Best Practices for Serving English Language Learners and Their Families
This practice report by the Southern Poverty Law Center provides key practices teachers and school leaders, such as principals, can implement in their classrooms and schools to move toward a comprehensive and culturally responsive approach to serving English language learner (ELL) students and their families. The key practices provided in the report center on ways educators can strengthen their ELL instruction, school and classroom culture, family engagement, and school policy practices. Additionally, anti-bias strategies to use with ELL students are provided and organized by grade-level applicability for teachers. Recommendations in this guide were heavily influenced by Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education, another research report by Southern Policy Law Center. Overall, teachers and principals new to working with linguistically diverse students or looking to gain further insight on how to support ELL students may find this resource helpful.