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Helpful websites

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  °ä´Ç±ô´Ç°ùí²Ô Colorado is a free website for educators and families of English language learners based at WETA in Washington, DC. °ä´Ç±ô´Ç°ùí²Ô Colorado has collaborated closely with its founding partner, the American Federation of Teachers, since 2003. °ä´Ç±ô´Ç°ùí²Ô Colorado is the leading ELL website nationwide, offering practical, research-based classroom resources for grades PreK-12, such as strategy articles, tip sheets, toolkits, videos, webinars, multicultural booklists for students, professional books and reports, updates from the field, and multilingual materials to support ELL parent outreach.  °ä´Ç±ô´Ç°ùí²Ô Colorado also has an extensive library of videos and materials. The materials on the site have been designed to be shared and used by classroom teachers and content-area teachers, as well as ESOL specialists and bilingual teachers. .   
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  The AFT offers many resources on education and how to protect our students.

Useful articles and publications

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  A review of the latest research on the most effective strategies for teaching ELL students.
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  The U.S. Department of Education created a Newcomer Toolkit to help U.S. educators who work with newly arrived ELLs.
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  Family and activity sheets available in eight languages to strengthen language development.

Professional organizations

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  This international organization is a professional body serving the world’s teachers of English to speakers of other languages. While some of its resources are reserved for members, it does include some freely available also.
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  The New York State branch of TESOL supports ELL teachers in New York State with professional learning in classroom practices, research, program and curriculum development, funding and legislative interests.
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  NABE's mission is to advocate for bilingual and English Language Learners and their families and to cultivate a multilingual multicultural society by supporting and promoting policy, programs, pedagogy, research and professional development that yield academic success, value native language, lead to English proficiency, and respect cultural and linguistic diversity.
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  NYSABE is a multilingual and multicultural association fostering the awareness and appreciation of bilingualism and biculturalism as an integral part of cultural pluralism in our society and especially in New York State. The organization provides resources and research in addition to advocating for quality bilingual programs.

Additional helpful instructional resources

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  Bilingual glossaries are an essential and expected test accommodation for English Language Learners in the State of New York. This website presents glossaries for at least the top 10 state languages at the state level, but it is updated with new languages based on requests from schools and updates in state data.
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  Free content and tools including texts and accompanying activities for ELLs
• provides free tools to support teaching in providing formative assessment, social emotional learning and culturally responsive instruction for multilingual learners