Transition to Common Core State Standards: Implications for English Language Learners

Presented by the Southwest Comprehensive Center

September 8-19, 2011
Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico

The Southwest Comprehensive Center offered states the opportunity to hear from experts and expand state work underway on the implementation of Common Core State Standards. This invitational meeting targeted cross-functional state teams made up of individuals responsible for success in this area.

The purpose of the meeting was to provide timely information and opportunities to hear and discuss emergent research, promising practices and strategies related to successful implementation of Common Core State Standards, paying special attention to the implications for English Language Learners. Southwestern states understand that working successfully with their English Language Learner population is critical for overall success. For that reason, Common Core State Standards collaborative work was kicked off by combining with ELL work already underway in the region.

The format of the meeting included:

• Sessions with experts and practitioners who provided:
  • Review of Implementation Research and Implications for Common Core State Standards
  • Examples of state implementation efforts
  • Implications of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners
• Opportunities for SW cross-state communication and collaboration.

• Presenter Biographies
• Participant Workbook Transition to Common Core State Standards: Implications for English Language Learners

Presentations:

• Haas, Eric. REL English Language Learner Research in the Southwest Region
• Livingston Asensio, Meg. Research-based online practices—dww.ed.gov
• Sato, Edynn. Academic Language and the Common Core State Standards: Implications for English Learners

Handouts/Resources:

• National Implementation Research Network. Implementation: The Missing Link Between Research and Practice
  Dean L. Fixsen, Sandra F. Naoom, Karen A. Blase, Frances Wallace.
• FPG Child Development Institute—The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Readiness for Change: Scaling-up Brief
  Dean L. Fixsen, Karen A. Blase, Rob Horner, & George Sugai.
• WestEd. A guide for developing accessible tasks
  Sato, E. (2011).
• WestEd. Language for Achievement--A Framework of Academic English Language
  Sato, E. (2010).