The English Language Learner KnowledgeBase for Administrators

ELL Starter Kit for Educators

As noted at the Colori­n Colorado website, this resource offers educators "tools for monitoring language skills. This starter kit was developed with Spanish-speaking ELLs in mind (because they account for more than 80 percent of all ELL students in the United States), but the monitoring forms also will be helpful for students from other cultural and linguistic backgrounds."

English Learner Toolkit

This resource was developed by the U.S. Department of Education to support schools working with English language learners (ELLs).

Student Oral Language Observation Matrix (SOLOM)

The Student Oral Language Observation Matrix (SOLOM) is a rating scale that teachers can use to assess their students' command of oral language on the basis of what they observe on a continuing basis in a variety of situations.

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English Language Learner Tool Kit

This 2016 Department of Education tool kit describes the tracking the progress of English Language Learners (ELLs).

This is the eighth chapter of the English Learner Tool Kit, which is intended to help state and local education agencies (SEAs and LEAs) in meeting their obligations to English Language Learners (ELLs). This tool kit should be read in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights’ and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Dear Colleague Letter on "English Learner Students and Limited English Proficient Parents," published in January 2015, which outlines SEAs’ and LEAs’ legal obligations to ELLs under civil rights laws and other federal requirements.

English Language Learners and the ESSA

This PowerPoint was presented at the Combined Federal Programs Meeting describing how ESSA affects ELLs.