 FAQs About CAL SIOP Now Available NEW!
CAL has posted a list of answers to frequently asked questions about the SIOP Model, its implementation, and CAL SIOP services and resources. Learn more.
 Computer-Based Test of Science and Math for Beginning English Language Learners NEW!
CAL is working with the WIDA Consortium to develop ONPAR, an alternative test that allows students to demonstrate their content knowledge with a test instrument sensitive to their lower proficiency in English. CAL and WIDA recently launched the ONPAR Web site. Learn more.
 A Navajo Success Story: Heritage Language Revitalization in Magdalena, New Mexico
In Magdalena, NM, students have been improving their English and Navajo language skills. Through an innovative bilingual model of heritage language revitalization, Navajo students can receive instruction in English as a second language and in Navajo language and culture. Learn more.
 Using the SIOP Model to Improve Middle School Science Instruction
This brief provides an overview of the SIOP model and highlights how teachers can develop content and language objectives, emphasize key vocabulary, promote interaction, and incorporate effective review and assessment techniques within the context of middle school science. Learn more.
 New Paper Outlines Strategies for Building U.S. Foreign Language Capacity
This paper describes the need for skilled speakers of languages other than English in the U.S. and outlines the necessary components for an effective long-term national strategy to meet that need. Read the paper. (PDF)
 Connect to Online Information about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
For your convenience, CAL has created a Web page with links to a wide variety of information about the ARRA of 2009. Learn more.
 TIRF Study Addresses Plurilingualism in Global Business
TIRF (The International Research Foundation for English Language Education) has published a study of the role of English and plurilingualism in business and industry. Learn more.
 Researchers Urge Use of Stimulus Funds to Address the Needs of English Language Learners
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provides an extraordinary opportunity to improve educational outcomes for English language learners (ELLs), a rapidly growing, yet underserved population. The Working Group on ELL Policy, a group of researchers with extensive experience in the education of ELL students, has prepared a set of recommendations designed to guide discussion and decision-making on how to use ARRA funds to better serve English language learners in schools across the United States. Read the full report.
 Quality Counts 2009: Portrait of a Population
How English-Language Learners Are Putting Schools to the Test
CAL worked with Education Week to create a downloadable PDF of selected articles from the recent Quality Counts 2009. This PDF features three articles from the report that reference CAL's work on the education of English language learners. Learn more.
 Institutes on Teaching Reading to English Language Learners
CAL is offering additional Institutes in 2009 featuring our What's Different? professional development program. The next Institute will be held in October 2009. Learn more.
 National K-12 Foreign Language Survey Update
CAL conducted a national survey of public and private elementary and secondary schools to identify current patterns and shifts in foreign language education over time. Learn more and view preliminary findings.
Digest now available in Spanish!
Raising Bilingual Children: Common Parental Concerns and Current Research
This digest, now available in English or Spanish, helps heritage language classroom teachers, and other professionals who work with bilingual children and their parents, address common parental concerns about their children’s language development and become familiar with the research on this topic.
Read this digest in English or Spanish.
Other recent digests of interest:
Integrated Content and Language Instruction
This digest describes four key principles of practice found in classrooms where content and language instruction are integrated effectively.
Click here to download a free copy.
Singable Books: Sing and Read Your Way to English Proficiency
This digest describes the benefits of singable books, provides criteria for selecting singable books, and recommends specific singable books and activities.
Click here to download a free copy.
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