{"product_id":"breaking-down-the-wall-essential-shifts-for-english-learners-success-9781544342610","title":"Breaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learners' Success","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt was a dark and stormy night in Santa Barbara. January 19, 2017.\u003c\/strong\u003e The next day's inauguration drumroll played on the evening news. Huddled around a table were nine Corwin authors and their publisher, who together have devoted their careers to equity in education. They couldn't change the weather, they couldn't heal a fractured country, but they did have the power to put their collective wisdom about EL education upon the page to ensure our multilingual learners reach their highest potential.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProudly, we introduce you now to the fruit of that effort: \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBreaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learners' Success.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this first-of-a-kind collaboration, teachers and leaders, whether in small towns or large urban centers, finally have both the research and the practical strategies to take those first steps toward excellence in educating our culturally and linguistically diverse children. It's a book to be celebrated because it means we can throw away the dark glasses of deficit-based approaches and see children who come to school speaking a different home language for what they really are: \u003cstrong\u003elearners with tremendous assets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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: \u003cbr\u003e 1. From Deficit-Based to Asset-Based \u003cbr\u003e 2. From Compliance to Excellence \u003cbr\u003e 3. From Watering Down to Challenging \u003cbr\u003e 4. From Isolation to Collaboration \u003cbr\u003e 5. From Silence to Conversation \u003cbr\u003e 6. From Language to Language, Literacy, and Content \u003cbr\u003e 7. From Assessment of Learning to Assessment for and as Learning \u003cbr\u003e 8. From Monolingualism to Multilingualism \u003cbr\u003e 9. From Nobody Cares to Everyone\/Every Community Cares \u003c\/p\u003e Read this book; the chapters speak to one another, a melodic echo of expertise, classroom vignettes, and steps to take. To shift the status quo is neither fast nor easy, but there is a clear process, and it's laid out here in Breaking Down the Wall. To distill it into a single line would go something like this: if we can assume mutual ownership, if we can connect instruction to all children's personal, social, cultural, and linguistic identities, then all students will achieve. \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSinger, Tonya W.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTonya Ward Singer, M.F.A., is a professional learning leader with a deep commitment to ensuring diverse learners excel with rigorous expectations. She consults nationally helping K-12 educators realize new possibilities in language and literacy learning to close opportunity gaps for ELs and students in poverty. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTonya has taught at multiple grade levels as a classroom teacher, reading teacher, and EL specialist, and has extensive experience helping school leaders transform learning at scale. Her choice work is supporting educators in launching and sustaining site-based, continuous inquiry around live lessons. She has been collaborating extensively with multiple districts developing, testing, and refining observation inquiry, the focus of this book. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn expert in pedagogy for linguistically diverse learners, Tonya has co-authored curriculum for international publishers including Scholastic, Longman and Oxford University Press. She thrives on leveraging research and innovation to solve educational challenges, and inspiring others to do the same. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDove, Maria G.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMaria G. Dove\u003c\/b\u003e, Ed.D, is Professor in the School of Education and Human Services at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York, where she teaches pre-service and in-service teachers about the research and best practices for developing effective programs and school policies for English learners. Before entering the field of higher education, she worked for over thirty years as an English-as-a-second-language teacher in public school settings (Grades K-12) and in adult English language programs. In 2010, she received the Outstanding ESOL Educator Award from New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NYS TESOL). She frequently provides professional development for educators throughout the United States on the teaching of culturally and linguistically diverse students. She has published numerous books, articles, and book chapters on collaborative teaching practices and instructional strategies for English learners. With Andrea Honigsfeld, she coauthored four best-selling Corwin Press books, \u003ci\u003eCommon Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades K-5: English Language Arts Strategies \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), \u003ci\u003eCommon Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades 6-12: English Language Arts Strategies \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), \u003ci\u003eCo-Teaching for English Learners: A Guide to Collaborative Co-Planning, Co-Teaching, Co-Assessment, and Reflection\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and their latest volume, the second edition of their 2010 best seller, \u003ci\u003eCollaboration for English Learners: A Foundational Guide\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eto Integrated Practices\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalderon, Margarita Espino:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDr. Margarita Espino Calderón\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emerita\/Senior Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University. She has worked on numerous research and development projects focusing on reading for English learners funded by the U.S.D.O.E Institute of Education Sciences, the U.S. Department of Labor, and collaborated with Harvard and the Center for Applied Linguistics on a longitudinal study funded by the NICHD. The Carnegie Corporation of New York funded her five-year empirical study to develop \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eExpediting Comprehension for English Language Learners (ExC-ELL), \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ea comprehensive professional development model for math, science, social studies, language arts, ESL and SPED teachers that integrates language, literacy and content. She also developed two other effective evidence-based programs: \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Instructional Goals for Older Readers (RIGOR) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003efor Newcomers with Interrupted Formal Education. 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