avoid starting this school year with an empty teacher's desk, with some going so far as to hire parents to staff empty classrooms. Many districts have reported trouble filling certain positions, particularly in traditional shortage areas like special education, math, science, and foreign-language instruction. That is, of course, a perennial issue: Most states have reported shortage areas for years, if not decades.
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The Republic
Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. has responded well to a growing influx of Hispanic students who are not fluent in English. In 12 years time, the number of Hispanic students in the Bartholomew Consolidated school district has risen from 4.7 percent of the total school district enrollment (512 students) in the 2005-2006 school year to 14.3 percent (1,659 students) in the 2016-2017 school year — more than triple. With that influx, the non-white population of Bartholomew Consolidated enrollment today has risen to 27.4 percent.
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The Atlantic
Urban schools don't inspire much confidence these days. Politicians and policy leaders routinely bemoan their quality. And media outlets regularly run stories of "failing urban schools." Middle- and upper-income parents have expressed misgivings, too. But they've done it much less volubly. With relatively little fuss, they've simply picked up and moved — departing from city school systems at ever-greater rates. Among expressions of no-confidence, this has arguably been the most significant, because it has reshaped district demography. Each year, it seems, urban schools serve larger concentrations of poor students, racial minorities, and English language learners. As higher-income families depart, resources go with them and schools are faced with the daunting prospect of doing more with less.
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KRQE
The outcome of a new study being conducted by a local researcher at UNM could eventually help teachers better instruct students who struggle with math — specifically, those students who learned English as a second language. It is no secret that when it comes to education, New Mexico is struggling to keep up, especially in STEM-related subjects. "New Mexico does't necessarily get high scores in the areas of mathematics and that sort of thing," said UNM research professor Lee Swanson, who added that New Mexico is not alone in that. Swanson says issues with math and problem-solving are more predominate in students who learned another language first.
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Education Week
Kyle Halle-Erby, a 12th grade English teacher at San Francisco International High School, shares how he uses literature circles to help English language learners engage with challenging texts. His students participate in small discussion groups that support their learning and foster collaboration.
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Reuters
The number of children attending charter schools in the United States hit a record of about 6 percent of all students in public schools, according to a federal education report. Charter schools are publicly funded schools operated separately from local school districts. They are usually independently run but can also be managed by for-profit companies or nonprofit organizations running multiple schools.
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Uptown Messenger
Spanish-speaking families need more assurances that their children won't be discriminated against while at schools, and more insight into the way that the school district funds teaching English as a second language, an advocacy group told Orleans Parish School Board officials at a town-hall meeting Thursday evening in Central City.
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CNN
Lynn Sorrells started teaching 26 years ago because she loved seeing the light-bulb moment when a kid grasped a new concept. She still does. But as principal of a high school in Dorchester County, Maryland, she is struggling to find an algebra and geometry teacher just weeks before her school year is set to begin. As students head back to school, Sorrells' district is one of hundreds across the country grappling with a growing teacher shortage — especially in key areas such as math and special ed.
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Education World
Students are not the only ones excited about starting the new school year off with some new style. Teachers across the country are getting in on the action and giving their classrooms a design update to help welcome students back. Newly decorated classrooms help to visually stimulate students' minds and help usher them in with enthusiasm for learning in a fresh and comfortable classroom environment.
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