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Next Generation ESL Project: Curriculum Resource Guide July 2016 

 [|size: 3.2MB] [|size: 2.5MB] Next Generation ESL Curriculum Resource Guide

This document provides:
 * Information about the project's context, the curriculum design framework, and how to use that framework to develop additional ESL units.
 * Description of a continuous improvement cycle prompting critical questioning and strategic decision-making that can be used to improve instructional design.
 * A collection of collaborative templates, tools, processes, protocols, and other resources used in the development of ESL MCUs (e.g., Collaboration Tool, unit template, unit lesson plan template, language unpacking tools, unit and lesson-level protocols, etc.).
 * Resources for professional learning communities (PLCs) to support collaborative ESL curriculum development.
 * Information about other key topics related to the project, such as text complexity, Universal Design for Learning, guidance related to instruction and assessment of dually identified students (ELs with a disability), critical stance, social justice, and other significant components of effective ESL curriculum.

 ESL Model Curriculum Units

To access the Next Generation ESL MCUS, please visit the [|Model Curriculum Page]. Twelve units will be uploaded over the next few months starting in the summer of 2016. You must register, but access is free and immediately granted.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Collaboration Tool

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">This is a multi-layered, multi-purpose tool designed to help curriculum writers operationalize WIDA Standards in conjunction with the Frameworks. The goal of the Collaboration Tool is to support curricular planning with the intentional, simultaneous development of language and the analytical practices embedded in the Frameworks. It highlights the need for collaboration between language and content educators and helps teachers prioritize and strategically plan around [|Key Uses of Academic Language] in the context of [|key academic practices] (Cheuk, 2013) common across content area Frameworks. The Collaboration Tool and related processes are planning resources that, among other uses, can help educators prepare to create clear, standards-based language learning goals for developing curricula using the ESL unit template.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Video: A sneak peek of one of the units in action

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Frequently Asked Questions about the project

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Professional Development

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">For information on professional development related to the Next Generation ESL Model Curriculum Units as well as other offerings related to English Learners, please visit the [|OELAAA Professional Development] page.